Thank you Peter for ranting on that lavender bread recipe about how a gram is a gram regardless of what it weighs. *insert meme of guy confused about a kilogram of feathers weighing the same as a kilogram of steel*
That conversion site which showed how 1 standard cup had wildly different weights was a bit of an eye-opener, especially when something as apparently straightforward as flour had notable variations between types. Measuring by weight from the outset makes more sense, at least to me.
Growing up with cup measures helps, of course, but then I grew up with pre-decimal UK “Old Money”...
When @dduane first moved here 30+ years ago, she made sure to bring a set of standard US measuring cups, “just in case”. They were plastic, and as time passed they went the way of all flesh plastic, so got replaced by a stainless steel set bought in Europe (Germany I think, probably intended for US Army married quarters).
They were “proper” cup measures (not much use otherwise!) but also had millilitre quantities on the handles: 1 cup = 250 ml, 1/2 cup = 125 ml etc. However by then we’d also bought our first kitchen scale, and D was very taken with working by weight rather than volume.
We’ve kept the cups for working with US recipes that we can’t be bothered to convert, but mostly we go by weight, and the next scale we buy won’t just have the usual two buttons for Imp/Metric conversion and Zero Reset, there’ll be a third one that lets it measure liquids as well, so we won’t even need to break out a graduated jug.
