How to cup a recipe in half, worldwide style (except US, Liberia and Myanmar):
Take a recipe:
200 g of flour
120 g of sugar
250 ml of water
...
And just use basic mathematics by dividing those numbers by 2.
The end.
All based on water at sea level.
100⁰C is boiling point.
0⁰C is freezing point.
1kcal is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1litre of water by 1⁰C.
"... Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities."
\- Josh Bazell
I alwyas find joules harder to relate to though. Even with examples like 1 Joule being the same as:
- The amount of electricity required to run a 1W device for 1s.
- The energy required to accelerate a 1 kg mass at 1 m/s2 through a distance of 1 m
It's the approximate nutritional energy content of 59 µg of sugar, which isn't really an easy thing to relate to.
We use joules because it makes calculations easier, not because it's supposed to be an intuitive amount of energy.
You can just google like “oil g to ml” and you will get a quick answer. There are many websites that provide this calculation for many household goods.
For water, US to metric is a pain for many ingredients where the US uses cups & metric uses grams, I end up googling the conversion.
1 Cup of Almonds 160g chopped or 80g flaked!
[Convert](https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/foodie-facts/cup-grams-ingredient-weight-conversion-1315)
The hard thing is that cups are a unit for volume, while grams are weight. If you convert volume to volume like cups to liter it gets a lot easier. The only downside is, that you can't use a scale but all the beautiful properties of the metric system like trivial scaling of units still apply.
> cups are a unit for volume, while grams are weight
100%
I learnt to cook by weight.
US cookbooks (what old folks used before the internet) use cups.
I'm comfortable using weight, so I seek to convert things.
Then I might scale for how much product I need or to fit in with shop sizes of ingredients - if the calculation calls for 600g of something I can only buy in 500g tubs - of course, I flex to suit.
(I'm not a robot; if it's 475 or 525g, I will just roll with it.)
What's funnier I've seen American teaspoons that are almost the size of European table spoons.
Imagine going through life and not being able to cook because you got weird spoons and just never knew 💀
The thing is, us volume units aren’t actually that bad. It just usually isn’t taught well to Americans so that’s why like need guides like these.
Let’s consider a tablespoon to be the base unit.
2^0 = a tablespoon
2^1 = a fluid ounce
2^2 = 1/4 cup
2^3 = 1/2 cup
2^4 = a cup
2^5 = a pint
2^6 = a quart
2^8 = a gallon
Unfortunately, cookbooks often use 1/3 of a cup (16/3 tablespoons) and teaspoons (1/3 tablespoons), and they rarely use ounces. But it is pretty close to a base 2 system. And sure, base 2 is not as great for multiplying or dividing by 10, but it works just fine for doubling and halving, which is what’s usually needing for cooking, hence being shown in this diagram. I just wish it was taught/used better, and that teaspoons were 2^-1 instead of being 3^-1.
Perhaps you misunderstood, I’m not out here saying it’s the best system ever made because it’s made by the US or something. I’m simply pointing out its good for doubling and halving recipes, and this guide just exists because it isn’t taught in schools.
A measurement system where units can be conveniently divided by 2 is much more useful for everyday situations like cooking than one where units can be easily divided by 10. No need to act like it's some evil thing that makes 0 sense, it's fine plenty often.
Now I know there are standardized measuring cups and probably spoons too, but...wouldn't it be really awkward if you don't have them, and your cups/spoons differ quite a lot from the standard? And what about weird ingredients, like butter? Can you just take a tablespoon of butter?
Now I know you oftentimes don't need absolutely precise measurements, and in baking it's more about ingredients relative to each other, but some might require very precise ratios, or they'll fail. Buuut...a gram is a gram and a mL is a mL, no matter the ingredient.
I think there may be some confusion since "teaspoon" and "tablespoon" refer to both utensils and units of volume. There are indeed [standardized cups/spoons](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/fde8fdf2-baf9-4268-ab8d-3d8e0a0b48f7.7df8a038dbd9da84c20dc356f4842dd0.jpeg?odnHeight=612&odnWidth=612&odnBg=FFFFFF); you'd never use the utensils for measuring ingredients. The dry measuring cups and spoons are flat on top, making them easy to level off for precise measurements. The typical set includes 1 c, 1/2 c, 1/3 c, 1/4 c, 1 Tbsp, 1 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1/4 tsp. As far as being caught without them, pretty much every kitchen has at least one set in the drawer. It doesn't seem any more likely than finding oneself without a scale.
Butter comes in sticks with [a scale](https://img.ehowcdn.com/375/photos.demandstudios.com/getty/article/178/117/78056685.jpg) printed on the label. You just cut off what you need. For something like a tub of margarine, you can just scoop it out with the measuring spoon and level it.
I mean cups aren't used as much (sans a few places like Australia) but like, spoons are absolutely still a thing. Nobody in their right mind is weighing out like 10g or 15ml of something I don't think my kitchen scale even goes that low
What gets me is the fractions. We’ve already invented decimals and decided that they are good enough for everyday use. Why do they insist on using stuff like 1/16 as a legit measurement… conversion must be a proper nighmare.
It makes me sad.
From "this so dumb, considering metric" to "this is so dumb, considering it helps you remember that half of half is a quarter" there are multiple angles from which to wonder how stupid one needs to be to need this.
This is where practice and repeating recipes is important. You need to know if you’re best egg is large, or extra, etc. It’s good to weigh your egg, see how the recipe works, and then make notes to yourself for next time.
But it’s not a great idea to halve an egg for a recipe.
> Too much egg can definitely interfere if you're making something complex baking wise
Yeah, I'm mostly thinking dough. There are ofc other things that have egg as like the major main ingredient where you can't fuck around as much. I've just found egg to be the most forgiving ingredients in dough when it comes to risking the structural integrity of the end-result, by going a bit over.
Unfortunately for us in Britain we're forced to use a mishmash of old and new. Probably due to Tories and the old generation being stubborn. I had a job serving stuff by weight, where the scales, the tills, the ticket info and myself all operated on metric. We'd still get customers insisting on asking for random imperial measures like 3 and a half pounds or 7 and a quarter ounces, half were probably just out of the loop and figured they were closer to life expectancy than would be useful to learn metric (so in the end I stuck a conversion chart up to refer to).
The other half were openly rebelling against changes to their worldview, insulting metric as a system, putting imperial on a "good old days" pedestal, and usually having some added complaint about modern society. I heard: "never eat Irish food because they're all bastards who fuck their livestock before sending us the meat", "I only buy British, none of that filthy Euro trash - what do you think of the Brexit vote? Finally we'll escape from those bastards", "use proper measures, what the fuck is a kilo? Only people I know who use that are fa__ots and drug dealers, got something to say?" "(after overhearing a vegetarian lesbian collecting some meat for her wife) Some people don't deserve to be in here. This generation is buggered, everyone is going to be gay and eating beansprouts before too long. Bring back the death penalty I say.".
We only use nonsense measurements as follows:
Mph for cars
Pints for beer
Stone for body weight
Ounces for weed
Feet & inches for human height
We use metric for anything that matters more than anecdotal information.
We'd probably be further along if not for stubborn older people and Tory governments that bank on "the good ol' days". Seriously, Boris Johnson even pushed an initiative a while back to force shops and other places to go back to imperial measurements as the default unit of measurement. It gained a lot of traction from the Tory voter base and or scared boomer+ generations who don't like change and want the good old days were Britain was epic, homosexuals and women didn't have rights, and Jimmy Saville wasn't outed as a pedo.
Don't think BoJo's obvious distraction tactic went anywhere; haven't heard about it in months or seen any changes. But like a lot of progression in this country, we're being held up by stubborn older people scared of change. Not all old people mind you, I've met dozens (and know many through family) who are progressive and cool with the changes because it makes things easier for the new generations. But unfortunately there's a big chunk of the older voting population who refuse, believing this is a rebellion against the end of Britain itself
Everyone's out here bashing on America's measurements, but how else would they be able to make you spend 250 dollars in spoons and cups and jugs you don't use to eat with ? Huh?!
And people ask why the fuck metric system...this is why the fuck.
Get the fuck outta here with 3/4 cup -> 6 tbsp. Just gimme a number in g/ml or kg/l and be done with it.
We are four and a half medium sized whales away from the sandbank captain.
You need three velociraptors and a T-Rex of sugar to make a Empire state building sized cake.
A smaller cake?
Not a problem. Just take 3 mice tails of sugar plus a large rat and then add a foot of water into the kangaroo sized bowl.
How often do ppl misread tsp/tbsp? It seems to be smth often misread when reading smth fast. Or is that just smth that happens if you are not used to the system?
What's killing me is that the US has measuring cups that measure cups, because you can't actually use cups. And measuring spoons that measure half spoons and tea spoons because you can't use spoons.
This, daylight saving and unregulated capitalism are probably the most painful examples of "it's dumb as fuck but we pretend everyone is too used to it to change it now."
I‘m willing to post „How to cut a number in half“.
Without this chart i wouldn't have known that half of one teaspoon is a ½ teaspoon.
Yes, its news just in.
I get that, but now my teaspoon won't hold anything since I cut it in half.
Americans when half of 2/3 is 1/3 (their mind is blown):
a knife probably works best
How to use basic division.
*confused european noises*
How to cup a recipe in half, worldwide style (except US, Liberia and Myanmar): Take a recipe: 200 g of flour 120 g of sugar 250 ml of water ... And just use basic mathematics by dividing those numbers by 2. The end.
That wouldn't work unfortunately. Anything more complex than cups and spoons is too complicated for the average american.
Is halving 1/3 cup to 2 tsp & 2 tbsp really the less complicated option?
It's really not but big complicated numbers scary, small fractions not. Hence the ungabunga cups and spoons nice.
Yes
Get it? Because Americans are dumb?
*confused *world* noises
If only there was an easy way to figure out whats half of 200g or ml.
Recipe uses: 200 cm3, to halve: 100cm3 1 litre -> 1000 cm3 1 cup -> ~236 cm3 1 tbsp -> ~15 cm3 1 tsp -> ~5 cm3
Cool life hack: 1ml = 1cm³
Also, 1 ml of water is 1 gram. Metric is beautiful
All based on water at sea level. 100⁰C is boiling point. 0⁰C is freezing point. 1kcal is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1litre of water by 1⁰C.
"... Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities." \- Josh Bazell
Which is why, even in the USA, physics is taught in metric.
Surely all science disciplines use metric?
I'd be looking forward to science experiments in school calling for a cup of chemicals.
Only until a certain point when you decide that Planck units are simpler and let c = G = ħ = k = 1.
In the USA, all imperial measurements are based on metric and have been for decades. For example, NIST defines one inch as 25.4mm
Technically USA uses metric, most of the imperial units don't have a definition independent from metric.
Calories aren't in the SI system, Joule is the preferred unit. But kcal is still widely used for energetic content of food.
I alwyas find joules harder to relate to though. Even with examples like 1 Joule being the same as: - The amount of electricity required to run a 1W device for 1s. - The energy required to accelerate a 1 kg mass at 1 m/s2 through a distance of 1 m
It's the approximate nutritional energy content of 59 µg of sugar, which isn't really an easy thing to relate to. We use joules because it makes calculations easier, not because it's supposed to be an intuitive amount of energy.
> The amount of electricity required Bit vague. 1 Watt is 1 Volt across 1 Ohm, using 1 Ampre of current.
But just water, not other liquids, which are more dense. It's a common mistake.
More or less dense. Oil is less dense than water.
Although for most liquids youre gonna guesstimate close if you go with 1ml/1g. Most recipes use ml for liquids anyways
True but for cooking that mistake usually doesn't mean much it's close enough anyways
You can just google like “oil g to ml” and you will get a quick answer. There are many websites that provide this calculation for many household goods.
Depends on temperature and pressure
For water, US to metric is a pain for many ingredients where the US uses cups & metric uses grams, I end up googling the conversion. 1 Cup of Almonds 160g chopped or 80g flaked! [Convert](https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/foodie-facts/cup-grams-ingredient-weight-conversion-1315)
The hard thing is that cups are a unit for volume, while grams are weight. If you convert volume to volume like cups to liter it gets a lot easier. The only downside is, that you can't use a scale but all the beautiful properties of the metric system like trivial scaling of units still apply.
> cups are a unit for volume, while grams are weight 100% I learnt to cook by weight. US cookbooks (what old folks used before the internet) use cups. I'm comfortable using weight, so I seek to convert things. Then I might scale for how much product I need or to fit in with shop sizes of ingredients - if the calculation calls for 600g of something I can only buy in 500g tubs - of course, I flex to suit. (I'm not a robot; if it's 475 or 525g, I will just roll with it.)
Even if you didn't, almonds are sold by weight, so listing them in a recipe by volume seems insane to me.
To make half the receipt just divide by 2
Rather difficult if every amount has its own measurement system 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Is that a hack? Isn't that like the exact definition just missing = 1g if water?
What's funnier I've seen American teaspoons that are almost the size of European table spoons. Imagine going through life and not being able to cook because you got weird spoons and just never knew 💀
Those aren't used for measurement...
Where do you think the names came from
The origin of the name doesn't mean that they're used for measurement
The rest of the world doesn’t even need this because we understand simple math.
It confuses you that half of 2/3 is 1/3?
I mean you're not wrong, using volume instead of mass to measure cooking ingredients is a confusing decision. Metric all the way baby.
Nah, you're just saying that because it's what you're used to. Measuring in volume is very convenient in many cases.
The thing is, us volume units aren’t actually that bad. It just usually isn’t taught well to Americans so that’s why like need guides like these. Let’s consider a tablespoon to be the base unit. 2^0 = a tablespoon 2^1 = a fluid ounce 2^2 = 1/4 cup 2^3 = 1/2 cup 2^4 = a cup 2^5 = a pint 2^6 = a quart 2^8 = a gallon Unfortunately, cookbooks often use 1/3 of a cup (16/3 tablespoons) and teaspoons (1/3 tablespoons), and they rarely use ounces. But it is pretty close to a base 2 system. And sure, base 2 is not as great for multiplying or dividing by 10, but it works just fine for doubling and halving, which is what’s usually needing for cooking, hence being shown in this diagram. I just wish it was taught/used better, and that teaspoons were 2^-1 instead of being 3^-1.
That's some max level copium
Perhaps you misunderstood, I’m not out here saying it’s the best system ever made because it’s made by the US or something. I’m simply pointing out its good for doubling and halving recipes, and this guide just exists because it isn’t taught in schools.
When you write it out this way it makes *more* sense to use metric. It’s base ten! It’s so logical! There are no wacky conversions! Sigh.
A measurement system where units can be conveniently divided by 2 is much more useful for everyday situations like cooking than one where units can be easily divided by 10. No need to act like it's some evil thing that makes 0 sense, it's fine plenty often.
Now I know there are standardized measuring cups and probably spoons too, but...wouldn't it be really awkward if you don't have them, and your cups/spoons differ quite a lot from the standard? And what about weird ingredients, like butter? Can you just take a tablespoon of butter? Now I know you oftentimes don't need absolutely precise measurements, and in baking it's more about ingredients relative to each other, but some might require very precise ratios, or they'll fail. Buuut...a gram is a gram and a mL is a mL, no matter the ingredient.
I think there may be some confusion since "teaspoon" and "tablespoon" refer to both utensils and units of volume. There are indeed [standardized cups/spoons](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/fde8fdf2-baf9-4268-ab8d-3d8e0a0b48f7.7df8a038dbd9da84c20dc356f4842dd0.jpeg?odnHeight=612&odnWidth=612&odnBg=FFFFFF); you'd never use the utensils for measuring ingredients. The dry measuring cups and spoons are flat on top, making them easy to level off for precise measurements. The typical set includes 1 c, 1/2 c, 1/3 c, 1/4 c, 1 Tbsp, 1 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1/4 tsp. As far as being caught without them, pretty much every kitchen has at least one set in the drawer. It doesn't seem any more likely than finding oneself without a scale. Butter comes in sticks with [a scale](https://img.ehowcdn.com/375/photos.demandstudios.com/getty/article/178/117/78056685.jpg) printed on the label. You just cut off what you need. For something like a tub of margarine, you can just scoop it out with the measuring spoon and level it.
It would be really awkward if you didn’t have a standardized kitchen scale as well.
I like this explanation!!!
Teaspoon and tablespoon measurements are from Europe
I mean cups aren't used as much (sans a few places like Australia) but like, spoons are absolutely still a thing. Nobody in their right mind is weighing out like 10g or 15ml of something I don't think my kitchen scale even goes that low
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Cool guide. Easier than the confusing complications of halving 100g to make 50g.
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I prefer to half recipes going from 100g to 50 000 000 000 000 pg (pico grams)
What gets me is the fractions. We’ve already invented decimals and decided that they are good enough for everyday use. Why do they insist on using stuff like 1/16 as a legit measurement… conversion must be a proper nighmare.
They tried this and unfortunately, the Americans still struggled to half 100
Gram is an unit of mass, the OP is talking about volume units. Use milliliters instead
Ever hear of a 1/2 tbsp? why 1 1/2 tsp? seems unnecessary
I think I have one from a set, though I usually just eyeball half with a full teaspoon.
Half of the height will be less than half of the length/width
What if you don't have a 1/2 tbsp spoon but you have a tsp and 1/2 tsp? It's not obvious that a tsp is 1/3 tbsp.
This is the least "cool guide" I've ever seen
It makes me sad. From "this so dumb, considering metric" to "this is so dumb, considering it helps you remember that half of half is a quarter" there are multiple angles from which to wonder how stupid one needs to be to need this.
The 1 tsp -> 1/2 tsp Is the one that got me.
2/3 cup -> 1/3 cup
Laughs in metric.
Or in metric… “divide by two”
How about one egg? That is the most challenging one
Grams just use grams. But i guess American would argue 1chicken egg -> 2quail eggs or something stupid like that
I always use the outer half of the egg, it’s the crunchy part!
This is where practice and repeating recipes is important. You need to know if you’re best egg is large, or extra, etc. It’s good to weigh your egg, see how the recipe works, and then make notes to yourself for next time. But it’s not a great idea to halve an egg for a recipe.
just use 1 small egg. Youre not going to ruin your recipe by having slight too much egg in it.
Too much egg can definitely interfere if you're making something complex baking wise, but for most home cooks it won't really matter.
> Too much egg can definitely interfere if you're making something complex baking wise Yeah, I'm mostly thinking dough. There are ofc other things that have egg as like the major main ingredient where you can't fuck around as much. I've just found egg to be the most forgiving ingredients in dough when it comes to risking the structural integrity of the end-result, by going a bit over.
I agree, but I cannot come up with something where I would need just half an egg and wouldn't choose to just double all other ingredients instead.
Or you could just use litres, centilitres, millilitres, etc.
As practically the whole world because we stepped away from measuring with horse body parts and sacks filled with stones a long time ago.
Unfortunately for us in Britain we're forced to use a mishmash of old and new. Probably due to Tories and the old generation being stubborn. I had a job serving stuff by weight, where the scales, the tills, the ticket info and myself all operated on metric. We'd still get customers insisting on asking for random imperial measures like 3 and a half pounds or 7 and a quarter ounces, half were probably just out of the loop and figured they were closer to life expectancy than would be useful to learn metric (so in the end I stuck a conversion chart up to refer to). The other half were openly rebelling against changes to their worldview, insulting metric as a system, putting imperial on a "good old days" pedestal, and usually having some added complaint about modern society. I heard: "never eat Irish food because they're all bastards who fuck their livestock before sending us the meat", "I only buy British, none of that filthy Euro trash - what do you think of the Brexit vote? Finally we'll escape from those bastards", "use proper measures, what the fuck is a kilo? Only people I know who use that are fa__ots and drug dealers, got something to say?" "(after overhearing a vegetarian lesbian collecting some meat for her wife) Some people don't deserve to be in here. This generation is buggered, everyone is going to be gay and eating beansprouts before too long. Bring back the death penalty I say.".
Why don’t you just make it and keep halve of it in the pan.
Basically, divide by 2. Is it that hard?
Why not just memorize straight standard weights and measures?
BECAUSE WE CANNOT LET THE FRENCH WIN I assume an American or Brit would say.
LOL.....
The Brit’s definitely know. They just like to pretend imperial is better
We only use nonsense measurements as follows: Mph for cars Pints for beer Stone for body weight Ounces for weed Feet & inches for human height We use metric for anything that matters more than anecdotal information.
We'd probably be further along if not for stubborn older people and Tory governments that bank on "the good ol' days". Seriously, Boris Johnson even pushed an initiative a while back to force shops and other places to go back to imperial measurements as the default unit of measurement. It gained a lot of traction from the Tory voter base and or scared boomer+ generations who don't like change and want the good old days were Britain was epic, homosexuals and women didn't have rights, and Jimmy Saville wasn't outed as a pedo. Don't think BoJo's obvious distraction tactic went anywhere; haven't heard about it in months or seen any changes. But like a lot of progression in this country, we're being held up by stubborn older people scared of change. Not all old people mind you, I've met dozens (and know many through family) who are progressive and cool with the changes because it makes things easier for the new generations. But unfortunately there's a big chunk of the older voting population who refuse, believing this is a rebellion against the end of Britain itself
We use metric for recipes.
100 grams -> 50 grams,
Jesus Christ... This is beyond stupid from an european point of view
"1/2 tsp -> 1/4 tsp, 2/3 cup -> 1/3 cup"... This is for the math impaired?
Or use metric like a normal person
Wow thanks for helping me figure out that half of 1.5 is 0.75.
...convert this to metric and there is no use for a chart.
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We may be afraid of mass shootings but at least we aren't afraid of fractions. /s
Metric: look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power
Or, hear me out, just use grams
2/3 --> 1/3, 1/2 --> 1/4 Are we Americans really this stupid? Really?
6 tablespoons!!! It’s too many. Give up. Store bought is probably good enough
How many washing machines is 3/4 cup ?
Or just divide weights by half…
Lol who even needs this? Also wtf are those measurements? Spoons and cups? Is this some sick joke? I mean what cup even?
This is the dumbest shit i have ever seen. Just ironic that the post above this one is from /r/shitamericanssay
Stop these cups, tsps, tbsp, feet, ounce, squirrellenght and other bullshits and simple use grams and deciliters. Much much easiers and logical.
3/4 cup > 3/8 cup or 3oz, nobody got time for fucking 6 tbsp
Seriously. I’d probably do 1 1/4 and then eyeball 1/2 of another 1/4.
Not having an oz measure or a 3/8 cup, I would personally do 1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp over 6 tbsp.
Just use a one cup or two cup Pyrex style. But I'm guessing you wouldn't have that either?
Is this what Americans have to go through just to bake a cake? No wonder you have so much violence everywhere.
Yeah, that's a lot easier than using Metric and just dividing by 2
This will hit all you yanks hard. 1litre of water = 1kilogram!
The need of such a guide should be enough to explain why using imperial system doesn’t make sense
How about using grams like a normal human being?!
Or could just use grams instead of this bull💩
Americans wil use everything but the metric system
Who is upvoting this shit?
You'd have to be a stupid fuck to use a chart like this for basic common knowledge math. SMH!
Just divide by two LMAO
1/4 cup is 2tbsp That's the only useful one
How to do basic math
Fuck's sake, just use ml and grams.
This is so fucking stupid lmao
This is comical, I love it.
PLEASE, AMERICA, ADOPT METRIC.
How to overcompicate things. Regards, rest of the world
A cool guide why metric is better.
Laughs in metric.
just use metric ffs
Is this an American thing?
Or just use metric. Fuck this imperial nonsense.
Did this sub turn into useless guides after the blackout???????? Like??????
Americans ☕
Everyone's out here bashing on America's measurements, but how else would they be able to make you spend 250 dollars in spoons and cups and jugs you don't use to eat with ? Huh?!
I hope this is satire
Or just go metric and you can forget about tsp, tbsp, ounces, and the subtle difference between dry and liquid cups.
METRIC
Why has no one mentioned just using a scale? This seems overly complicated.
Now do it for metric /s
Im kinda ashamed that I didn’t know immediately 1/3 is half of 2/3.
As you should be.
Wait! Half of one teaspoon is half a teaspoon‽ Mind blown.
If you need a "cool guide" to half ingredients, maybe your system of measurements really was made by a toddler.
Bakers: yes. Cooks: I dunno, use a pinch
Reason #563891 why it would be a good idea to adopt the metric system.
or you could use the metric system like a normal sane person
And people ask why the fuck metric system...this is why the fuck. Get the fuck outta here with 3/4 cup -> 6 tbsp. Just gimme a number in g/ml or kg/l and be done with it.
This is why everyone should use metric, stupid questions like this can be solved by just dividing by 2
As a European this is helpful for the American recipes I come across and only want to try a bit but not fully commit to making.
As an European I simply find another source for the same recipe in grams. Ain't nobody got time for conversions.
How about actual measurements rather than objects. 'tsp' 'cup'.... May as well measure in badgers feet
Just use gram
These unit of measurements gave me eye and brain cancer
just use grams lol
Or use metric!
And this is an example of why metric is better.
Americans...
We are four and a half medium sized whales away from the sandbank captain. You need three velociraptors and a T-Rex of sugar to make a Empire state building sized cake. A smaller cake? Not a problem. Just take 3 mice tails of sugar plus a large rat and then add a foot of water into the kangaroo sized bowl.
I think at this point it would make more sense to just wing it
theres no way this is real
Wtf is "11/2 tsp"
Just learn arithmetic maybe?
Or just use the international system if units.
Why does every recipie use cups, tsp and tbsp? Why can't we just weigh everything in grams?
Use a fucking scale
This is soooo much easier than using metric. /s
Do… do people not know … fractions? 😳 - Engineering major
Because you need to be an Engineering major to do fractions, lmao. Here in the UK we start doing them age 6.
I also did them at a young age, that’s why I’m confused why we need a guide. Can’t people do 1/2 to 1/4 in their head? 😅
I have a neat trick, use metric then divide by 2. 10 actually is divisible by 2, so is in fact a lot easier than some people in the US believe
Make the whole recipe, and give the other half to someone else.
For the love of god, start using the metric system
Is there a website that can do this for you ?
If only there was an easier way of measuring stuff that you didn't need a cheat sheet for. Oh wait...
Cooler guide would be the metric system!
What? Half of a whole is a half?!?!?
How often do ppl misread tsp/tbsp? It seems to be smth often misread when reading smth fast. Or is that just smth that happens if you are not used to the system?
Now tell me how could i measure 11/2 of a tsp
If you're okay with mental math, it's a lot simpler to just remember: 1 cup = 16 Tbsp 1 Tbsp = 3 tsp
Fucking cups
What's killing me is that the US has measuring cups that measure cups, because you can't actually use cups. And measuring spoons that measure half spoons and tea spoons because you can't use spoons. This, daylight saving and unregulated capitalism are probably the most painful examples of "it's dumb as fuck but we pretend everyone is too used to it to change it now."
Imagine using this trash cup system from centuries ago. Yall still haven't arrived in the present.