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Re:Adjustable recipe by dawnerd on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:49PM (#27241437)
Wish more recipes listed non-fluids by weight.
Re:Adjustable recipe by Angostura on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:06PM (#27241628)
Try UK receipe sites - that's the default.

I recommend the excellent https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes

Re:Adjustable recipe by vardaro on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:03PM (#27241589)
Yeah. It’s especially frustrating when recipes list ingredients like flour by volume.
Re:Adjustable recipe by meristem on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:12PM (#27241693)
Depending on how one stores and scoops, there can be a 25% weight difference between what is on the recipe and what is on the bowl :/
Re:Adjustable recipe by caymanjim on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:20PM (#27241787)
Do non-American kitchens typically have scales? Anecdotally, most (nearly all, in my world) American kitchens don't, and other than the odd baking recipe, no American recipes do.
Re:Adjustable recipe by simias on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:39PM (#27241954)
Sure and I definitely do not have anything that can easily measure cups, let alone 3 1/2 of them (you guys sure love fractions). It's always weird to me when I see stuff like flour measured by volume given that it can be more or less compacted.

For liquids it's often given by volume, but then due to the nice property that 1 liter of water weights 1 kilo we can easily measure things like water, milk and basically anything water-y by mass as well. The recipe calls for 25 centiliters of water? I can just measure 250g.

Re:Adjustable recipe by rootusrootus on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:07PM (#27241631)
This was going to be my suggestion. Give an easy conversion so I can use weight for the dry ingredients.