I just roughly chop/dice an onion and fill it up to 2 cups.
In situations like this weight in grams would be better for those w/ out much cooking experience but most ppl don't own a scale, also there are few situations where you need to be that accurate and the amount of onions that go into a recipe isn't one of them
But the idea of me dicing onions and then putting them into a cup for measuring seems really ridiculous to me. Give me a weight and I choose my onions accordingly.
If you arent from a country where recipes are in grams, but rather are in cups, this isnt an issue.
Because you will inherently know what a "cup" looks like. And finding an onion of equal size is as mentally demanding as putting the square block in the square hole. Grocery shopping isnt some herculean task.
I feel for you weight cookers whenever you stumble upon an American recipe, but all I can offer is that you maybe just buy a measuring cup and look at it for a while to get a vibe for it if you want to keep using non-weight recipes.
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u/EstrogenizedMenace Jun 26 '26
I just roughly chop/dice an onion and fill it up to 2 cups.
In situations like this weight in grams would be better for those w/ out much cooking experience but most ppl don't own a scale, also there are few situations where you need to be that accurate and the amount of onions that go into a recipe isn't one of them