Will baking recipes ever convert to grams? Baking is precise, why can't recipes come in grams rather than standard measurements?

Key word is "standard". Metric is NOT standard

1. Measure a cup of every dry ingredient you use (measure teaspoons of salt, baking powder, etc.

2. Weigh each in grams.

3. Write it down; do the math for half cup, quarter cup, etc.

4. Whenever you make something, write it right into the book.

Since you read English, you at least have available all current (and many past, revised) recipes published in the UK and in Canada. Have a look at baking recipes from those countries. And if you have other languages, look to their cookbooks and websites for more good ideas and Metric weights.

Because people are stubborn. I will swear on my life to people that switching to grams will make baking easier for them and they will stick their tongue out at me and say "over my dead body"...and then they will complain that baking is hard.

Here in the States? In my lifetime? Probably not.

There was a failed effort to convert to the metric system in the Seventies. A lot of commercial industries pushed back hard (manufacturing, construction, etc.).

The rest of the world has gone metric long ago. Basically only 5% of the world's cooks use Imperial measurements: North America. The rest of the world (about 6.9 billion people) use the more sensible metric system.

Funny, even 19th century cookbook classics from Europe have been republished using metric measurements.

There's really no excuse for this, especially for online recipe authors.

Ah well...

Write this question to every cookbook publisher and Magazine editor! Speak Out against ridiculous cups! Sing it sister!

Grams are theoretically more precise because they are technically a measure of mass rather than weight (dependent on local gravity) but since they are usually in practice in the kitchen determined by scales, they really aren't. People do seem to find powers of ten easier to handle than powers of two for some reason. There are also a lot of weights (and measures of lengths) done in tenths now, sort of a hybrid system.