Cookbook:Measuring

In following recipes it is essential that you have the means to make exact measurements. There are two common systems of measurement, imperial and metric. In the US the imperial system is common. In most of the rest of the world metric is more common. Unfortunately, there appears to be no trend for the US to follow the rest of the world and go metric. It is a simple calculation to go from one measurement to another though if the recipes you use are as likely to be in imperial as in metric then it is probably easier and more accurate to have set of measuring spoons and cups of each system.