Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months agoOP is asking about volume vs weight, not metric volume vs imperial volume.
Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months agoOP is asking about volume vs weight, not metric volume vs imperial volume.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If the US had adopted the metric system it wouldn’t matter.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
And that still doesn’t answer the question.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You do know that metric measures both volume and weight, right? A cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram.
ccunning@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You do know that only water weighs on gram per ml, right?
This is a great fact for if you’re trying to make hot water soup from a recipe written in metric volume measures and you only have a scale.
You might get away if you’re just trying to measure apple juice or something else that’s mostly water, but good luck making Rice Krispie treats
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
And one pint of water is one pound.
You’ve completely missed the point, which is that most of the world measures ingredients (like flour for instance, where one pint is not one pound) by weight and not by volume.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can still list an ingredient using one or the other on a recipe. It may be a simple conversion, but 1:1 is still a conversion.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Canada uses a mixture of imperial and metric, but not weights, so that’s an entirely false conclusion you’ve come to.
And that doesn’t help much, that’s only at sea level and a certain temperature, go do some baking with those exact conversions on a mountain and your cake won’t turn out at all.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 6 months ago
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I have a cup that’s imperial on one side and metric on the other.