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No, in the imperial system they're based on proportions. In the metric system they're based on multiplying or dividing actual weights.
by Someone1234 9mo ago
No, in the imperial system they're based on proportions. In the metric system they're based on multiplying or dividing actual weights.
- rngfnby 9mo agoPlease use "volumetric" units and "mass" units. Your argument is otherwise hard to follow since presumably Europeans scale recipes too. Anyway, it's not really an issue.
- strken 9mo agoI think the argument is that commercial recipes in the US are written in proportional notation, e.g. 1:2:3 sourdough, but recipes in countries which use metric give units, e.g. 1kg:2L:3kg. I also note that if you add small proportions of an ingredient, e.g. salt, it might be easier to change units in metric (5g salt) while it would be easier to write proportionally in imperial (0.005 parts salt) if you were then going to scale to to a tonne/ton of dough. I have no idea if this is true but it sounds like a coherent argument that isn't just volumetric vs mass units.