Translate into UK English!

hayleyclaire
hayleyclaire Posts: 1
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I really like the recipes I received via email today. However they are all written using American terms which I don't understand and would be too much effort to translate (measuring in cups, Fahrenheit etc). Could these be 'translated' into UK English please?

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  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    edited October 2014
    Silliest request ever. Come on, now. Are you saying they don't use measuring cups in the UK? Here is all the translating you need, dear.
    http://www.worldwidemetric.com/measurements.html
  • whippetwomen
    whippetwomen Posts: 31 Member
    We generally use scales to weigh our food here.
  • Sunitagt
    Sunitagt Posts: 486 Member
    Google? It comes up pretty quick.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,347 Member
    Google is your friend. I use it all the time, because I brought some of my favourite cookbooks back from the states.
  • DonM46
    DonM46 Posts: 772 Member
    Good grief! My old phone, which my son calls a Jurassic phone, has units conversions built in. Didn't even have to download some 'app.'
  • LokomotivMordor
    LokomotivMordor Posts: 23 Member
    I'm from Ireland and had never heard of a cup or oz being used to measure food before seeing this site (or lb to measure weight). OP I use on online calculator or a mobile app to convert US or UK units to metric quickly, Google is your friend.
  • FoodieMotion
    FoodieMotion Posts: 78 Member
    UK used to be predominantly imperial with lbs and oz when baking (my Mum's generation for sure were imperial) but I've been brought up using the metric system.
    Just to make it even more confusing, the US and Australia have different cup measurements.
  • chopperdaddy
    chopperdaddy Posts: 8 Member
    www.allrecipes.com has recipes for anything in their database and they can be changed from standard to metric easily using the change servings function. You can also scale them up or down depending on how many servings you need.

  • _runnerbean_
    _runnerbean_ Posts: 640 Member
    LeonCX wrote: »
    Silliest request ever. Come on, now. Are you saying they don't use measuring cups in the UK? Here is all the translating you need, dear.
    http://www.worldwidemetric.com/measurements.html

    We don't use measuring cups in the UK or Ireland so no need to be so patronising missie ;)
  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    edited October 2014
    missie? Well !! :o

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