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?

  • acetanilide@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nope. I mean technically they are supposed to be. But in practice, absolutely not. Im pretty sure manufacturers just make cups with random lines on it.

    This is why I have a dry and a wet measuring cups. Although that still isn’t a standard. But at least if you consistently use the same cup for the same thing you can fine tune it that way.