#measurements

In highly precise recipes like baking and especially pastry: Eggs should be volumetric.

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If an Australian recipe calls for 6 Large Eggs (52g), and you are in the EU and use eggs marked as Large at the grocery store (63g), you will be putting in 7.27 eggs worth into the recipe.

That's more than an entire extra egg! And if you factor in the ranges from the second image then that could go up to 8.76 eggs!

That's like. A difference of anywhere from 21% to 46% in the amount of egg you're using!

For example:

if someone says an object weighs 10 pounds, do you have a sense of how heavy that is?

If someone says an area is 2ft by 8ft, do you have a sense of how big that is?

If someone says they're 3 miles away, do you have a sense of how long it will take them to arrive?

If someone asks how many people were at an event, can you easily estimate a number?

(Or whatever units you're most accustomed to. Assume the person asking the question uses the units you're used to.)

Anon is autistic and struggles with this, and they assume it's related.

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