so thanks to the lunacy of american traditional i can provide this horrible data:
1/12 tsp ≈ 1 _pinch_ plus one _drop_
which is to say 1/16th + 1/64th teaspoons
which is to say can we please be metric now please i'm begging you save me from this bullshit xD
#baking #cooking
anubis2814
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •i must stress these are AMERICAN teaspoons
NOT imperial
because imperial is NOT american just _mostly_ the same because AMERICAN TRADITIONAL is still on the fucking QUEEN ANNE BARREL and not the later larger barrel adapted by the British Empire after the American colonies won independence and from which all other volume units are derived
yes the base unit was the BARREL
why gods why
#baking #cooking #MetricNowPlease
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Sam Levine
in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •I used to love reading all of the wacky conversion charts in the back of composition books. I mentioned it to my mom once when I was a kid and she went "that's not weird, we used to use some of those measurements at work".
She was a pharmacist!
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
in reply to Sam Levine • • •@SRLevine ounces are _the worst unit_
the _absolute_ worst unit
there are so many kinds of ounces
some of which are weight and some of which are volume and incidentally again why gods why
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •Whaaatttt 🤯
@SRLevine
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
in reply to 🍋 Superball ☀️ • • •@superball @SRLevine Avoirdupois ounces - US weight (and Imperial I _think_)
Troy ounces - fuck you ounces used by gold traders for fancy gold reasons
Metric ounce - STOP IT NO WHY (varied by country usually around 30g, see also the "metric inch")
Water ounces or Fluid ounces, US - measure of VOLUME, and smaller than:
Water ounces or Fluid ounces, UK - measure of VOLUME, also
and that list is NOT complete. those are just ones still in use in the last century.
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@SRLevine
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in reply to Sam Levine • • •@SRLevine NO.
NO, NO, NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO
NO
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
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in reply to Dr. jonny phd • • •@jonny huh is my old old set of tablespoons somehow australian?
that'd be hilarious but I have no idea how
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in reply to Dr. jonny phd • • •Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
in reply to Dr. jonny phd • • •@jonny YEP
UK Imperial gallons are bigger than US gallons for the same reason, it's all the way down
basically the UK adopted a larger base unit (the barrel) so all the derived units also changed, and the US never adapted it.
Dr. jonny phd
in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barleycorn_(unit)
English unit of length
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)xi timpin
in reply to Dr. jonny phd • • •@jonny The concept of precision appears to have been completely unknown.
Of course, it's entirely possible that wiki doesn't capture the full story and that some kind of standard inch had been created from which all other measures were derived. That would make sense to me but could just be wishful thinking.
I do recall reading that an acre was the amount of land that could be ploughed in a day but the specifics have long been lost to the mists of time.
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in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •mind you ours aren't really the american traditional anymore either because that quietly got changed out TO METRIC BASIS I MIGHT ADD so we're already _kinda_ metric it's just REAL HIDDEN
1 US tablespoon = 15 ml
1 US teaspoon = 5ml
do division from there
Gurre Vildskägg
in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •Spice measurement: 1 ml
Teaspoon: 5 ml
Table spoon: 15 ml
Half dl: 50 ml
dl: 100 ml
Be the ones in all the sets up over here. And we've got a small decorative poster in the kitchen that converts from US units. Comes in handy for using recepies found online sometimes.
Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
in reply to Gurre Vildskägg • • •@Gurre I literally said - I mean, you replied to this:
"mind you ours aren't really the american traditional anymore either because that quietly got changed out TO METRIC BASIS I MIGHT ADD so we're already _kinda_ metric it's just REAL HIDDEN"
that means that they are now secretly metric (and therefore different to actual American Traditional which are close but not quite the same) BUT we're still pretending they're not and apparently using stupid names all the way down
Gurre Vildskägg
in reply to Solarbird :flag_cascadia: • • •I thought uou ment the way all US/Imperial units are now defined using metric conversions. E.g. the definition of an inch is 25.4 mm. Not that the measurement itself is now the same as the non-US one (tablespoon being 15 ml in US and Sweden both).
My bad.
We don't actually call them tablespoons come to think of it. They're foodspoons here.
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in reply to yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •@blogdiva @Gurre OKAY it's NOT just me. Yeah, the one on the left is I THINK traditional US Traditional.
(There is an extremely remote possibility that somehow it's Aussie but c'mon how would we've got that in Seattle?)
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