/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.9299961]

>Check recipe
>Everything is in american units

[Anonymous No.9299962]

>>9299961
>Microwave for 1 1/2 minutes
>Types in 130

[Anonymous No.9299963]

>medium onion
>6 shallots

[Anonymous No.9299966]

>>9299962
30 sec, right?

[Anonymous No.9299987]

How would Americans react if Congress passed a law abolishing the imperial system and Trump signed it?

Would they riot?

[Anonymous No.9299991]

>>9299987
Yes because they are americans. They don't really need a reason to riot.

[Anonymous No.9300275]

"2 cups of flour"
>look at cups in cupboard
>all vastly different in size
>look online for "cup"
>at least 6 different standard values
The cup system is a relic and needs to be replaced.

[Anonymous No.9300280]

>a cup of peaches
FUCK YOU AMERICA

[Anonymous No.9300291]

>tfw not an assblasted eurokuk

[Anonymous No.9300297]

>>9300291
But can you calculate what 1.35miles equates to in feet in your head?

:^)

[Anonymous No.9300303]

>>9300275
I wanna know where in the fuck you're from where the 1 cup measure isn't standardised. Yet you still have internet access.
In my country, and most others, it's 250ml.
In Ameriland, it's 237.something ml.
Unless you're from Middle East or Africa or some other backwards armpit of a shithole of a place, 1 cup will always mean 250ml.

[Anonymous No.9300308]

>>9300303
>In my country, and most others, it's 250ml.
>In Ameriland, it's 237.something ml.
So if you read a recipe online that says 1 cup, which do you use? Do you contact the author? It's fucking stupid. Like just choose one really simple value.

[Anonymous No.9300310]

>>9300303
1cup changes depending on what is going in which is retarded its not a standardized unit.

[Anonymous No.9300318]

>>9300297
yes

[Anonymous No.9300333]

>>9300310
No it really doesn't. One cup means eight ounces or sixteen tablespoons.

[Anonymous No.9300336]

>>9300333
>tablespoons

[Anonymous No.9300347]

Do you not know of measuring spoons or something?

[Anonymous No.9300348]

>>9299961
>Not being ubiquitously fluent in both Imperial Units and Système international d'unités.
Dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.9300349]

>>9300336
I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were retarded. They're standardized spoons used for measuring out dry or liquid ingredients. Does that make sense? Do I need to use smaller words?

[Anonymous No.9300350]

>>9300336
It's three teaspoons, not hard to remember or understand.

[Anonymous No.9300353]

>>9300349
>he doesn't even know what an mL is

[Anonymous No.9300355]

Do measuring cups work for grams as well as ml?

250g of flour, is that he same thing as 250ml?

[Anonymous No.9300357]

>>9300355
No, flour does not have a consistent density you absolute dumbfuck.There's a reason you need to weigh it to get accurate results.

[Anonymous No.9300359]

>>9300355
No, it'll only measure liquids. 250ml of flour would be about 120g.

[Anonymous No.9300361]

>>9300357
Should I weigh it in imperial or metric?

[Anonymous No.9300363]

>>9300353
Of course I do. It's about 1/15th of a tablespoon.

[Anonymous No.9300365]

>be yuro
>trying to follow a recipe
>need 250 milliliters of milk
>instead of just filling up one convenient measuring cup one time, need to use a little eyedropper 250 times to count out each mL
Sad!

[Anonymous No.9300367]

>>9300355
You might be the least educated person I've ever met on 4chan. Do you often feel stupid in your day to day life?

[Anonymous No.9300377]

>>9300355
Does a balloon weigh the same as a bowling ball? They take up the same space after all. Jesus Christ you're fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.9300381]

>>9300367
>Do you often feel stupid in your day to day life?
Yes but I try to not feel bad for lots of 4chan users when they are more dumber than me.

>>9300377
>>9300359
>>9300357
So Americans really use measuring cups AND scales? I thought the whole point of measuring cups was just so you could scoop things in to bowls quickly like a kid playing in a sandpit. I thought the imperial system and measuring cups were supposed to make things easier.

Why not just use scales or the metric system?

[Anonymous No.9300388]

>>9300308
It doesn't fucking matter, it's a variation of like 5%
>>9300310
What the fuck are you smoking? Why would the volume of one cup or 250ml vary based on what it contains?

[Anonymous No.9300390]

>>9300381
I'm American and mainly use a scale. Most Americans don't use them though unless they're really into baking. Might be because a set of measuring cups is cheaper and less maintenance.

[Anonymous No.9300393]

Only thing more pathetic than America is You're-a-peon O B S E S S I O N. I don't think a minute goes by where a yuro isn't fantasizing about an All-American quarterback dumping a load into his girlfriend. He has to compensate for this shameful lust by growing irrationally angry and immediately shoehorning how shitty he thinks America is into whatever conversation he's having. Do not hate the Yuro-peon--he is a meek, timid creature, enslaved to his perverted psychology, incubated through a century of American hegemony.

[Anonymous No.9300395]

>>9300388
>It doesn't fucking matter, it's a variation of like 5%
t. non-gastronomy pleb

[Anonymous No.9300396]

>reading recipe
>volume amounts instead of weight
#OnlyRealChefsGetThis

[Anonymous No.9300397]

>>9300381
For most ingredients, scooping measuring cup will get you a pretty consistent result. Your recipe won't be ruined if your cup of beans isn't the same as the author's cup of beans. But baking depends a lot on precision, and flour is a powder whose volume depends on how aerated it is, which means a cup of loose flour might only be half a cup of packed flour. So you measure the ingredients for baked goods by weight.

[Anonymous No.9300517]

>>9299961
>americam amd english use the same name but are still different values

[Anonymous No.9300531]

>>9300310
Metric cups are 5.6689263614384421963166005298262462019920349121093749% larger than US customary cups.
I guarantee you that in the vast majority of situations where you'd be using "cups" as the measure, a deviation of 5.6689263614384421963166005298262462019920349121093749% will make no marked difference in the end result.
Furthermore, cups do not
>change depending on what is going on
It's not like if a recipe calling for 1 cup of ingredient X and 2 cups of ingredient Y will utilise US customary for one and metric for the other. Cups do not work that way.

>>9300333
Not in Euroland. For one, in countries, such as mine, where ounces are still vestigially present in certain aspects (coffee, for example: 1 ounce of coffee in my country is 30g and is enough for 4 of our tiny servings), 8 ounces does not equal 1 cup because we do not use ounces as a unit of volume. Secondly, many countries, mine included, use different measuring spoons. Mine uses coffee spoon and tablespoon. Our tablespoon is a tenth of a metric cup IE 25ml while US tbsp is ~15ml. Our coffee spoon is a twentieth IE ~12ml, which is slightly smaller than a US tbsp.

>>9300350
Some countries do not use teaspoons.

>>9300355
No. 250ml of many flours and meals is about 122g or so. 250ml of most liquids will be 250g, though.

>>9300381
Scales are outlawed for home use in America. You need a medical license to operate one. Do you honestly think they'd be as fat as they are if they had access to scales?

[Anonymous No.9300546]

>>9300347
That's 10 different spoons. That means in bongland you'd have to apply for 10 separate cutlery licenses just to bake a cake.

[Anonymous No.9300575]

>>9300546
>not just getting all your cutlery licenses on autorenew when you go in to get your first TV license, responsible internet permit and fingerprint registration card on your 18th birthday
You non-bong peons really need to streamline your government order compliance proceedings. I bet you don't even have an automated QR code scanning app to tell your Good Citizen Behaviour Monitoring Officer when you're polite to a Diverse Citizen on the street

[Anonymous No.9300640]

>>9299961
>Scales are outlawed for home use in America. You need a medical license to operate one.

This is bait and you aren't actually this retarded, right?

[Anonymous No.9300646]

>>9300640
meant to reply to >>9300531

[Anonymous No.9300656]

>>9299962
Most microwaves convert 100 to 60 seconds. But what if u need to cook for 100 seconds

[Anonymous No.9300677]

>>9300656

enter 99.

[Anonymous No.9300701]

>a kilogram of feathers weighs the same as a kilogram of steel
Eurocucks??????

[Anonymous No.9301002]

>>9300656
1 minute 40 seconds. Did you drop out of elementary school?

[Anonymous No.9301268]

>>9300393
gave me a boner

[Anonymous No.9301368]

>>9299961
That's fine for a lot of recipes since i just end ip eyeballing things or adjusting to my tastes anyway. It's horrible for baking though, everything should ne by weight for sure in that case, not in cups or tablespoons or what have you.

[Anonymous No.9301371]

>>9299961
>>Everything is in american units

So what? The conversion is brain-dead simple.

[Anonymous No.9301395]

>>9300701
steel is eavier than feathers

[Anonymous No.9301538]

>>9300297
Yes, but we never really have to do that, they're used for different scales. Feet are typically used for objects and construction, things on the human scale. Yards are used for intermediate distances like shooting and sport fields. Miles are used almost exclusively for travel distances. There's really no need for the average person to convert between them, but they can easily if they need to with a calculator.

[Anonymous No.9301569]

How many scruples of sugar does /ck/ like in their coffee?
https://www.britannica.com/science/British-Imperial-System

[Anonymous No.9301587]

>>9299961
>have internet at your disposal
>can't figure out how to translate units
dumb frogposter

[Anonymous No.9301836]

>>9300333
Perhaps you should check a cup to gram conversion, cups are volume grams are weight meaning that a "cup" is dependant on what you're putting in.

[Anonymous No.9301849]

>>9300531
You
>5% is not a meaningful difference
Professional bakers
>accuracy is paramount

Sure add an extra 5% flour to your mixture, i'm sure you'll get the results you want, fucking spastic.

[Anonymous No.9301857]

>>9301538
And yet you cannot easily relate the lot, tell me how many croissants to a football field americuck? Of course you have no idea, cuck.

[Anonymous No.9301864]

>>9301849
He clearly stated that for MOST applications 5% is meaningless.

Obviously there are exceptions, baking being one of them.

[Anonymous No.9301875]

>>9301864
Baking takes up such a large proportion of cooking it is ridiculous to consider it an exception. Moron.

[Anonymous No.9301904]

>>9301857
>And yet you cannot easily relate the lot,

Sure you can. It's all just basic arithmetic that you learn in elementary school.

Croissants to a football field? Easy. Assume from knowledge of the size of a croissant we can fit 6 of them per square foot. That means we have 6 * 9 = 54 of them per square yard. Call it 50 to make the math easy. A football field is about 7000 square meters IIRC (it's been a long time since I played). A yard is slightly less than a meter but for estimation purposes it's close enough. 7000 x 50 = 350 thousand. Round it up a bit since we under-estimated due to our meter/yard conversion and call it 400,000. That takes just a few seconds to do in your head. Was it supposed to be some kind of a tricky challenge?

[Anonymous No.9301910]

>>9301857
we're never going to call the endzone the 91.44 meter line you communist.

[Anonymous No.9301932]

>>9301875
>Baking takes up such a large proportion of cooking it is ridiculous to consider it an exception.

Are you suggesting that 5 or more out of every 100 people bake their own bread from scratch?

[Anonymous No.9301937]

>>9301904
No it was supposed to be an accurate representation, and you failed spectacularly by "guesstimating".

This is why the rest of the world laughs at you, because i can tell you that a litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. I can tell you that 10 millimetres makes up a centimetre, 100 centimetres makes up a metre, 1000 metres makes up a kilometre. And i can calculate a more exact number than you can because of this fact. Yet you revel on the fact that you are a dumbass. Good shit, you're a moron to the rest of the civilised world.

[Anonymous No.9301945]

>>9301932
Are you saying that precise measurements in an exact science aren't useful?

[Anonymous No.9302016]

>>9301937
>No it was supposed to be an accurate representation,
No, it wasn't. There's nothing accurate about converting a food item to a linear or area measurement. They aren't even the same thing.

>>and you failed spectacularly by "guesstimating".
How so? Guesstimates are perfectly fine for cooking. After all, the nature of ingredients varies naturally. Meat contains varying amounts of fat. Whole foods vary in size and shape. Herbs and spices vary in their potency based on freshness and season. It's pants-on-head retarded to use accurate conversions when you have to correct those things anyway based on what ingredients you had. You can sit and weigh out an exact amount of paprika like some 'sperg but that's totally pointless given that you'll be tasting and adjusting anyway.

>> because i can tell you that a litre of water weighs 1 kilogram....
And you think we can't?

>> Yet you revel on the fact that you are a dumbass.
Not even close. I think the Imperial system of units is silly. But I also think that complaining bout unit conversions is also silly because they're so fucking easy to do. All you have to do is memorize two factors: 1 pound = 454 grams and 1 liter is approximately equal to 1 quart. With that it's brain-dead simple to convert between Imperial and Metric recipes.

[Anonymous No.9302024]

>>9301945
Not at all. I'm saying that the average person isn't engaging in an exact science therefore precise measurements aren't necessary or even desirable.

OFC precise measurements are useful in an exact science. But we aren't talking about an exact science.

I answered your question, now please answer mine.
>Are you suggesting that 5 or more out of every 100 people bake their own bread from scratch?

You remind me of a woman I once dated. Every time we ate out and it was her turn to pay she'd get a pad of paper out of her purse and would insist on calculating the tip to exactly 15.0% down to the last penny, longhand. Then she'd do it a 2nd time to make sure the first time was correct. Needless to say everyone was always waiting around on her because most people have no problem estimating and rounding and didn't have some strange need in their sperghead to introduce precision where it isn't required.

[Anonymous No.9302110]

>>9301849
Funny enough, I am a former pro baker.
And guess what? When I said
>vast majority of situations where you'd be using "cups" as the measure
I was thinking specifically of baking. Know why? Cuz you'd be hard-pressed to find even a single baker on the face of the planet who bakes professionally and uses volumetric measures.
So what I said still stands and if you knew anything about pro baking at all, you wouldn't have ever posted that. :^)

[Anonymous No.9302306]

>>9299987
Yes, because that cost money uprooting the system

[Anonymous No.9302323]

>>9300365
I usually just weigh liquids nowadays

[Anonymous No.9302542]

>>9300381
Most people in the U.S. don't have scales. Typically I'd associate someone having a kitchen scale with a stoner (measuring out weed), or someone who's trying to watch their calorie intake (measuring exactly how much of something you're eating makes it easier to guess calories). To be fair, for any liquid volume is just as good as weight. 1 cup of water will always weigh the same amount. For ingredients that aren't ground super fine like flour, volume will usually work pretty well too.