Why the fuck do so many online recipes insist on using vague and imprecise measurements like cups or spoons? Is it too fucking hard to write down what you need in grams or ounces? Do all these people lack the common sense to actually measure their ingredients? I'm a Eurofag and I don't have any issue converting imperial to metric, but when it comes to cups I just have to eyeball it and trust my experience, which is not always easy to do when making something new. Why not fucking tell me how much I need instead of giving me a vague hint?
How much is a fucking cup anyway? I've got all kinds of cups, and the difference between a big cup and a small cup is easily 25 to 50%. If you think it's no big deal to bake pastry with 50% too much or too little flour, you obviously lack the intelligence to be trusted to write down any kind of recipe.
Seriously, fuck everyone who thinks "one cup" is an acceptable way of measuring ingredients.
>How much is a fucking cup anyway? 8oz. A quick Google search could have thwarted your full blown retardation
Cooper Davis
you have no excuse for this post unless you aren't American
Hunter Reed
fluid oz != weight oz
8oz of flour on average weighs 4.25oz but it can easily vary +/- 25% depending on how packed it is.
Wyatt Carter
Then only use recipes that have weights. Any decent baking recipe will. If you need exact measurements for any other kind of cooking, you are retarded
Cameron Jenkins
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James Cox
The cup as a unit of measurement is stupid, simply because there is no standard size of cup. (And because no-one here uses it so it confuses the fuck out of people.)
Whereas spoons are standard sized. >teaspoon (5ml) >dessert spoon (10ml) >tablespoon (15ml)
Can be further modified if needed by specifying: >level - scraped flat with a knife, or is a liquid >rounded - fill spoon with as much as it will hold, then tap it twice (~double normal measure) >heaped - fill spoon with as much as it will hold, no tapping (~triple normal measure)
But yes, just saying what actual measures you need in a recipe is superior at all times.
Jackson Price
>simply because there is no standard size of cup
Jaxon Foster
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Adrian Reed
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Ryan Cox
I sincerely hope you’re only pretending to be retarded.
Nathan Rogers
>implying everyone lives in the US and uses "cups" as a measurement
Logan Gonzalez
>it’s not retarded to make threads complaining about things I don’t understand! >It doesn’t matter if I could have learned all about it in 5 minutes of Google searches, if I wasn’t taught it in school it doesn’t matter! >Hurrrrpt durrrrrrr!!!
Isaiah Cooper
Why are you fancy Europeans and other well-traveled citizens of the world even using our disgusting American recipes?
Bentley Johnson
So far removed from Imperial measurements. A cup, a teaspoon. You know what a pint of beer is, don't you? Is a gallon of milk ringing any bells for you?
Grams are fine for measuring out cocaine, but for cooking, you use cups, teaspoons, and gallons.
Jackson Roberts
A cup is 8oz dude.
Joseph Perez
I thought cups were mostly a UK thing.
Carter Walker
Fluid ounces, which are useless when measuring something like flour.
Do you even bake?
Daniel Phillips
I don't, I filter out US recipes because of the silly measurements.
Chase Lewis
Not at all. It's a stupid way of measuring things. Especially if you're baking when you need to be exact.
Chase Ward
I wish Veeky Forums had flags so I could filter out your posts
Luis Smith
Too bad it's hard to find recipes in english that don't use ameridumb measurements.
Matthew Reyes
Cookbook authors in thhe US need to cater to the victims of both the public school system and the imperial measurements.
Nathan Gray
There are a large number of troglodytes in the US who are scared of anything new even when it's demonstrably better. They view anything different from the ol' timey ways as an atheist, communist jewish conspiracy. I'm an amerilard and just convert the nonsensical imperial to metric weights.
I cant image a recipe that requires such an exact amount of onion that it would matter.
Aaron Ward
My country also uses 'cups.' One cup is a quarter of a litre. A 'teacup' is half of that. A 'coffee cup' is half of a teacup. Then again, I think we're one of the few who prefer hg (hectogram/ettogrammo) over kg. Things are sold at €1/hg rather than €10/kg, for example. You go to the butcher and ask for 4hg of mince rather than 0,4 kg.
