Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units
Zip2@feddit.uk 5 days agoWhat’s a gallon?
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.
Something that can be divided by cups I believe
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.
But no one weighs flour in litres.
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.
this guy knuths how units work
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.
What can I say, other than we don’t have an industrial amount of ingredients in our houses and we like accuracy in our recipes.
What I do is my scale is underneath my bowl, every time I need to add a quantity of an ingredient I reset it to zero with what’s in it.
Though I get that filling a cup and dumping it in seems very practical at first glance, what happen when you need 3/4 of a cup ? Or 1.5 cup ? Do you have 20 cup in the kitchen of different sizes, then you need to grab the one of the correct size which isn’t more practical than having a scale which can do infinite granularity, also I expect you would take the wrong cup on many occasions and get the wrong quantity
Opisek@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A pirate ship, I think.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
An old, old wooden ship.