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I always wonder how much half a cup actually is, since cups are not standardized (I think). Googling for "cup size" didn't clarify anything either.
Cup is a standard size for measuring liquids: 8 fl oz. It's only a problem for flour, because how much you can fit in a cup varies depending on humidity and how much you pack it.
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Not sure if this is a serious question, but other than the possibility for allergies and concerns about hormones, eggs cannot produced at mass scale in an economical, sustainable manner, without killing lots of chickens & chicks
eggs can soon be sorted out before there's a chick, saw it the other day. At day 6 they can now tell if it's a male or female egg and put it away, before it's gonna develop.
As another user alluded to, the "layers" (egg-laying hens) also have a productivity drop very early in their possible lifespans, and are then killed as well.
There are no industrial egg production facilities which feed and give chickens and roosters a place to live out the natural duration of their lives in humane conditions (not cramped in battery cages where they frequently die of infection from pecking each other to death). I did the calculation a while back and found that doing so would result in eggs that cost over $10 each. The reason eggs are so cheap is because male chicks and hens that have passed their productive years are killed, and while alive, the layers are confined to an neverending nightmare of cramped conditions.
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> don't go much below 1/2 cup of almond Is this just for taste reasons?
Texture and cost. The hazelnut meal tends to be a bit coarser, and is significantly more expensive, so you end up with gritty cookies that don't taste significantly more like hazelnut for more $$.
Aquafaba is amazing. But since we're talking about egg replacers, here's one even more remarkable: Carbonated water. No joke. Carbonated water can seamlessly replace egg in almost all things where the egg provides some rising / fluffy texture (not so much binding, like aquafaba does). It won't be stepping in your quiche any time soon, but cookies, brownies, cupcakes, anything with a fluffy inside. 1/4 cup of water eq…
Not as a substitute, but my Galician grandmother always add some carbonated water to the pancake (think more like crêpes) batter, it helps a bit with retaining some bubbles but mostly make them more tender.
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I always wonder how much half a cup actually is, since cups are not standardized (I think). Googling for "cup size" didn't clarify anything either.
Is that because most results are in regards to bras?
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eggs can soon be sorted out before there's a chick, saw it the other day. At day 6 they can now tell if it's a male or female egg and put it away, before it's gonna develop.
It's not that simple. Aborting chicks is better than killing them post-birth, but even so, egg-laying birds will still eventually be killed off and turned into meat/byproducts -- and the cruelty-free environments don't scale. Chickens just aren't really built to lay that many eggs, and ultimately there doesn't seem to be any way to optimize industry-level farming to care about animal health/happiness. At best we get…
My time to shine! Hazelnut Choc Chip cookies, designed for Aquafaba. NB. You can switch out more of the hazelnut/almond meal to adjust the taste, but don't go much below 1/2 cup of almond! https://imgur.com/a/G2M1QoE 1 & 1/4 cup almond meal 1 & 1/4 cup hazelnut meal 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips 2/3 cup flour (gluten free blend works fine) 2/3 cup raw sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt (ideally fine) Mix above tog…
All comments about measuring solids by volume should go under here.
My time to shine! Hazelnut Choc Chip cookies, designed for Aquafaba. NB. You can switch out more of the hazelnut/almond meal to adjust the taste, but don't go much below 1/2 cup of almond! https://imgur.com/a/G2M1QoE 1 & 1/4 cup almond meal 1 & 1/4 cup hazelnut meal 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips 2/3 cup flour (gluten free blend works fine) 2/3 cup raw sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt (ideally fine) Mix above tog…
All comments about measuring solids by volume should go under here.
It’s always my first step before baking a recipe the first time.
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There are plenty of cruelty free sources for eggs. Go with a reputable free range grower or if you live in the countryside or even suburbs, there are usually neighbors that sell their excess eggs.
Pasture-raised isn't as cruelty-free as one might like. Big free range chicken farms have eagle problems: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/fall-2016/an-organic-chicke... If you're a chicken, do you want to live forever in a cage, or be eaten alive by a bigger bird? Neither of those choices sound great to me.