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Around 219 lbs per person gets thrown out every year in the US alone. Thats roughly 99 kg. Fruits and vegetables account for 39% of that, which honestly blew me away. Dairy sits at 17%, and bread and grains come in around 18%, with meat trailing at 14%. A family of 4 wastes about 13 … Read more

The standard ratio, that I used for years, now is 4:1, one teaspoon of baking powder becomes a quarter teaspoon of baking soda. That results in around 1.15 grams of soda instead of 4 grams of powder. Amount does not change a lot even though baking soda takes up bigger space in the recipe as … Read more

The mainstream proportion, that I commonly mention, are two thirds of cup of agave nectar for every full cup of regular sugar. That matches to around 67% by volume and it has sense, because agave nectar is almost 1.4 times sweeter than usual table sugar. The weights beat that; one cup of sugar weighs around … Read more

A 6 oz cooked chicken breast lands around 195 calories with 39g protein and barely 4.5g fat. Thats why its the go-to for meal prep. I kept seeing 75% yield on poultry, meaning youll need about 8 oz raw for every 6 cooked. The information below does not come from some calculator or automatic tool. … Read more

The normal ratio, that I commonly use, is 3:1. For every cup almond flour, you need only third cup coconut flour. It matches around 96 grams replaced by almost 43 grams. Because coconut flour soaks almost three times more moisture you need to add a bit of liquid. Usually I choose two spoons extra for … Read more

  One cup filled with flour weighs around 125 grams if one scoops it with a spoon and levels the surface, but if one pours it straight from the bag, one finds something close to 150 grams. That presents a gap of 20 percent. Such a big difference! Plain flour reaches around 130 grams for … Read more

The whole effect is based on a simple change: one swaps two spoons of cornstarch instead of two spoons of regular flour for each measured cup. Here is everything. Cake flour has only 7 to 8 percent protein while regular flour has between 10 and 12 percent, depending on the brand. Those 3-4 percent points … Read more

The main advice, that I found after testing several recipes, is use three quarters of maple syrup for every cup of white sugar. That matches around 177 ml instead of 236 ml. By weight it is even easier, 75 percent of the weight of sugar. So 200 g of regular sugar becomes 150 g of … Read more

Fresh ground flour weighs around 10% more for one cup than store bought… 132 g instead of 120 g for all-purpose flour from hard red wheat. That surprised me during my first baking with it. By weight, it simply exchanges 1:1. One pound of wheat grains gives one pound of unsifted flour, which comes to … Read more

The basic ratio, that I altered after testing, are made up of 3 parts of olive oil for every 4 parts of butter according to volume. That matches to 75 %. The reason lies in the different water level, butter stores around 80 to 82 % of fat with 16 to 18 % of water … Read more