/ck/ - Food & Cooking

personally i prefer metric but to be honest i think all this anguish comes from europeans always looking up recipes from american cooks and being frustrated by the measurements. otherwise, it shouldn't bother you this much that people in other unrelated countries are measuring shit in their fucked up folksy measuring units.
and my country at least (bulgaria) is also guilty of measuring things in cups and soup spoons and tea spoons. and it's not even standardized measurements like americans have. over here a cup means a literal cup you have around the house. most people figure that means around 150-200 grams but that's as close as you get. at least everyone's more or less using the same size of soup spoon and tea spoon here.
and finally, a personal opinion. i find all these local measurements like cups, thimbles, stone, li (isn't that distance?), taels (isn't that for gold?), bushels, bunches, wreaths, etc. incredibly charming. i wouldn't want them to be subsumed by big metric. i wouldn't want to cook with them, that's for sure. but i wouldn't want them to disappear.