weighing out ingredients

[corrine025]

Ok so my scale weights in tenths. example .5 or .8 etc...If a recipe calls for .33oz should I just do .3? how about .25, do I round that up to .3 or stay with .2?

 

[MirandaH]

I am very new, so until someone wiser comes along, this is what I do. My scale doesn't measure in tenths. Just solid grams. When I am measuring lye, I round down, unless it is a very high tenth (.9 ish) and then I just get to the grams I need and ass a tiny bit extra, but not enough to make it go to the next tenth. I do this with my oils as well. But when in doubt, I err on the side of caution and round up for oils and down for lye.

Again, I am new, but my thinking is that with a superfat of 5 - 10%, less than a gram is not going to hurt anyone, if anything it will only ensure that I never get a recipe down perfect and the same as before. When you are dealing with hundreths of a gram, I would think that would be the case, even more so.

ETA: Sorry, I just saw you were talking about ounces and not grams. With that I don't know what I would do. I guess find out the number of grams in tenths of an ounce with google's calculator and do as I was before on grams.

 

[corrine025]

Ok I will convert to grams. The recipe I want to try is for a scrub but its a HUGE recipe so I want to cut it WAY down to see if I even like it lol.

 

[MirandaH]

Ok I will convert to grams. The recipe I want to try is for a scrub but its a HUGE recipe so I want to cut it WAY down to see if I even like it lol.

Since my scale doesn't do any decimal places, I always work in grams. With grams, you can get more accurate than ounces. Especially if you are making small recipes.

 

[Susie]

There are 28 gm/oz. I have a scale with tenths of gm as well as oz. And I round just like MirandaH- up for oils, down for lye.

 

[ca_soap]

Grams is the only way as far as I am concerned and be very precise on measurements.