After 7 years here I still don’t intuitively grasp non-metric units so everything I buy is either way too much, or the opposite.
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After 7 years here I still don’t intuitively grasp non-metric units so everything I buy is either way too much, or the opposite. I don’t really know how much a pound or quart is, really
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After 7 years here I still don’t intuitively grasp non-metric units so everything I buy is either way too much, or the opposite. I don’t really know how much a pound or quart is, really
I miss the precision of going to a deli and getting exactly 225g of something. Half a pound doesn’t feel tangible to me
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After 7 years here I still don’t intuitively grasp non-metric units so everything I buy is either way too much, or the opposite. I don’t really know how much a pound or quart is, really
roughly a quart is not quite one litre and a pound is not quite half a kilo.
thanks to watching miami vice as a child, I learned a kilo was 2.2lbs, so yay to drug smuggling math?
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I miss the precision of going to a deli and getting exactly 225g of something. Half a pound doesn’t feel tangible to me
Ounces, pounds and quarts make as much sense to me as bushels and jins and any other measurement unit I don’t get
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Ounces, pounds and quarts make as much sense to me as bushels and jins and any other measurement unit I don’t get
But I enjoy baking and making coffee with a metric scale so that’s just how my brain works. I’d rather not bake than use measurements like ‘a cup minus two tablespoons’ (also why I rarely use American recipes)
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After 7 years here I still don’t intuitively grasp non-metric units so everything I buy is either way too much, or the opposite. I don’t really know how much a pound or quart is, really
@skinnylatte FTR, we do not use Imperial units in the US and we never have. Imperial units are a UK standard that developed decades after the US became independent.
What we use in the US are called "US customary units", and while they have a common ancestor with UK Imperial units in medieval British units, there are significant differences, and the two should not be confused.
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But I enjoy baking and making coffee with a metric scale so that’s just how my brain works. I’d rather not bake than use measurements like ‘a cup minus two tablespoons’ (also why I rarely use American recipes)
@skinnylatte one of my grad school friends made it several years in America before she discovered that a “cup” was a specific unit of measurement and not, like, any cup you happened to have around
Her baking improved substantially afterwards.
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But I enjoy baking and making coffee with a metric scale so that’s just how my brain works. I’d rather not bake than use measurements like ‘a cup minus two tablespoons’ (also why I rarely use American recipes)
I also just learned after 7 years that Tylenol is Panadol
And I haven’t learned the names of any meds (or cleaning products)
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But I enjoy baking and making coffee with a metric scale so that’s just how my brain works. I’d rather not bake than use measurements like ‘a cup minus two tablespoons’ (also why I rarely use American recipes)
@skinnylatte As an American, I too wish that we followed the metric system. Except for Fahrenheit. I’ll die on that hill.
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@skinnylatte As an American, I too wish that we followed the metric system. Except for Fahrenheit. I’ll die on that hill.
@reesecommabill no non-Americans feel similarly about Fahrenheit (it might as well be Kelvin to us)
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@reesecommabill no non-Americans feel similarly about Fahrenheit (it might as well be Kelvin to us)
@skinnylatte the joke I always tell is “I don’t live my life by the state of water and neither should you!”
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@skinnylatte the joke I always tell is “I don’t live my life by the state of water and neither should you!”
@reesecommabill that might very well be true but given that it’s not used at all in most of the world, there are no practical reasons to even consider learning it
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I also just learned after 7 years that Tylenol is Panadol
And I haven’t learned the names of any meds (or cleaning products)
@skinnylatte you’re doing it the right way. Units and the precision we use here suck. I do all my cooking in grams or mL
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