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.