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and inconsistently labeled units
Or everything is in cups.
It's either that or I have to make little piles of dry ingredients on my table and it makes a huge mess.
Or giving units by weight.
I understand it's more convenient if you have a kitchen scale because you can put everything in the same container, but not all of us has a kitchen scale and converting multiple ingredients from weight to volume is damn near impossible.
Why cups, tbsp, and tsp though. Use ml and mg
because those are common physical units people have at home, especially tablespoons and teaspoons are basically universal and have clearly defined ml conversions anyways.
That makes sense if you like numbers that are easy to multiply and divide, but it depends on region. Some people aren't familiar with metric, and the recipes they write probably don't use it. In all likelihood, recipes you find in imperial units were likely written by an american.
The volume vs. weight thing though, that transcends region or systems of measurement. It assumes everyone has a kitchen scale, when most non-professionals have volumetric measuring supplies which are typically way cheaper
Cheap kitchen scales are $10-20 and are accurate enough for cookies. I'm not suggesting that volumetric measurements should go away, but you will find that cooking or baking by weight is much more reproducible than by volume.
Ai will help you ;)