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What's your secret ingredient that makes your version of a common dish better than anyone else's? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine probably isn't that secret these days, but almost every sauce I add nutritional yeast to. Curry, chilli, bolognese, it just makes them all better.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It is a “real fucking measurement,” just not one you use. 1 US teaspoon is approximately 5 ml.

I recognize that US measurements are stupid and don’t make any sense to those who don’t use them, i.e. the entire rest of the world, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t real measurements.

Don’t get me wrong, I totally wish I didn’t have to have a chart giving me conversions between teaspoons, tablespoons, and cups on my fridge, but recipes in the US are all in our dumb measurements so it’s what we’re used to. I also wish everything would be measured by weight instead of volume, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

A (1) teaspoon might be used as a measurement. 1/32 of a Teaspoon is asinine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Admittedly, yeah. Technically in the US’s stupid system that should be “a half pinch.”

A pinch being 1/16 teaspoon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol, of course they have a name for it