That's one place we can help. We know the SI and we talk to people. All that's needed is for us to talk to people about the SI and for them to pass it on. People who are diet-conscious already use SI units for some food items so they can easily be trained to use them for others.
The FDA, USDA, or someone in DC recommends "3 oz" of lean meat as a serving. Call it 100 g. That's a chunk of lean meat about the size of a deck of playing cards. It's also the approximate (very close!) mass of a "quarter-pounder" patty after cooking, though that would probably not be considered "lean meat"! A large steak might be 200 g and an obscenely large one 300 g. When cooking pasta as a side dish or a course in an extended meal, use the Italian rule of thumb, 100 g per person, when weighing out the uncooked pasta. If I weren't still full from supper, I could go for a 200 g ribeye; make mine medium rare, please. Jim On Friday 2004 January 02 22:06, Carleton MacDonald wrote: > The meltdown usually comes when people have to actually use it (loose > produce, meat cut to order, etc.), and not just buying a package of > something. They see steak priced by the kg and don�t know how much to > order. > > cm -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
