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I've never seen anyone measure eggs in cups.

>>11260584

>>11260584
You killed a thread for this

>>11260584
>cracks egg
>1 1/3 cup
fuck
>pours in trash and tries again

>>11260584
The liquid volume or weight of the egg probably should be measured for consistency in baking because there's wide variation even among the current classifications "medium" and "large."

>>11260584
Butter is usually measured in sticks/oz then cups. 1 stick of US butter is 1/2 cup. Eggs are not usually measured. Most recipes will specify if the egg really needs to be lg or x lg. Why is it a problem? If you use metric then do the math conversions like we have to do when using a metric recipe. I also hate metric recipes btw.

>>11260748
I can't speak for OP, but measuring baking ingredients by volume is silly. Weight makes far more sense. There's a lot less cleanup involved since you can just weigh all your ingredients straight into your mixing bowl. It's also more precise since you don't have to worry about variability introduced by how hard you pack things into a measuring cup.

That said, I see the same problems in my home country. Amateur recipes are usually given by volume. Pro ones by weight. I'd suggest that if a baking recipe calls for volume instead of bakers % then that's a good sign it's a shit recipe. Keep looking until you find one that's in terms of bakers %.

>>11260584
I pretty much eyeball everything unless
it's something finicky like a soufflé

>>11260584
Please these are pleb units, I only measure in pound moles, mass pounds, and Rankines

>>11260584
>Posts in American website

Yeah its fucking cancer trying to figure out american recipes.
It would be so much easier if they just measured weight in Grams and volume with Liters. Its mindboggling not to.

>>11260801
Most recipes are given out not using scales because most people don't have them, and the ones who do can probably easily convert the measurements. Since scales are so cheap now I hope they'll get more popular and mostly replace measuring cups at some point though, there's no real good reason to not have one if you do any kind of cooking regularly.

>>11260801
I'm not defending our use of old-fashioned silly units, but is it really something to get worked up about? 1 pound is roughly 500 grams (454 if you care about being anal). 1 liter is roughly 4 cups (technically a cup is 237 mL). The conversion is so easy that I'm curious why anyone bitches about it.

>>11260781
This.