I know I don't cook much, but it did surprise me that it took well over 3 1/2 years for me to learn that (some) Australians actually use scales to measure their ingredients. I was absolutely floored. My friend asked me to measure out a few ingredients for a dessert and I hastily peered around for some measuring cups. Finding none, it dawned on me that I was intended to use the scale. (Obviously all the measurements are in grams -- although I hasten to add that my flatmate most definitely has measuring cups that are actually fractions of cups.) And so, for the first time in my life, I helped to bake using a scale. Isn't that quaint?
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We have a less sturdy version of kitchen scales like that (as opposed to snazzy new digital scales). Sometimes there are odd recipes that use both weights and 'cups' and 'spoons'. Sometimes I wonder if I ever cooked those things before we acquired the scales.
Oh, and the kitchen scales come in handy for measuring the weight of a parcel / heavy letter to see if it will fit in the letter category versus the parcel category, or even for working out if the postage will require 2 stamps or 3 (large letter, weight).
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