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?

  • FleetingTit@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The british didn’t quite overcome the old ways of measuring. They still use miles, pints, stone, and so on.

    Companies just need to print the metric amount on the box as well.

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      7 months ago

      We like mixing them up too. Tyres are measured using three numbers, two of which are in mm, the other (wheel diameter) is in inches.

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      7 months ago

      The british didn’t quite overcome the old ways of measuring.

      Not completely, agreed, but they are miles ahead of the Americans. :-)