During the previous round of shirkflation I warned people about knowing what year a recipe was from because “a can” means something different in 2004 than in 2010. And now it means something different again in 2025.
Now boxes are getting the shrink treatment too.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/618032
That doesn’t really help when you need X amount of something and everything is sold in Y amounts.
While some ingredients this isn’t an issue, I’ve run into this for pasta sauce/paste, coconut milk, canned beans, etc. which are hard to work around.
I work around it fairly often. It can be inconvenient for sure. I think I end up avoiding those types of recipes if I’m not going to be cooking with those ingredients often enough. But for ones that I do, coconut curries funnily enough, I just deal with having some in my fridge at pretty much all times.
Other times I substitute the canned/frozen version for fresh since you can buy the right amount.