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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Biased as I am, if for nothing else, metric uses a decimal base, which facilitates converting between scale units by shifting the point. The representation by fractions used in the imperial system is not that straighforward.

But I wasn't even considering that in my comment. The point was what you ilustrated very well in you comment: measuring dry ingredients by volume can and will cause deviation in the end result.

I can't fathom what "one cup, hard packed" means. What if I'm stronger than the original author of the recipe and pack it harder or my dry is coarser or has a different moisture content?

But I can easily understand what half a pound, half and one quarter, etc, precisely requests, although I prefer to have it expressed in metric units as 1lb = 453g, so 1 and 1/2lb is 679,5g, out of personal preference.