Potential cooking dilemma

[icepixie]

Okay, question for the British types (or anyone who uses the Metric system in the kitchen, actually). I see that recipes and directions on boxes of food and such over there come with measurements in grams, not cups, as I'm accustomed to. Are there little scales y'all use for measuring flour and such? Do you have big plastic measuring cups in various gram amounts instead of cup amounts? (Which would totally defeat the purpose of a measure of weight, not volume, wouldn't it? Well, I never said I was good at math.)

Am I on the edge of freaking out and making everything way more complicated than I need to? (Yes, rowdycamels, I'm taking Stark's advice about "Work now, freak later," but it's difficult...)

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

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[nickless.livejournal.com]

Are there little scales y'all use for measuring flour and such? Do you have big plastic measuring cups in various gram amounts instead of cup amounts?

Yep. Also with the mL and such, iirc.

[babylil.livejournal.com]

Totally don't freak out. I never measure anything unless I'm baking.

[kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com]

*nod* we have measuring cups for grams, or those electronic scales are nice ^^ some measuring cups have grams/liters etc. Altho, some things like rice, do go in cups. Ehh, that's mostly like judge how much you'll eat and throw it in a pot.