[quote=“stefanjones, post:5, topic:14850, full:true”]But seriously. Except for big solid things, like chunks of meat and mass quantities of vegetables (before processing), cooking measures in the U.S. are by volume. [/quote]I noticed that the butter is measured in tbspoons.
What kind of tbspoons? I can understand sirup being measured by a spoon, but how do you do that with butter? At the very least the density of the butter doesn’t change depending of how you mesure it, unlike flour.
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The tricky bit are the spoons, and spoons-to-cup measures. Teaspoon, tablespoon, etcetera.[/quote]Yes … cups. There is Metric cup, USA customary cup, USA legal cup, imperial cup, Japanese cup and a few others 
Quote from Wikipedia Measuring cup - Wikipedia
For example, 1 cup of all-purpose flour sifted into a cup and leveled weighs about 100 grams, whereas 1 cup of all-purpose flour scooped from its container and leveled weighs about 140 grams.
