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Re:Turn recipe websites into plain text by gruez on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:09AM (#23651546)
>When recipes say 1tbsp or 2tsp it gets me annoyed because if they had converted to grams I could just pour those ingredients straight in too but instead I need to get out my volumetric measures

Are kitchen scales accurate enough for such tiny measurements? 1 teaspoon is 5ml, so if your scale only has 1g of precision you're looking at up to a 10℅ variance (assuming you're measuring water), and that's assuming its accurate at that range. It gets worse when you need to deal with fractional teaspoons.

Re:Turn recipe websites into plain text by dragonwriter on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:16AM (#23651596)
> Are kitchen scales accurate enough for such tiny measurements

Yes, and there are lots of recipes that use mass rather than volumetric measurements. For solids, in fact, many sources prefer this because consistency of packing density and other user factors that effect consistency with volumetric measure are far worse than with mass measured with a kitchen scale.

Re:Turn recipe websites into plain text by barbegal on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:48AM (#23651925)
Yes below 5g it's not that accurate but I've never seen a recipe demand precision like 1.3tsp so if anything you can get more accuracy with weight.