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?

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    I do this, and my brother who is an amateur chef thinks it’s witchcraft. Baking is not hard to eyeball or make by feel people.

    I can do this no problem however my WIFE cannot. If something doesn’t have a recipe defined down to a gnats ass then she looses confidence and nearly always screws it up. She’s not dumb she just doesn’t have the knack. It’s sorta like a “green thumb”, some people will kill a plant just looking at it while others are seemingly able to grow palm trees in the Arctic.

    I’m sure it’s trainable but some people just have the ability and others don’t. Different people / different gifts and all that.

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      7 months ago

      As someone who once subbed cayenne 1:1 for black pepper in spaghetti sauce, and who has learned to make my own breadcrumbs from failed sourdough, I promise it’s a learned skill. It just takes letting yourself fail a lot and not taking yourself too seriously.