Comments on: A Matter of Weight http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/ Kieran Murphy's blog - all about making, eating, pondering about and enjoying sweet things by a chocoholic Irish ice cream man (Murphys Ice Cream) living in Dingle, Ireland. (Please ask if you wish to use text or images. Copyright (c) Kieran Murphy 2007) Fri, 17 May 2013 11:45:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dawn http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-28116 Dawn Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:04:21 +0000 http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/#comment-28116 Am never going to use metric. Am never going to use metric.

]]> By: Kieran http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-27672 Kieran Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:26:11 +0000 http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/#comment-27672 Brian - You can use ounces just as easily. (Note that the old fashioned scale I have has ounces...) I was born in NY, so I'm well aware of the love for the old gallon... Brian – You can use ounces just as easily. (Note that the old fashioned scale I have has ounces…) I was born in NY, so I’m well aware of the love for the old gallon…

]]> By: Annette http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-27670 Annette Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:23:09 +0000 http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/#comment-27670 Excellent tip. i've been wondering why my brownies keep coming out different every time, Excellent tip. i’ve been wondering why my brownies keep coming out different every time,

]]> By: brian http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/comment-page-1/#comment-27655 brian Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:06:38 +0000 http://icecreamireland.com/2007/12/30/a-matter-of-weight/#comment-27655 Hi Kieran, I'm eagerly awaiting a recipe from a Dutch neighbor for some cookies she made that I loved. She warned me that the measurements were by weight, and I figured I would just convert them to volumetric measurements. In the states, outside of a cooking school, I think measuring ingredients by weight is, well, foreign. It makes total sense, given all the different ways you can scoop flour or pack brown sugar. For chocolate recipes, they go by weight for chocolate, but butter comes in 1/2 cup "cubes" so it's easy to measure out. You bring up a lot of great points to why weight is superior measurement, but I'm betting we yanks will need to drop the gallon in favor of liters for petrol before the kitchen is even considered for metric and measurement by weight. Hi Kieran, I’m eagerly awaiting a recipe from a Dutch neighbor for some cookies she made that I loved. She warned me that the measurements were by weight, and I figured I would just convert them to volumetric measurements. In the states, outside of a cooking school, I think measuring ingredients by weight is, well, foreign.

It makes total sense, given all the different ways you can scoop flour or pack brown sugar. For chocolate recipes, they go by weight for chocolate, but butter comes in 1/2 cup “cubes” so it’s easy to measure out.

You bring up a lot of great points to why weight is superior measurement, but I’m betting we yanks will need to drop the gallon in favor of liters for petrol before the kitchen is even considered for metric and measurement by weight.

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