Well then you've lost the whole advantage of base 10. You're buying 2L or 4L containers and dividing them up into 250ml increments, having to do divisions of 8 or 16 like some common imperial peasant, only you're doing it with numbers that have no real relationship with your daily life. I mean, ultimately it's all arbitrary anyway. But when someone says use 2 cups, that's 2 scoops, which seems better to me than having to know that 500ml is 2 scoops.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have 1l milk and 1kg flour. My recipe wants ⅜ liter milk and 150g flour. 375ml is a bit odd but trivial ultimately, and very easy to measure when I just pour 375g into my blender on a scale.
Now how would imperial cups deal with 150g from 1kg?
I also have 45g oil, what odd measurements would that give when you try to divide it up without a single decimal number?
Try 24g suggar.

I'd love to see all that converted to imperial.

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Our recipes rarely use weights except for maybe meats. We've got a scale in my kitchen but it hasn't been touched in a while.

The ratios of ingredients matter more than the exact values so for the recipe you're talking about, it'd be like 2 cups of milk, 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup of oil, 1/8 cup of sugar (or 2 tablespoons, which is a pretty common size so most people probably have a scoop for that).