The $45 digital scale that humbled my sourdough game
Bought a cheap kitchen scale off Amazon after eyeballing my flour for months. First loaf with it came out denser than a brick, turns out I was adding way too much water all along. Second try with the exact grams gave me the airy crumb I'd been chasing since January. Anyone else find out their 'instinct' was just sloppy measuring?
So did you go back and weigh what your old eyeballed method was actually doing? That's the part that gets me, knowing the exact difference between what you thought and what you were really adding. Because if the brick loaf was the wakeup call, the numbers are the whole story.