Metric Cookies
I don’t get the American measurements? Honestly, the idea of measuring both liquids and solids in cups seems absurd, and the whole ounce vs fluid ounce doesn’t make it much clearer to me either.

Apparently they tried to implement the metric system a while back, but nobody either wanted it, or could understand it. But it’s so simple?!

Anyway, after a long time trying to find a real recipe for American Cookies, not a recipe by a non American mind you, I was delighted to find out that there is a conversion for cups. Karissa and Spenser kindly informed me that you convert 1 cup to roughly 8oz and one ounce is roughly 28 grams, therefore, 1 cup is 224 grams.

Using cups to measure out weights doesn’t seem a very good idea to me, my only guess is that American recipes that use cups don’t measure out weight, but rather volume. Coming from the Uk, where only fluids are measured in volume this seems very bizarre. And, to make things even weirder, through more research I have found that a UK fluid ounce is different to a US fluid ounce! ARGH. Use the metric system already?!

source: http://www.apatheticrant.com/comic/metric/