/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14704137]

>cups
>sticks
>quarts
>table spoons
>inches

[Anonymous No.14704143]

>>14704137
Did you drop out of school after kindergarten? I don't remember anything from calculus, but jesus christ, how do you forget how to do basic arithmetic?

[Anonymous No.14704179]

>>14704137
yank measurements be like yeah you gotta use 5 bowls of water as well as 20 cowboy boots of rice and dont forget to add in a fluid qounce of soy

[Anonymous No.14704189]

>>14704179
euro measurements be like yea you gotta use the total weight of a perfect 1cm x 1cm x1cm cube of pure water multiplied by 135, an a cm is the distance an atom of beryllim moves in 3.4 attoseconds in a perfect vaccum

[Anonymous No.14704191]

>>14704137
What are you crying about? Pretty basic stuff here

[Anonymous No.14704216]

>>14704137
Did you ever stop and wonder that it was a little strange how Americans never complain about having to convert things from metric? Despite 95% of the world using metric? Really makes you think. Lol, if you're that bad at basic conversions why not just avoid American recipes? You constantly make threads saying they don't even have a food culture in the first place, so what do you even have to complain about?

[Anonymous No.14704222]

>>14704137

Why do people think that an arbitrary measuring system is better than one with rational fractions derived from millennia of useful measures for practical purposes. Metric only seems easier because there's less to remember but it makes all actual measures random numbers. Imperial is better. Metric only makes sense for scientific measurements that are totally unrelated to anything. Like distances between stars. Not fucking butter, milk, and flour.

[Anonymous No.14704245]

>>14704179
>fluid qounce

[Anonymous No.14704262]

>>14704222
It's all valid. Who cares which system someone uses. What we should be annoyed with is the people who won't shut the fuck up about it, i.e. foreigners

[Anonymous No.14704282]

>>14704189
metric measurements are pretty nice and logical and are all like divisible by 100 so the ratios are always pretty easy to understand, imperial and especially us imperial measurements are based on like thomas jeffersons sons wifes teacup or some other abitrary object

[Anonymous No.14704290]

>>14704245
i open up an american recipie and find out they're measuring oil in how much fits inside a bald eagles hollowed out skull

[Anonymous No.14704295]

>>14704216
>never complain about having to convert things from metric
lockheed martin did
it cost them several hundred millions of dollars

[Anonymous No.14704300]

>>14704295
I tried their vichyssoise once and it was nothing to write home about.

[Anonymous No.14704336]

>>14704282
Imperial measurements used in cooking are actually based on common ratios of ingredients over thousands of years.

And frankly measurement systems are all arbitrary to the human brain, if you grew up Imperial, odds are you can estimate a cup or an inch or a gallon, if you grew up with Metric odds are you can estimate the molar weight of 126,000 atoms of carbon moving downward at the gravitational constant toward a perfect sphere in paris.

[Anonymous No.14704377]

>>14704137
>tad
>dash
>handful
>pinch
>drop

[Anonymous No.14704418]

>>14704189
The reason you're using measurements is to be precise in what you're trying to accomplish. Since then, your post is pretty much complimenting the metric system.

[Anonymous No.14704451]

>>14704295
if your a multi-billion dollar spaceship company, and you use the wrong measurements from the start because of your an idiot. It is a bit diff from the fact that all cooking recipes are in imperial.

[Anonymous No.14704462]

>>14704216
I think it's because most recipes cater to Americans, so the measurements are already in Imperial.

Even non-American cooking channels have the COURTESY of including the imperial measurements as well, which is something American channels rarely do.

[Anonymous No.14704486]

>>14704295
>For the Mars Climate Orbiter, Lockheed Martin incorrectly provided NASA with software using measurements in US Customary force units when metric was expected; this resulted in the loss of the Orbiter at a cost of $125 million The development of the spacecraft cost $193.1 million.

[Anonymous No.14704500]

>>14704137
I don't care if they were actually used properly, Like what does a cup of flour mean? A compact cup? A heaped cup? Why are you using cups and tablespoons for solids instead of liquids?!

[Anonymous No.14704509]

>>14704500
>why are you using volume for solids instead of liquids
That has nothing to do with imperial vs metric.

[Anonymous No.14704601]

>>14704509
You're right it has something to do with americans vs humans

[Anonymous No.14706272]

>>14704300
kek'd and checked