Just out of interest, may I ask......

I do a lot of cooking from scratch and always have, and have inherited my grandnother's old files of recipes and cookery books, but half the time I find recipes on the internet which are all in grammes or cups. So I don't even have to think now. What I have found interesting and hadn't even noticed that I did it, was when I wrote out recipes for friends they pointed out that I would have a cup of something, 100 grammes of something else and 2 ozs of something else.

Deedaa Ana you got me there, I will always be "five foot three"

When using tried and tested recipes I guess so far so good. Can do metric but prefer imperial.

I stuck with imperial for a long time but got used to metric when I started working in catering. I have finally reached a stage where I find metric easier.
Can't do human weights and heights in metric though.

Grannyknot - I am exactly the opposite to you! When they weigh me at a hospital appointment, for example, and the result is in kilos, I have to google it when I get home to find out what that equates to in stones and pounds!

I use both. My electronic scales can do either. The problem I have is visualising metric amounts. I know what 2 ounces of butter looks or 8 ounces of sugar or flour but I can't get a mental picture of 200 grams or 50 ml. etc. I could manage to bake in imperial without scales using the dessertspoon=2 oz. etc. that my Mum always used.

If anyone would like a set of imperial brass weights, please let me know.

6, 6, 6 and 3

The first cake recipe I learned to bake

I use old and new recipes but for it to make sense in my head I have to convert to imperial.

Not translate, convert! Senior moment.

I love my digital scales because I can switch between grams and ounces at the press of a button. Also there are no small divisions to cope with.
All the recipes in my memory are in ounces, but having worked as a biomedical scientist everything was always metric, so that would be my instinctive choice when baking.

I went decimal with the rest of South Africa in the 1960s. So it's grams and kilograms for me, and millimetres and millilitres. When a recipe says ounces, I sort of roughly translate it and mostly it works.

I will never be able to properly understand how much I weigh in stones!

Whatever the recipe says. I have electronic scales which I can re-calibrate in metric or imperial. What does my head in is the American system of measuring just about everything in cups. However, I have acquired (from Lakeland, of course) a measuring implement that gives both dry and liquid cups as well as metric measures. Invaluable.

I bought myself a set of proper balance scales last year and bought metric weights. I am getting used to the comparisons. Even my ancient 30+ yrs Dairy cook book has the measurements in imperial and metric.

over those scales Bags.

Respect to those that have "gone over". Perhaps I need new scales. The divisions between the hundreds on the grams bit are very squidgy.

I measure by eye. When challenged I'm always totally accurate. Merci Maman

Never did Domestic Science at school, or Food Tech. But 'A' level Chemistry was all about grams.

What I can't be doing with is measurements in 'cups'

Oh yes Aka ! Baby weights ! I have no idea how much any of them weighed as they were all born abroad in grams. Funny how I can convert recipes but not babies !

LIke merlot I was a Food tech teacher so have used both for over 40 years but do tend to use imperial more often as an 8oz pastry mix for instance, fits my baking tins better than the slightly smaller 200gm mix. It also seems more natural if that makes sense !

Grams for sure....except when it comes to baby weights!

Both, converting when necessary. And cups too - I have a conversion chart which I downloaded years ago (no, I don't know where it is from!) and keep it nearby when forced to cook.

I use both. I normally search the web for recipes so it all depends what units they use. I do hate having to use cups though.

As I first trained as a nurse in the 1970s I've been metric for 40 years - particularly liquids!

I use both but somehow it makes more sense in imperial daft as that sounds.

I use both because I had to use metric weights when teaching Food Tech. but I picture amounts in pounds and ounces.