Baking 101: How to Accurately Measure Your Ingredients

'3oz water, 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder, 10 ml milk?.' You're whisking the eggs with one hand while you grapple for a calculator with the other? I feel you. Unless you're Heston Blumenthal or someone of my mother's generation, you can't just throw in a bunch of ingredients and expect to create magic. There needs to be method to the madness.

Any good cook will tell you that measurements are key to a successful dish. Cooking is almost like chemistry: measuring spoons, measuring cups, kitchen scales. If you add in too much baking soda, or too little salt you risk not just taste but also texture of the final dish. One way to deal with this is to follow a recipe to the T. The only problem here is that all the conversions, UK standard measurements vs American standard measurements will make your brain all fuzzy.

So here are some guidelines that'll help you make peace with numbers and metrics to create food that's nothing short of spectacular.