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?
Now imagine doing this before cheap digital scales were available. Cheap analog kitchen scales were utter garbage – inaccurate, wobbly, bulky, and sometimes impossible to tare – but cheap measuring cups and spoons generally work very nearly as well as expensive ones.