Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?

    • ChrisOP
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      -29 months ago

      Not quite the same as Stones and Kilogrammes are both units of weight. Using cups is like weighing somebody using those luggage size baskets in the airport.

      • @AnalogyAddict
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        29 months ago

        Because you can’t pack a scale and weights on a cart as easily as you can a set of cups?

          • @kn33
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            39 months ago

            They are now. Not when people were going out west on wagons. As stated above, it’s because of historical reasons.