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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] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Brazil got a weird twist on that: metric everywhere, except for most kitchen ingredients. Including stuff like "a can of milk" (milk is not sold in cans here), "a requeijão glass of [ingredient]", so goes on.

[–] Treczoks 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good that I have not tried to get into Brazilian cooking so far.

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

Yup, it is that messy.

On a lighter side, although cups/Tbsp/tsp are still in use, they got padronised to 240/15/5ml.

[–] Treczoks 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which does not help with non-liquid foods, as their density varies widely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah, it doesn't. Specially not for stuff like butter, as it's really hard to measure a "normal" tablespoon.

(It could be worse though. My grandma's measurements were basically "put an amount of [ingredient]", "aah, you eyeball it", or "enough to fill that dish". I guess cup/tbsp/tsp is a progress from that.)