cube_drone, 3 months ago

@ainmosni

volume or weight measurements for onion are kind of silly, some of the best recipes I've ever encountered call for "one onion" or "half an onion" which is a perfectly cromulent measurement

ainmosni, 3 months ago

@cube_drone Except onions vary pretty greatly in size. I have onions, where half is still bigger than 2 smaller ones combined.

cube_drone, 3 months ago

@ainmosni
yes, I know,

but onion is super forgiving

little too much onion in a recipe? fine
little not enough onion in a recipe? fine

which is why "one onion" is pretty much always a valid measurement: every amount of onion you could add to the recipe along the whole spectrum from racquetball to softball will probably be okay

I've also seen recipes that call for "4 to 14 cloves of garlic" for similar reasons

ainmosni, 3 months ago

@cube_drone

I won't disagree, but I know some people I lived with who would.

But the onion was just an example, my frustration goes for almost everything that's not a liquid.

Just give me the weight measurements please.

humpy, 3 months ago

@ainmosni there is a special place in hell for recipe writers that specify glucose, honey or golden syrup in volumetric units.

ainmosni, 3 months ago

@humpy

"You need to have a 1:1 ratio between your Sugar and your water" and then never saying if they mean by volume or weight.

rgs, 3 months ago

@ainmosni Hah "solids". I've seen recipes using cups for flour. Nonsense.

ainmosni, 3 months ago

@rgs

Hey, I consider flour a solid. And yes, cups of flour is insanity.

Only time cups or ml makes sense is if you're dealing with water (which is interchangeable with weight anyway) or other fluids.

rgs, 3 months ago

@ainmosni Flour is compressible, unlike proper solids. Or liquids, for that matter.

ainmosni, 3 months ago

@rgs

Fair point, although other solids vary in density as well.

Also, with some effort you can compress almost every solid. :P