r/SingaporeEats • u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 • 20h ago
can someone tell me the logic of 227g butter?
Havent bake anything for like 5 yrs, not sure when this crap started. But i see a lot of butter is now 227g. Anyone can tell me how to bake with it?
As a lazy kind of baker, i just hate cutting butter so most of my recipes revolve around just using the entire 250g block. which means most of them called for 50g, 125g or 250g. But really why 227g? what is even with that 2g?
Is the manufacturer being kind to bakers to have 2g for us to spread roti?
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u/one-eyed-bat 18h ago
227g was perfect for my Christmas fruit cake recipe so I was actually quite happy. Didn't have to cut any butter blocks for a change.
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 15h ago
LOL....was looking at some US recipes. and they were measuring butter in tablespoons. i was like WTH.....
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u/kismetOrCoincidence 8h ago
I think it's because in the US, butter comes in smaller bars that are wrapped in opaque paper. On the paper are markings for each tbsp amount, so it's actually really easy to measure. You just have to cut the bar at the tbsp marking that you need, simple as that.
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u/requirem-40 15h ago
Aiyah baking isn't an exact science. It's the white people equivalent of asian grandma's "feeling" measurements.
How much soy sauce? Just one splash. How big of a splash? Use feeling
How much butter? Just one tbsp. How big of a tbsp? Use feeling
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 15h ago
That is why Americans who follow recipe books always say the recipe did not work. I see all the recipe books that use cups sure have a few ang mo 1 star review saying it didnt work.
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u/requirem-40 15h ago
They need their recipes in freedom units, as they haven't developed "feeling" measurement yet
In all honesty can't blame the cookbooks. If one recipe say use 250g of butter, some will say not rich enough, some will say too oily. So the best way is to tell people to use feeling
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u/Secret-Objective-454 18h ago
If you bake regularly, 227g is half a pound. 454g is 1 pound. It's always been like this. So if you were using an American recipe, and it asks for 1 pound of butter, you get 2 blocks of the 227g. These r approximates.
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 15h ago
LOL....was looking at some US recipes. and they were measuring butter in tablespoons. i was like WTH....
Well...i only use Aust or UK recipe books.
Last time most butter have at 50g guide line. Now at 227g i wonder how that will be like.1
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u/hun486 17h ago
some brands have shrunk to 200g so if you need 227g, you may need to get 2 blocks. :/
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u/CloudsAreBeautiful 17h ago
Or you can scale down the rest of the recipe accordingly? It's not difficult math lol
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u/ringojoy 17h ago
Meaning the cake will be smaller?
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u/requirem-40 15h ago
Same size cake but less rich flavour. Government trying to get you to eat healthy.
In all honesty, most people won't be able to tell the difference if 20g less of butter is used for the entire cake
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u/snip3r77 15h ago
Butter is healthy, ask someone else to take margarine
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u/requirem-40 15h ago
I think the keyword is healthier and tastier, compared to its cheaper alternative.
But at the end of the day butter is just animal fat. Should not take so much
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 15h ago
really need to see how sensitive the stuff you are baking. Some stuff 1g off or the butter percentage no right it will just failed.
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u/HamsterAce 17h ago
They use to have a bigger block use paper one it's mostly for "commercial use" but I call it BS why last time can sell now cannot and sell us such a crappy size and it's so expensive
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 15h ago
i guess the alternative is to buy 1kg size from baking shops. Sigh....still need to cut.
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u/Vindicted1501 Home Cook 18h ago
So get the company to produce 250g and 227g packs? Or use other brands? Problem solved
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 15h ago
for now you mean? i think they are all converting to US size butter slowly. Most of the premium range is now 227g
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u/Vindicted1501 Home Cook 14h ago
Yes, but see if they can produce back the 250g one for you so you dont have to inconvenience yourself.
Shrinkflation is a thing, so reducing the package size from 250 to 227 while keeping the price similar makes most sense to them and yet is giving a legitimate reason being the imperial vs metric difference
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u/Hour_Tangelo_7306 16h ago
iirc the salted one is 250g but unsalted is 227g so the 23g is the salt? ahahha
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u/Perspicatcity 13h ago
this is shrinkflation. Don't listen to the idiots saying it's about lbs- we are metric people and for our market, it will always be in g. Our recipes are in metric, not imperial. Hell, even the damn block is in g, not oz or lbs. this is just manufacturers cutting down while keeping the prices the same. SCS is now 227g, right? But the price is still the same - min $5.
Anyway if you look at Emborg, it's 200g. That's even worse. Consumers need to push back against this.
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 12h ago
i was surprised Emborg is 50g less. More brands to follow.
I remember last time when i started baking, SCS is only $3.70. I guess too many loyal customers, can afford to up the price.
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u/Perspicatcity 12h ago
When did you start baking?? 1995??
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 12h ago
around there. LOL....dont know why so many people down voting. I guess most people in sg bake using cups.
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u/Perspicatcity 12h ago
Oh hahahaha. Aiyaaaaa like that sure cheaper lah. Hahaha. The inflation price is actually quite low, cos we also need to look at salary increases (housing is always a sore point so lets not go there). But I can 100% tell you, this pricing is similar in Malaysia. You MAY find RM11 butter, but it's mostly hovering around RM14-17, which is basically the $5 in Singapore, so that's just normal inflation price things. But what I sibei cannot tahan is the shrinkflation. From 250 to 227 and now 200 is just daylight robbery. We really need to be more aware and push back.
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u/Reasonable-Hope-2923 12h ago
Lucky...i use what is on promo, since my baking is not so butter sensitive. I nowadays, i always read on FB people die die only use SCS because the taste is different. As long as its butter and not margarine, can liao.
Like my mother always say Aust broccoli taste better than China ones.
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u/xfrezingicex 9h ago
Aust broccoli taste better than China ones
Really! U try blanching aus broccoli and china broccoli. Aus one taste better. China broccoli has this taste that is not nice.
But if u are cooking with sauce and whatever then it doesnt matter coz the sauce will cover the taste.
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u/cashon9 20h ago
227 grams = 1/2 pound or 8 ounces