Craft and StructureHardCommon ground on baking
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
A chef argues that recipes should give ingredients by weight rather than by the cup, because a cup of flour can vary by 20 percent depending on how it is scooped.
Text 2
A cookbook editor defends cup measures for their convenience in home kitchens, but concedes that in baking, where proportions decide the result, weights are the more reliable guide.
Based on the texts, the chef and the editor would most likely agree with which statement?
- A. For baking, weighing ingredients gives more reliable results than measuring by the cup.Correct
- B. Cup measures should never appear in recipes.
- C. Every home cook should own a kitchen scale.
- D. A cup of flour always weighs the same amount.
Answer: A. For baking, weighing ingredients gives more reliable results than measuring by the cup.
The chef prefers weights generally; the editor concedes weights for baking specifically. Both accept that statement.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Cup measures should never appear in recipes.
- The editor defends cups for convenience.
- C. Every home cook should own a kitchen scale.
- Neither text makes a claim about buying scales.
- D. A cup of flour always weighs the same amount.
- Text 1 says a cup of flour can vary by 20 percent.
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