Yeah, because no other metric can be divided by an other size of the same metric.
That is why I always have 100ml over whenever I divide a liter by 250ml increments.
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VoterFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe whole point of cups is that you can buy an ingredient by the gallon and it’s very likely that you can double or halve the recipe to your heart’s content and eventually use up the entire package with no waste.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
VoterFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well then you’ve lost the whole advantage of base 10. You’re buying 2L or 4L containers and dividing them up into 250ml increments, having to do divisions of 8 or 16 like some common imperial peasant, only you’re doing it with numbers that have no real relationship with your daily life. I mean, ultimately it’s all arbitrary anyway. But when someone says use 2 cups, that’s 2 scoops, which seems better to me than having to know that 500ml is 2 scoops.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I have 1l milk and 1kg flour. My recipe wants ⅜ liter milk and 150g flour. 375ml is a bit odd but trivial ultimately, and very easy to measure when I just pour 375g into my blender on a scale.
Now how would imperial cups deal with 150g from 1kg?
I also have 45g oil, what odd measurements would that give when you try to divide out up without a single decimal number?
24g suggar.I’d love to see all that converted to imperial.
VoterFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Our recipes rarely use weights except for maybe meats. We’ve got a scale in my kitchen but it hasn’t been touched in a while.
The ratios of ingredients matter more than the exact values so for the recipe you’re talking about, it’d be like 2 cups of milk, 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup of oil, 1/8 cup of sugar (or 2 tablespoons, which is a pretty common size so most people probably have a scoop for that).
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
*galleon
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What’s a gallon?
Opisek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A pirate ship, I think.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
An old, old wooden ship.
Morpholemew@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
A little more than 4.5 liters. Except a certain nearby country uses a little less than 3.8 liters as their gallon, so we get all sorts of “smaller than a gallon” packages labeled as a gallon, leading to people getting ripped off if they don’t realize they’re being sold something less than a gallon as if it were a full gallon.
In other words, the gallon is the original shrinkflation unit of measure.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Something that can be divided by cups I believe
VoterFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A useful size to package and sell ingredients in, such that the person following a recipe can halve or double the recipe as needed and still use the entire package with no waste.
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
But no one weighs flour in litres.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This guy does.
Where I’m from, flour is sold as packages of 1kg, which they say is 1000g (way too much in my humble opinion) , which cannot be easily divided with simple maths when I want to halve or double my recipe. Recipe specify flour in grams, which makes it so very complicated when I need to convert it to ngogn, in the end I’m always left with flour in my package when I want to double the size of my cakes, which wouldn’t happen if the package size was sold in cubic potrzebies.
VoterFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You guys have to weigh your flour? We just grab a cup and scoop it and then dump it in the bowl. You’re not exactly selling me on metric here.