Little girls don’t watch Mom in the kitchen?
Teenage girls don’t take home EC?
Women don’t own cookbooks?
Every child has American weights and measures in school
3 tsp to a Tbsp, 2 Tbsp to oz, a cups a pound the world around, therefore a gallon weighs eight pounds.
Tell me this was not drilled in your head in elementary school
BooHoo The metric system only has to multiply by 10
We have to use 12,16, and a slew of numbers
Again, were you sleeping in grade school? Multiplication tables?
Alright kiddies there are 378ml to a cup. Multiply that
Ever work on a cold night with metric tools on your Ford?
Sorry, metric has it’s advantages in many uses. But the English System is going to turn granny’s recipe into a cake.
It’s “a pint’s a pound,” 16 oz. Accurate for water, close enough for sugar or flour. In metric it’s; a gram’s a milliliter, not very poetic. 378ml is half a fifth, a cup’s a half pint or a fourth of a quart, 236ml.
Or were you just testing, to see who’d nerd out?
One of the reason the English system is all screwed up is because the larger units were originally determined by doubling smaller units, but some of the lesser-used ones dropped out.
My kitchen is about 70% metric - including the stove. You should have seen the look on a friend’s face when I asked her to preheat the oven to 240 degrees to bake a frozen pizza.
<95> over 14 years ago
Per that example, -two- many cooks will indeed spoil the broth. Hope she’s measuring sugar or butter.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Little girls don’t watch Mom in the kitchen? Teenage girls don’t take home EC? Women don’t own cookbooks? Every child has American weights and measures in school 3 tsp to a Tbsp, 2 Tbsp to oz, a cups a pound the world around, therefore a gallon weighs eight pounds. Tell me this was not drilled in your head in elementary school
BooHoo The metric system only has to multiply by 10 We have to use 12,16, and a slew of numbers Again, were you sleeping in grade school? Multiplication tables? Alright kiddies there are 378ml to a cup. Multiply that Ever work on a cold night with metric tools on your Ford?
Sorry, metric has it’s advantages in many uses. But the English System is going to turn granny’s recipe into a cake.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Lew they don’t call it home ec anymore, least not around here. Now it has some politically correct term!
CRL29P over 14 years ago
It’s “a pint’s a pound,” 16 oz. Accurate for water, close enough for sugar or flour. In metric it’s; a gram’s a milliliter, not very poetic. 378ml is half a fifth, a cup’s a half pint or a fourth of a quart, 236ml. Or were you just testing, to see who’d nerd out?
runar over 14 years ago
One of the reason the English system is all screwed up is because the larger units were originally determined by doubling smaller units, but some of the lesser-used ones dropped out.
My kitchen is about 70% metric - including the stove. You should have seen the look on a friend’s face when I asked her to preheat the oven to 240 degrees to bake a frozen pizza.