While cooking, do you put the ingredients approximately or by weighing them?

The new cooks will measure the ingredients, but veterans like you and me will add the ingredients approximately.

Hello Buchi_bulla. Sometimes when I cook, I do the same as you do. I don't weigh those ingredients. I think that it is easier not to weigh. Usually I can do a good job by eye judgment when it is related to cooking. lol

Hi Aunty.


How r u doing.

I dont weigh the ingredients which while i judge with my eyes and put it approximately. But while trying the new receipes i will measure it or else the whole dish will be tasteless and it will be spoiled.

If I am cooking a new recipe that I have not tried before them I will weigh out the ingredients and once the dish is complete see if I need to add anything to make it to my taste. Dishes that I have made many times I do not weigh out the ingredients I have made them that many times that I can guess how much is needed.

Hi Buchi, I do exactly as what you do as well. To be frankly, I'm quite lazy. So I always feel reluctant to take any trouble to weigh the required ingredients when cooking. I have confidence in both my “eye and finger” judgment . I believe my dishes served would suit the appetite of my family for sure. The judgment is accumulated through years of experience. Moreover I know my family members’ taste very well.

here I would like to share with you the disadvantage that I had come across when using adjustment straight away. Once, the soy sauce from the bottle flew into the wok without control. When I realized that the bottle lid went together with the flow into the ingredients accidently, it was too late. Oh gosh! The stuffs in the wok were too salty for sure. I added lots of hot water to dilute the salty taste. It needed extra time to wait until the extra water to be evaporated.

Definite this unexpected process had made the food too soft and not so tasty for sure. Everyone around the dinner table burst out into laughter when knowing this. Of course no one was willing to admit he or she didn't close the soy sauce bottle tightly.

Have a nice day and happy posting

hi aunty, yeah, i put the ingredients by the eye judgement, i won't measure for that, i like to daals much, so i put more daal into that. thankyou, have a nice day.

Even i put the required ingredients by EYE Judgment.I do not weigh and put it .

Hi there buchi_bulla!
I cook too. I only weigh the ingredients when my recipe is new but other than that, i don't weigh ingredients anymore but only in a matter of "eye" judgement.