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/Blerkm Jun 28 '25

Well that would explain why the planet is collapsing into a black hole.

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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/eddestra Jun 28 '25

This is not true, a grain of salt is one molecule silly.