A few days ago I started prepping the CS mint ice cream recipe. Weighed out the sugar, tare to zero, then started pouring xanthan onto the mix veeery slowly, mindful of its power. To my surprise, the scale kept reading 0 long after the amount dispensed had passed my "eyeball test", eventually making a sizable pile that covered much of the bowl. Guess xanthan is way less dense than sugar, I thought. Finally the scale ticked up to 1g, and I moved onto the next step.
You see where this is going.
Suffice to say, while plucking mint leaves one-by-one onto the same scale, I discovered its zero-leveling is way too aggressive. I was a decent way thru a bunch that had to weigh 50g+, yet I was still looking at a 0g measurement. Sure enough, if I removed the plucked leaves from the bowl, tared, and dropped them in all at once, the scale read 17g!
Onward to the present day. I have a minty creme anglaise in the fridge that's roughly the consistency of Nickelodeon slime / K-Y jelly / silken tofu. Should I cut my losses? Or do I waste some good vanilla beans & chocolate chips hoping that the churn will invent a tasty (or at least palatable) new form of dessert?
