/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13978153
The thing where american products have completely wacky serving sizes and aren't obliged to provided standardised info is pretty fuckin' funny

>>13978153
Funny how you keep going to American sites for nutrition guidance.

I never realized how annoying this was until I moved to Australia and had to convert everything on an online red beans and rice recipe into metric units

>>13978183
The most annoying thing about moving abroad is having to use measuring cups that only have metric on them. Literally every measuring anything in America has metric on one side, and cups and ounces on the other. They are two commonly used, consistent measurements, that are very easy to convert, yet you people somehow turn into complete retards when you hear "cups" and "spoons". The worst part is that they're the ones spamming all the American e-celeb threads and dumping their tasty webm folder ad infinitum.

>>13978197
Volume is not a consistent measurement. From Wikipedia,
>The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.
>It is traditionally equal to [...] an amount between 200 mL and 250 mL (15 and 14 of a litre) in the metric system, which may vary due to location.

This is why you don't see serious bakers measure in volume. Exact measurements don't matter as much when making dinner, I understand that. But I think the 20% variation pointed out in the article can be critical for people who are on a diet, which is like a third of the US.

>>13978249
The metric system also uses volumetric measurements, retard. Do you even cook?

>>13978280
But we use volume to measure liquids, where it's actually appropriate to use volume. You rarely see things like 200 ml rice or 1/2 liter chopped spinach in our recipes. By "we" I mean Europeans.

>>13978249
This is exactly why it took me SO long to get good at cooking, because following recipes by VOLUME really fucks up your confidence.

I didn't realize why my pancakes were always so variably bad until I learned to measure my fucking ingredients by WEIGHT in order to get consistent results.

Fuck you U.S.A. You gave me literal diabetes by telling my parents to feed me hot pockets, mountain dew, and hawaiian punch. You made me into a stupid retarded american for the first 25 years of my life until I discovered that eating healthy and avoiding "american" food actually makes you smarter.

I honestly believe that the American diet is how the US government controls it's population: by keeping them fat, diabetic, and stupid.

>>13978153
you weren't born with the freedom to choose your own Serving Size ®, you wouldn't understand

>>13978318
The density of randomly packed rice is 1, genius

>>13978249
Oh no! instead of 500mg of flour I have 505mg of flour! This recipe is ruined!