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Started by Barrister, March 24, 2020, 04:57:44 PM

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How is your employment been affected by Covid-19

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Maladict

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 22, 2020, 05:49:52 AM
Are pounds and inches the same everywhere?


Inches are relative to the beholder.

HVC

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 22, 2020, 06:05:27 AM
Interesting - apparently UK and US measurements are the same for ounces and pounds and then start diverging. So a pound is 453g here and there :hmm:

This would be useful if US cookbooks didn't use cups as the measurement which can present challenges :lol:

You don't have measuring cups in the uk?  Or I guess if you do, cups isn't a measurement on it.
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Sheilbh

Quote from: HVC on May 22, 2020, 06:31:47 AM
You don't have measuring cups in the uk?  Or I guess if you do, cups isn't a measurement on it.
They exist. But they're not used as a unit of measurement generally, I think probably because they're not that universal. So I cook a lot and can bake, but I don't have measuring cups. I have a set of scales and a jug.

I am  stupid and it took a lot longer than it should have for me to realise it but it drove me crazy when I realised that you couldn't just convert a cup measurement to x grams, which has made some US cookbooks I have challenging. More modern ones seem to include cup measurement and weight.
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Duque de Bragança

Quote from: celedhring on May 22, 2020, 04:43:14 AM
Quote from: Syt on May 21, 2020, 10:51:47 PM
Austria uses metric of course, but has a minor quirk. When ordering cold cuts at the deli counter in a supermarket you will not order in grams but dekagrams instead, or deka for short, i.e. instead of 60 grams of prosciutto you'd ask for 6 deka of it.

Heh, never seen dekagrams used everyday life before.

When I was a kid, some grocers still used the Spanish pound.

So Spain has stopped using the arroba (@) and the almud? Allahu akbar!

The Larch

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 22, 2020, 06:05:27 AMThis would be useful if US cookbooks didn't use cups as the measurement which can present challenges :lol:

Or a bewildering amount of different kinds of spoons.  :lol:

The Brain

In Sweden recipes still use a lot of various spoons etc, but they are standardized to milliliters etc (unless you read some grandmother's old recipe).
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The Larch

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on May 22, 2020, 06:50:57 AM
Quote from: celedhring on May 22, 2020, 04:43:14 AM
Quote from: Syt on May 21, 2020, 10:51:47 PM
Austria uses metric of course, but has a minor quirk. When ordering cold cuts at the deli counter in a supermarket you will not order in grams but dekagrams instead, or deka for short, i.e. instead of 60 grams of prosciutto you'd ask for 6 deka of it.

Heh, never seen dekagrams used everyday life before.

When I was a kid, some grocers still used the Spanish pound.

So Spain has stopped using the arroba (@) and the almud? Allahu akbar!

Arrobas are really old-timey.  I just had to check that it's 11'5 kilos. Apparently it corresponds to how much stuff a donkey can carry.


in Galicia we used to have a really particular unit for field size, the "ferrado" (somehow equivalent to the Castillian "celemín"), which changed from one village to the next. It amounted to the minimum size of a field able to produce a certain amount of cereal (between 12 and 20 kilos, depending on the particular cereal), also called "ferrado". It is still used informally by older people in the countryside.

Grey Fox

I hate having to weight liquids when using recipes from european sources. Either tell me cups or ml quantity, ffs.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Grey Fox on May 22, 2020, 07:36:52 AM
I hate having to weight liquids when using recipes from european sources. Either tell me cups or ml quantity, ffs.
1g of water = 1ml :)

Same would go for most liquids used in cooking.

Quotein Galicia we used to have a really particular unit for field size, the "ferrado" (somehow equivalent to the Castillian "celemín"), which changed from one village to the next. It amounted to the minimum size of a field able to produce a certain amount of cereal (between 12 and 20 kilos, depending on the particular cereal), also called "ferrado". It is still used informally by older people in the countryside.
I think the origin of acre is similar. It's the amount of land that could be ploughed in one day
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Gups

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 22, 2020, 04:58:39 AM
No idea about quarters. Also obvs I use imperial for human heights. So thinking about it, it's basically imperial = human size measurements, distance and things that are measured in pints and metric = everything else.

Imperial for everything except temperature for me but reasonably bilingual

celedhring

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 22, 2020, 07:53:16 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 22, 2020, 07:36:52 AM
I hate having to weight liquids when using recipes from european sources. Either tell me cups or ml quantity, ffs.
1g of water = 1ml :)

Same would go for most liquids used in cooking.


Yeah, I love how they tied volume to weight of water, metric system :wub:

The Brain

Why in the fuck would anyone use weight for liquids?
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garbon

Quote from: Grey Fox on May 22, 2020, 07:36:52 AM
I hate having to weight liquids when using recipes from european sources. Either tell me cups or ml quantity, ffs.

I use my scale.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Sheilbh

Quote from: celedhring on May 22, 2020, 08:45:54 AM
Yeah, I love how they tied volume to weight of water, metric system :wub:
Beautiful French rationalism :wub: :frog:
Let's bomb Russia!

HVC

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 22, 2020, 09:07:56 AM
Quote from: celedhring on May 22, 2020, 08:45:54 AM
Yeah, I love how they tied volume to weight of water, metric system :wub:
Beautiful French rationalism :wub: :frog:

But then they went too far and messed up the calendar. that was the turning point of the revolution. all was lost on that crazy day.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.