We can't measure in feet or inches because it would be ambiguous about how wide to make it
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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Even as a Canadian and raised on the metric system, I prefer recipes in cups and spoons.
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Tradition, and its dumb as hell since we have set the official definition of every "imperial measure" to metric we just keep using the silly ones.
I've been cooking a lot lately. I don't measure anything. I eyeball my most stuff anyway. If I understand the recipe, then I know how much is needed. It takes practice, but it's much easier than weighing or using measuring cups.
Do you really believe that the people who wrote the recipe measured everything to perfection while keeping score of the exact amounts and timing through trial and error? No, they didn't. They made something and then estimated roughly how much they used when writing the recipe afterwards.
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Because measuring by weight is simply a waste of time. Full cup have exact measure dump. Simple.
Why would you ever add an extra step or two for no reason??
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Just buy cup and spoon measures. It simplifies the whole process. You already own metric measures, so what's the difference.
Edit: What's all this then? Down votes? How is this not the most effective solution? Did it come off as condescending? That was not my intention.
If the issue is that you dont understand the cup and spoon measurements, then just buy a cheap set of measures.
You learn what a cup is. You dont have to translate american recipes every time you want to make something (which doesn't translate to nice round numbers anyway) which saves time and reduces stress and you can still use metric measures for anything else.
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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.
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