As the title says, it’s mildly infuriating seeing someone say " cook this at 210° " and stuff like that, we are in a international context!! Do i have to put those cookies in the flames of hell or just around the boiling point of water?!

Edit: the cookie thing was just an example and i throw a random number lol

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    We don’t measure weights in cups, but we do measure some ingredients (like flour) by volume, so it’s not uncommon here to see a recipe that calls for 1 cup of flour instead of 120g

    However, we do use “ounce” to mean both 1/8 of a cup in volume and 1/16 of a pound in weight…

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      3 days ago

      Well that’s simply because there’s are 2 cups in a pint. So an ounce is 1/16 pint or 1/16 pound.

      Never heard someone say mind your cups and pints, they’d have to be a hobbit. (Mind your p’s & q’s)