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SuperGeniusPS
Anfalicious
You know what's even handier? The metric system.
TheTripleLindy
“How many TBS in a cup?” “Dude, you’re embarrassing me in front of the wizard.”
alcaray
I don't recall ever needing to convert from teaspoons or tablespoons into any other measure. They are just convenient amounts to cook with.
icculus760
I think you broke @UnitConversionBot ... awfully silent rn
UnitConversionBot
Sorry, the server has been offline. Should be back up now!
eacore
Thanks mate ill use metric
UnluckyScarecrow
Hold on. 1/3 cup is a tea spoon, when 1 cup is 48 tea spoons?
llamallamadingd0ng
Here I thought it was his skill tree
OobedoobScoobyDoobyBenubi
it is for alcoholics
FritztheChef
Technically it is
llamallamadingd0ng
Ah his cooking skills tree of course
Voric13
MouseKeyboard
Americans will use anything to avoid the metric system
WeirdStealth
I'm tempted to print this out as a poster.... if the right side wasn't cropped
OliviaGarden
Useful information but the delivery is a bit... Strange...
Vorphalack
This one’s good for gallons, quarts, pints, and cups:
CrimeThinker
Trying another's recipe could be in any sort of units, and you might need a much bigger batch. 3tsp=1Tbsp and 4Tbsp=1/4th cup is all I need.
urrugtheorc
It's worth noting that cups, teaspoons, and tablespoons are different measures across the world. eg a US cup is 240ml, a metric cup is 250ml
resolved
[sends to kinkos] : yes thats correct life size. Yea. yea. it's going on the side of my whole refrigerator. don't care how much it costs
u2braindead
Let us know how long it took and how much it cost... I think there may be some more takers :)
SlightlyRelatedToThePost
This reads like a joke but that'd unironically be badass.
ShaunDreclin
Sadly they wouldn't print it, copyrighted content :(
DragothMP5
I dunno it’s pretty clearly parody.
TheSecondPiewackit
Dude you can get this on a standee. It won't cost that much.
distractedFreek
SeahorseMurderer
How many washing machines is that.
Chimponzoo
7 speed
b612
or you could go metric...
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Or you can use the metric system.
Ceardah
F that... Lets just switch to metric system
darkchiron
METRIC SYSTEM.
DreamingOfDistantShores
FINALLY, we definitively know what the imperial system was based on. Literal sorcery. I always rather suspected.
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DreamingOfDistantShores
Honestly it's all we have at this point.
ThatLurkerGuy11
These days it's based on metric measurements but back in the good old days yes sorcery.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
768 teaspoons in a gallon.
ezekiel9247
Metric advocates: remember that these are based on practical numbers. Look 'em up. 12, 20, and powers of 2 all have great value in units.
AnonOmis1000
How can 1/3 cup = 1 tea spoon but 3 tea spoons = 1/16 cup?
Tenugui
Because it's wrong
tyrson
There's a " + " between the lines at the 1/3 cup. 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon = 1/3 cup.
bruhdood
Same question… I was like wait a second I wonder if those got mixed up,
tyrson
Where the two lines converge, there's a " + " sign that indicates an addition of two kinds of spoons for 1/3 or 2/3 cup.
CBadger
Look again, there are 2 links there that you add together.
CBadger
You missed the + sign. It's linked to 2 places. 1/3cup = 1tsp & 5tbsp
Espy360
Thank you! I made this same mistake.
SilentShift
I look at all of this and it just comes in as a jumbled mess, it's a wonder you get anything done in a kitchen at all...
nero4ty2
It’s remarkably easy to measure with the right tools, every set of cups comes with 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1 cup, and recipes are built around it>
nero4ty2
They also have metric equivalents for most of them on the cup or spoon, just different than you are used to
Jubetsu
What if I were to tell you all their units are as horrible, even outside kitchen
UnrulyRaven
This is the worst conversion chart I've ever seen for this system. Most of the time you don't need to convert at all. Just follow the recipe
CBadger
As an American cook & baker, I use metric recipes and measure in grams and ml when possible.
IDunCur
THIS! This is the reason I wish the US went metric. This is insane! Why do you want to try remembering this! Let's be lazy like the rest 1/2
IDunCur
Of the world and do metric where you just do factors of 10. So much easier! 2/2
UghItsThatGuy
What about gill, jack, dram, nip, barrel, hogshead, and tun?
Chimponzoo
Grains, Troy Ounce, Carat, caliber, shot, schedule, cubits, rack units, cord, and of course Hitlers.
Chimponzoo
As in 4 Pol Pots = 1 Leopold. 2 Leopold = 1 Hitler.
meigea11
Good luck to the barleymow
atobi16
Guess I found seven more slurs for the English.
ChalkCoatedDonut
Are those currency or sexual acts?
luciferrex
WhyDontYouMakeMe
Barleycorns are the best unit of measure
Harryteeters
About 40 rods to the hogshead
RestlessVagabond
40 Rods to the Hogshead is also the name of your mom's porno. (not really I'm sure she's a lovely woman but I could not resist)
Harryteeters
Oh no my mother's a dirty drunken whore. You good.
immabearrawr
That's how I likes it
Aryakickass
Don't forget the butt
hiphopchinashop
I said whut whut in the butt
HillOfBeans
FranxNBeans
That's what she said
Davedavedavedavedave
Or, you know: 1L, 500mL, 250mL; 1kg 500 g, 250g....
HangingOnTheEdgeOfTomorrow
At this point saying that's like "Why don't you just cheer up?" Thanks for the sentiment, but it's not that easy.
Ralvuimego
Sadly, none of my kitchen equipment uses sensible units of measurement like these.
Shigbeard
BiggestBangGore
Or just know both. Americans be like I LIKE THE FUCKING ONE I ALREADY KNOW AND THAT'S THAT. *Invades country*
Tigersterne
But what's that in washing machines?
BigKyri
Or 1/2, 2/3, 4/8 of a small boulder
Muttons1337
Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow it down for me Isaac Newton. Too much of that makes sense.
RulesOfImgur
To be fair, America does use the metric system. We use it to measure our bullets.
MadHakon
You use those measurements to bake/cook. If your food was so good, while do Americans eat more/are fatter? Checkmate!
Mithi
Because you use STICKS of butter. What the fuck of a measurement is that?
MadHakon
Well that's just how they are packaged. Besides, it's more convenient because they are wrapped in a film that has measured increments
Liggliluff
So does metric butter packages, so I don't even get what Mithi is on about. A stick is a whole bar, right?
CommanderShitFace
That's makes sense get your stinky logic the hell away from me before I use my 9mm with a 6 inch barrel on it. /s
erickey942000
Gross
NACHOFRlEND
What sorcery is this?!?
AntRam95
You can tell Germany invented this system of measurement, there’s no fun in it
Shinikitty
What is wrong with you, the pic is equivalents you just have different measurements. 1L -> 1000mL -> 1kg -> 1000g
ConfessionBare
That's the dumbest fuckin' thing I ever saw!
DaveDreamsOfDumplings
33 downvotes for the easier, more logical system. We're never going to see the end of Covid.
2oh7Walton
Burn the witch!
OmnesMundiLardum
It's not that complicated 1 gallon, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 ... there just given names instead of saying the fraction.
Liggliluff
Well, except a pint is 473.176473 ml and a cup is 240 ml, so that is not 1/2 but 80000000/157725491.
RayMC
I often wonder how these people would react if they found out computer memory was organized by base 8 instead of 10.
TheFallenTwo
... It's base 2...
RayMC
I meant at the byte level. But yeah, circuits can only be on or off. But don’t tell them that, either. Base 2’ll terrify them even more!
ChrisYourself
You're speaking the devil's language!!!
gat0n3gr0
Coyotebd
Also, 1 metre cubed is a kilo-litre
TheAncientSea
Heh heh hell yeah brother
RileaSW
Funny that you think us Americans are smart enough to learn the metric system.
kwyjjibo
If you can learn to functionally use a completely batshit insane system, you're smart enough to learn a system with logic to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RileaSW
What makes you think we even know how to use this arcane bullshit? :P
phobosorbust
Anyone who took a science class in high school learned metric.
Mou5e
Adam Regusia did a great video about why recipes from each system of measurement don't necessarily translate well to the other.
Liggliluff
If it's the one I think of, it was bad. The core idea was that USA might have a 1 lbs package while Europe has a 500 g package, and he ...
Liggliluff
[5] be what the metric recipe would become, if he had made an originally metric recipe. ..... I so hate imgur's comment length limitation.
Liggliluff
[4] But this is stupid. He should base the imperial on 1 lbs (453 g) and the metric on 500 g. So the metric becomes 1.1× more. That would...
Liggliluff
[3] a 500 g package is wasteful, therefore he didn't want to convert. But now he do convert, and do give "1 lbs (453 g)" in his recipes ...
Liggliluff
[2] makes his recipe based on 1 lbs (453 g) and all ingrediens are based on 453 g and not 500 g. But asking Europeans to use 453 g of ...
SEAW1NG
Phhhssss, that's metric is too easy. I bake, so everything is metric because it easier than fucking converting tsb and oz or fl oz.
Firebirdsroost
Metric is much nicer, but if you like old recipe books like me, you need to know this stuff.
Mithi
Convert and never look back.
Ragionier
Yeah na, not with baking, metric is much nicer
Mithi
Convert TO METRIC, obviously!
Ragionier
Fucking hell I can't read
Firebirdsroost
Not going to happen for a variety of reasons, but I do hope some day my country catches up with the rest of the world and accepts metric.
Liggliluff
Depends on what book you find. Metric is from 1800, so old books can be metric. Books before that have local units, not always UK/US units.
TheSpaceCroissant
TheGracefulDead
Always learned a mile is 5280 ft. Never by yards
TheSpaceCroissant
I did notice that yard measure is very rarely used, eventhough it is basically a meter long.
Raemnyx
Same. I'm not sure I've ever actually used yards to measure something tbh
Surfbreaker83
Am I drunk and illiterate or does that say "Arbitary scale..." Right there under Fahrenheit? Instead of Arbitrary. Can't take it serious now
Callynd
Base ten is not god, the measurements people used in the past often were used for a reason and Celsius is just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit
Callynd
Most metric is better for our current society, but the fact that a pound is 16 ounces isn't a sign that the past was dumb.
TheSpaceCroissant
Celsius goes from the temperature of freezing to evaporation of water at sea level, seems legit to me.
floug472
Celsius isn't arbitrary you uncultured swine.
talianagisan
Month day year makes so much more sense. I use the month way way more than the day. I always screw up forums that use the other method.
gooberthehat
No it doesn't, as shown in the image.
LordVulpix
Months have the smaller number cap. Days in the middle and years are in the 1000s
gooberthehat
It's about hierarchy of value, not the number of digits.
KnowWhen
What makes sense is yyyy-mm-dd . Easy to sort and compare.
ConvoluteNZ
Agree. Computationally, its the best way. Otherwise you'll have to define your data type as date and cross platform this can be a real pain.
Acarcan
Or Timestamp : easy to sort, easy to store, easy to transform when you have to use it.
RayMC
Fahrenheit isn’t arbitrary. Daniel Fahrenheit was trying to create a system where 100° was human body temperature, but he was off a smidge.
TheSpaceCroissant
But human temperature itself, though stable, isn't universal, unlike boiling temperature of water under earthly pressure at sea level.
RayMC
That’s just the curse of wanting to make a system oriented around things people actually care about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
wyrde
Not exactly. He designed a system with a) 3 set points that were independent of atmospheric pressure; b) to easily calibrate instruments /1
wyrde
with imperfect glass blowing/sizes; and c) to have a set point material (salt slurry) he controled for profit. With manufacturing at the /2
wyrde
time it had some superior qualities, but F was a dick and wanted to be rich and glass manufacturing got better, so the C-scale won out.
mk1234567
The only actual annoying thing is that he set 0 as an ice brine instead of just regular ice
LurkerOfDarkness
It's because that's the coldest he could produce in his lab.
mk1234567
I know, but it limits the practicality.
Chronozon937
Not even the rest of the world uses purely metric, the uk uses the stone as an actual unit of measure. Canada flips between the two just as1
XplodingLarsen
*English speaking countries. Only area where there isn't metric is in seafaring
Chronozon937
Often as it flips between english and french.
KnowWhen
At least in French lbs abbreviation makes sense
50m31AW
12 is a highly composite number, as is a 36. 12 is a much better base than 10 bc it's more evenly divided. Sure, it takes a bit more math 1/
50m31AW
to work out conversions, but it has a reason for using the numbers, that being the practicality of easy equal divisions. Metric should 2/
50m31AW
obviously always be used for scientic purposes, but there are cases where imperial & customary are better suited bc of the divisibility 3/3
50m31AW
Am I really being downvoted for stating a fact? 12 is objectively a better base bc of it's divisibility. It's inconvenient bc we use 1/
Mithi
No, you are downvoted for pretending the fact you state is of any relevance. Which it isn't. See: pretty much the whole world.
50m31AW
It is relevant. The comment I replied to says the numbers are all arbitrary; I'm saying they're not arbitrary, bc they were chosen bc of 1/
50m31AW
decimal instead of dozenal. Metric would be exactly as convenient using superior dozenal as our base, same simple shifting of the radix 2/
50m31AW
point. And it is fact that those particular numbers aren't arbitrary, bc they are highly composite, & thus conveniently split into common 3/
ragazzino
How much in your spoon?
MerlotMission5291
A whole table.
GinOClock
Tbsp 15 g, tsp 5 g.
ragazzino
Yeah, 3 to 1. That's an easy ratio. Some folk think it's so hard.
Anfalicious
Volume to mass? Err...
kadac00
My spoon is too big
ragazzino
...and the graduated pipettes are all in the lab, just means take away food again.
Davedavedavedavedave
1 teaspoon= 5 mL
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Klonkar
Idk man,all my baking containers are labelled with both except for cups. A dl container works. No clue why you are going so hard with this
Davedavedavedavedave
You can use whatever you want. Metric is just easier.
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MicahtheMartian
Metric is wayyyyy more precise for baking.
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ZachariasWolfe
A measuring system is not inherently more precise. Measuring tools are where the precision is derived. A litre is more precise than a gallon