"metric prepared food always tastes better".
How?
Would it be in the same sense that roads marked up in kilometres tend to be
smoother and quiter than those marked up in miles? [More of that sort of
post on the BWMA forums by Dan].
Back to "being sensible"
Delia Smith (a well known chef/cook in the UK with some dodgy views about
football) always says that if you are going to follow a recipe you shoudl do
it in imperial OR metric and never mix the two. And in relation to that
site that converted cups etc into silly precise metric units - those that
show both will always have "sensible" figures - and this is where she bases
he point about sticking to one or the other when carrying out a recipe.
Personally - I make a damn fine omlette ;0)
From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:34705] Re: Unpalatable recipe conversion to metric
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:18:17 -0400
I guess the trick would be to measure out the spoons she said and then
weigh them to see how many grams it comes out to and then write back to
here. I assume she means teaspoons, or is it some other type of spoon?
Or you could tell her that her inches and spoons made the outcome to
gingery and if she used grams it would have come out right. Let her know
that metric prepared food always tastes better.
Dan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 2005-10-01 09:24
Subject: [USMA:34703] Re: Unpalatable recipe conversion to metric
On Friday 30 September 2005 23:21, Daniel wrote:
I had to sign up and create a username and password.
It seems the choice of metric comes about by defining over precise
conversion factors between units. I suggested they use a 250 mL and 5 mL
conversion factor between the cup and the teaspoon.
It seems though you can submit your own recipes here. This may be an
opportunity for members here to "flood" this site with their own metric
recipes. Not in the sense of spamming them, but in the sense of getting
metric recipes into their data base that others will see and will be
awoken
to the world of metric cooking and that others do cook in metric,
probably
more so then not.
I have submitted a couple of recipes to the Long Hair Community cookbook.
For
the stir-fry, I specified 100 ml rice and half a plate of some specified
diameter of vegetables. What would they do if asked to resize that?
I tried to make one of the LHC recipes, a curry. It called for an inch of
cinnamon. I got cinnamon powder, not sticks, so I asked the writer how
many
grams that is. She answered in spoons. I was completely lost and made up
various numbers of grams and it was too gingery.
phma
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