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[–] SocialMediaRefugee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (17 children)

I just want to know if you are cooking using European recipes are you constantly weighing every ingredient out into a separate dish or just get used to estimating "This much butter is about X grams"? I'd go nuts if I had to sit there carefully weighing out everything instead of just going "1 tablespoon, done".

[–] Cabslock 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is how we tell how much butter we get

[–] Dravin 2 points 2 weeks ago

What is funny is Americans are doing the same thing to measure their butter, cutting off chunks according to a ruler on the package, it is just marked in volume on the side of the package instead of weight:

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