The handy trick I learned while working in a bakery.
? Even though I cook and bake for a living, I still have trouble estimating these measurements by sight. And while our test kitchen and my own kitchen have rulers on deck, the more I cook elsewhere, the more I realize this isn’t a given.
Before I joined the team here at Food52, I worked as a nighttime baker. Which meant a lot of pie dough–rolling, cookie dough–rolling, biscuit dough–rolling...really, just a lot of. After a while, instead of trying to find a ruler every time—as I'm covered in dough, no less—I figured out something about my hands:
1-inch is the distance from the first to second knuckle on my middle finger. And ¼-inch is the thickness of my pinky.
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