Jim Holsenback wrote:

> haha .... should have googled imperial cup before my reply ..... it comes 
> back with a wiki-pedia entry. So I guess my units are imperial cup!

True story:

My mum bought one of those bread maker machines. (Why?) You know the 
kind - you dump some flour and water and stuff into it, press a button 
like it's a washing machine, and a few hours later it has delicious 
fresh bread inside it.

Except when my mum first tried to work it for herself, all it produced 
was a blackened little biscuit at the bottom. She couldn't figure out 
what on earth the problem could be. So I had to diagnose it. [Obviously 
I'm good with computers, so I'd know all about baking bread. Wait... WTF??]

Anyway, I managed to chizel a few crumbs out of the bottom of this 
machine and taste them. Have you ever tried eating salt grains? That is 
exactly what this tasted like.

"Jesus women, how much salt did you put in this thing?!"

"Half a table spoon like it says."

"No no - half a *tea* spoon!!"

Lord above, half a tablespoon of salt in a lump of dough that fits in 
one hand? No wonder it went wrong - the yeast is dead, and the machine 
blindly baked the inrisen dough to a concrete lump!

Blithering idiot. Even *I* know the difference between a teaspoon and a 
tablespoon - and I wasn't raised 50 years ago when such measures were 
commonplace! o_O

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