Measuring / Weighing
Japanese: 計量（けいりょう）
Accurately measuring ingredients. Essential for maintaining proper ratios.
Accurately measuring soybeans, koji, and salt is essential. Changing ratios alters salt concentration and fermentation.
Digital scale for gram-level measurement is recommended. Salt especially — small differences significantly affect flavor. Approximation works, but for reproducibility, accurate measuring is the first step. A digital scale with 0.1g precision is especially useful for salt. Recording ratios enables reproducing the same flavor. Measurement is the foundation of reproducibility. Value both intuition and numbers.