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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6659 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 9 of 13 09 October 2009 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I hope this isn't too far off the topic, but we don't use the same measurements in the United States as the rest of the world. How do you convert from one system to the other? Do you get separate metric measuring spoons and cups?
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7376 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 13 09 October 2009 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
That's a really interesting questions. Americans measure ingredients by volume, most others use weight. You cannot really convert from one to the other easily. This is not like Grams to Pounds or even Farhenheit to Celsius, to go from 2 cups flour to how many grams, you must find some arcane reference to tell you the weight of a cup of average flour. I must point out that for really serious, professional cooking, measurement by weight is the only way to go. This is especially true for pastry and confectionery. But of course if you are studying anglo-saxon culture, it is very fun to make recipes using volume. If you do the opposite, you need to buy a digital metric scale. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 13 09 October 2009 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is an important topic for those who like to cook with English language recipes. I have two cooking books in English, both published in Great Britain. Those two English books I have, use both the European mesurements and the Anglo-Saxon mesurements. Also the degrees for the oven temperature are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit. This works perfect for me because, I can refer to the metric measurements and I don't have to use any calulation tables. However, I don't know how the situation is with cooking books published for example in the United States or Australia.
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| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 13 09 October 2009 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
This is not at all off-topic, because if you are not Anglo-Saxon or in any way used to those Anglo-Saxon measurements and you - as a foreigner - like to use English recipes, you may face a real practical problem when cooking. Maybe you are so concentrated on mathematics then, that you forget to watch your meal which is cooking on the hotplate.Or you have to do a lot of calculations BEFORE you start cooking. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 09 October 2009 at 11:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5514 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 13 of 13 23 October 2009 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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No probs just buy the scales from Tuppaware. You can use the metric or the Anglo-Saxon system, all you have to do is turn the thing round. Cool or what ;)
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