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?
Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
Submitted 7 months ago by i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
RBWells@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everything. “How far to the restaurant?” “18 cups or so”
'The music is too loud, turn it down a few cups!"
I do actually like weight better for measurements, have a scale and that IS easier, agreed. But most recipes don’t need to be so exact, and not everyone has a scale so volume measurements work. I just use a regular spoon for teaspoon and have cup measures, a small coffee cup here is 8oz, we have some of those too.