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Re:Based Cooking by thaumasiotes on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:59AM (#26425420)
> They list stuff like a "pinch" of salt or a "stick" of butter.

I don't understand the complaint here. A stick of butter is half a cup, 8 tablespoons. The standardization is more ironclad than pretty much any other product you can get in a grocery store.

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Re:Based Cooking by cameronh90 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:28PM (#26426585)
Not everyone on the internet lives in the USA. I have absolutely no idea what a stick of butter is without googling it. UK butter is sold in 250g blocks.

A cup means 280ml here, but 237ml in the US. A literal tablespoon varies from 7ml to 25ml, and is defined to be between 14.8ml and 20ml depending on locale.

Why not just specify in terms of litres and grams, which are the same everywhere?

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Re:Based Cooking by thaumasiotes on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:44PM (#26427453)
> Not everyone on the internet lives in the USA.

So? What we have here is someone whose mother wrote down recipes involving sticks of butter. There's no ambiguity about the amount or the geography.

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