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?
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.