Dear John Ward and All, We found these two web sites last week. The first was:
http://www.cbtl.org/food/conversions.htm Which led to: http://www.onlineconversion.com/cooking.htm We found that the 'onlineconversion' ideas of metric conversion particularly useless to a practising cook. Why would anyone ever want to know that: 1 drop = 0.2105263 dash 1 drop = 0.1052632 pinch or that 1 milliliter/cc = 15.4191935 drop I suspect that the third of these is wildly inaccurate, and this makes me doubt the others, although I have no way of checking to the order of precision implied by these values. When choosing a level of implied precision, what are the rules? In the first example, leaving aside the need for a standard drop and a standard dash, how should we round the calculated value? 1 drop = 0.2105263 dash Since the number of drops is rounded to one significant figure should we also round our calculated value to one significant figure? 1 drop = 0.2 dash Or is there a better way? Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia --
