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I'm tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Use non-American recipes.

The rest of the world does this. And guess what, 1 milliliter of water is exactly 1 gram, unlike stupid ounces.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I want a recipe in English I always end the search query with "UK" to make sure it's in weight, not cups. I'm not a fucking toddler

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I try that too for English recipes but then I get things in tablespoons, teaspoons, pinches, good pinches, full pinches, and small bunches.

Or my favorite "a good knob of butter"

At least they aren't using stone for flour though lol.

[–] EtherWhack 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Density differs for other ingredients though.

[–] panicnow 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does, but I would still rather use grams usually. My ice cream base recipe says 500g skim milk and 470g heavy cream. I don’t have to get a measuring cup dirty—I just pour them into the bowl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, why on earth would you use skim milk in ice cream when you're adding in basically equal parts cream anyway?

[–] panicnow 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing that really matters is the average milk fat %. I like Costco’s 40% heavy cream from a price and quality standpoint. My family drinks skim milk. If I mix those two equally I will end up with about 20% fat which makes a very nice ice cream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah I guess if you already have skim milk around the house then that makes sense.

[–] feedum_sneedson 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a millilitre of water is a gram, dog

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Geez, you and the other commenter have good timing. It was a temporary edit to mess with an active commenter. Started as gram 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hah, that was a temporary edit to mess with the other commenter 😉 Good timing for you I guess.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's more an issue of its too hard for you to learn, then. Also, for cooking, that's great that 1ml of water weighs 1mg. Why does that help with cooking? All the weights of everything else will be different from that. It's much quicker and easier to use a measuring cups to get half a cup of flour than it is to get a scale and weigh out 60 grams.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

it's much quicker and easier

Ask any boulanger or pâtissier how to do shit baking lol