Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?

• reattach@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You keep saying that, but it’s not an extra step. Weighing the food is in place of the volume measurement, not in addition.

  Using volume measurement: start cutting broccoli. Add to a measuring cup until you get the right amount.

  Using weight measurement: cut broccoli. Add to scale until you have the right amount (actually I would usually weigh out a single large piece, then chop it all at once - same amount of effort).

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you transfer the food from the cutting board to the scale?

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    • reattach@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do you transfer the food from the cutting board to the measuring cup?

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You put it in the cup. Which also measures it. You don’t have to press any buttons or tare anything. You just keep adding broccoli until cup is full.

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    • sigezayaq@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Put empty cutting board on scales. Press tare. Put broccoli on cutting board. You have measurement of just broccoli without taking them off cutting board.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You don’t NEED to do all that with a cup. You know how you measure a cup of brocoli? You put it in the damn cup. You don’t need to move the broccoli off the cutting board or tare your cutting board before cutting or even press any buttons. Take broccoli, add to cup. Stop when cup is full.

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• mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I brought up broccoli specifically because I recently wanted to know the nutrition facts of broccoli, and the initial google results were for 1 cup, and not 100g as is standard in I guess everywhere that uses metric. I have absolutely no idea how much broccoli that is, not only because I’m not used to it, but the dimensions of the cup and how finely chopped the broccoli is matter quite a lot in terms of how much actual broccoli we’re talking about. It’s just so ambiguous.

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