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I'm tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (7 children)

Use non-American recipes.

The rest of the world does this. And guess what, 1 milliliter of water is exactly 1 gram, unlike stupid ounces.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I want a recipe in English I always end the search query with "UK" to make sure it's in weight, not cups. I'm not a fucking toddler

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I try that too for English recipes but then I get things in tablespoons, teaspoons, pinches, good pinches, full pinches, and small bunches.

Or my favorite "a good knob of butter"

At least they aren't using stone for flour though lol.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

a millilitre of water is a gram, dog

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Geez, you and the other commenter have good timing. It was a temporary edit to mess with an active commenter. Started as gram 😉

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 19 hours ago

Hah, that was a temporary edit to mess with the other commenter 😉 Good timing for you I guess.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Density differs for other ingredients though.

[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It does, but I would still rather use grams usually. My ice cream base recipe says 500g skim milk and 470g heavy cream. I don’t have to get a measuring cup dirty—I just pour them into the bowl.

[–] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Wait, why on earth would you use skim milk in ice cream when you're adding in basically equal parts cream anyway?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's more an issue of its too hard for you to learn, then. Also, for cooking, that's great that 1ml of water weighs 1mg. Why does that help with cooking? All the weights of everything else will be different from that. It's much quicker and easier to use a measuring cups to get half a cup of flour than it is to get a scale and weigh out 60 grams.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 4 points 23 hours ago

it's much quicker and easier

Ask any boulanger or pâtissier how to do shit baking lol