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  • Posts: 9,151 Member
    People who hate the dentist. Get to hear about that all day long. If you hate me so much pick up floss more than 2x a year.

    Gosh, I'm sorry my childhood trauma of having to be held down by my mother while an ex-Army *kitten* dentist pulled the nubs of my remaining 2 front teeth while I'm screaming my 3 y/o head off. Oh and I'll hop in my TARDIS, travel back 48 years and stop my parents from having sex so I don't get born with poor dental genetics.

    I brush twice a day with the "best" toothpaste available to me. I floss despite the stupid *kitten* shredding every time.
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  • Posts: 11,750 Member
    People who hate the dentist. Get to hear about that all day long. If you hate me so much pick up floss more than 2x a year.

    I don't hate the dentist... My dentist is awesome!
  • Posts: 228 Member
    Sara1791 wrote: »

    You beat me to it.

    BTW, a dash is about ten drops. :).

    I prefer volume measurements for everything but bread. I can eyeball volume measurements, but I have no idea what a "gram" looks like. It's a more "organic" way of cooking; doing things by eye, and by taste.

    eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.

    Wait, what?? Cups....I can't even....
    Why DO people post questions here that they could look up FASTER than we would respond? Or the I weigh 121 pounds and want a loose one pound. It's been a week and a half. What's wrong?

    Or the "here is a photo of me at 110lb, am I slim or should I try for 105lb?"
    Please, some of us would kill for 150lb and 110lb is an unreachable dream for some, don't be that person!!
  • Posts: 395 Member
    edited March 2017
    CTcutie wrote: »
    People who use headphones at the grocery store (?!) & while driving (!!). And the ones who max the volume, so I get to hear their crummy music, too.

    In my state, it is against the law to wear headphones while driving. However, the ones who get me are the ones who are listening to music on their headphones in the gym and you can hear them all the way across the weight room.

  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    mskimee wrote: »
    Recipes that don't give specific measurements!! No offence to the Americans on here, but what the **** is a cup?? How big of a cup? And a "dash" of soy sauce could be anything from a teaspoon full to a full on tidal wave. And there are times that google won't help at all, it gives you different weights for a cup measurement. :D

    Measuring cups...

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    The big one is 1 cup
  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    I hate Spring winds in NM...25 MPH gusting to 50 MPH...no way I'm riding in that and the sand storms that will come with it.

    Looks like I'll be on my trainer this evening.
  • Posts: 592 Member
    Sara1791 wrote: »
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    eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.
    For a quick approximation, 1 cup is about equal to .25 liter.

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    If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
    Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
    https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups

    True. To clarify for people who aren't in the US, both cups are trying to measure the same volume, but they do it in a different way. (There aren't two different units of measurements, one for liquids and one for dry things. It's one unit of volume.)

    Also confusing is that a US and UK pint are not the same - the UK one is about 20% more. So if you see references to cups being half a pint, it's half a US pint.
  • dfwesq wrote: »

    True. To clarify for people who aren't in the US, both cups are trying to measure the same volume, but they do it in a different way. (There aren't two different units of measurements, one for liquids and one for dry things. It's one unit of volume.)

    Also confusing is that a US and UK pint are not the same - the UK one is about 20% more. So if you see references to cups being half a pint, it's half a US pint.

    I never knew that! Thanks or that tid bit!
  • Posts: 1,351 Member

    If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
    Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
    https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups

    Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:

    1 cup = 250mL
    4 cups = 1 Litre
    1 tablespoon = 15mL
    1 tsp = 5mL

    Yay for the metric system!

    Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.

    The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:

    a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
    b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).
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    Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter?

    Stick of butter:

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    As you can see 1/4 cup is about half the stick. You just cut it.
  • Posts: 1,040 Member
    edited March 2017

    Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:

    1 cup = 250mL
    4 cups = 1 Litre
    1 tablespoon = 15mL
    1 tsp = 5mL

    Yay for the metric system!

    Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.

    The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:

    a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
    b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).

    And to any Brits, "8 ounces" will not be the same as an American sized cup because, despite a persistent habit that has crept onto the Internet of calling American customary units "Imperial", they actually aren't. It's the pre-metric British units that are Imperial, and the most noticeable difference between the two is in measures of volume. An Imperial fluid ounce is smaller than an American fluid ounce. However, the Imperial pint (of 20 oz) is larger than the American pint (of 16 oz) and so are all bigger units. The Imperial gallon is about 20% larger than an American gallon.

    And a standard American stick of butter is 1/4 lb (113g), about 1/2 cup (American) in terms of volume.
  • Posts: 8 Member
    ..that we have to sleep! So much to do, see and be. We have a lot to appreciate and look forward to. Get off the couch, out of social media and talk to someone F2F. Enjoy being near someone and watch their expressions. See them. Listen. Wonder and explore.
  • Posts: 11,750 Member

    Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:

    1 cup = 250mL
    4 cups = 1 Litre
    1 tablespoon = 15mL
    1 tsp = 5mL

    Yay for the metric system!

    Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.

    The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:

    a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
    b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).

    An Australian tablespoon is actually 20 mL... Just to make life difficult.
  • Posts: 1,351 Member

    An Australian tablespoon is actually 20 mL... Just to make life difficult.

    really?

    *googles Aus tablespoon*

    I stand corrected. Every tablespoon in my house is 15mL. All bought from Australian stores. And that means 4 teaspoons to a tablespoon instead of 3, because our teaspoon is still 5mL...

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    Earth needs a universal measurement system, stat.

    Stick of butter:

    butter_stick-ps-03.jpg

    As you can see 1/4 cup is about half the stick. You just cut it.

    Except we don't get butter in sticks, they come in 250g / 500g pats. And the only metric measurements on that package are in mLs, so there's no gram conversion. I wish there was a vote button so I could find out if people actually measure butter in mLs. Not to mention that I'm sure the density of solid vs liquid butter would be different...

    My head hurts...
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