/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18033376]

What do you mean "real" units?

[Anonymous No.18033460]

>>18033376
Equivalent in lived reality.

[Anonymous No.18033483]

>>18033376
That's just how bigots talk.

[Anonymous No.18033493]

>>18033376
>brown hands

[Anonymous No.18033662]

>>18033376
I hate this faggot like you wouldn't believe

[Anonymous No.18033710]

>tfw your foot is 1.3 feet long
>tfw you need two cups to fill a glass
>tfw your yard's not even a yard across
i lol at u americlaps

[Anonymous No.18033854]

>>18033376
Some faggot pretentious attempt at a joke

[Anonymous No.18033884]

>>18033493
yeah, it's a mutt

[Anonymous No.18033903]

>>18033376
Imperial units are objectively stupid but they do seem pretty real to me

[Anonymous No.18034004]

>>18033376
There are moon-landing units and non-moon landing units.

[Anonymous No.18034309]

>can easily convert between the two
>both communicate the same information
>both are precise enough to be meaningful in a variety of applications
>one is "good" and one is "bad"

[Anonymous No.18034337]

>try to follow a Chinese recipe
>they don't even use the metric system
>Recipe calls for 2 "jin" of meat a "catty" of seasoning, several "taels" of oil
>"heat the oil to 70% then lower flame to 40%"
im not surprised at the number of industrial accident webms on this site.

[Anonymous No.18035559]

>>18033376
Imagine taking your wifes name. Why even keep your balls you might as well transition at that point.

[Anonymous No.18035617]

>>18034337
>Walk 20 li to buy meat
>Get home
>They gave you the wrong cut

[Anonymous No.18035624]

>>18033376

He'll never be a real woman.

[Anonymous No.18035650]

Alt? So who's his main?

[Anonymous No.18036424]

>>18033662
he cooks better than you

probably fucks better than you too

[Anonymous No.18036427]

Fahrenheit seems more useful for cooking desu

[Anonymous No.18036546]

>>18034004

Exactly. And they used metric.

[Anonymous No.18036563]

>>18033376
he knows americhads will just call him a faggot either out loud or in their head then watch for the recipe anyway, but eurocucks will flock to the comments to praise him for it.

[Anonymous No.18036564]

>>18033710
post tiny twink feet

[Anonymous No.18036587]

>>18034309
But muh 0/100 freezing boiling point superiority!!!

[Anonymous No.18036593]

>>18036427
It is.

[Anonymous No.18036604]

Once that arnt based on the length of a barley grain or some dudes thumb

[Anonymous No.18036975]

>>18036427
No you dumbass cooking is where Celsius is most superior, water boils at 100 degrees and slightly less importantly freezes at 0
fucking 212 and 32 how is that better than the most important aspect of temperature for cooking being just so much more intuitive

[Anonymous No.18036992]

>>18036975
212 and 32 is better because that's what all my cookbooks use

[Anonymous No.18037018]

>>18036975
Fahrenheit allows for greater precision for cooking. Celsius grading is a weather instrument. You wouldn't use Celsius over Kelvin to check a light source, would you?

[Anonymous No.18037023]

>>18033376
why are liberals so insufferably smug?

[Anonymous No.18037031]

>>18037018
I would use lumens and lux

[Anonymous No.18037041]

>>18037018
This. Anything where you don't need precision it doesn't really matter, but for the shit you do like with confectionaries you might as well be as precise as possible.

[Anonymous No.18037042]

>>18036975
good luck setting your oven, sven

[Anonymous No.18037043]

>>18037031
CANDLEPOWER

[Anonymous No.18037067]

>>18036975
Fahrenheit has a greater usable range for everyday tasks like cooking and deciding if you should bring a jacket.

[Anonymous No.18037079]

>>18037067
>deciding if you should bring a jacket.
Step outside for a moment

[Anonymous No.18037308]

Farenheit is superior for every use other than engaging with a scientific study that already uses Celsius

0 is icy saltwater
100 is human body temp
Never use decimals

[Anonymous No.18037351]

>>18033376
>What do you mean "real" units?

It's just Eurotrash being pretentious.

[Anonymous No.18037359]

>>18036975
>water boils at 100 degrees and slightly less importantly freezes at 0
>fucking 212 and 32 how is that better than the most important aspect of temperature for cooking being just so much more intuitive

Those temperatures are only accurate if you live at sea level. If you don't, they're different.

And honestly, who gives a shit what temperature water boils or freezes at? Put water in the freezer, take it out when it's ice. Put water in a pot, when it's all bubbly it's boiling. You don't need to know the temperature.

[Anonymous No.18037519]

>>18037067
>usable range
They're numbers, anon, there's no limit to which ones you can use. You can be as precise as you want, there are just as many real numbers between 0 and 100 as there are between 32 and 212. The scale could be sqrt(2) for freezing and e for boiling and it wouldn't matter because we'd still have just as many numbers in between.

[Anonymous No.18037522]

>>18033710
>tfw you fail so miserably at math that dividing by 12 or 5280 is difficult

[Anonymous No.18037531]

>>18033376
I knew this was kenji the cuck before seeing the corner. Only a soi faggot like kenji could make a smug reddit joke thinking hes clever but really just sad. Kenji no one likes you, youre pathetic. Youve dedicated your entire life to cooking yet you dont have even a fraction of an ounce of the swag or respectability that comes from being an accomplished chef. Your wife doesnt respect you and your kids wish you were more of a man

[Anonymous No.18037551]

>>18037531
Amazing how much seething a small joke can generate.

[Anonymous No.18037588]

>binary pals

[Anonymous No.18037819]

>>18033376
absolute units

[Anonymous No.18037864]

>>18036975
Literally no one uses a thermometer to boil water. Nor to measure how cold something is. It's all completely arbitrary.

[Anonymous No.18037871]

>>18037531
he took his wife's last name kek

[Anonymous No.18037930]

Are all of you just larping or do you actually lack any reading comprehension? He's obviously using the two interchangeably in that case and just using "real units" as a way to say actual measurements instead of vague shit like a chopstick in oil or whatever

[Anonymous No.18038623]

>>18037819
>U goht a loicense fuh that noife m8???

[Anonymous No.18038646]

>>18037588
Binary bros.

[Anonymous No.18038673]

imagine being proud of using an imperial system while being a colony yourself

[Anonymous No.18038687]

>>18038673
Imagine not realizing we took our independence by force and we stuck with imperial because it makes sense.

[Anonymous No.18038706]

>>18037067
How is it any superior for those, in both systems you just see if it's plus or minus X and decide if that's too cold for you

[Anonymous No.18038712]

>>18037042
I dont see the problem, does your oven only go to specific temperature intervals or something

[Anonymous No.18038745]

>>18037018
> changes the temp scale on the exact same oven
> "you have more control now"
Are burgers really this fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.18038770]

>>18037042
1. Those differences are irrelevant
2. There is a good chance that the original recipe was in C anyway and converted to F.

[Anonymous No.18038779]

>>18038745
>why would someone want to 4 of x units when you could 2.035373 of y units

[Anonymous No.18038858]

>>18037588
>binary pals
you got a problem, CHUD?

[Anonymous No.18038859]

>>18033376
He must mean Kelvin then.

[Anonymous No.18038874]

>>18033376
It got cut off, the full term is really gay units.
>>18033710
>Hecking basing your system on the temperature that water boils even though atmospheric effects cause it to not be the temperature water boils at 98% of the time is much hecking better
>1/10 millionth the distance from the north pole to the equator even though elevation differences means that's not true anywhere is hecking superior!

[Anonymous No.18038883]

>>18033376
>>18038858
Youtube recommended me one of this faggot's video once and before that I never even heard of him and in that video he made fried eggs the "correct way" and just absolutely overcooked and burned it. I have no clue how anyone takes him seriously

[Anonymous No.18039212]

>>18033710
>tfw your rod's not even half a rod long
>tfw you need two chains to reach just half a chain
>tfw your rood isn't roody enough

[Anonymous No.18039233]

>>18033376
>mask in his own home
What a cuck

[Anonymous No.18040501]

>>18034309
yeah one's easier than the other

[Anonymous No.18040516]

>>18037930
The only smart person in all of /ck/.

[Anonymous No.18040520]

>>18033710
>your foot is 1.3 feet long
speak for yourself, manlet

[Anonymous No.18040531]

>>18038745
It's called freedom and we have it as long as it agrees with our forefathers' interpretation of the Bible fiction.

[Anonymous No.18040574]

Fahrenheit is a more accurate and precise unit of measuring temperature than Celsius. It's the only thing imperial does better than metric.

[Anonymous No.18040889]

>>18037018
>What are decimals

[Anonymous No.18041252]

>>18037018
>Fahrenheit allows for greater precision for cooking.
That stupid, it's like saying that paying in pesos is better than paying in dollars because since you need more pesos you can use more precise prices.
Celsius is centered around the only important temperature in cooking : 0-100°C is all the precision you need, and you can go to decimals for molecular cooking if you're a fag

[Anonymous No.18041278]

>Preheat oven to 465 Fahrenheit
>Add one spoon of KOSHER salt
>Add one cup of McDoughMix
>Add nine ounces corn syrup
I hate mutt "cooking" so much

[Anonymous No.18041284]

>>18033376
What do you mean by "one" name?

[Anonymous No.18041294]

>>18038858
Yes I do

[Anonymous No.18041425]

>>18040889
Show me a cookbook that uses decimals.

[Anonymous No.18041445]

>>18041425
Name a recipe where the difference between 180 and 181 Celsius matters.

Fuck me your oven probably isn't even than accurate.

If youre checking internal temp of a meat etc, all thermo pens will read decimals.

[Anonymous No.18041446]

i wouldn’t mind punching jimmy alt in his ugly head. alcoholic bloated fuck, i bet he touches kids

[Anonymous No.18041573]

>>18038883
Overcooking the yolk is one thing, but how do you manage to burn eggs?

[Anonymous No.18041614]

>>18040889
Decimals are bloat.
If you have to use decimals for daily life it is a retarded scale.

[Anonymous No.18041626]

>>18036427
nah, only thing fahrenheit is really good for is for weather, since it uses a larger range of numbers than celsius does (ie 0 is really cold out, 100 is really hot out, whereas with celsius you won't really see temperatures higher than the 30s usually)
t. american

[Anonymous No.18041640]

>>18040889
what oven allows you to set temperature by the fucking decimal you penis wrinkle

[Anonymous No.18041773]

>>18033376
He's making fun of the imperial system, it's not uncommon since very few countries are still using it.

[Anonymous No.18041794]

>>18041425
>>18041614
>>18041640
Do you understand that if they adjusted the fahrenheit scale by a factor of 10 it'd still be the same? If 212F was written as 21.2F it's exactly the same accuracy.
I swear that burgers are too stupid to understand numbers

[Anonymous No.18041811]

>>18041794
except oven gauges are designed to work with whole numbers and not decimals, so no it doesn't work exactly the same bitch

[Anonymous No.18041813]

>>18041794
You dumb nigger
You don't understand that the scale is like that on purpose so that you don't need decimals in daily life.
You could expand c out to 500 as the boiling point too.
Hell kelvin is them expanding out the numbers because they hated negative numbers.
Fucking metric retards I swear.
The French revolution was a god damn mistake.
All measurements are arbitrary.

[Anonymous No.18041831]

>>18041811
>>18041813
Yep, I can see that you don't understand at all.

[Anonymous No.18041837]

personally i prefer metric but to be honest i think all this anguish comes from europeans always looking up recipes from american cooks and being frustrated by the measurements. otherwise, it shouldn't bother you this much that people in other unrelated countries are measuring shit in their fucked up folksy measuring units.
and my country at least (bulgaria) is also guilty of measuring things in cups and soup spoons and tea spoons. and it's not even standardized measurements like americans have. over here a cup means a literal cup you have around the house. most people figure that means around 150-200 grams but that's as close as you get. at least everyone's more or less using the same size of soup spoon and tea spoon here.
and finally, a personal opinion. i find all these local measurements like cups, thimbles, stone, li (isn't that distance?), taels (isn't that for gold?), bushels, bunches, wreaths, etc. incredibly charming. i wouldn't want them to be subsumed by big metric. i wouldn't want to cook with them, that's for sure. but i wouldn't want them to disappear.

[Anonymous No.18041842]

>>18041831
Decimals are retarded for daily use.
Negative numbers are also retarded for normal temp range.
What don't you understand?
Imperial is for humans and based around humanity.
Metric is for abstractions that don't exist in the real world.

[Anonymous No.18041852]

>>18041842
>Decimals are retarded for daily use
>Proceeds to use 0.5 a cup

[Anonymous No.18041854]

>>18041445
>Fuck me your oven probably isn't even than accurate.
Ever checked the temp on your oven? Damn thing can be off by like 20 degrees celsius and still fall within manufacturers spec.
Besides which at the point in which you'd ever look at singular degrees in cooking temp anyways you'd also need to account for things like air pressure and humidity in your oven to a degree that's just straight up impossible on consumer models.
People tend to think home cooking's way more of a science than it actually is due to not understanding how little control over the various variables they actually have. Anyone that'd done industrial food production can tell you how much those little variables matter and how you most definitely have no fucking idea about any of em.

[Anonymous No.18041871]

>>18041852
You mean a 1/2 cup
Sorry fractions frighten you euros.
Fractions are superior as again they are based around humanity and not abstractions.

[Anonymous No.18041884]

>>18041871
Yep, 1/2 and 0.5 are exactly the same. Sorry your corn syrup brain can't process decimals.
Also make sure you don't use any decimals when weighing out any ingredients either, because that would be retarded.

[Anonymous No.18041887]

>>18041626
so what is your point? your temperature isn't going to be more accurate anyway because it's different if you walk across the street. you're just splitting hairs. what do you use your accurate readings dor anyway?

[Anonymous No.18041897]

>>18033710
Retard.

[Anonymous No.18041905]

>>18041884
One is far more intuitive, sorry you can't understand that.
You also don't understand just how small imperial can get.
>this nigger doesn't know about drams

[Anonymous No.18041920]

>>18041884
>Sorry your corn syrup brain can't process decimals.
You have to convert decimals into fractions in order to mentally conceptualize them, it requires an extra step and is less efficient.

[Anonymous No.18041925]

>>18041905
>Muh intuitive
Nice nothing argument
>>this nigger doesn't know about drams
So are we going to circle back on argument now? Show me modern cook books that use drams. Show me common kitchen equipment that can measure it.
>It was originally both a coin and a weight in ancient Greece
>Hey Tyrone, how much salt do I use?
>About 5 Penny's of salt
Kek
>>18041920
>You have to convert decimals into fractions in order to mentally conceptualize them
Maybe you do, but I don't.

[Anonymous No.18041930]

>>18041925
Metric is retarded.
If metric was a good system we would be using the metric calendar and clock.

[Anonymous No.18041941]

>>18041930
Imperial is retarded. If imperial was a good system we would be using it for scientific work.

[Anonymous No.18041946]

>>18041941
>scientific work
like going to the moon

[Anonymous No.18041966]

>>18041946
And what have you done since then? Been to the moon 53 years ago then gave up.
Meanwhile space x is the most advanced spacecraft manufacturer ever and they use metric
Remember when NASA lost a mars probe because of imperial?

[Anonymous No.18041969]

>>18041941
Metric is good for scientific work because it's very standard and uniform and works better with calculators, not because it's actually intuitive or easy to conceptualize for use in everyday life.

[Anonymous No.18041970]

Metric is better for science but fahrenheit is way better for every day stuff.

[Anonymous No.18041994]

>>18033376
>mask in frame for no reason other than to show people you blindly obey the state
I hate virtue signalling fucks so goddamn much.

[Anonymous No.18042044]

>>18041994
lol that mask actually does look posed as fuck. it doesn't look like something randomly scattered away that was within the frame by accident

[Anonymous No.18042147]

>>18041969
1 cubic meter of water weighs 1 ton, 1 litre of water weighs 1 kg.
That's intuitive
>>18041970
>but fahrenheit is way better for every day stuff.
It makes no difference.
By the way, how do you set temperature on an Aircon in Fahrenheit? Yesterday I wanted to turn up the heat in my lab, so I won't from 18C to 22C. That was 4 button presses.
In Fahrenheit it would have been 7 button presses, seems more annoying. Does it usually skip numbers to reduce button presses?

[Anonymous No.18042162]

>>18042147
Having more whole numbers is a feature of f, not an inconvenience.
The guy thought that having decimals in daily life was inelegant.
Generally if you hold a button it starts to jump by 5s.

[Anonymous No.18042190]

>>18037308
Wrong on so many points
Also body temp is 98.6
Which is why it's a retarded metric to use, you don't need that degree of accuracy most of the time.
Farenheit is perfect for scientific measurements, BECAUSE IT IS SO ACCURATE
However, in the real world day to day I don't need to know that water is boiling at 212 or freezes at 32
Those are useless measurements.
However, explaining and using the scale that 0 degrees is water freezing and anything below that is below freezing is simpler and easier, which is the whole point of imperial units.

Imperial units are literally just to make regular life easier, they are guestimates, you don't need to know precise weight for most things in a kitchen, why would anyone need to know they are 186.4cm tall? when 6'1" is just easier to visualise.

Which again; is the whole point.
If you try to guess a cm measurement you are likely to be so off, the point of metric being accurate becomes pointless.
Imperial is perfect for regular people to use day to day.
Which was the idea in the first place.

[Anonymous No.18042195]

>>18042162
I don't see why you'd need more whole numbers.
For air-conditioning, you only really need a small temperature range.
Outside temp? Celsius whole numbers are at a small enough interval, fahrenheit seems like too much.

[Anonymous No.18042198]

(12) months / (28-31) days / (infinite) years
it's organized by smallest to largest, yuroshits

[Anonymous No.18042199]

>>18042190
>BECAUSE IT IS SO ACCURATE
Celsius and Fahrenheit are exactly as accurate as each other.

[Anonymous No.18042202]

>>18037079
>Step outside for a moment
Yes but should I wear my jacket?

[Anonymous No.18042211]

>>18042190
>why would anyone need to know they are 6 feet 1.228 inches tall? when 186cm is just easier to visualise.

[Anonymous No.18042217]

>>18042162
americans
>having more numbers is a feature
also americans
>we prefer to use fractions

[Anonymous No.18042241]

>>18042195
Nah you can tell the difference between say 63 and 68. That is the point. It is for temp in general not just your air conditioning.

>>18042217
Yes on both. I don't understand how that is some sort of gotcha.
You use more whole numbers because it has the precision built into the scale.
Fractions are easier for the average man to understand.
Like a quart is 1/4 of a gallon, it is in the name lol.

[Anonymous No.18042242]

Celsius for the weather is retarded. cm for a person's height is retarded.

[Anonymous No.18042254]

>>18042241
because you are literally using fractions instead of using whole numbers

[Anonymous No.18042273]

>>18042217
We don't use fractions in temperature at all because the scale is sufficiently wide to accommodate sufficient precision with whole numbers alone.