Wow, precision alright, and power to the talking cooking scale
makers.
it was already obvious that you, Sieghart, were serious and now 100 times even
more so. I spent 6 months in Germany in 1977 when I was still a teenager and
loved it.
I loved the whole ritual of making Feuersangenbowler, but don't
scream if I badly badgered the spelling. It sure gave me a serious buzz and
warmed me up to the very core one night when I came in from the cold and
unsuspecting, was given a cup of it for the first time. We must have prepared
ourselves at another time because the sugar loaf, the pedestal it was placed
on, the saturating it with liquor then setting it on fire then watch while it
dissolved into the bowl was amazing.
Deidre
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Sieghard
Weitzel
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2022 2:52 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: pre-ordering Stollen from Sieghart
Measuring whether using cups or a scale is no different exact using a cup is
not very accurate. If you want it to be as accurate as possible especially for
floour you have to spoon the flour into the cup because if you scoop it in then
it gets compressed and instead of the approx. 120 grams which a cup of all
purpose flour should weigh you may have 20% more which makes a huge difference.
If I need 4.5 cups of flour it's actually a lot faster to weigh it than to use
first a 1-cup measurement and then a half cup measurement.
I enjoy cooking but baking even more and I enjoy the precision and the process
(and of course the results).
I don't have that much time to do a lot which is probably good because while I
don't gain weight that easily, I will gain weight if I eat lots of sweets and
besides its not good for you despite how good it seems to be 😂
But for me Christmas without a German Stollen, certain types of cookies and
lots of Marzipan is just not right. Oh, and lets not forget hot mulled wine
with spices.
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Subject: pre-ordering Stollen from Sieghart
Reading this post made me hungry, and want to have a live in
Sieghart. Measuring out the exact weight of ingredients as you put a baked
good together is true commitment to cooking.
Deidre
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Subject: RE: seeking recommendations for kitchen scales and cooking thermometers
Hello Keith,
I personally find the talking scales from my Weigh to work best. I should
mention that I haven't tried a connected scale yet, but my problem with them is
that each time you want to weigh something you have to get out your iPhone, I
assume you would have to use some app to work with the scale and then hopefully
the scale once setup connects without fuss and can provide a continuous readout
as you add whatever ingredient you are weighing to the scale.
I enjoy cooking and baking and even if I say so myself I am quite good at it
having been taught by my Mom who has her Masters in home economics from Germany
back when she was young in the late 50's and early 60's. Back then they were
taught so many basics and of course while she is not a Chef, her education
included a lot of cooking and baking. Anyways, recipes from Germany always have
ingredients listed in grams which of course is much more precise than using
cups and spoons with the exception of some spices where it called for a
teaspoon of ground cumin or cloves or cinnamon in which case the teaspoon is
fine since that would only be 2 or 3 grams at best which is difficult to weigh.
If I bake and have to weigh flour, sugar, butter and whatever other ingredients
I may need I want to be able to do so quickly and accurately and the My Weigh
talking scale I have allows me to do this.
Just as one example, we have a traditional Christmas cake in Germany called
"Stollen" which is a yeast dough with a ton of stuff in it like ground almonds,
3 different types of raisins, fresh ginger, candied ginger, candied orange
peel, candied lemon peel, so I have to weigh all that in addition to flour,
butter, milk (I also weigh liquids), yeast and without a scale where you can do
this quickly and without fuss it would be a pain in the neck.
I know this topic has come up before and I think it was Krister who said his My
Weigh scales always break and never work more than a few months or maybe a
year, but that is not my experience. I had my first My Weigh scale for I think
around 20 years when it did at some point not work any more. It was the
VOX-3000 and the surprising thing is that when I contacted My weigh they
offered to replace it with a new scale for only the shipping cost which I
thought was amazing. I now have had that replacement scale for probably the
last 4 or 5 years and it just works.
I just did a quick search and here are the links and brief descriptions:
VOX-3000: The world’s only precision talking kitchen scale.
It uses a 9 Volt battery and has a 1 gram accuracy just as the Vox-2 which I
think is a newer model although they must have updated the Vox-3000 since it
says now that it can talk in English, Spanish, fRench and German and my old one
could only speak English as far as I know. The Vox-3000 also has a round
platform and comes with a plastic bowl which has a rim around the bottom which
sits on the platform so it actually cannot just slide off if you accidently
push against it.
For some reason they don't list the capacity of the Vox-3000, but if I remember
correctly it weighs up to 3000 grams as is implied in the model name, so 3 Kg
or 6.6 pounds.
My Weigh Vox 3000 | My Weigh | The best digital scales on earth
<https://myweigh.com/product/vox-3000/>
VOX-2: Multi-purpose, high-capacity talking scale.
This one weighs up to 5 Kg and you can of course set it to grams/Kg and
ounces/pounds and it is accurate to 1 gram which is 0.0353 ounces.
Both of the My Weigh scales I have had also work really well in that you can
put on any plate or bowl or container before you turn the scale on and it will
start at 0 no matter whether you have a little plastic bowl on it which weighs
an ounce or a big glass bowl which weighs 2 pounds.
There is also a button for a tare feature which allows you for example to weigh
your butter, assume you want 200 grams, then you want to add sugar directly
into the butter because normally that is what you do when you bake. You press
the tare button after you have your butter in the bowl and the scale then
resets to 0 and you can add say 100 grams of sugar which just makes it a bit
easier and saves you from using another bowl to weigh it before pouring it into
the bow with the butter.
Interestingly enough my wife says our scale is also a Vox-2, but it still uses
a 9 Volt battery and as far as I know it only speaks English whereas the one
they show on their website now can speak English, Spanish, French and German
and uses four AA batteries. It also says you can adjust the volume which you
can on mine as well, but it's simply a slider switch underneath and it's either
quite loud or just loud and a second switch is also there which allows you to
turn the speaking function off completely if a sighted person wants to use it
with the display and they don't care to hear it talk.
My Weigh Vox-2 | My Weigh | The best digital scales on earth
<https://myweigh.com/product/vox-2-evolution/>
Of course you can also use this scale to weigh a letter or parcel as long as
it's not heavier than 5 Kg (approx. 11 pounds) and I for one really love these
scales.
As for thermometers I will leave this up to somebody else since I don't have an
accessible stand-along thermometer. Our GE oven comes with a meat probe which
plugs into a port inside the oven and I can check the temperature on the Smart
HQ app which is what this oven uses and I also have a Louisiana Grill wood
pellet barbecue which can accept up to 4 meat/temperature probes and you can
also see the temps in the app which is called "Smoke It". Both Smart HQ and
Smoke It could use some accessibility improvements, but they are useable.
Take care,
Sieghard
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