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?
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?
Cups are great, the real annoyances are pints, quarts and gallons. Really no reason to use any of those when you can just state it in cups. Then we threw in fluid ounces for that extra layer of confusion and conversion.
Looking at the wide range of cups in my drawer, I’m not so sure, tbh.
We don’t … literally use random cups lmao.
Oh, okay. It sounded like that because the unit is called cups and I could imagine someone pouring sugar and the like into a cup and then into the bowl.
I just weigh things while baking and recipes here usually show ingredients in gram and mililiters, but the cup thing sounded reasonable because cups are available everywhere, scales maybe aren’t.
I think that is the historical reason for cups. I saw another commenter post that a measuring cup is approximately the volume of a teacup, and those do tend to be about the same size.