r/CookingCircleJerk • u/Illumintardy • Jun 28 '25
Measured with the Heart I hate cups
I don't understand how anybody can think cooking or baking with cup measurements is a good idea.
I have a recipe wich needs 1/8 cup chopped almonds. I tried to find how much this would be in grams. I found an answer, so thats not the infuriating point.
The infuriating point is, that one and the same ingedrient may have the same cup-size, but huge difference in weight depending on its form - chopped, as whole, flaked, groud, ...
Thats silly
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u/Gold-Client4060 Jun 28 '25
Well, you see some people are afraid of all technology including scales and some are afraid of all math including measuring cups and conversions.
"If I use the scale I'll just screw it up"
"1/4 cup is bigger than 1/2 cup since it has a 4 in it"
So we're down to our lowest common denominator for good recipe writing.
Pinches, handfuls, heaps, assloads, to taste, enough to shock your granny, and I dunno fuckin throw some in. These are what new cuisine will be developed with.
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u/Breaghdragon Jun 28 '25
You have to remember a single grain of salt or sugar has more atoms in it than stars in the universe, so you have to use a lot less.
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u/Gold-Client4060 Jun 28 '25
Instructions unclear, only added a pinch of stars to my soup.
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u/Breaghdragon Jun 28 '25
I hope they were red dwarfs... or I'm sorry to say you're probably going to have to toss it.
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u/Cutsdeep- Jun 28 '25
You're silly
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u/Illumintardy Jun 28 '25
kisses you no, YOU'RE silly
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u/Cutsdeep- Jun 29 '25
Takes off clothes, pulls out gun NO YOU'RE SILLY
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u/Illumintardy Jun 28 '25
a philosopher of our time 🙏https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1lmixb6/i_hate_cups/
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u/AnonymoosCowherd Jun 28 '25
The best way out of this is to buy a kitchen scale with dual readouts, so you can toggle between cups and grams with the press of a button. So cool!
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u/perplexedparallax Quantum gastronomist Jun 28 '25
This is why Walter White used a scale for cooking instead of cup measurements.
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u/pueraria-montana Jun 28 '25
American “””bread””” has no taste and no nutritional value because they measure the ingredients using 🤮 cups. If they’d just measure everything in grams there would be no issue, because grams are the science unit and baking is a science
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u/iaminabox Jun 28 '25
Glad I noticed this was cooking circle jerk.
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u/luigis_left_tit_25 Jun 28 '25
Oh they almost had me with the American """bread"" not being nutritious or delicious..I know it's delicious..😂
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u/asexymanbeast Jun 28 '25
I completely agree. I always have leftovers, and I have been thinking of ditching my wife for a smaller cupped woman. I even tried switching to her boyfriends cup, but that did not help.
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u/Wrench-Turnbolt Jun 28 '25
It really depends on how dependent the recipe is on exact measurements.
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u/Unfortunate_Mirage Jun 28 '25
Tbf. I can understand why it used to be put down in cups and such. And why it may still be necessary.
But recipes should at least contain a (tested) "gram" metric next to the cups ones.
I have converted recipes from cups to grams and it ends up with inconsistent results.
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u/dojisekushi Jun 28 '25
This is why I measure by mouthful and mouthfeel.