Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?

• ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You do know that only water weighs on gram per ml, right?

  This is a great fact for if you’re trying to make hot water soup from a recipe written in metric volume measures and you only have a scale.

  You might get away if you’re just trying to measure apple juice or something else that’s mostly water, but good luck making Rice Krispie treats

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While we’re making soup, let’s base the entire temperature scale on water, too.

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• tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And one pint of water is one pound.

  You’ve completely missed the point, which is that most of the world measures ingredients (like flour for instance, where one pint is not one pound) by weight and not by volume.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Measuring by weight has only been a thing for cooking since digital scales became cheap.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A pint of water is not one pound, its 1.04318, which is a significant difference.

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    • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In what widely-used context is a .04318 difference significant?

      Not soup. Not bread.

      I don’t think even concrete would suffer noticeably from that difference.

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      • Specal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well that’s a 4.3% difference. I’d consider 4.3% significant

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can still list an ingredient using one or the other on a recipe. It may be a simple conversion, but 1:1 is still a conversion.

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• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Canada uses a mixture of imperial and metric, but not weights, so that’s an entirely false conclusion you’ve come to.

  And that doesn’t help much, that’s only at sea level and a certain temperature, go do some baking with those exact conversions on a mountain and your cake won’t turn out at all.

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