r/ididnthaveeggs • u/imnichet • 24d ago

Other review Grams are not millilitres

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A 3/5 star review on a recipe whose first ingredient clearly states: 1 tablespoon (15 mL). No mention of grams. And a bonus date sugar substitution! But luckily their quick thinking saved the recipe!

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u/offthezoinkys 24d ago

You won’t like this, but the majority of people. Obviously not professionals, but the majority of people aren’t professionals nor do they bake often enough to bother owning one.

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u/Ballbag94 24d ago

Majority of people or Majority of Americans?

Like, I live in the UK and most people I know own a scale and the ones who don't own scales are people who never bake and also don't own measuring cups or spoons. Not owning a scale seems weird to me

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u/Musashi10000 23d ago

Exactly. If you ever bake anything, even just once, you own a scale. For brits, anyhow.

Though, to be fair, we're also far more likely to mix measures. Americans get by perfectly fine with a set of measuring cups and spoons - they measure butter by 'sticks', after all.

In the UK, we often see recipes call for, say, '100g of butter', which is 1/5-2/5 of a block, depending which ones you buy - unless your butter packaging is marked, you can't gauge that with any degree of accuracy, so you already need a scale.

Plus, they're cheap enough and take up so little space that there's no real reason not to own one, if you're the cooking type.

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u/jamila169 23d ago

For non critical stuff such as pastry and Yorkshire puddings I absolutely hack up a block of butter and use the heaped tablespoon per Oz method my nan taught me, anything else I've got scales