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[Alps79]

Making chocolate chip cookies and I'm already doubling the recipe. So instead of using 1/2 t baking soda I needed to use 1 t. EXCEPT I'm a dumba$$ and I used 2 t. (I thought I had a 1/2 t measuring spoon and I realized too late it was a full teaspoon.) Google is telling me to scrap my dry ingredients. I need to go to the store anyway bc I don't have enough brown sugar. Should I just scrap my dry ingredients and start over? It's really just 4 cups flour so not a big deal. But if it will be okay I'm rather not trash it. 
I'm waiting for dh to finish mowing so we can go to the store together so I have some time to ponder this.

[knx9211]

I’m a pretty amateur home baker, but I’d scrap it. I don’t fuck with baking measurements.

[mala]

Eeeehhhhh, I's start over, but it might be ok?


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I was teaching a friend to make biscuits once. It called for 1/2 tsp baking soda. She put in 1/2 TABLESPOON baking soda. They were inedible. WHY did her set have a 1/2 tablespoon, is what I want to know. I've never seen a recipe that calls for 1/2 tablespoon. (3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon, nobody needs a half tablespoon measure when you can use use 1 1/2 teaspoons.

[sporky]

May 18, 2019 14:13:02 GMT -5 mala said:

Eeeehhhhh, I's start over, but it might be ok?


Related Story:
I was teaching a friend to make biscuits once. It called for 1/2 tsp baking soda. She put in 1/2 TABLESPOON baking soda. They were inedible. WHY did her set have a 1/2 tablespoon, is what I want to know. I've never seen a recipe that calls for 1/2 tablespoon. (3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon, nobody needs a half tablespoon measure when you can use use 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Almost every set of measuring spoons I've owned has had a half tablespoon. There are a ton of recipes that I use on a regular basis that call for a half tablespoon of something. Yes, you could always just use one and a half teaspoons, but why dirty two measuring spoons instead of one? 

[joy]

May 18, 2019 14:13:02 GMT -5 mala said:

Eeeehhhhh, I's start over, but it might be ok?


Related Story:
I was teaching a friend to make biscuits once. It called for 1/2 tsp baking soda. She put in 1/2 TABLESPOON baking soda. They were inedible. WHY did her set have a 1/2 tablespoon, is what I want to know. I've never seen a recipe that calls for 1/2 tablespoon. (3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon, nobody needs a half tablespoon measure when you can use use 1 1/2 teaspoons.

I have never seen a half tablespoon. Ever. This would baffle me!

I would scrap the dry ingredients. I added wrong baking soda or powder in a banana bread and it turned out terribly.

[Poppy]

You can mix it well then scrap half the flour and add two cups more (don't add more baking soda).

[VeryViolet]

May 18, 2019 14:31:28 GMT -5 sporky said:

May 18, 2019 14:13:02 GMT -5 mala said:

Eeeehhhhh, I's start over, but it might be ok?


Related Story:
I was teaching a friend to make biscuits once. It called for 1/2 tsp baking soda. She put in 1/2 TABLESPOON baking soda. They were inedible. WHY did her set have a 1/2 tablespoon, is what I want to know. I've never seen a recipe that calls for 1/2 tablespoon. (3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon, nobody needs a half tablespoon measure when you can use use 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Almost every set of measuring spoons I've owned has had a half tablespoon. There are a ton of recipes that I use on a regular basis that call for a half tablespoon of something. Yes, you could always just use one and a half teaspoons, but why dirty two measuring spoons instead of one? 

*whispers* it’s just three scoops with the half teaspoon you don’t have to use two

[ribollita]

I have a 1/2Tb in my set and use it

[lostrn]

I would be tempted to just increase the rest of your dry ingredients to match and either make a ton of dough, or store some of the premixed dry ingredients away for next time.

[sporky]

May 18, 2019 14:57:23 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

May 18, 2019 14:31:28 GMT -5 sporky said:

Almost every set of measuring spoons I've owned has had a half tablespoon. There are a ton of recipes that I use on a regular basis that call for a half tablespoon of something. Yes, you could always just use one and a half teaspoons, but why dirty two measuring spoons instead of one? 

*whispers* it’s just three scoops with the half teaspoon you don’t have to use two

Right, but you can still save yourself the time of just using one scoop. My point is that it's a useful measurement.

[justkly]

Just had a soup recipe yesterday that called for 1/2 tablespoon. Good thing I own the proper measuring spoon.

[mcmel]

Double everything else and eat more cookies. This sounds like a win.

[circa1978]

May 18, 2019 16:05:54 GMT -5 mcmel said:

Double everything else and eat more cookies. This sounds like a win.

This is the only solution.

[Deleted]

It’ll change the texture, but they shouldn’t be awful. No fucking way would I throw them out. COOOOOOKIES.

[fumbalina]

It would be bitter if you did nothing. You could double the ingredients as mentioned. You could also add more acid because the reason it is bitter is that there is not enough acid to react with it. They would probably be puffier if you went this route. You can add something like raspberry juice to interact with it, but it does require tasting raw cookie dough to get it right. You could also add cocoa to the chocolate cookies and have even more chocolate flavored cookies.

[winecat]

Your cookies will also spread a lot and be really thin and crispy, in addition to the off flavor from too much baking soda. Baking soda causes spread and baking powder causes lift.

[cmeon]

I use a 1/2T measurement all the time in bread batches!

Chocolate chip cookie dough freezes really, really well- I'd just make a massive batch of dough and only bake what's needed. If you use a scoop to portion them, freeze them like that (scooped into balls) and dump them in a freezer bag, they're super easy bake as needed. Sometimes I just wrap up a big blob of dough and freeze it that way, let it thaw and smash it down and bake it into a giant cookie- the kids love those!

[scout8]

Another person who has never had a half tablespoon in my measuring spoon set.

[TBM]

May 18, 2019 18:22:13 GMT -5 scout8 said:

Another person who has never had a half tablespoon in my measuring spoon set.

Neither have I. DH says that he has never seen one either.

We are old enough to have seen/used a fair number of measuring spoons over the years...so weird that we have somehow managed to have missed out on that. lol

[nessness]

I have a 3/4 TBS in my set. I've used it a couple times when a recipe calls for 1 1/2 TBS, but mostly it just seems like such a useless measurement.

[Jalapeñomel]

May 18, 2019 21:05:20 GMT -5 nessness said:

I have a 3/4 TBS in my set. I've used it a couple times when a recipe calls for 1 1/2 TBS, but mostly it just seems like such a useless measurement.

I’m sort of baffled by all this.

My set has 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1 TBSPs and of TSPs.

[alleinesein]

May 18, 2019 18:22:13 GMT -5 scout8 said:

Another person who has never had a half tablespoon in my measuring spoon set.

Is your set a generic one like kitchenaid?  I've got Tupperware and I have a 1/2 TBSP and a 1 1/2 TSP spoons in my sets.  

[Alps79]

Lol I was already doubling the recipe! Thanks all, I threw it out. It was just the dry ingredients so I basically wasted 4 c flour. I’ll pay closer attention next time.

[TBM]

May 19, 2019 7:58:59 GMT -5 Alps79 said:

Lol I was already doubling the recipe! Thanks all, I threw it out. It was just the dry ingredients so I basically wasted 4 c flour. I’ll pay closer attention next time.

I'm glad you posted. I have been wondering what you did, even though it affects me in no way. lol

The spoon thing has been on my mind too. I guess I don't understand why there is a need to have special size spoons, when you can get those amounts using combinations of the usual ones. Fewer spoons take up less space in my drawer.

I see that they have " odd sizes" measuring spoons at Williams Sonoma, which is where we got our current set. I don't know if they didn't carry them when we bought ours or if they did and I didn't notice....I just bought ours because they were narrow and would fit into containers that our old ones didn't fit inside. Well, that and they are a nice weight metal and I like the look/feel, but mainly it was the narrowness.

[lolalolalola]

Funny. I just used by 1/2 tbsp measure 5 times in my pumpkin bread recipe.