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by mailund 1088 days ago
While I agree it is unintuitive, it is super practical when calculating the recipe.

Making a 80% hydration pizza dough? Just measure how much flour you added and multiply by 0.8!

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Kitchen scales start to have this feature built in at around the $60 point too. Dramatically simplifies bread baking, pickling, and a couple other pure ratio projects.