Éire / Ireland

Don't forget the 1/137th of a blue whale of water.

Paprikas

Peppers.

Capsicums

And bullets are measured in millimeters

Cups are ~235ml regardless of wet or dry. They are one of the sane-er measurements

You may be confusing your frustration with the ounce, which may refer to:

• avoirdupois ounce, used for mass in most cases
• Troy ounce, used for mass when referring to precious metals
• the imperial fluid ounce, used for volume sometimes
• the us customary fluid ounce, used for volume sometimes
• the us food labelling ounce, used for volume like the customary fluid ounce, but rounded to a nice number of milliliters

You literally put a bowl on scale and add to it the semi correct number of grams. Or alternatively put the package on scale and remove until scale shows correct number of negative grams.

Same with liquids since 1g = 1ml roughly. It couldn't be easier. Also some packages eg butter have gram measuring lines written on them. Most of the time you don't even use it unless it's baking or fermenting or anything else where its hard to do it by feel.

This is how we tell how much butter we get

Nobody* is complaining about table spoons or tea spoons but cups are a stupid unit of measurement because cups come in all kinds of sizes

For butter specifically: a block of butter is usually 250g in Germany so if the recipe says 50g butter I'd eyeball 20% of it

*Maybe some are

Usually, you put the bowl on the scale and throw everything in and tara inbetween each ingredient.

Why would you have to carefully weigh anything? Butter doesn't really need to be measured, just eyeball it and go from there.

In the U.S., butter is sold in sticks of half cup/4 fl oz/8 tbsp by volume, but it's basically fine to think of them as little 100g portions too. Tolerances for cooking are pretty high, and people aren't that precise at cutting off whatever portion they need.

If you're baking, there needs to be a bit more precision, but that precision matters whether you're measuring by weight or volume, or imperial versus metric. Plus, a lot of baking can be done by feel when you have experience anyway.

Just go and do. Cooking is fun. Some people like to measure, and some don't. It all works, though, as all the different styles still converge on the principle that making tasty food for yourself and loved ones is a pretty universal experience.

Tablespons are used to measure stuff here. Butter has a little diagram/ruler at the side that shows how much the piece you're cutting off weighs.