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?

  • ccunning
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    6 months ago
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    You do know that only water weighs on gram per ml, right?

    This is a great fact for if you’re trying to make hot water soup from a recipe written in metric volume measures and you only have a scale.

    You might get away if you’re just trying to measure apple juice or something else that’s mostly water, but good luck making Rice Krispie treats

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      While we’re making soup, let’s base the entire temperature scale on water, too.