Why do Americans measure everything in cups? - eviltoast

Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?

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    9 months ago

    Salt tends to be used in such small quantities that you’ll get much larger errors on the typical kitchen scale than with measuring spoons.