> "cup" is a terrible terrible unit that needs to die
Yes. Or more to the point, all of them are; not least because of the existence of all the others.
I know it's rarely going to actually matter that much even when I try to follow a recipe (which to the letter and quantity at least, I generally don't) whether '1 cup' is US legal, Imperial (UK but not common), metric, Canadian, US customary, or any of the other country variations, but it's still infuriating!
I resisted owning any at all for a long time, but eventually gave in thinking it would be a handy way of having volumetric 1:1 ratios if nothing else (e.g. as much tomato as onion) and double as 'a cup' for following American recipes. But which 'cup' did I get? (Bought in the UK.) Nuts. I then realised I already had cup marks on a glass measure (that I'd only used ex ante for millilitres, like a sane person) - sure enough, different 'cup'.
Well, since the recipes you wanted to use were using volumetric ratios then it doesn't matter what size cup you use… until you have something like tsp or tbsp in the recipe, which are more standard (although, because I wrote it I thought I'd check and it turns out that Australian tablespoons are 25% bigger than UK/US/CA's!)
For some recipes those kind of measures are helpful though, so I wouldn't get rid of them. I'll always have a cup handy (a British cup is, handily, the same amount most people would make for a nice cup of tea:) but I won't always have scales.
Yes. Or more to the point, all of them are; not least because of the existence of all the others.
I know it's rarely going to actually matter that much even when I try to follow a recipe (which to the letter and quantity at least, I generally don't) whether '1 cup' is US legal, Imperial (UK but not common), metric, Canadian, US customary, or any of the other country variations, but it's still infuriating!
I resisted owning any at all for a long time, but eventually gave in thinking it would be a handy way of having volumetric 1:1 ratios if nothing else (e.g. as much tomato as onion) and double as 'a cup' for following American recipes. But which 'cup' did I get? (Bought in the UK.) Nuts. I then realised I already had cup marks on a glass measure (that I'd only used ex ante for millilitres, like a sane person) - sure enough, different 'cup'.