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?
Watch some cooking shows on YouTube where they cook from two hundred year old cookbooks. Weighing stuff is a modern thing. All the “ye olde recipes” from Europe and the colonies were done in cups, spoons, and other volume measurements we don’t use anymore like “jills”.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Apparently the French sent over a metric system for the Americans to use, but the ship was lost.
npr.org/…/how-pirates-of-the-caribbean-hijacked-a…
I’ve seen numerous sources for this.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OP is asking about volume vs weight, not metric volume vs imperial volume.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If the US had adopted the metric system it wouldn’t matter.
inspxtr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
someone should make an alternate history tv show where the ship made it. bonus if it’s of a parody kind.