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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?

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[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Adam ragusea has some good video explaining both why we use volume and why we don't use metric

[–] Magus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

https://youtu.be/iJymKowx8cY?si=ZJ7sKhOdiHxozSUO

Another video that explains stuff on the imperial system that fits.

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[–] shadycomposer@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Silly question: are all cups the same volume? I didn’t bother to measure but the cup i use to scoop rice seems very different in size from the one I use for dog food…

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some good answers here, thanks everyone, I've learnt some stuff today. 🙂

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[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Because we adore being different and difficult just for the hell of it.

[–] HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Unless you're baking cakes from scratch for fun or trying to make aesthetically perfect macarons, I just don't really see a reason to use a scale.

With cup measurements, it's scoop, level, dump. I hate having to fuss around with getting perfect measurements of ingredients; it's the second-most boring part of cooking.

I really subscribe to Adam Ragusea's methodology of "cooking by feel", and just so happens it aligns with how my own culture treats cooking as well.

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