2026-09-25 18:44 UTC
@Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @kibcol1049@mstdn.social
Our tablespoons and teaspoons in the UK used to be a standard size so those were used in measuring for baking.
They stopped being a standard some years ago as companies saved money by shrinking them. So now you have to pay for measuring spoons.
Most cups used for baking/cooking were also a similar size. So a recipe might want 2 cups of flour or 2 tablespoons of spice.
Most USA baking recipes are still using cups and spoon measures instead of weight, but the smaller sizes not UK/imperial.
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@kibcol1049@mstdn.social 2026-09-25 19:40
@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot Interesting. Thanks for that.
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@confusedMiddleAgedDad@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 11:53
@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk @Fasgadh@mastodon.scot @kibcol1049@mstdn.social apparently at one point UK was going to be fully metric by 1975. My 'conspiracy theory' is that we stopped selling petrol in gallons when the pounds per gallon number got too high for people to accept. Although of course we still use mpg. Heights and weights and temperatures in non metric are gradually disappearing, hospitals generally have stopped giving baby weights in pounds, which helps. Yards are used for rough distance communication interchangeably with metres