If you have family and friends all over the
world, they will pass along a favorite recipe in their local weights and
measures. Of course, this can pose a
conundrum when you try to replicate it once you come home. How many grams in a US pound?
Or what about wading through the various abbreviations
from another country or language? That
one has always driven me crazy.
Explanation of Common Abbreviations
c = cup
g = gram(s)
gal = gallon
L = liter
lb = pound
ml = milli-liter
oz = ounce
p = pint
qt = quart
t = teaspoon
T = Table spoon, or soup spoon
Oven Temperature Conversion Fahrenheit (F) vs. Celsius (C)
325 F = 180 C
350 F = 185 C
375 F = 190 C
Conversion for Cooking: US to Metric
Capacity
1 t = 5 ml
3 t = 1 T = 15 ml
1 T = 15 ml
1 oz = 30 ml
1/4 c = 4 T = 60 ml
1/5 c = 50 ml
1 c = 240 ml
2 c (1 pint) = 470 ml
4 c (1 quart) = .95 L
4 quarts (1 gal.) = 3.8 L
Weight
1 oz = 28 g1 lb = 454 g
Conversion for Cooking: Metric to US
Capacity
1 ml = 1/5 t5 ml = 1 t
15 ml = 1 T
30 ml = 1 fluid oz = 2T
100 ml = 3.4 oz
240 ml = 1 c
16 T = 1 c
1 L = 34 oz
1 L = 4.2 c
1 L = 2.1 pints
1 L = 1.06 quarts
1 L = 0.26 gal
Weight
1 g = .035 oz100 g = 3.5 oz
500 g = 1.1 lb
1 kg = 35 oz
Hint: I always have these handy in my smartphone’s address book.
Hopefully, this post finally will clear these things
up for you, dear reader. Please feel free to leave me a
comment, if I have left one out, and I will add it to the collective list.
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I had the experience for my simulator race tracks where I had to convert miles to kilometers to reproduce the exact same track length as in real life, however due to Google plus QWERTY and AZERTY quacks it got a bit complicated...
ReplyDeleteI was to convert 1.2 miles into kilometers using my keyboard number-pad (which gave me a fairly close conversion to 1,60km), however when I wrote in 1,2 miles (note the comma and not the period) it gave me the correct 1,931 km.
When I started receiving comments on my track lengths that "it seems a bit short... and the laptimes don't match as opposed to what I get in real life, but it looks absolutely spot on...".
It took me a few minutes to understand why I got this error of conversion, and thought it might help out, because in my case of modelling circuits, I missed out on 331 meters, and had to restart the project from scratch ^^ Live and learn.
Dear Unknown,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your experience regarding 'conversions'. Yes, converting miles to km always drives me nuts too. I did not address distance conversions, because as this piece was dedicated to Recipe conversions.
That having been said, though, it is important to point out a huge difference when writing numbers in US and Canada versus Europe!
In the US and Canada, when writing out thousands, they utilize a comma for the thousands and a period for the decimals. For example one million is written as 1,000,000.00.
Whereas in Europe a period is used as a separator for the thousands and a comma for the decimals. So one million is written as 1.000.000,00!
That can get pretty hairy, if you work in both environments!
Thanks for reading and your comment.