In the US, I would say relatively rare. It would almost require some special
interest, portion control for diabetes or weigh loss, interest in cooking
"foreign" recipes, etc. If the household has one, it is likely to be a spring
type, and moderate capacity to determine cooking times for large cuts of meat,
roasts, turkeys, etc.
My current preferred scale is 4 kg x 0.5 g, but I have some older ones. I do
not have one suitable for small amounts of ingredients; salt, spices, etc. have
to be measured by volume. Like all Americans, I also have an adequate supply
of measuring cups and spoons.
From: Martin Vlietstra <vliets...@btinternet.com>
To: 'Pierre Abbat' <p...@bezitopo.org>; 'U.S. Metric Association'
<usma@colostate.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 3:42 AM
Subject: [USMA 234] Re: How common are kitchen scales?
In the UK, you can expect most households to have a kitchen scale. All recipes
here are in metric units, some with imperial units in brackets. For example,
see a typical recipe in the Daily Mail at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-91187/Recipes-day-three.html. The
Daily Mail is the most anti-metric of the British newspapers ()
-----Original Message-----
From: USMA [mailto:usma-boun...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat
Sent: 12 July 2016 02:42
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA 226] How common are kitchen scales?
I recently got the book Healthy 4 Life from the WAPF. Besides nutritional
advice, it is full of recipes, almost all of which use cups or spoons as units.
I'm thinking of asking them to provide the equivalent mass in grams of all
ingredients. The mass, however, is no use without a scale. If I picked a
household at random from (the USA/the Anglophony/Europe/...), how likely is it
to have a kitchen scale, and with what precision? I have two: a gram scale
which I use to weigh things in a pot, and a decigram scale which I use to weigh
rice, salt, wakame, and other things in a small container.
Pierre
--
The gostak pelled at the fostin lutt for darfs for her martle plave.
The darfs had smibbed, the lutt was thale, and the pilter had nothing snave.
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