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?
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?
It’s pretty simple, a fluid ounce is the volume of about an ounce of water. It’s just like how a liter is the volume of water weighing about one kilogram.
The only difference is that you couldn’t call the units fluid kilograms, because you’d have to later apply the prefix and get something silly, like, milifluid kilograms.