The american/unamerican thing just referred to the fact that Americans hate the metric system.
If you were enriching uranium, perhaps the difference between 1/3 a cup and somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 cup would matter, but for a sauce with only one ingredient, it's just not worth getting upset about. :) The Google conversion feature is cool though. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:42 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: ya gotta love Google I apologize about the "retard" comment, but don't be retarded man... this has nothing to do with being "American" or "Un-American".. I'm just measuring some f***ing sauce.. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Greg Morphis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1 US cup) / 3 = 78.8627455 ml > > I'd rather eyeball half of 2/3s than eyeball half of 100ml and then > half of that.. retard.. > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Billy Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > If you were to use more than 1/3 cup of teriyaki sauce, it > might cause a > rupture in the space-time continuum. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:03 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: ya gotta love Google > > > > > > > > I'm making sesame chicken, the marinade is just teriyaki sauce. > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is your chicken marinate? > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:40 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: ya gotta love Google > > > > > > > > > > > > So I'm working from home and hit a stopping point, thought I'd prep > > > dinner (start the chicken marinating). Anyways the recipe calls for > > > 1/3 cup teriyaki sauce. My pyrex measuring cup doesn't have a 1/3 > > > marker (has 1/4, 1/2, and 2/3 but not 1/3). > > > I knew that you could go to google and type in (tablespoons in a cup) > > > and it'll tell you how many tablespoons are in a cup. So for S&G I > > > tried > > > "tablespoons in a cup / 3" and bam! it works! 5.3. > > > I ended up eyeballing it because I'm not about to measure 5 > > > tablespoons plus a 1/3 of another but still the idea that it works is > > > awesome! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258216 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
