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labyrynth · 9 months

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i don’t feel like bothering some random person abt a comment from several months ago so can someone tell me what i’m missing here

unless everything is in relatable units, a cup is always different

a cup is always a cup tho;;;?? like based on the context it’s very obviously Cup (culinary unit of measurement). the cup IS the unit. what am i not getting here.

#moi #i’m so confused #like i get the merit of measuring by weight if you’re like. mass producing stuff in gigantic mixers or whatever #but quite frankly i’m a lot better at eyeballing a volume of a quantity than just. intuiting the weight.#and ‘onion’ as a unit of measurement is not exactly standard either #i think the nicest thing recipe writers could do would be to add notes abt how much you’ll need to buy #like i did a mac n cheese recipe a while back and she added notes abt what size block of cheese to get #or like in this case 2C chopped onion has a note abt ‘this is ~x onions the size of a baseball or y weight’#although i’m not sure my grocery store even has scales there anymore so the weight isn’t really useful #in terms of ‘how many onions do i need’#i’m kind of glad that more recipes these days ARE getting way more specific #‘weh weh it’s because young people don’t know how to cook anymore!!’ ok and?#what do you think is happening when they follow a detailed recipe?#you have to start building muscle memory somewhere #you can’t rely on an intuition that hasn’t been trained #(or sometimes at all. i am remarkably bad at estimating weight and distances)

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