Re: OT: we quaint Brits (was: those irregular prepositions)

"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

>And while the chef in the fancy restaurant downtown no doubt weighs
>his dry ingredients,your typical home cook uses volumetric measure
>instead (and that, of course, in the pre-metric English system).
I presume the Great Britain has cooking shows on TV.  I was watching
one the other day here in the USA and saw the chef pour an ingredient
into the palm of her hand.  She said, "That looks like a third of a
cup," and dumped it into the bowl.  So much for accurate measuring.

But I do believe that when one has been cooking long enough, once gets
a feel for measurements.

Charlie