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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]Tao said:[/b] Having said that the Imperial system has persisted and I hope will still keep on going. Many places offer both metric and what I would call standard. I can only use and work in miles, feet and inches or pounds and ounces, or Fahrenheit and not Celsius, and I have no inclination to adjust my mental calibrations for any politician. [/quote] Is this just habit that makes you say this? Growing up in the United States, I obviously used the Imperial system exclusively and had no desire to learn the metric system. After moving to Korea, though, where everything is metric, I quickly got used to the new system. I still understand basic Imperial measurements (although I obviously had no idea that a fluid ounce was that much), but my basic frame of reference is metric. I find it to be much more convenient, in part because everything is base 10, but also because metric units tend to be smaller, making them ideal for cooking and baking. When you have to measure small amounts of something by weight, it strikes me as a lot easier to weigh 5 grams than 0.176 ounces. The biggest advantage, though, is that 1 ml of water equals 1 gram of water, so you can measure your flour by weight rather than volume (a much more precise method of measuring) and figure out your percent hydration without having to do some weird conversion. How do you figure out hydration when you have one pound of flour (weight) and ten fluid ounces of water? There's probably a formula you can use, but it's definitely not as easy as 500 grams of flour and 350 milliliters of water (70% hydration). Anyway, I don't want to turn this into a metric versus Imperial debate, but I wouldn't want to bake with Imperial measurements. :) Thanks for the link on granary flour, by the way. I had no idea what it was. OK, back to bread! Bread is far more interesting than whatever measurement system we're using. After all, we're not sending probes to Mars! ;D [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/quickie.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] Loading...
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