I do find cooking easier in grams. Just put the bowl on the scale and add ingredients until it hits the number. No measuring cups to wash. But it would life changing if woodworking switched to metric. Doing any sort of exact math is annoying as hell. What is 12’7” divided by 4? How many 1/8” is 0.55 inches?? It is my own personal hell.
It’s also a lot easier to multiply and divide recipes if you switch it over to metric. This is particularly useful if you don’t have enough of one ingredient and need to reduce the others by that ratio.
Then there’s the ability to measure the ingredient directly out of the container, using any scoop you can find, rather than needing multiple sets of measuring spoons.
Ah yes, I’ll have 0.8 metric eggs please.
Say you have a recipe that takes three eggs but you only have two. Do you wanna do the math on what 2/3 of one cup is actually?
Ummm… It’s 2/3 cup, and that is a standard measurement. But maybe that wasn’t the best example. Let’s say 2/3 of 1/4 cup. Well that’s 2/12 or 1/6 cup which is far from common. However a cup is 48 tsp, so 1/6 cup is 8 tsp.
I mean it’s dumb as hell but it does work.
The Metric system is easier though.
It’s like when the crazy guy says it’s easy and then pulls out a pinboard with pictures and string connecting them and proceeds to explain how it makes sense in his head and you have to admit that you sort of follow but also can’t believe what you’re hearing is reality.
The thing that drives me bonkers is that ounces is both a volume and mass measurement, and they aren’t the same for water.
You can just say you don’t know fractions.
It’s okay.
They used to give out a little conversion rotary slide rule at trade shows. Pretty nice tech, two circles of cardboard pop riveted together in the center, on the top one the units are written on a series of rings, smallest on the outside, biggest on the inside, there’s a cutout along the radius so you can see the numbers written on the bottom one. Spin the bottom one so the unit you know is showing and the one you want will be right there.
I bet they still make em.
Got to get the metric chickens for those.
Kek. 1.21 kilochickens
Interestingly chicken size is based on their weight… So a size 18 chicken is a 1.8kg chook
That’s a big mother Clucker for sure 🤣
Reminds me of the good old days when my dad raised free range fowl: the chickens were the size of turkeys and the turkeys were too big to even fit in the oven 😂
A metric egg is a little over 50 grams. You typically get a bit over 30 grams of white, 20 grams of yolk and 5-ish grams of shell.
I get around it by just working in inches entirely. If some guy needs the foot-and-inch measurement I’ll convert but generally calling for something to be 97 5/8" is sufficient, without needing to add feet into the equation.
I do agree that metric would be interesting. I have a metric tape measure I use when I am practicing botany so I can work on familiarizing myself with common metric distances like 10/100cm
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Yeah man, can’t believe some recipes go to 11.
Can’t they just make the 10 higher?
Yeah but these ones go to 11
Any baking recipe that doesn’t list all measurements by weight belongs in the trash.
mfw I finally find someone else who writes “250gr water” in their cooking notes
Seriously. Many ingredients are different depending on if they’re packed, scooped, or sifted. 1 cup of brown sugar can be very different than another cup.
I tried this with cocoa powder before, as I’ve seen some people in cooking videos shake the cocoa in the cup, and shake the cup to flatten it. And others scoop the cocoa with a spoonand flatten it with the spoon to fill the cup.
The second method yielded over 1.6 times the amount of cocoa powder!
!cico@lemmy.world feels this in their soul
That would only work for substances with a density of 1
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I was born in the US and have switched by myself. My brother thought I was weird until one day we went to the hardware store.
I needed to buy a 15/64 in drill bit, but they didn’t have it. So then we thought, fine, maybe we can use the next closest size…
…
Except WTF is the next size up or down from 15/64??!!! Neither of us could figure it out. Internet wasn’t great. Sales people didn’t know. We left because we weren’t sure what to buy.
In metric, it’s trivial. 5mm drill bit, 4mm is smaller, 6mm is bigger.
After this, he stopped thinking I was a weirdo for using metric measurements. But he still uses imperial because murica.
Also, interesting, I learned that he thinks imperial units were invented by the US. I told him they were British units and I stopped caring about British units in 1776, but he didn’t seem to believe me.
16/64 is 1/4. Your next size up is a quarter inch. Is it intuitive? Maybe not. Is it really that hard? Only if your educational institutions have also failed you.
Except WTF is the next size up or down from 15/64??!!!
There’s lots of great reasons to switch to metric. Inability to do basic fractions isn’t one of them…
For the record, it would be 16/64, or, 1/4
For the record, it would be 16/64, or, 1/4
Nope! It’d be 6mm, then B gauge (6.045mm), then 1/4" (6.350mm). And that’s not including things like over/under reamers and such.
(Sorry, I’ve been watching too much Blondihacks lately.)
But somehow the brother is convinced, despite the fact that they left the hardware store without the bit they needed!
What does he think “imperial” means? “federal”?
How old is he ? Little kids are hard to convince.
We went from posting Twitter screenshots as memes to posting reddit screenshots as memes
That’s called progress, imo
Excuse me, I think you mean X.com screenshots.
And Celsius? And 24 hour time?
We use 24 h format here where I live but we speak in 12 h format because it’s less awkward. Not all that shines is gold, I guess
What’s awkward about it?
I use 24h in speech, it trips up some people a little but they all understand and I’ve gotten a few to switch!
My native language is Dutch, but I to give an example I say “vijftien uur” for 15:00 / 3pm and “vijtien uur dertig” for 15:30 / 3:30pm. My closest English equivalents would be “fifteen oʼclocm” and “fifteen thirty”, really.
My point is, make the tiniest possible step, only replace the number of the hour with the 24h variant and drop the am/pm part.
Yes please
If we are doing this, shouldn’t we go straight to Kelvin? So we no longer have to deal with negative temperatures
So water freezes at 273 degrees and boils at 373? No thank you
It’s so nice the US and Liberia are the only two countries to share both Ebola AND the imperial system. They’re buddy buddy.
The US founded Liberia
So it did. TIL.
TBF in practice a lot of countries use the imperial system, from Canada to the UK to Jamaica to the Philippines. They just “use metric” on paper.
Also, here in the Netherlands we use inches for screen sizes and cups for some cooking recipes. I will insist that my monitor is 55cm and even tech people ask me how much that is with full sincerity.
Yes like I certainly measure flour in cups in Canada lol.
I noticed some Canadians seem to use metric exclusively, while others very much use imperial systems through and through. Android defaults to imperial systems when it’s set to Canadian English, which confuses me even more but I suppose imperial must be used a lot, then
I find stuff like cups and spoons and pounds and inches are used here more than metric, but we definitely use kilometers only.
Android lied to me
Maybe it’s a plot by the Australian government because it led me to set all my devices to Australian English; they’re always 100% metric
At least Raiden should’ve had no issues then
Myanmar uses imperial as well. At least partially. Or they did when I visited there a few years ago.
Oh I thought they converted. Or were converting. I don’t think they had Ebola though.
Must have, otherwise they wouldn’t use imperial. That’s what it’s for.
Mfs don’t realize we already fuckin use metric for all kinds of shit.
When I was 6 in 1980, they told us we would be switching in a year or two.
I’d heard of that before so after a quick google America passed the Metric Conversion Act in 1975 then in 1982 the Metric Board was abolished by President Ronald Reagan…
So like the harbinger of doom for American progress he was Regan killed it…
Any day now
Just like daylight savings time…
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We actually got rid of that in Denmark recently, but in a pretty foolish way: our time is now locked in on daylight savings time rather than the original unmodified time.
Probably gonna mean some dark mornings when the times come and we don’t switch back, which’ll suck for those of us who have a hard time getting out of bed before the sun’s up…
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It’s so nice to measure fluid in milliliters and grams, it all works so well.
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fr baking needs precision
Measuring anything in cups can fuck right off. Are we supposed to use expresso cup size? Or big gulp cup size?
- espresso
If you use the same cup for everything it doesn’t matter.
If you use the same cup for everything, I doubt that much matters to you at all, though 🤷
Thats the whole point. It doesn’t matter, as long as you use the same cup for all the measurements. Imperial recipes are ratios that can be scaled to any cup size.
Or do what most people do and use a measuring cup, standardized size, cheap and available at basically any store.
Weight is the only acceptable way to measure flour and water for baking.
tespoons? That’s what tsp means?
Yeah what’d you think it meant, Eugene?
…ten square pounds?
Calzone explodes
Jazz music intensifies
WTF is a square pound!? You’ve ruined my day.
When you go at it harder than a trash compactor and your partner literally changes shape.
A square pound is when a guidance counselor who thinks he’s still cool goes in for a fist bump and says "pound it "
I personally fucking hate ounces. Recipes could mean volume or weight.
They could but let’s be realistic. Anyone who uses volume for recipes is a moron.
And now we’ll add a pound of milk
5ml vs 15ml.
- US: 77⁄256 cubic inches vs 0.50 US fl oz (~4.929ml vs ~14.787ml)
- Australia: 5ml vs 20ml
- Rest of World: 5ml vs 15ml
That’s not a spoon, this is a spoon!
The A* paper standard and the metric system. A Pythagorean can dream.
I dunno about tables, but I’ve been known to munch carpet
You’re missing out man, tables taste like those ceiling fan blades but thicker!
Bush for the win.
Boost screenshot, a fine vintage.
