Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?

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    7 months ago

    Oil and water are fine, but flour already starts to be a problem. How densely is it packed?
    Then we go on to salt, which can have a lot of different grain sizes (although that is annoying with a scale as well because most kitchen scales are not very accurate with single-digit-grams)
    Then it gets really weird when they say to use a cup of grated cheese, because depending on how you grate it it has very different densities