The only thing measured in grams in the US is cannabis.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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And bullets are measured in millimeters
It depends. Ones designed in other countries, yes. But if the bullet was designed in the USA, it is measured in inches like .45 ACP or .223 Remington
TIL that .223 Remington and 5.56x45mm NATO are very similar but not identical cartridges. Weird!
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I think most medicines are measured in grams over there too (500mg for acetaminophen / paracetamol). And Cocaine.
Medicine is in metric except for the entire bottle of liquid medicine. How many 30ml doses are in an 8oz bottle of nyquil?
We have 2 liter bottles of coke, but also 16oz if you just want to drink now.
Don't ask about cooking measurements we don't get it either and everyone who questions it turns into flour within the week.
Britain is weird too.
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It's actually sold in ounces. And grammes. My local head shop does that.
In Russia, cannabis was measured in "matchboxes" (around the amount that gets in to a small ziploc) and "glasses", where glass is a 220ml glass Russians drink vodka from in the movies.
So it goes full circle when you start measuring cannabis in glasses, sounds really American!
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Just put 1/3 football fields of flour and 1/12 Empire State Buildings of salt and exactly 2 1/4 tsp of yeast (no more, no less)
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Oh my god another country calls things different words! How outrageous of them!
That doesn't stop it from being annoying. I'm not blaming American recipes.
The idea of spices is a foreign concept to them
I get the rocket and coriander ones, also the units of measurement but what do you call a bell pepper? (Also how do you differentiate dried cilantro seed powder from the fresh herb? I like to know if I should be using a spice or the fresh plant)
what do you call a bell pepper
Paprika.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pepper#Nomenclature
It's very well documented.
Rocket????
Cilantro is the herb, coriander (seed) is the spice/dried powder. Often you can tell by what you are making and how it's being used/added, but typically they are differentiated as above in American recipes.
Genuinely confused as well about the pepper, a bell pepper is a pretty universal name for it as far as I knew. Folks also refer to them as green/yellow/red peppers here, or sweet peppers occasionally (usually when used in Italian food), but bell pepper is the generic name.
In a whole load of languages, you call bell pepper paprika. If you just say "pepper" to me, that's usually black pepper in particular. If you say chilli pepper, that means a spicy variant of the capsicum genus. A non-spicy capsicum genus member? That's a paprika.
There's no name to put in front of "pepper" in my language that would make it refer to paprika.
That said, in English, it's apparently almost always something something pepper. Or capsicum. Or apparently according to Wikipedia, in the American mid-west, mango???????
Can confirm; I heard at least one person in central Ohio call bell peppers "mangos" when I was growing up. I have no idea where they got that from.
In English, paprika usually refers to a spice made from peppers. I don't know the history of it, but I assume it's a translation issue that led to the two words referring to essentially the same thing.
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Cilantro is the herb, coriander (seed) is the spice/dried powder.
That's very much an NA thing. US mostly, but also sometimes in Canada. Coriander is name of the plant.
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Wait till you learn that pre metric Canadian measurements use the same terms but are different.
What do you guys call bell peppers?
please don't use google. There are plenty of good search engines that aren't evil.
Not my picture.
TIL other countries are too dumb for measuring cups...lmfao
Opinion discarded due to coming from a country that elected a felon dictator and an immigrant african nazi to stage a coup. After they failed at a coup during their last term.
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I just want to know if you are cooking using European recipes are you constantly weighing every ingredient out into a separate dish or just get used to estimating "This much butter is about X grams"? I'd go nuts if I had to sit there carefully weighing out everything instead of just going "1 tablespoon, done".
You literally put a bowl on scale and add to it the semi correct number of grams. Or alternatively put the package on scale and remove until scale shows correct number of negative grams.
Same with liquids since 1g = 1ml roughly. It couldn't be easier. Also some packages eg butter have gram measuring lines written on them. Most of the time you don't even use it unless it's baking or fermenting or anything else where its hard to do it by feel.
Nobody* is complaining about table spoons or tea spoons but cups are a stupid unit of measurement because cups come in all kinds of sizes
For butter specifically: a block of butter is usually 250g in Germany so if the recipe says 50g butter I'd eyeball 20% of it
*Maybe some are
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This is how we tell how much butter we get
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