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!

I love using cups. Makes me feel all American and interesting…..

I've got measuring cups, because they make American recipes far easier. My main gripe with American recipes is not the measurements, but the amount of processed/ convenience food they use, even when "cooking from scratch ". The NYT cooking section is good, tends to use real food instead of packets of things.

Just Americans.

A plastic IKEA children's cup is roughly one American cup, that's what I use. Never for baking though, cups aren't precise enough for reliable baking.

Have you never had a cup of beans?!

@steff13 MN will delete and ban xenophobia about other countries, so the trolls stick to America. It definitely won't be just America that he/she/it feels that way about.

Google changed a few years ago - it used to be that if you searched Google.co.uk you'd get British results first, then that stopped. Now you have to wade through all the dross of adverts and paid promotions and then all the American results before you start getting uk specific ones.

Cups are 8 fluid oz in imperial measurements which are more irregular than the decimal metric and hence more difficult. Whoops!

How rude.

I'm amused by the people who think it's not precise enough for baking. Like Americans have just spent the past 250 years not understanding why their cakes only rise half the time. 😂

Genuinely who'd take a Eccles cake over a chocolate chip cookie.

Like a finger..

stick with bbc good food

Just buy a cup measure, it's no big deal. I use recipes with US, metric and imperial measurements, it's not rocket scirnce!!!

I prefer l, dl, cl, ml etc. So much easier than weighing stuff. And "a cup" equals how much? I've got a dl cup, ml cup and a big liter cup that gives all the measurements up to 1 liter. So much easier..

Most of the American cake recipes I see use box mixes so don't involve much measuring.

@mumsnet If the poster was posting like this about any other country you'd ban them. How long does this twat get to stand?

I just bypass US recipes.
CBA to do the conversions , cups + F to C.

Pisses me off that UK cookbooks include not just weights & temps, but e.g. cilantro, all-purpose flour etc but their recipes never reciprocate.

I found things like this useful before
Convert US recipe to UK - ConvertRecipe.com

Or one pair of scales...bowl straight on, job done.

I don’t think you realise that onions come in different sizes? Do you cook often?

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@TourangaLeila Yep, all 300 million-plus of us are thick as planks, even the Nobel Prize winner who lives up the road from me.😂

I use cups or my scales depending on the receipe. I can even switch between ounces and grams…I must be one of the slightly less dim ones.

That’s good of you. (That’s meant for the rude poster)