Why recipes measure ginger in thumbs, and nobody has a good answer
Original headline: Why do we measure root ginger in ‘thumbs’ and centimetres rather than weight? | Kitchen aide
What happened
A reader asked why recipes give ginger in thumbs or centimetres instead of weight. Guardian food writers, including Felicity Cloake, admitted it's mostly convention and that precision rarely matters.
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