As the title says, it's mildly infuriating seeing someone say " cook this at 210° " and stuff like that, we are in a international context!! Do i have to put those cookies in the flames of hell or just around the boiling point of water?!

Edit: the cookie thing was just an example and i throw a random number lol

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[–] 0 points 2 months ago (19 children)

Don’t even get me started on the yanks thinking cups is an acceptable measurement of both weight and volume.

And how big are we talking? Espresso cup or sports direct mug, because there’s a massive difference.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm not from the US and don't use it, but a cup there is an actual measurement (for liquid - it's not used to measure weight). 8 fluid ounces or about 240ml. The metric alternative of a US cup is 250ml

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    We don't measure weights in cups, but we do measure some ingredients (like flour) by volume, so it's not uncommon here to see a recipe that calls for 1 cup of flour instead of 120g

    However, we do use "ounce" to mean both 1/8 of a cup in volume and 1/16 of a pound in weight....

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago* (15 children)

    Usually they mean the imperial unit "cup" i fucking hate imperial...also, it's annoying in this case because you have to guess that it's the imperial unit and not a random cup

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    To add insult to injury, a US cup is 236.6 millilitres, while a UK (imperial) cup is 170.48 millilitres. Not even close. There's a whole lot of other measurements called "cup" too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (10 children)

    Nobody has ever read cooking instruction and thought "they mean for me to measure this with a mug from my cabinet" lol

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No, but they’ve probably thought “what fucking size cup do these twats mean and why can’t they just put an actual measurement”.

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    However, in modern recipes, the US legal cup of 240 ml (about 8.45 British imperial fluid ounces or 8.12 US customary fluid ounces) is more commonly used.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    I like how you just pulled that sentence out of context from the description for ONE country and ignored the dozen other countries with different measurements.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    ...
    You literally pulled up a cherry picked list of where there are discrepancies. You're allowed to and im not?

    Also, would you look at that: almost all of them have converged to US customary or 250mL, which is within the tolerance for error.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    You literally pulled up a cherry picked list of where there are discrepancies.

    The entire point of this thread from the comment you replied to, is that 'cup' is an inexact unit of measurement that varies. My list is providing examples, I'm not seeing the issue here.

    You're allowed to and im not?

    You were misrepresenting the statement as if it applied globally when in actuality it was meant for ONE country. That's just bad faith discussion.

    Also, would you look at that: almost all of them have converged to US customary or 250mL, which is within the tolerance for error.

    Except for Latin America, the UK, most of Asia, parts of Europe, etc. 🙄

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