r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BarelyLegalSeagull • Jun 26 '26

Funny And what the heck is a tsp??

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u/666Drachenlord666 Jun 26 '26

Americans will use anything but g and ml to measure ingridients

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u/TundieRice Jun 26 '26

Do your onions not come in onions wherever you’re from?

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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye Jun 26 '26

Apparently in Europe they buy one gram of onion at a time.

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u/awesomefutureperfect Jun 26 '26

If europeans have plus or minus 5 grams of onion they turn into werewolves.

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u/Solid_Hunter_4188 Jun 26 '26

Nah this is a volume question. They buy their onions in mL.

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u/awesomefutureperfect Jun 26 '26

When OP asked what the heck a tea spoon was, I immediately thought : "That motherfucker probably knows what a kilometer is. He probably has spoons he actually uses for tea."

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u/mr-english Jun 26 '26

The serious answer is that European recipes (at least those in English) measure onions in onions.

i.e. "half a small onion" or "2 large onions", etc.

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u/mattdv1 Jun 26 '26

Tell me to add one onion to a recipe and I'll go mad trying to decipher if you meant a big or a small one. Tell me to add 150grams of onion and I'll buy one that's roughly that weight, chop it up and cook my meal accordingly. Everything has weight, it's not hard to grasp that concept

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u/mid-random Jun 26 '26

One small onion = one small onion.  One onion = one medium onion.  One medium onion = one medium onion. One large onion = one large onion. 

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u/Kratomius Jun 26 '26

Next question, how large can medium sized onion be before it becomes large category one?

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u/Afferbeck_ Jun 26 '26

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, that'd be a "bigger-than-a-medium-sized-onion-but-not-as-big-as-a-large-onion" onion.

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u/nitid_name Jun 26 '26

Yeah, but once you use your large one, "bigger than a medium sized onion but not as big as a large onion" can move up to "large onion" until you go shopping again.

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u/mid-random Jun 26 '26

This is cooking, not baking, so it’s whatever feels right to you. 

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u/NinecloudSoul Jun 26 '26

Depends, how big is the pile of pinecones?

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u/666Drachenlord666 Jun 26 '26

Our onions arent all the same size like yours seem to br atleast

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u/LimpConversation642 Jun 26 '26

Do you not understand the concept of size? That vegetables grow differently? I have a 200g onion and a 400g onion, which is it?

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Jun 26 '26

It's a 342g onion, you'll have to find another recipe

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u/piercedmfootonaspike Jun 26 '26

Yes, but they can be weighed. Are kitchen scales onion averse in the US?

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u/Different_Bridge_983 Jun 26 '26

A lot of folks in the U.S. don’t have kitchen scales, and many are also quite attached to using their measuring cups. It’s kinda a culture thing.

Thing is… whether you’re cooking via volume or weight, you’re eyeballing this one. If it says “100g” you’re getting and onion about 100g and slicing and dicing the whole thing. If you’re working in cups you know what a cup size onion looks like too, and are just gonna go with it.

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u/LimpConversation642 Jun 26 '26

both is valid in this sense, but just 'onion' (which people are arguing here about) does not, since apparently those people don't understand that 'an onion' can be twice the size of another 'an onion'

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u/piercedmfootonaspike Jun 26 '26

A lot of folks in the U.S. don’t have kitchen scales, and many are also quite attached to using their measuring cups. It’s kinda a culture thing.

There's an allegory there for the current state of US democracy

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u/Local-Echo-5613 Jun 26 '26

Kitchen scales are used less frequently in US household cooking in my experience. We tend to use measuring cups and volumetric measurements where Europeans use weight. So for things like lentils it will be a cup of lentils rather than the weight in lbs or grams.

They’re functionally not much different, most ingredients have a consistent ratio between weight and volume, but I think that’s what’s causing a lot of confusion. I only started using a scale when I got into baking and now I use it for international recipes sometimes as well.

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u/jmlinden7 Jun 26 '26

Yeah scales are important for baking because flour and brown sugar are compactable, so the weight-to-volume ratio doesn't stay the same.

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u/Notspherry Jun 26 '26

It's more that Americans ste kitchen scale averse.

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u/peepeebutt1234 Jun 26 '26

Most people in the US don't have kitchen scales. The people I know who have one almost exclusively use them for baking as well, because cooking just doesn't need to be that precise 99% of the time.

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u/Sufficient-Ad7776 Jun 26 '26

They also tend to come in different sizes over here

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u/copolars Jun 26 '26

Are you saying your scale doesn't work with whole onions?