Seven tablespoons of butter

[snousle]

Dear European chefs,

Converting a recipe to American measures involves more than multiplying by the appropriate conversion factors. It also requires scaling the whole recipe to match typical American package sizes.

We can tell when you are being lazy. Half a cup of cream, plus one tablespoon? Three and a quarter cups of flour? Seventeen ounces of chocolate? And the worst - the absolute giveaway - is your repeated insistence on seven tablespoons of butter.

Please stop.

Thanks,

- The American Cook

Comments

[theotherqpc.livejournal.com]

fuck volumetrics, get a digital scale and do it right.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

I have three of them! One for 0-50g, one for 10-1500g, and one that goes up to 20 kg. Doing the conversions to grams for my never-complete database project is how I know that all these odd measures are suspiciously close to nice round numbers in grams!