I do quite a bit of cooking, all metric measurement and use a 250 mL cup and a 15 mL tablespoon. This makes sense I think because 3 teaspoons - 1 Tablespoon. Rounding out is the simple way to do this.
Michael Payne ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Wednesday, 23 September 2009 09:05 Subject: [USMA:45880] Re: History of Units Dear Teran, This is only a first draft but perhaps this is what you had in mind for a Cooking Poster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I would appreciate any comments. By the way, I would see this as appropriate for a different audience to the poster that I published at http://metricationmatters.com/docs/SIMetricUnitsVsUSAMeasures.pdf which, by the way, I have edited to reflect changes suggested by USMA mail list writers. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. On 2009/09/23, at 02:44 , Teran McKinney wrote: I personally thought the point was to confuse the reader with the historic units. I like it they way it is, but I might suggest adding something with a more practical and applicable note, like volume measurement for cooking. Almost anyone can figure out how clumsy it is, especially if a recipe was compared to the metric system. It should probably be reinforced that there are metric measuring tools though, for those who are unsure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Teran, This is only a first draft but perhaps this is what you had in mind for a Cooking Poster. I would appreciate any comments. By the way, I would see this as appropriate for a different audience to the poster that I published at http://metricationmatters.com/docs/SIMetricUnitsVsUSAMeasures.pdf which, by the way, I have edited to reflect changes suggested by USMA mail list writers. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. On 2009/09/23, at 02:44 , Teran McKinney wrote: > I personally thought the point was to confuse the reader with the > historic units. I like it they way it is, but I might suggest adding > something with a more practical and applicable note, like volume > measurement for cooking. Almost anyone can figure out how clumsy it > is, especially if a recipe was compared to the metric system. It > should probably be reinforced that there are metric measuring tools > though, for those who are unsure.
