Epic WTF

On her Wikipedia page it says she is a conspiracy theorist in the first sentence. So what's the
deal ? Those tweets make sense in that context.

8yrs old so possibly a repost..?

https://youtu.be/CKjaFG4YN6g

Yup

I think I'd find living there depressing.
Mind you, when the fresh fruit & veg cease to appear on our supermarket shelves.......

Well, British cooking and its lack of fresh ingredients is the butt of many American jokes.

Not sure the USA or the UK get to sneer at each others diets considering that ~70% of both countries populations are overweight.

Fair enough, I’ve just seen on LFGSS many times folks acting like every thing in The US is prepackaged. It seems like the same amount between the two countries tbf.

My Irish MIL complained about how all the pastries in the US have too much sugar, yet the only place she would get breakfast when she was visiting was the Jewish bakery.

Fair enough, I’ve just seen on LFGSS many times folks acting like every thing in The US is prepackaged. It seems like the same amount between the two countries tbf.

I think it's all the US recipes that basically have pre-prepared stuff as part of the ingredients list that gives that impression. Loads seem to add a specific soup or something .

Loads seem to add a specific soup or something .

This is due to a lot of “family” recipes being originally found on the side of boxes. Some of the poorer regions are famous for having random ingredients as substitutions, Sprite cake being a favorite. Basically the soda adds a leveling agent and liquid so you can leave out eggs when making boxed cake.

I do find it odd when a cake recipe from the US has a boxed mix listed in its ingredients and something like ‘Step One: Bake the cake as instructed on the cake box’

That's making things from "scratch"

https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1372589394272645121?s=19

I kept finding this with curries. 'Add jar of curry sauce'.
That is not a recipe.
I have got to grips with '1/2 Cup' etc now though.

Add jar of curry sauce

Would make for a dangerously crunchy version.

I can’t understand using ‘cups’ as a unit of measurement. Just stupid.

And my absolute pet hate - ‘heaped tablespoon’. It’s like saying ‘50 grams then just chuck some extra in as well’

Can’t see the problem there.

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I guess that's a bit like the use of 'hands' in the equestrian world.

'Seat tube measures 4 scoblebricks + 3 cups c2c'

I can’t understand using ‘cups’ as a unit of measurement. Just stupid.

There's a standard size for it. You can get measuring jugs/scoops with it carefully marked. Not a big deal.

I sometimes put the cooking channel on in the mornings, inspires me to drink my coffee quicker and go to work.

Someone the other day added "one forth cup"
I've never heard a quarter referred to as a forth before.

Yep, I've got the necessary devices. In most cases, I find it such a faff compared to using scales though. Measuring out X amount of cups of flour, getting flour everywhere while your taking the cup out of the bag, flattening off the tops etc < just tipping flour in to bowl until it's X grams.

Agree it's not a big deal though. But then it's not the first time ive had negative feelings about something thats not a big deal.

'One secondth' or 'one twoth' ?

I know, right? Glad you're with me on this

For some recipes I think cups make more sense. The ones where volume is more significant than weight, for example; do you really care how much salad ingredients weigh? Seeing cups and tablespoons and teaspoons in a recipe gives a much better visual idea of relative proportions, which is handy when I'm often not cooking for the same number of people as the recipe is made for.

Baking, though, is where precision is usually more important and cups are just a pain to see in the recipe.

But then it's not the first time ive had negative feelings about something thats not a big deal.

Word.

Aren't cups useful because they can apply to wet and dry ingredients?

So can weight though?

Fwiw I find cups useful as a measurement now I know how much 1 cup is, and have some measuring cups too. Otherwise, it is hard to work with.

Ah but ingredients wouldn't stay neatly in the bottom of a measuring cup without gravity either!
Or you'd have to swing your arm around in a circle to contain it with centripetal force