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?

  • @iarigby
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    12 months ago

    Because it’s a few dozen times faster? You can literally reach into a container and take out one cup and that’s it. Works for me ost liquids or grainy stuff. Not from US btw.

    • @nyctre
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      42 months ago

      Only if you have cup sized cups. Otherwise it’s just gonna throw your ratios off

      • @OhmsLawn
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        2 months ago

        We have measuring cups, along with similarly standardized spoons and liquid measuring cups (same measurement just a different form factor).

        Everyone who cooks has at least one set. I literally never had (nor needed) a scale in the kitchen until I started baking, in my forties.