American measures are shit

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I think what you lose in precision you make up for in speed. For staple ingredients that have consistent density it really doesn’t matter whether you use volume or mass except for the fact that filling a cup with flour and scraping the top is always going to go quicker than trying to hit the mark on a scale.

If you’re a professional you’re either measuring by weight or have developed the judgement to make up the difference. If you’re a novice you just wants chocolate chip cookies, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a choice between quick and dirty or busting out the scale.

There are virtues to both approaches, it’s just what you’re familiar with.
 
Tour of Italy said:
I think what you lose in precision you make up for in speed. For staple ingredients that have consistent density it really doesn’t matter whether you use volume or mass except for the fact that filling a cup with flour and scraping the top is always going to go quicker than trying to hit the mark on a scale.

If you’re a professional you’re either measuring by weight or have developed the judgement to make up the difference. If you’re a novice you just wants chocolate chip cookies, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a choice between quick and dirty or busting out the scale.

There are virtues to both approaches, it’s just what you’re familiar with.
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For a home cook, up or down scaling the recipes is a real pain in the ass though. And I can't see different brands of flour, for example, having consistent density.
 
Metric is for NPC baby brained simpletons who need everything hand fed to them. Imperial measurements are for intelligent alpha males with basic critical thinking skills.

And I feel the need to remind you what @JULAY said:

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There's nothing wrong with Imperial weights in their own right, but cups as a standard unit of measurement is peak tardation and shouldn't be used outside of your grandma's recipe books.

also lmaoing at people who think Von Braun having to re-write his schematics in furlongs and barleycorns so the burgers could understand them is a point in the system's favour.

garakfan69 said:
The metric system was invented by the French
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Don't give the other side ammunition, you fool.
 
Chive Turkey said:
There's nothing wrong with Imperial weights in their own right, but cups as a standard unit of measurement is peak tardation and shouldn't be used outside of your grandma's recipe books.

also lmaoing at people who think Von Braun having to re-write his schematics in furlongs and barleycorns so the burgers could understand them is a point in the system's favour.


Don't give the other side ammunition, you fool.
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Hurr durr different substances have different densities? We definitely don't need a way to measure volume. That's dumb. Weight measurements or GTFO
 
For cooking and baking, cups are more user friendly, provided you have a cup measure. Measuring 246 grams of flour exactly is more involved whereas you can just dump 3 cups of this and 2 of that and the recipe comes out more or less delicious.
 
Metric is Stupid said:
Hurr durr different substances have different densities? We definitely don't need a way to measure volume. That's dumb. Weight measurements or GTFO
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How many cases in cooking can you imagine where you need a seperate standard instrument to measure the volume of ingredients, as opposed to using the container it came in on the fly, using weight or just using common sense? There are limited cirumstances in which knowing the exact volume is specifically required, whilst using volume as your standard baseline is generally going to be more inexact and counterproductive than just reading the weight which is fucking plastered on everything you buy at the store anyway.

emo goff said:
For cooking and baking, cups are more user friendly, provided you have a cup measure. Measuring 246 grams of flour exactly is more involved whereas you can just dump 3 cups of this and 2 of that and the recipe comes out more or less delicious.
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>buy 500g pack of flour
>use half
It seems a bit redundant to use some tool to eyeball measurements when you've got fucking eyeballs.
 
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Chive Turkey said:
>buy 500g pack of flour
>use half
It seems a bit redundant to use some tool to eyeball measurements when you've got fucking eyeballs.
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That's not easy when you have 10kg bags of it.
Unless you're making something insanely finicky like sponge cake or macarons, most recipes can handle US approximations.
 
One cup or one tablespoon of "insert solid food"... Couldn't put pound, or grammes, or anything that is used as a weight measurement for solids. Number of times I have to use an online converter to either metric or other imperial is irritating.

Other thing that gets me is UK imperial and US imperial are not the same...
 
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