Weigh honey or nut butter straight from the jar
Use the falling scale reading to move a sticky ingredient directly into a mixing bowl.
For a recipe calling for 45 grams of honey, put the open honey jar on a scale that displays negative weights. Take the lid off before you zero it. Lift spoonfuls out and add them to your mixing bowl. With the spoon clear of the jar, a reading of −45 grams means 45 grams have left the jar.
Keep the route short. Honey left on the spoon or dripped onto the counter counts as weight removed, even if it never reaches the mixture. Scrape the last spoonful into the bowl. If you start with the spoon parked inside the jar, the spoon itself becomes part of the starting weight. Leave it off the scale both when you set zero and when you read the result.
A scale that does not show negative values still works. Record the starting gross weight, subtract the recipe amount and stop at the target. An open jar weighing 612 grams should read 567 grams after you remove 45. The same method works for tahini, thick yogurt and nut butter.
