OT - None Metric measurement question

[Puke]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
1 litre is 1 kilo...

rather easy

of H2O. one litre of liquid iridium is considerably more than a kilo. zuchini are another matter entirely.

[Fyron]

Silly Tesco. One liter of your head is many, many kilos, due to its high density.

[Katchoo]

Just get a bucket and a bathroom scale.

Problem solved!

[AMF]

In cooking, when dealing with items like veggies, it's all about the volume and personal preference. So chop them up as you want them, until you fill a cup with them. Don't worry about weight. That's my understanding.

[Loser]

Originally posted by alarikf:
In cooking, when dealing with items like veggies, it's all about the volume and personal preference. So chop them up as you want them, until you fill a cup with them. Don't worry about weight. That's my understanding.

If he's grinding up the stuff for some sort of strange baked-vegetable-mush dish the amount could be improtant, as the mashed-up vegetable will be mixed with the other ingrediants.

[Slick]

Ok, I assume this is in Canada based on your profile so you have several options (take none of these seriously) :

1) Go to the grocery store and find something American which is labeled in pounds. Take it to the produce section and put it on the scale. Do the math and buy the equivalent in zuchini.

2) Assuming you already have the zuchini or are buying it from an open market or such: do 1) above except buy something else that you might like as a side dish. Come home and cut apart a coat hanger to make a primitive balance and use it to weigh out an equal amount of zuchini.

3) 1 gallon of water weighs about 8.5 pounds. Estimate 1/8.5 gallon of water, take to grocery store, put on scale, buy equivalent of zuchini. Oh wait, if you can't measure a pound, you probably can't measure a gallon either...

4) Cross the US border. Buy 1 pound of zuchini, go home, cook. Hmmmm... Maybe you need to buy 1.5 pounds due to the exchange rate. (Sorry, I admit that was a little cold.)

6) Go to McDonalds, buy 4 quarter pounders, put them on the scale, no, wait, eat them and you won't be hungry for zuchini any more. Eat a "pound cake" as dessert just to feel good about it.

6) Ask your neighbor for 1 pound of zuchini. Let him figure it out.

7) Use 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds as a conVersion factor. (use this only as a Last resort)

8) Come on, man! This is cooking! Just grab a couple of handfuls and throw them in!

Slick.

[tesco samoa]

well the dish turned out good.

I used 4 cups and 1/8 of the zuchini ( from garden ) shredded
with 3 cups cooked rice
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups of ( spanish onion ) chopped fine
1 1/2 cups of peppers ( garden peppers half hot like chilie or caynenne and half red sweet ) chopped fine
pepper
12 ounces of corn
1 tablespoon oil
2 cups grated white cheddar cheeze ( sharp for you people down south )
1 cup crumbled feta...
then some spices from the garden that were chopped ( which were some basil, oregano , thyme )
how to cook...

Take enough rice to cook up 3 cups ( which is like a cup and a half... 2 and 1/2 cups of water and some butter or marginine.... combine in a pot bring to a boil and stir away.... reduce heat... and set a timer to 25 minutes )

then shread 1 pound of zucchine... 4 cups and a bit and set aside
Take the oil and pour it in a pan and heat until medium hot ( hold your hand above the pan ( about 6 cm away ) and count... when it takes about 4 seconds for your hand to feel warm it is ready

I have found that this amount of time is equal to cutting up the onions and getting them ready...

Then put all those onions and zucchine in the pan and stir away until mixed... and let it cook until the zucchine is soft..

Which is the same amount of time it takes to cut peppers and put them in a bowl, add the corn and shread the cheeze and crumble the feta...


Combine the cheezes in another bowl

take the spices and cut them up and then add them to the pepper and corn bowl...

Turn the heat off on the onions and zuchine and let it cool down.

Get out a big mixing bowl and a oven pan that can hold all this stuff...

spray oil or what ever on the oven pan ( casserole dish etc )...

Turn the oven on to 375

The time should go off for the rice now...

take 3 eggs and place them in the mixxing bowl and beat them up a bit.

Then add the rice... and mix it up real good like

Take the Zuchine and onion that is still sitting in the frying pan and drain it ...

add it to the mixing bowl... and do some more of that mixing

then add the veggies and cheeze....

Sprinke pepper on it ( salt if you like that as well )

and mix it up real good....

I also added a wee bit of hot sauce

When it is all good and mixed dump the whole thing into the oven pan...

Place it in the oven and set the timer to 25 minutes... ( i had the heat coming from the bottom and no lid on the oven pan )

Then go off and do something...

when the timer goes off turn on the bbq...

And then set the timer for 25 minutes again

And cook your meat

When the timer goes off again...

turn the heat to the top and let it brown for 10 minutes

when timer goes off again... remove from oven

go get stuff off bbq

eat and enjoy...

very tasty

[Fyron]

You missed my post directed at you Tecso.

[tesco samoa]

i saw it... i laughed...

better to have a heavy head than a light head...

[Fyron]

Hmm, I suppose that is true! Depends on how light and how heavy though...