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To be fair even in europe we use cups and spoons while cooking, tho they are standardized to millilitres. Its mainly because when measuring from 1-10ml it would be really hard to give weight.
As a European, I rarely see "cups" or other imperial measurement except in recipes that were originally from the UK or the US. Spoons are common, yes, especially for the small volumes you refer to. But the overwhelming majority of measurements are a mix of 1) metric, 2) spoons, and 3) absolute quantities like "zest of 1 lemon" and don't include any imperial measurements.
I mean yeah thats true, its almost always a mix of the three but that also means we use cups and spoons just not exclusively.
In ukraine, cups and spoons are not standartized. I have like 10 sets of small and medium spoons, and each has different volume. But at least i have a measurement cups and spoons specifically for cooking.
I figured that's what they meant when they said "cups and spoons" as in the measurement of "cup" and "tablespoon/teaspoon" measurements. Not that literally all cups and spoons are the same size.
You find those in grandma's recipes. They aren't actually used by anyone cooking seriously.
What exactly do you mean by "seriously"? For me it is easy to remember how many spoons or cups i need to cook something, if the recipe does not require specific or precise amount of ingridients.
Okay but i dont think people cooking seriously use it in the us or canada either. Also depends on what serious is. I think this mainly refers to people cooking just in general and in that case many recipies are gonna contain cups and spoons. Especially here in sweden for example.
Anyone cooking seriously doesn't do it in a lab.