/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12661979
I'm sorry you are poor. I'm also sorry you have to live in a socialist country OP. Be strong bong.

It's how we sort out people who can focus from the challenged, or apparently Euros. That recipe literally sounds like a 2nd grade project with the words written next to it, 'this should not be hard.'

>>12661997
The cope levels are off the fucking charts.

So damn true, i hate fucking cups as a measurement unit. There are millions of cup sizes, is it so hard to weigh your shit and give exact numbers, especially when dealing with cooking end baking. God damn, Americans are retarded beyond help.

American recipes aren't dumb. Yours are. An American recipe calls for volumes of ingredients to be measured by volume. You nitwits have recipes calling for mass "measured" by volume.

>>12661997
I don't think he means it's too difficult to follow, just that the units American recipes use are terrible (which they are).

Recipes should pretty much all be by mass anyway, it's just a way better method of measurement for cooking.

>A pinch

>>12661979
Why do you keep looking up American recipes if you don't have basic measuring cups/spoons/a fucking scale then? It's almost as though nobody puts decent recipes online using your monopoly money system of measurement.

>>12662032
>Recipes should pretty much all be by mass anyway, it's just a way better method of measurement for cooking.
Professional recipes typically do use mass, but there's very little difference in volume for small quantities of most items. We just assume most people are fucktarded if you can't use volume. Admittedly volume is a bitch with flour, but again these are usually home recipes that were passed down before a scale.

>use three liquid ounces plus two drops and a quarter teaspoon of water

>>12662032
>needing a scale to cook

>Bongistan recipe.
>"Just boil it."

>>12662127
>>12662167
>not cooking at all

>>12662075
It's not a question of difficulty. Even if it was, volumes for everything would definitely be the lazy thoughtless don't-give-a-shit option.

>honey mustard recipe
>"3 cups mayo, 2 spoons honey, salt, paprika, garlic powder, mix them up"
>"I don't usually put mustard because I don't like the taste, but you should put it now if you want :)"

>>12661979
Numbers and units of measurement are too difficult for me, so that means YOU'RE dumb!!! Waa waa save me mutti Merkel!!!

>>12662006
>There are millions of cup sizes
The cup is a standardized unit, dumbfuck. 8 fluid ounces. It doesn’t mean any random cup you have lying around

>>12662264

>>12662075
>home recipes that were passed down before a scale
You do realize scales have existed for thousands of years, yah?

>>12662389
Are you a new worlder? All my recipes are several thousand years old and date before scales. It’s called having culture, americans and australians and the like wouldn’t understand.

>>12662006
This. A small espresso cup or a big coffee cup? I also have some larger cups. Which cup? Why not just say x.xx liters?

>>12662041
How are you confused by this

>>12662041
>a splash

>>12662400
>Which cup?
The measuring cup. It says "1 cup" on it which means US Customary Cup, a unit of 240mL

>a generous pour

>>12662415
But what does that even mean?

>>12662422
It means it's a standardized unit of measurement, just like the litre.

>one cup of broccoli
What the shit? Are you supposed to stuff the broccoli tightly to remove all space, or just but a fuck huge piece loosely in there?

>>12662445
>"one cup" with no qualifiers
The latter
"one cup, packed"
The former

This board is so fucking cuckholded holy shit

imagine being so retarded you can't follow a recipe

>>12662455
>cuckholded
>holded
Fucking retard.

>>12662422
>it's exactly this amount
>but what does it mean?

>>12661979
everything should be in ml,or grams

like scientific units that translate everywhere perfectly

none of that "cup" or "ounces" nonsense

>>12662520
Cups and ounces are standardized units too dumbfuck

Just admit you’re a triggered eurocuck mad that US dominance forces you to deal with our measurement system

>>12662520
Cups and ounces are legally defined in mL

>>12662520
all the boomers near me sell weed in ounces. I know its around 28 grams or so but I like knowing what an ounce looks like.

>>12662520
Metric is easier to use but it's not /comfy/ like imperial. I don't want to be cooking feeling like I'm in a chemistry lab making aspirin or some shit, with mls of this and grams of that.

>>12662524
SCIENTIFIC units you dumbass
its exactly the same shit in furniture DIY/ woodworking videos too

"here, cut this piece of wood into 3/8 of an inch thick, which you can glue to this other piece thats 3 1/4 inches.."

just fucking use metric, why bother with all these convoluted fractions and shit??
1 metre = 100 centimetre
1 centimetre = 10 millimetre

easy!

>>12662541
Try to stop being stupid and learn some fucking 3rd grade level math
If it triggers you so much just stop consuming American content. But I know you won’t

>>12662528
>>12662524
cups are units of volume, not weight
1 cup of sifted flour is not the same weight as 1 cup of flour
100 grams of sifted flour is the same weight as 100 grams of flour

>>12662541
>I want scientific units for FOOD
What’s a more natural measurement in the kitchen: a cup, or fucking milliliters? Using metric for cooking is absolutely autistic

>>12662557
Flour is the only thing that really matters for. things like sugar, salt, or liquid ingredients don’t have that issue

>>12661987
>not using scientific units equals to living in a socialist country
I guess being ignorant in using literally SCIENTIFIC units makes one the greatest country ever with the smartest people, eh?

>>12662563
>kosher salt vs salt
>anything relating to aeration(e.g. whipped cream)

>>12662541
Woodworkers prefer a base 12 system because it makes squaring out a building so much easier using nice round fractions. Thus, Imperial.
There's all sorts of fun little arguments they have about their tried and true formulae being converted to base 10 and introducing all sorts of weird little errors like suddenly missing a milimetre of wood every so many cm because you had to round 33.33333 up or down.

>>12662557
Good thing you sift after measuring and not before.

>>12662558
I just can see him in the kitchen using flasks and pipettes to make pancakes.

>>12662578
We get it, you’re autistic

>>12662579
>Woodworkers prefer a base 12 system because it makes squaring out a building so much easier using nice round fractions. Thus, Imperial.
are you making ship parts for the 18th century?
civilised countries use metric for all construction, precision is literally key
>b-b-ut base 12!
can you not divide and use decimals retard?

>>12662586
>We get it, you’re autistic
well yes, but im also a pastry chef so this precision matters

>>12662589
A measuring tape doesn't have 33.33333333mm marked on it and eyeballing that is the opposite of precision.

>>12662601
You can always pull out verniers to measure the last fraction if you need that level of precision. Metric is still more precise than Imperial in all cases regardless.

>>12662222
I don't understand it
Using mass and scales takes no extra effort and frees you from worrying about weird measuring devices and containers, and additionally makes sure your recipes are consistent and tweakable
Ree

>>12662608
why would you pull out verniers when a base 12 system has all the handy factions built in and everything can be done expertly with a measuring tape and a square?

why does every single thread devolve into buttflamed eurocucks whining about something.

>>12662601
can you show me where the .333mm line is on the imperial system? o no wait you cant, because inch is the smallest unit
1mm allows much more precision then 0.0393701 inches

>>12662041
>a punch of salt

>>12662621
/ck/ is the safespace hub for euros to vent

>>12662041
What would you use then? I'm not about to measure out some tiny amount of paprika or whatever with a scale, it would take all damn day to cook anything.

Either Americans are impersonated constantly by genuinely OBSESSED shitposters, or they're the most oversensitive, thin-skinned, whiny fuckers on this board

>>12661979
Just because you're to stupid to understand those measurements doesn't mean anything is wrong with them.

>>12662661
>accuse them of what you're doing yourself
It's Euros whining and Americans responding, always in that order.

>>12662541
Are you really too dumb to realize 1/8 hours into 1/4?

>>12662578
That's why recipes specify what kind of salt to use.

>>12662661
When is the last time you saw a thread specifically complaining about eurofags using scales for cooking?

>>12662400
Don't listen to this guy >>12662415, he's trying to steer you wrong. The standard "cup" in america is the big gulp cup from 7-11. Make sure to use one next time you attempt to make one of our recipes.

>>12662720
The standard cup is 8 ounces gay boy.

>>12662661
No, bongs are the worst human beings to ever grace this board and that is a fact.

>>12661979
Do you not have individual stocks of butter in Lidland?

>>12662725
t. Seething Eurofag
Stop trying to trick everyone, pic related is the standard "cup". Every cook worth their salt has at least one in their kitchen for measuring purposes.

>>12661979
Yeah I don't enjoy them neither OP but look at it on the bright side, since they're more often than not subpar it's a neat trick to detect that a recipe should be ignored.

>>12662541
Building shit is the only case where I agree that metric is superior
Cooking in customary is easy as fuck and you should be ashamed if you can't do it unless you just don't have the proper measuring tools

>>12662409
A pinch, whether it's taken with two or three fingers like in your picture and depending on how much you put your fingers in the substance you're extracting can probably mean between 1 and about 4 grams. It's not precise and while the cook should know better than just following a recipe blindly, I feel that making a recipe with approximate instructions defeats its own purpose.

>>12662727
Whining, insecure amerisharts are worse.
Range ban the entire countries IP block.

>>12662757
Exactly. Imagine if the recipe vaguely asked you to add 1 to 4 teaspoons of salt or 1kg to 4kg of tomatoes. Highly irresponsible, since it will fuck up the recipe if they use the wrong amount.

>>12662771
1 to 4 grams makes much less of a difference than 1 to 4 kg you retard

>>12662727
Why do bongs even come here? It's not like they care about their food tasting good.

>>12661979
The only things that annoy me about Amerirecipes are:
1) they're always accompanied by storytime. Bitch, idgaf what you were doing the morning of Tuesday the 18th of November in your third year of primary and how hubbie's bowel obstruction is doing, just tell me how to make some fucking gumbo
2) ingredients don't tend to be organised according to order of use.
3) many things are branded. Campbell's™ cream of burger soup, Hershey's™ """"""""chocolate"""""""" coated burgers, Kellogg's™ burger flakes, Pillsbury's™ burger flour, etc etc etc

We also use tablespoons (15ml), dessert spoons (7ml), teaspoons (5ml; we call them "coffee spoons," though) and cups (250ml). The only time we use "ounce" is for ground coffee; one ounce of coffee brews enough for four people.
Everything else is metric, though we use prefixes which are uncommon elsewhere like hectograms (100g, shortened to 1hg) and decilitres (100ml, shortened to 1dl). Things sold at supermarkets are often listed according to price per hg rather than kg.

>>12662409
>>12662648
When translated to English, many recipes from my country list "a punch of salt" in the ingredients. For such an imprecise measure as "a pinch" in my country, we indicate the number of fingers that should be used, two (thumb and fore), three (two + middle) or punch (whole hand, including palm).

>>12662771
This would literally never happen

>>12662688
I'm not even European you incredibly whiny bitch
When people make fun of Poos they don't go on like this, when people make fun of Bongs they go on a bit but absolutely no-one loses their minds over bantz like Americans

>>12662810
This, always have to scroll to the bottom of the page and close 5 adds to get the damn recipe

>>12662814
Step 1- Eurocucks stop shitting up the board with their threads whining about scales or whatever.
Step 2- Americans have no eurowhining to respond to.

Problem solved, the bill is in the mail. Faggot.

>>12661979
How many stone do you weigh?

>>12662765
The US is more important than your country. If anything you will get banned. Your government will likely ban this site so enjoy it while it lasts.

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>>12662836
32.
Why yes, I /am/ American. How could you tell?

>>12662831
>W-w-when people shitpost I'm COMPELLED to give them (you)s!!!!! I just HAVE to respond every single time! My feelings are so hurt, it's YOUR fault for upsetting me!!!
If you get genuinely insulted over some Bong Asian or Australian making fun of your cuisine on an Anonymous imageboard then you need to grow up and not come back until you do

>>12662816
Read a book you retard

>>12662816
How do you not have an ad blocker you turbopleb

>>12662854
You seem to project wild emotion and childish thinking into every post you make about others. I wonder why that is?

>>12662032
You don't need to be measuring ingredients down to the gram, you don't need that kind of precision as home cook. Even baking isn't that finicky, an extra ounce of flour won't break most recipes on its own.

>>12662876
You've replied at least three times defending your honor against a thread with a Spongebob OP image

>>12662688
>>12662719
>>12662727
>>12662831
>>12662876
Why are Americans here so sensitive? It really seems to be a /ck/ thing, I've never seen them be this fragile on other boards, even though they often get shit on way harder. Is it because /ck/ attracts older people who aren't used to 4chan culture and get really upset by it?

>>12662810
>they're always accompanied by storytime.
This is really annoying. It’s usually women and not restricted to Americans. The rambling stories are often longer than the recipe itself.