How do you prefer to measure?

Lily-Lu

lbs & ozs for me. Hate it when a recipe doesn't give me a choice and only lists metric. I think it's a little about sticking to my roots and keeping what my previous generation used, alive. I get a bee in my bonnet about people changing the English language as well (lot of American terminology seeps through on UK forums)....But that's another thread altogether :rotfl:

tessasmum

I'm still working in lbs and ozs - and it works fine for me most of the time (apart from the time I used a book and didn't read the introduction.......the woman had put the recipes in "oz" measurements, but somewhere deep in the intro it said that they were FLUID ounces so we didn't have to worry about weighing stuff!! I couldn't work out why my stuff had gone so wrong but the lightbulb flashed rather bright when I read the intro later on!)

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yes I use lbs and ozs but then I have never got the hang of the metric system at all. I even someimes look at the price of something and thing 'How much 8/- for a newspaper ! no way, (40p)does help to save money if you are old enough to remember £.s.d.:)

Ches

Tablespoons I am afraid. A well rounded one of flour and a less well rounded one of sugar is 1oz. Butter/marge I kind of make division marks on the fat before cutting a wedge out.

hayley11

I just use whatever the recipe says, I have no preference

I don't really like using cups though, when i'm making my bread, I sometimes forget how many i've put it... :rotfl: I daydream too much!

kitschkitty

I'm perfectly happy with metric or imperial and have never done any thing in cups except rice! I never weigh ingredients except when baking, so for example a casserole would have whatever amounts I decided to put in it! (can't imagine weighing a carrot or something)

rosalie-lavender

I use whatever the recipe is in, my scales can be switched to either imperial or metric.
If there is a choice I prefer pounds and ounces though but use recipes in cups, ounces, grams and even decilitres if I am cooking the recipes our Finnish friends gave us.

luxor4t

I'm 51 so I understand lbs & ozs - I know what an amount looks like iyswim.
A few years back I invested in a good set of imperial scales. Lovely I thought, set for the rest of my life. Then DH (or another person, hmmm) dropped them.

Current scales are metric but I do the maths, the old fashioned pen & paper way

Cups are for drinking out of - I'm always amazed when a cup recipe turns out well :rotfl:

And, yes, I still translate back into 'proper' money - probably because I spent years doing it for our elderly neighbours in the shops.

With all these calculations, who needs a Brain Trainer?