[USMA:24826] Re: All Recipes.com conversion button to metric.

[Brenton]

Sorry Carleton,

I must not have made my self clear on my point the previous post.   These recipes are in FFU.  However, the site has a feature to allow me to convert them to metric.  I presume that if the site used Metric as standard, most US users would still convert back to FFU. 

http://vegetarian.allrecipes.com/az/HnyMstrdTf.asp  <<< The emails are sent default in the US standard, which is of less use to UK or AU subscribers.

http://vegetarian.allrecipes.com/az/metric/HnyMstrdTf.asp <<< I click a link and can convert to metric.

(A few weeks ago, I posted my disappointment about Recipedujour.com and their use of only US standard measurements.  This is despite their site being promoted in an Australian newspaper.

To further follow up, I sent an email cancelling my 'free' subscription, and referred to the metric conversions available on allrecipes.com and received the following reply from the host;
I don't blame you for cancelling. If I had the sponsorship allrecipes has I'd be able to offer many more features, but I barely make enough from the text ads in our ezines to pay our web host. I personally dislike allrecipes and about.com because of all the pop-up/under ads. I much prefer recipesource.)


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Probably not:

Few people want to convert a metric recipe to FFU.

But lots of old cookbooks in English-speaking countries are in FFU and there's more of a need to convert them to metric.

Carleton


In a message dated 2/12/2003 7:14:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Brenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>http://allrecipes.com/cb/ref/convert/conversions.asp  <<< After reading
>this, wouldn't it be easier to use Metric as the default,and have a button
>to convert to US, UK or AU differing standards?
>