Not American recipes, where's the best English ones??
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theaspicioway
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I love MFP and the great recipes that pop up in the Blog. The only problem is, they're all 1/2 cup of this and 3 cups of that - ie American recipes. All great and lovely, and they do look very tasty, but a pain for us people in the UK who only put proper builders tea in cups!! I know there are hundreds of healthy recipe sites on the interweb, but has anyone got any great go-to sites for healthy eating recipes in the UK? With proper ingredients lists etc.
Ta in advance for any help given!!
Ta in advance for any help given!!
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Yes, unfortunately even some UK recipes list ingredients in cups for the Americans. Here's a converter you can use:
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/531168/cups-to-grams-converter
I get a few recipes here:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/category/healthy
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/?o_is=TopNav_1_Recipe0 -
Just curious, but don't measuring cups have milliliters on them as well or is that not the UK measuring system? Sorry, I have never needed to cook with anything other than cups and I'm ignorant of other cooking methods outside the US.0
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Dunno if UK measuring cups have cups on them as well as ml. You'd think that would be sensible and easy.
I was assuming OP meant the tendency of US recipes to measure solids in cups, like vegetables, flour, rice, whatever. Personally, when I cook (baking requires more precision, of course), I use recipes as an inspiration and never actually measure out anything in cups. Never have, never will. So this is one American who ignores the cup measurements except to get a sense of relative amounts.1 -
Just curious, but don't measuring cups have milliliters on them as well or is that not the UK measuring system? Sorry, I have never needed to cook with anything other than cups and I'm ignorant of other cooking methods outside the US.
we use ml's only for liquid.
there are no "cup" measurements that I've seen for dry ingredients.0 -
Just curious, but don't measuring cups have milliliters on them as well or is that not the UK measuring system? Sorry, I have never needed to cook with anything other than cups and I'm ignorant of other cooking methods outside the US.
We don't even have the "cups" in the UK unless we especially want to buy them, we always use kitchen scales to measure solids in grams or a measuring jug to measure liquids (though I use my scales to weigh liquids too as it has mls)1 -
You're going to get different weight for each item. Here this may help.
cups-to-weight conversion table0 -
You could also buy some measuring cups online, they are pretty cheap and then you wouldn't have to even think about it.
Note: Cups are just an estimate and there are no "official" sizes, just generally agreed on sizes.0 -
Oh yeah.... For example google "1 cup flour to grams" and you will always know how much it basically weighs. Also this may help, a cup is about the size of your fist.0
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It used to really confuse me when people would post on here when they were just starting out, and everyone would tell them they need to buy kitchen scales. Everyone in the UK has kitchen scales so I found it really weird that so many Americans didn't!4
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smotheredincheese wrote: »It used to really confuse me when people would post on here when they were just starting out, and everyone would tell them they need to buy kitchen scales. Everyone in the UK has kitchen scales so I found it really weird that so many Americans didn't!
I did because I used to bake. I didn't know they were so common in the UK, though.0 -
Just curious, but don't measuring cups have milliliters on them as well or is that not the UK measuring system? Sorry, I have never needed to cook with anything other than cups and I'm ignorant of other cooking methods outside the US.
We don't even have the "cups" in the UK unless we especially want to buy them, we always use kitchen scales to measure solids in grams or a measuring jug to measure liquids (though I use my scales to weigh liquids too as it has mls)
I looked up measuring jug and got this:
If that's right, it's what we use for liquids too, but we call it a measuring cup and it has both ml and cups/pints (as shown on this one). Note: this must be a UK one, since we may not use liters, but we spell the word correctly!
(Just teasing.)1 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Just curious, but don't measuring cups have milliliters on them as well or is that not the UK measuring system? Sorry, I have never needed to cook with anything other than cups and I'm ignorant of other cooking methods outside the US.
We don't even have the "cups" in the UK unless we especially want to buy them, we always use kitchen scales to measure solids in grams or a measuring jug to measure liquids (though I use my scales to weigh liquids too as it has mls)
I looked up measuring jug and got this:
If that's right, it's what we use for liquids too, but we call it a measuring cup and it has both ml and cups/pints (as shown on this one).
I've never seen these here.
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Yeah, those are what I assumed OP was talking about (see my first post above).
I'm American, but I don't normally use those. For baking I weigh, for cooking I wing it, which is the fun of cooking.0 -
rainbowbow wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »Just curious, but don't measuring cups have milliliters on them as well or is that not the UK measuring system? Sorry, I have never needed to cook with anything other than cups and I'm ignorant of other cooking methods outside the US.
We don't even have the "cups" in the UK unless we especially want to buy them, we always use kitchen scales to measure solids in grams or a measuring jug to measure liquids (though I use my scales to weigh liquids too as it has mls)
I looked up measuring jug and got this:
If that's right, it's what we use for liquids too, but we call it a measuring cup and it has both ml and cups/pints (as shown on this one).
I've never seen these here.
I wish we didn't see them here in the US. Now that I have a kitchen scale, I don't understand why anyone would bother with them. Not only are they inaccurate, but the kitchen scale means so many less dishes.5 -
dragon_girl26 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »Just curious, but don't measuring cups have milliliters on them as well or is that not the UK measuring system? Sorry, I have never needed to cook with anything other than cups and I'm ignorant of other cooking methods outside the US.
We don't even have the "cups" in the UK unless we especially want to buy them, we always use kitchen scales to measure solids in grams or a measuring jug to measure liquids (though I use my scales to weigh liquids too as it has mls)
I looked up measuring jug and got this:
If that's right, it's what we use for liquids too, but we call it a measuring cup and it has both ml and cups/pints (as shown on this one).
I've never seen these here.
I wish we didn't see them here in the US. Now that I have a kitchen scale, I don't understand why anyone would bother with them. Not only are they inaccurate, but the kitchen scale means so many less dishes.
agreed. Although, as an american who moved to europe let me tell you it took some getting used to.
I remember even scratching my head at what a "DL" was for liquid measurements.
I honestly wish the US just did away with this archaic system, it's made my life over here hell. Don't even get me started on the temperature.2 -
Out of curiosity, how many of the UK people posting here weigh in kilos instead of stones? I've seen UK folks complain about the archaic American cups measurement system, but these same people are tracking their weight in stones. It makes me giggle.3
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Out of curiosity, how many of the UK people posting here weigh in kilos instead of stones? I've seen UK folks complain about the archaic American cups measurement system, but these same people are tracking their weight in stones. It makes me giggle.
Guilty here, I weigh myself in stone and lbs and weigh food in kilos.1 -
Out of curiosity, how many of the UK people posting here weigh in kilos instead of stones? I've seen UK folks complain about the archaic American cups measurement system, but these same people are tracking their weight in stones. It makes me giggle.
As far as I know in the UK we've always weighed ourselves in stones & pounds.2 -
Out of curiosity, how many of the UK people posting here weigh in kilos instead of stones? I've seen UK folks complain about the archaic American cups measurement system, but these same people are tracking their weight in stones. It makes me giggle.
As far as I know in the UK we've always weighed ourselves in stones & pounds.
That's the point. Archaic, just like our fondness for feet and yards and cups and pints.*
I still see no benefits of using cups for solids, though. ;-)
*Not suggesting people in the UK don't like a pint or two.2 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Out of curiosity, how many of the UK people posting here weigh in kilos instead of stones? I've seen UK folks complain about the archaic American cups measurement system, but these same people are tracking their weight in stones. It makes me giggle.
As far as I know in the UK we've always weighed ourselves in stones & pounds.
That's the point. Archaic, just like our fondness for feet and yards and cups and pints.*
I still see no benefits of using cups for solids, though. ;-)
*Not suggesting people in the UK don't like a pint or two.
If it aint broke don't fix it. I don't see why we should change our way of using stones and pounds, grams, feet or everything else, just because Americans do it differently.2
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