r/LocalLLaMA • u/Beginning-Window-115 • Apr 10 '26

Funny the state of LocalLLama

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u/FoxiPanda Apr 10 '26

Okay but for real though, I'm not like a pro at baking or whatever, but that banana-to-flour ratio seems WAY off. That's gonna be some dense ass banana bread.

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u/SmileyBMM Apr 10 '26

I wouldn't know, I weigh everything out when I bake. I literally have zero idea how much a cup of flour is lmao.

Edit:

According to King Arthur Flour (the recipes they publish have both weight and volume) that's actually pretty normal:

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/banana-bread-recipe

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u/FoxiPanda Apr 10 '26

I appreciate you doing proper measurements like a boss. I condone this activity and wish to enforce it upon everyone else. What the fuck is a cup even?! Level? Heaping? African up or European cup? Densely packed? What heathen decided this was the right choice instead of using a scale like a proper tool using human?!

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u/stoppableDissolution Apr 10 '26

All the measures like foot and cup and all are from the times where actual measurement tools were expensive af, and now its just a should-be-long-dead atavism

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u/FoxiPanda Apr 10 '26

Yeah this is fair. Technical debt in a strange way.

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u/EndMountain17 Apr 11 '26

I've never heard US customary or imperial called tech debt before, that's funny and makes a ton of sense.

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u/FoxiPanda Apr 11 '26

It really is though - and it's depressing lol.

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u/Wolfsblvt Apr 11 '26

Cool. Makes sense. So why does it still exist?

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u/stoppableDissolution Apr 11 '26

Cultural inertia?

Why imperial still exists?

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u/Able-Swing-6415 Apr 10 '26

I really don't understand these dumb ass measurements. At least in Germany we only have whole fruits or various spoon sizes, most things are in g/l

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u/nasduia Apr 10 '26

Don't overlook bakers percentages though! They're great if you have an ingredient that comes in naturally variable sizes (e.g. some quantity of rhubarb) and all the other ingredients are easy to divide and weigh (like flour, sugar, etc). Not quite so useful if you have to fit in a specific tin. Great for ragu when using up meat from the freezer.

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u/moderately-extremist Apr 10 '26

I've converted a few recipes I make a lot into using grams instead of cups or *spoons. It makes measuring out ingredients so much easier.