I'm all for respecting cultural differences, but...

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I love the internet as a source of recipes, but when they give ingredients US-style it drives me nuts. I think the one currently in the oven will be fine with approximate amounts which is good because it called for a pint of cherry tomatoes and a quarter of a cup chopped onion.
Not wanting to disrespect lovely US Mumsnetters, but seriously, kitchen scales are an amazing invention!

Chat GPT is your friend here. I put my recipe in it and ask me to give me instructions in UK units. It has never failed me! (And I hate chat GPT for most things!)

pints, pounds and ounces and yards are the old imperial measurements that we used to use here in UK also. my mum still measures like this and does not understand metric, litres etc.
I've also seen cup on recipes and not understood as I have all different size cups and mugs in my cupboard lol.

Agree it’s so annoying. It’s as though they are the centre of the universe…sometimes on Reddit people talk as if the whole of the Internet is America. Drives me mad.

Completely agree!

Why on earth they don't convert them to UK measures/equivalent!
Don't they know we have numerous cup sizes...doesn't even make sense.

How on earth is a cup of whole tomatoes a precise measurement?
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Totally with you on this!

I find using a cup much simpler tbh! X

it would literally take you less time to concert the measurements via google, than it did to moan here 😂

Volume: One stick of butter is equal to 1/2 cup, or 8 tablespoons.
Weight: In the US, a stick of butter weighs approximately 4 ounces or 113 grams.

It's because out in the sod house one didn't have a set of scales - though one might (surprisingly) have a piano.

What's a 'stick of butter'?

@Grammarnut Butter for baking is generally sold in a flat box containing separately-wrapped 4oz “sticks” of butter. Typically four sticks in a box.

You can also get butter in a container for spreading on toast.

How does cups translate to shopping? The recipes I use online tend to be for 60-100 people so if it scales up to say 20 cups, I have no idea how much to buy. Obviously I convert it but it obviously works in the US without that

Then don't use American websites

4 oz is one stick.

Before kitchen scales were invented or readily available to the hoi polloi, it probably made sense to use cups.
But surely now Americans & Aussies have access to them ?

I do a simple conversion by checking online. If the recipe is that essential to you I am sure you could do similar.
I think it is very disrespectful to even contemplate moaning about something so trivial, this is where bigotry and hatred gets a foot in the door and goodness we have seen enough of that.

Same. I can't be bothered with scales. I bought some measuring cups and spoons a few weeks ago (fancy ones by Joie, 😁) from Tesco. The spoons were reduced to £1.

The unit they are sold in. Half the 250g pack we buy ours in.

Volume for dry goods is easy enough to adapt to. For me the head scratcher is stuff like “1 1/2 cups of sliced onions” - just tell me if that’s one onion or six! “1 large onion” is so much more sensible.

It's a rectangular stick, usually sold 4 in a carton.

I just use British recipes

I use cups when needed and I’m British. In the day and age of google/siri etc, it’s really not a huge issue. You can google any ingredient and its amount in cups and ask for conversion to grams for example. I find it quicker and less fiddly tbh

The people who say they bought cups, I have cups, but are you actually chopping onion and then putting it a bit at a time into a cup until it's full? It's such an inconvenient way to measure onion!

I'm British and I love using cups. I find it a lot easier at times but I do also use scales. There's a time and place and certain recipes 😀

I've lived in the US for nearly 15 years and I almost never bake in cups. I can convert in my head now. This is the best conversion chart (and King Arthur's test kitchen and recipes are excellent; they're a big US flour company).

Do note that depending on how you measure a cup of all purpose flour it can be anywhere from 120-140g! Cake flour is always lighter (113g if weighed before sifting, 100g if weighed after).

Also, I would massively prefer weights for things like onions. "1 onion" is meaningless in many cases and I don't want to measure it by volume.

www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart

I just paste the link into ChatGPT and ask for it in uk measurements