to be irritated by recipes that...

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assume you have a food processor / blender / electric whisk / whatever. Surely they should give an alternative method for making it by hand? Or is it just me?

But surely you'd know that if you'd ever seen a lemon drizzle cake? The clue is in the name!

I have just bookmarked that cup size site as reading a recipe with cups as the measurements means I haven't bothered to cook them.

I went out and bought a £5 hand blender the other day as I also had ruled out any receipe that required any kind of blending not done by hand.

ooh this has opened a whole can of worms

250ml can obviously

YANBU - my pet hate is the ones that assume you have a microwave, but then I am probably the only person in the country who still doesn't have one....

I hate american recipes and cups in particular - I had to 'tightly pack' 1 cup of sugar - Just Tell me the weight and i won't have to squish sugar into a measuring cup! Stoopid.

Now I am anti weights when it comes to recipes. Most cookbooks in Oz use cups and spoons. I can't be arsed getting the scales down.

Ooh and cookbooks that don't have conversion tables in them. What the hell is an ounce or a stick of butter!!

You're welcome cat64.

My pet hate is: Bake for x mins in a moderate oven.

Surely 175C is more precise. And takes less time to type.

I once told DH that if he programme a VCR he can folow a recipe.

Cue much banging and slamming in the kitchen. Eventually he shouts from the other room "WTF is seasoning??" He also had trouble with knobs of butter.

Not so simple if you have never learned to cook or been taught the jargon.