The thing about Fahrenheit being more intuitive is it will just depend on what scale you’re used to. If anything having the scale relate to water makes more sense for cooking but again since nothing is being converted it doesn’t really matter. If you want an actually superior American unit of measurment imo look no further than cups. Using volume over weight has made following recipes much easier for me.
The one that’s in my cabinet?
The one that Wikipedia lists as “this is definitely the cup, there’s no doubt about that”?
The cup that’s also called a “coffee cup” as opposed to the cup from which I drink my coffee, which is very different despite also being both a cup and a coffee cup?
The volume that my coffee maker defines to be a cup (or maybe that’s supposed to be a cup, sorry, coffee cup, but not the same coffee cup that the standard coffee cup - which still is named a cup)?
Not for all recipes, not everything can be scaled linearly. Great example is boiling rice - if you scale the amount of water linearly, it won’t work correctly.
A standardized cup is around 240ml. Once you know that you should be able to tell if a cup roughly fits that requirement. Or you just get one designed for baking. Just as widely available as kitchen scales. Or you keep weighing your food. I don’t know what else to tell you.
Whoa, I didn’t even know that. Yes, volume is better for that, weight is madness if that’s what you guys are doing. Do you have a little scale in the kitchen like in Goodfellas?
Yes that’s what we do. Standardized cups have become available over the last years because people are slowly realizing volume is objectively easier to work with but still in most European recipes you will only find volume for liquids so you will indeed need a kitchen scale. Or you just eyeball everything which is what I used to do but then you might as well use a cup.
The thing about Fahrenheit being more intuitive is it will just depend on what scale you’re used to. If anything having the scale relate to water makes more sense for cooking but again since nothing is being converted it doesn’t really matter. If you want an actually superior American unit of measurment imo look no further than cups. Using volume over weight has made following recipes much easier for me.
No cup of flour will have the same amount of flour in it. Plus how many tomatoes do I need for one cup of chopped tomatoes?
Plus weighing sticky stuff is much easier than using cups or spoons.
Which of the cups?
The one that’s in my cabinet? The one that Wikipedia lists as “this is definitely the cup, there’s no doubt about that”? The cup that’s also called a “coffee cup” as opposed to the cup from which I drink my coffee, which is very different despite also being both a cup and a coffee cup? The volume that my coffee maker defines to be a cup (or maybe that’s supposed to be a cup, sorry, coffee cup, but not the same coffee cup that the standard coffee cup - which still is named a cup)?
It doesn’t matter as long as you use the same cup for the entire recipe. That’s part of why I like it better.
Not for all recipes, not everything can be scaled linearly. Great example is boiling rice - if you scale the amount of water linearly, it won’t work correctly.
And as long as you keep track of which of your 5 different cups is the one that’s 16 times larger than the tablespoon measuring scoop. :)
A standardized cup is around 240ml. Once you know that you should be able to tell if a cup roughly fits that requirement. Or you just get one designed for baking. Just as widely available as kitchen scales. Or you keep weighing your food. I don’t know what else to tell you.
Whoa, I didn’t even know that. Yes, volume is better for that, weight is madness if that’s what you guys are doing. Do you have a little scale in the kitchen like in Goodfellas?
Yes that’s what we do. Standardized cups have become available over the last years because people are slowly realizing volume is objectively easier to work with but still in most European recipes you will only find volume for liquids so you will indeed need a kitchen scale. Or you just eyeball everything which is what I used to do but then you might as well use a cup.