DITTO, Stephen. m moon
------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:26:23 AM PDT From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:34722] Re: Unpalatable recipe conversion to metric "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 >> >> >> >>-- >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >>Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: 2005-09-30 >> >> >
