Measuring Cup or Food Scale??

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  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,331 Member
    edited March 2016
    katiebean wrote: »
    CelesseBoo wrote: »
    Scale. It also really annoys me when recipes are done in "cups".... What's wrong with just telling me how many grams to use?!
    Same. And I hate coming across mfp entries in cups too. Im British, so I have very little idea what size a "cup" is anyway.

    IIRC cups developed as a way to measure things while the Europeans were settling NA. Scales were used before that, especially for baking, but were not easily available or transportable, so people started using cups, and that became standardized. It is a standard I wish would go away, especially for baking, as weighing ingredients is much easier and far more accurate which is very important when baking were a small ingredient difference can result in quite different results.
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