American measures are shit

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Agreed, imperial is in theory a terrible system for cooking measurements as it is for chemistry. The problem is that all my good old recipes are written in imperial measurements and adapting them would be a mild pain in the ass.

EDIT: Note that this mainly applies to baking which requires you to be fairly spot-on with measurements and proportions a lot of the time. MOST other cooking isn't quite as demanding.
 
Homoerotic Cougar-kun said:
Agreed, imperial is in theory a terrible system for cooking measurements as it is for chemistry. The problem is that all my good old recipes are written in imperial measurements and adapting them would be a mild pain in the ass.
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Recently I read a recipe that called for a 'cup of potatoes'. Wut?
 
Buster O'Keefe said:
Recently I read a recipe that called for a 'cup of potatoes'. Wut?
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That's really silly. Potatoes are something you'd measure by approximate weight. Still, a "cup" of potatoes would probably (PROBABLY) mean about half a pound/500g.

EDIT: Unless it's potato flakes. Which you shouldn't use.
 
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Buster O'Keefe said:
Recently I read a recipe that called for a 'cup of potatoes'. Wut?
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It probably required you to cut up or dice enough potatoes to fit into a cup. Potatoes is admittedly weird, but it's not completely insane. Regardless, what kind of asshole measures liquids in grams? I was making treacle tart a few days ago and it unironically called for 400g of golden syrup.
 
soy_king said:
It probably required you to cut up or dice enough potatoes to fit into a cup. Potatoes is admittedly weird, but it's not completely insane. Regardless, what kind of asshole measures liquids in grams? I was making treacle tart a few days ago and it unironically called for 400g of golden syrup.
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400g of golden syrup sounds like a totally sane measure to me. How the fuck do you people bake stuff with those retarded volume measurements?
 
soy_king said:
It probably required you to cut up or dice enough potatoes to fit into a cup. Potatoes is admittedly weird, but it's not completely insane. Regardless, what kind of asshole measures liquids in grams? I was making treacle tart a few days ago and it unironically called for 400g of golden syrup.
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The nice thing about metric for that is 400g is pretty quickly converted one-for-one to ml. Metric is very good that way.
 
I grew up with them, so I'm used to them, but I do see how they're harder to learn.
 
Don't even start me on half and half. Someone tried to explain that before but my brain seized up.
 
The imperial measurement system makes me feel less fat because there are less cups than grams required.

So there.
 
I once tried a recipe that combined both metric and imperial measurements. It turned out okay (after lots of tedious conversions). Whoever wrote the recipe like that should be punished.
 
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