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 @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      2 years 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.

        • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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          2 years 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.