From: Eckhart Köppen (eck1001_at_gmx.net)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 15:01:41 PDT
On Sat, 01 May 2004 15:34:42 -0600, Norman Palardy wrote:
> On May 1, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Len Cole wrote:
>> Cooking in metric is a laughable joke. Go to your flour canister and
>> grab me 250 grams of flower! Now grab me a quarter cup of flour. The
>> same can be said for any dry or liquid volume of an ingredient used in
>> cooking.
>
> Ones a weight. Ones a volume.
> There are equivalents in metric. We use them all the time
Exactly. I won't grab 250g of flour, but 250ml or whatever the recipe
tells me (which in Finland uses volume, not weight). And I don't have
to figure out if I'm using the right cup (espresso vs. foot bath sized)
since I got *one* nice 100ml measuring container ;)
Eckhart
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