http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/curing/how-to-make-your-own-pancetta-zbcz1610
"These additions are based on a percentage of the starting weight of the meat therefore, it is important to use measurements of weight such as grams, ounces and pounds. Do not use units of volume such as cups, tablespoons and teaspoons. Using the metric system makes all of the calculations easier, and most scales that you are using for your home charcuterie efforts should have both Imperial and Metric units. Take the leap now and convert to metric it will make things easier in the long run."
The point of the article is so simple that it's puzzling why so many make so big a deal about using the metric system in the remaining 40% of daily activities.
I remember that when the U.S. government botched its chance in the 1970s, the educational methodology was all wrong (leave it to the government to botch it!). Large amounts of class time were spent in conversion exercises: how many centiliters are there in a dekaliter? How many decigrams are there in a centigram? Useless.
The lesson that we in USMA need to get out is that the most effective, and easiest, way of learning metric, as it is of learning a foreign language, is total immersion. Think metric. For example, most thermometers are now digital. Simply set them to metric units and think only in those units. Look at the readings several times a day. Get your weather information off the internet -- Weather Underground is fully metric, for example -- rather than the television. Soon you will find that you are having trouble dealing with Fahrenheit.
--Martin Morrison, "Metric Today" Columnist _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
