/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5627359
use the superior american measurements

>or just use yuro recipes. why would you use terrible american ones?

Why the fuck can't everyone adapt metric grams and liters. Jesus fucking Christ, there's metric cup, then there's US customary cup, imperial cup, US LEGAL CUP, CUP OF BANANAS.
Stupid shit.

>>5627359

The same way we Americans use metric recipes: just do a simple conversion.

One US cup is approximately 250 mL
One teaspoon is 5 mL
Tablespoon is 15 mL.
One pound is 454 grams
One ounce (weight) is roughly 30 grams.

Also note that you really ought not to be sticking to exact measurements. Taste the ingredients and adjust accordingly.

>>5627370
>using metric outside of science and precise applications

you are wrong and should feel bad

>>5627359
Use a converter online until you get the measurements memorized. That's what I had to do, coming from American measurements to Euro.

>still not using the ratio master race

measurement independent recipes are best

>>5627386

Agreed, I love parametric recipes.

Learn to Google
>http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001723.html

Second chart.

>>5627359
I use teaspoons and tablespoons to measure them out.

You could but a set of measuring chips and spoons on Amazon or some shit. That way you could make them without having to convert anything.

>>5627411
why even bother
i'm sure that european recipes are much better than american ones

>>5627416
G8 b8 m8

>>5627432
how is it bait? the superiority of the European union is obvious to all, even to the americans in their pale imitation of the glorious eu

wolframalpha.com
type something like "1 cup flour" tells you the weight in grams.

>>5627436
You're a funny guy.

>>5627359
It still bothers me when recipes say something like "1 cup high fructose corn syrup" instead of one cup of high fructose corn syrup. It's the same with halves, they say "a half a cup lard" instead of half of a cup of lard.

The sooner Americans all die of heart disease, the better.

>>5627445
4u

>>5627448
you mean 1/2 cup lard
lrn to b concise

>>5627359
Why do you care about the measurements when you think Murrican food tastes bad?

>>5627448
>seriously wanting instructions to read as 'use your hand and fingers to pick up one bolt with a length of one inch and one half of one inch and a diameter of one quarter of one inch' instead of 'bolt: 1- 1.5x1/4in'

>>5627359
>mfw Americans write 0.5 instead of 0,5 and 1,000,000 instead of 1.000.000

>>5627469
>urofilth being purposefully contrary

>>5627464
>seriously wanting recipes that read as "one cup breadcrumbs, 1/2 teapot shredded cheddar, 3/16ths broken mug milk, 1 saucer flour, 2/94th tea tray pasta"

>>5627483
>seriously wanting a digger nick shoved up Uranus

>>5627483
What is wrong with being concise?

>>5627491
because concise language stilted nobody wants hear

>>5627495
but we're reading it, not hearing it
Whaat is wrong with being concise?

>>5627498
>but we're reading it, not hearing it
>cooking shows do not exist

>>5627503
But cooking show hosts speak regularly.

What is wrong with being concise?

>>5627507
Can you even read or are you just going to keep iterating the question in hopes that by ignoring the answer you'll win an asinine argument with someone over the internet who prefers properly conjectured English to stilted nonsense?

>>5627516
You cannot provide a legitimate answer for why 'One cup of sugar' is superior to '1c. Sugar'.

>>5627516
you must be great at taking notes

>>5627359
By not being stupid

>>5627523
Maybe that's because opinions are subjective. For example, my opinion is that you're a fucking idiot, but I can tell from the way you write that you'd probably lack the self awareness to disagree.

americans are so fucking stupid and lazy and never even try to adapt to anything new and superior like the metric system

>>5627529
your opinion is wrong
see: every single recipe and cook ever

teaspoons and tablespoons are useful for spices

cup measurements are annoying apart from when baking

>>5627436
Go back to /int/

>>5627359
Kill yourself while praying that you will be reincarnated as a baby born in the greatest country the world has ever known.

>>5627445
Talk funny, look funny, smell funny. . . .

>>5627359
just convert it, any decent recipe will be in weight anyway

>>5627359
Don't be a faggot and use both.
>>5629677
>just convert it
No, there is no reason to do so unless the recipe is using ounces and pounds and such.

>>5629688
of course he would have to convert US to Metric unless he goes out and buys US measuring cups and spoons.

>>5629694
>US measuring cups and spoons.
Is there really a significant difference?

>>5629710
yes

>>5629710
metric Cup is 250mL
us customary Cup is 236.6mL

Get a coffee cup. This is a cup.
Get a spoon. This is a tablespoon.
Get a teaspoon. This is a teaspoon.

It's not rocket science.

>>5627370
You're just too retarded.

Doesn't everyone on earth these days carry a smartphone? Surely it can't be that difficult to use it to convert from US customary standards to Metric. I don't lose my shit when I see a recipe in Metric; I can do that shit in my head.

>>5629893
i dont even have a camera phone man but you are right its easy to figure out and any decent recipe will be in weight not volume anyway

Americans just don't like the metric system. Congress tried to impose it on us in the 70s and the public refused to switch over. Businesses refused it as well because it was deemed to costly to convert all engineering/architecture plans to metric.

In regards to cooking, although logical, metric is a bigger pain in the ass. No one likes to weigh every little thing on a scale. Using this "cups" system although retarded is a lot more convenient.

>>5629963
whats more convenient than putting a bowl on a scale and then taring it out with each addition?

also measuring by weight =/= metric system

>>5629764
i bet you're a baking allstar.

>>5629971
I use a scale myself but solely because I'm dieting and that's pretty much the only accurate way to calorie count. Anyway, it's a pain in the ass. Also you're suggestion of taring everything into one bowl only works if you're mixing something. For a real world recipe where you're going to be measuring a bunch of different serving bowls with all the components of the recipe. This undoubtedly adds more time than the cups shit.

>>5629988
>pouring into a bowl takes more time and dishes than pouring into a cup
>not getting all your shit ready before you start

>cups and spoons
>not entirely inconsistent
>cup of flour varies between 120g and 150g
Get it together, America.

>>5627359
> How do I deal?
Kill all your friends and classmates and be thrust into a carnival of death if you don't win an antidote candy you die horribly.

Or google a conversion chart.

>>5627448
wow guy, i don't need to hear you tell me the history and backstory behind every ingredient - shorten it up a bit before i fall asleep plz
>1c dark corn syrup
>1/2c lard

i don't think high fructose corn syrup is available in stores, i've never seen it

>>5627371

>Also note that you really ought not to be sticking to exact measurements. Taste the ingredients and adjust accordingly.

This needs to be reemphasized. Measurements are a guideline in cooking. Not a law. Unless you are baking

>>5630543

By dark corn syrup he prolly means karo