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Anyone who’s found baking recipes online has run into the dreaded:

• 220 grams of flour

Which is nothing but annoying. There’s 2 possible reasons someone might have listed it this way:

1. They’re European and don’t know any better.
2. They’re ‘real’ chef’s and insist it’s for your own good.

There are few things more irritating than someone doing something for your own good. Especially since guys like you and me are not going to go out and buy a God Damn food scale. It just ain’t gonna happen. Or at the very least it ain’t gonna happen today, and I usually want to eat whatever I’m making today.

So allow me to tell you how to fudge it. Take your flour container(and please keep your flour in an air tight container, there is nothing that ruins your breakfast like a pancake full of dead caterpillars) and flip it upside down. Swirl it around a few times and then flip it back.

This distributes all the flour grains evenly. There is a reason they want you to measure by weight, because the flour granules could be very compressed or very loose. By doing this you pretty much ensure that one cup will be 110 grahams every time. Just scoop with your measuring cup and sweep the top off with a butter knife(don’t use your hands, it will pat it down).

So there you go. Unless you do a whole lot of baking this is an easier method than a scale, if you do do a whole lot of baking then you should really bite the bullet and get one. Once my hardcore pancake addiction kicked in I bought this one: