Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      3 months ago

      Until a few years ago, a kilogram was defined by a block of metal.

      From 1799 to 1960, the metre was defined by another block of metal. Before 1799, it was defined by a measurement that was hard to verify.

      That kind of sounds arbitrary.