*snickers*

[conuly]

You brits...

How do you boil water? I'm reminded of the classic complaint "he doesn't even know how to boil water". *grins some more at the silliness*

Although, honestly, I hope youse guys never lose power over there. You'd be helpless. Apparently.

Edit: Actually, this reminds me of the time I slept over at Lizziey's and made pancakes. All the time, Kassondra (whose name I never can spell) was going on and on about not having pancake mix and I was just grabbing the flour and salt and baking soda and whatnot.

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[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

My scales were less than $2, and they're not swishy or interesting or anything, but they work.

Weights are universal- a gram is a gram wherever you are. This is what's confusing about cups, because I have many different sized cups and have yet to find any properly-standadised measuring type things.

[conuly]

This is what's confusing about cups, because I have many different sized cups and have yet to find any properly-standadised measuring type things.

*giggles*

You need to buy a measuring cup. Hold on, I'll find a link.

[conuly]

A measuring cup.
A set of larger measuring spoons.
A smaller set of measuring spoons.

It's completely standardized - one cup is always the same size. A tablespoon is always three teaspoons, 16 tablespoons will always make one cup. A stick of butter is always one quarter pound (eight tablespoons).

[marveen.livejournal.com]

conuly already told you about standardization, so I'll restrict myself to the WTF about the scales.

Two dollars? Are you sure that's not a typo? My mother has kitchen scales that I thought were pleasingly inexpensive, and they were $14, fourteen dollars, plus tax.

King Arthur Flour carries a rather pricy model: http://shop.bakerscatalogue.com/items/catC82subC148.html .

[conuly]

Well, I suspect it's the same thing with the electric kettles. Over there, they seem to be fairly cheap (judging by the comments on the post) because they're used by everyone. Here, they're only used by real afficionados, so they're expensive.

Over there, everybody uses scales. They're cheap. Here, it's only serious cooks who use scales. They're expensive.

[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

I can't show you the model I've got since the company has a very unhelpful website (Asda, the cheapest UK supermarket, owned by WalMart), but these (http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&referredURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.argos.co.uk%2Fwebapp%2Fwcs%2Fstores%2Fservlet%2FSearch%3FstoreId%3D10001&referrer=FG13P&searchTerms=8400987&params=P12462) are terribly inexpensive.