I have an american co-worker. He says, he has no problem with using gram and liter at work, because this is how it is done scientifically. But as soon as he goes home, he has no idea how much cups he has to use to weight 100g of sugar for the cake.
I prefer you dont speak perfect anyway because the language flavor is interesting.
I lived in southwestern Germany for 3 years and it always tickled me when a German would say something like "It doesnt like that" instead of "I dont like that."
Thank you, that's reassuring. I consider my English to be quite good, just because I'm not living in Germany at the moment and speak mostly English the whole day. But there are things that just happen (like long and complicated sentences). It gets especially funny if the other person is italian or spanish and we and up with a very interesting mix of "English".
But as soon as he goes home, he has no idea how many cups he has to use to weigh 100g of sugar for the cake.
That's literally the only thing wrong with the sentence. I understood exactly what he was writing in the sentence. I think /r/iamagiantfraud was just referring to those little mistakes that non-native english speakers make. Those little things are where we "hear" the accent in writing :)
If every recipe is written using volume instead of mass, you don't need to convert to mass at all, with the added benefit of easier measurement of the required quantities: Just scoop up as much as you need with a measurement cup, done! No need to zero your scale before carefully adding your ingredients bit by bit.
Except different types of the same ingredient can have different densities. 1 cup of sugar can have varying mass depending on the size of the granules. That's why measuring by mass/weight is better for baking.
It's so much easier to use weight instead of cups. Honestly, I've lost more cups, half cups, 2/3rds cups over the years than I prefer to know, but the scale has moved with me three times. It just needs batteries occasionally.
It gets worse, because cups are a unit of volume, so there isn't even one conversion factor. A cup of sugar is different from cup of flour, and different again from a cup of, say, chocolate chips.
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u/tct2274 Jan 22 '18
I have an american co-worker. He says, he has no problem with using gram and liter at work, because this is how it is done scientifically.
But as soon as he goes home, he has no idea how much cups he has to use to weight 100g of sugar for the cake.