What’s on the US & UK Kitchen Terms poster
A 9-row table: US · UK · Note.
The differences most likely to derail a recipe.
- All-purpose flour — Plain flour —
- Confectioners' sugar — Icing sugar —
- Superfine sugar — Caster sugar —
- Heavy cream — Double cream — Close, not identical
- Cilantro — Coriander (leaf) —
- Eggplant / zucchini — Aubergine / courgette —
- Scallion — Spring onion —
- Skillet — Frying pan —
- Broil — Grill —
'Grill' means opposite things: overhead heat in the UK, an outdoor barbecue in the US.
Questions about the US & UK Kitchen Terms poster
- What’s on the US & UK Kitchen Terms poster?
- A 9-row table: US · UK · Note. The differences most likely to derail a recipe. All-purpose flour — Plain flour —; Confectioners' sugar — Icing sugar —; Superfine sugar — Caster sugar —; Heavy cream — Double cream — Close, not identical; Cilantro — Coriander (leaf) —; Eggplant / zucchini — Aubergine / courgette —; Scallion — Spring onion —; Skillet — Frying pan —; Broil — Grill —. 'Grill' means opposite things: overhead heat in the UK, an outdoor barbecue in the US.
- Who is the US & UK Kitchen Terms poster for?
- US & UK Kitchen Terms belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning measures can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the US & UK Kitchen Terms poster?
- Biscuit, chips and pudding all mean different things on each side of the Atlantic. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so US & UK Kitchen Terms belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with US & UK Kitchen Terms?
- Baking at Altitude, Brining and Coffee Ratios sit alongside US & UK Kitchen Terms in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Baking at AltitudeBriningCoffee Ratios
- Is the US & UK Kitchen Terms poster free to download and print?
- Yes. US & UK Kitchen Terms downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the US & UK Kitchen Terms poster print at?
- US & UK Kitchen Terms is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of US & UK Kitchen Terms loses nothing.Printing guide
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