OT - None Metric measurement question

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Well, it probably dosen't have to be exact. Get a half litre of water in one hand and the zucchini in the other, then guess and chop.

I tried this, but the water kept running through my fingers.


Tesco, you could save yourself a lot of trouble and just buy a kitchen scale. A lot of recepies work better if you measure by weight instead of volume anyway. This is especially true with baking. You think comparing a cup of one thing to another is bad, try comparing two cups of flour. They aren't the same because of variances in how tightly they are packed. That's why you should weigh it.

[Ruatha]

In cooking one can just grab stuff and throws it in, but as Geo says, in baking and desserts you need to follow the recepie, and a scale is a good thing.
I hate the old recepies with "a coffecup" of....

[Renegade 13]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
drives me nuts that most food items are still in imperial... one of the Last hold overs i guess... I am lucky that i can kind of work with both of them...

ask any 12 year old about miles , pounds , cups and they will look at you with a blank look...

which is good in my books...

Hmm.. well not quite true, at least not 5 years ago when I was 12. I (and almost every other 12 year old I knew) had a good working knowledge of both Metric and Imperial systems. After all, when someone asks you how much you weigh, do you tell them you weigh 160 lbs, or 73 kg?? Everyone I know tells me in pounds, not kilograms. (Forgetting of course that pounds are a unit of force, while kilo's are a measure of mass) Or when asked for your height, do you tell them in feet and inches, or in centimeters or meters?? If someone told me they were 183 cm. tall, I would have take a while and figure out how tall that actually was! Now, if they told me instead that they were 6 feet, 1 inch tall, I would know exactly how much that was.

I think that people of my generation will use a combination of both systems, because that's what we've grown up with. Our parents used Imperial, we were taught in Metric at school.

[ August 04, 2004, 17:33: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]