Just follow the prescribed method carefully & forget the damned hydrometer.
I brewed for 20 years without one & even now I use only very occasionally.
Many advanced brewers will need to use much more routinely but I imagine you
have used a kit which is exactly the right place to start.

Pete


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> I've just brewed my first batch
> Package Pale Ale
>
> At what time in the process should I you make the starting gravity
> reading?
> After the wort is cooled? After it's pitched?
>
> In all my readings I haven't been able to find this .
>
> Thanks
>
> Don
>
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