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?

  • kn33@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    They are now. Not when people were going out west on wagons. As stated above, it’s because of historical reasons.