/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10016039]

>Watch food wishes and get inspired to make something
>Recipe is in imperial units
>No worries, just open a calculator to figure out what the hell I'm doing
>Look at the actual amount of flour I got in the bowl and realize it can't be right
>turns out ounces can refer to both a volume and a weight

how do my fellow nonburgers cope with this shit

[Anonymous No.10016069]

To clarify:

An ounce is a measure of weight equaling 1/16 of a pound.

A FLUID ounce is a measure of volume equaling the volume of one ounce of water.

There are 8 fluid ounces in a cup.

[Anonymous No.10016081]

Measurements are almost always by volume unless stated otherwise.

[Anonymous No.10016252]

Metric fags are literally this retarded.
Water is the constant standard, just like in metric.

Know how 1 mL of water weighs one gram?

1 fl oz of water weighs 1 oz

[Anonymous No.10016444]

>he used a scale to weigh fucking flour

Lmao the absolute state of eurofags

[Anonymous No.10016450]

>>10016252
1 fl oz of other liquids do not weigh 1 oz. This is also the case in metric, but metric doesn't name units retarded things like "1 fluid gram."

[Anonymous No.10016488]

Imperial is retarded even for cooking which is supposedly one of the system's advantages. Its pretty messed up to come up with ratios for ingredients, or its waaaay easier with grams.

[Anonymous No.10016520]

>>10016039
If you don't understand the measuring units, find a recipe for the same dish in which you do.

I'm a brainlet and that's what I do.

[Anonymous No.10016531]

Nobody ever measures flour in fluid ounces, what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.10016540]

>>10016039
iktf OP just amerifats are still using this subhuman imperial system these days, it doesn't make sense for anyone and they're just too stubborn to change it.

[Anonymous No.10016549]

>>10016252
this mental gymnastics, jesus christ no wonder burgers are a joke. Just use metrics like the entire world.

[Anonymous No.10016560]

>>10016549
>MFW

[Anonymous No.10016563]

>>10016549
>Just use metrics like the entire world
If you want to use our recipes, use our units you fucking idiot. How is this so complicated? I convert between metric and imperial and vice versa all the time for work and it's no big deal.

[Anonymous No.10016598]

>>10016560
NASA use the metric system, retard.

[Anonymous No.10016617]

>>10016039
Unless you’re baking, you don’t need to measure very precisely as long as you don’t put too much of anything except if stated.

[Anonymous No.10016621]

>>10016598
So if we can use both units to land on the moon, why can't OP make cookies?

[Anonymous No.10016637]

Here's the thing OP. Measurements for cooking are almost always volumetric. A cup of flour 8 fluid ounces in volume. So if the recipe says "1 cup and 6 ounces of flour" that's 1 and 3/4 cups of flour. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out from there. You can easily eyeball fractions of cups like 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.10016652]

>>10016621
OP doesn’t have ex-Nazi scientists checking his math.

[Anonymous No.10016663]

>>10016652

[Anonymous No.10016695]

>>10016621
See for yourself.

[Anonymous No.10016847]

>>10016637
But then why not say it so?
1 and 3/4 of cups of flour, instead of that stupid 1 cup and 6 ounces of flour.
Nobody in Euroland says something like
>1kg and 300ml of meat
tl;dr:
OBSESSED

[Anonymous No.10016972]

>>10016637
>So if the recipe says "1 cup and 6 ounces of flour"
no recipe will mix units like that

[Anonymous No.10017465]

>>10016549
I would be happy to use metric if the units of measurement were practical.

"measure 1 cup" sounds a hell of a lot better than "measure exactly 245 grams"