2000-11-19
I think I might have seen part of this show when scanning the channels. I
watched about 5 min of the show where a young British male was talking about
salmon. Truthfully, his accent was so thick, I had a hard time understanding
him. In the segment I saw, he used no measurements at all, except for maybe
a "pinch of this" or a "little of that". Everything appeared to have been
pre-measured before the show.
But, this is good, because if enough American wanna-be cooks hear metric
coming from the "real chefs", it might sink in that metric is the only way
to cook. Hopefully enough will complain to the cookbook makers to start
using SI or at least to put SI in the primary position.
Have you complained to any?
John
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Sent: Saturday, 2000-11-18 22:31
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:9244] more metric cooking
There's a show on the Food Network (it's actually a BBC show) called
"The Naked Chef". The naked part refers to the simplicity of the
cooking. The show is really about 40% cooking, and 60% funky music and
weird camera angles while the chef walks to various shops.
The chef uses an interesting mix of units. For anything that's measured,
it's pretty much metric. Things that are approximated are "about an
ounce" (of butter), or "four tablespoons" (of water), where the
tablespoon is a spoon that might actually be found on a table.
As has been said here many times, cooking is more about ratios, ambient
conditions, and taste than precise measurement. Still, it's fun to hear
"500 grams of sugar" and "200 milliliters of double cream".
Mike Jenkins
Laurel MD
