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?

  • HobbitFoot English
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    8 months ago

    In this context milk is a bad example because the difference between 1.03g/ml and 1g/ml is negligible in a kitchen. Even oil (0.92g/ml) is close enough.

    The context is that if you are going to hand wave away a 3% difference in a quantity, then having to weigh everything probably isn’t important.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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      8 months ago

      The context [SIC - rationale] is that if you are going to hand wave away a 3% difference in a quantity, then having to weigh everything probably isn’t important.

      That’s poor reasoning; ignoring a tiny difference doesn’t imply ignoring larger ones. Myself mentioned three cases where the difference matters, with one (flour) being highly variable.

      A better argument to defend your point would be that most differences in the kitchen are tiny.

      • HobbitFoot English
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        8 months ago

        I’ve been making that argument in other comments. If I had to argue the nuances of this argument in every comment, I’d be copying and pasting pages long comments that no one would read.