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And a British baker is happy baking cookies in "Gas Marks". Are these
actually calibrated, or correspond to anything? It confuses me when I watch Jamie Oliver on the Food Network. AIUI, yes, they are calibrated. However, a real cook or baker depends more on what the food is telling them than on arbitrary time-and-temperature settings. True, and one reason for that is that most oven thermostats are off. One thing I hate now is non-peer reviewed recipies. You get them mostly in small press specialty cook books. We have an herb cookbook that calls for boiling sugar water for ten minutes and pouring it over nuts. A *real* cookbook would tell you what temperature, or what candy stage it should be at, or at least describe what you want as a nougat, a hard shell, a praline or whatever. The first time we tried the recipie we got volcanic glass and a ruined bowl. We also have an Indian cookbook that sometimes lists ingredients that never are mentioned in the preparation instructions, and whose measurements are clearly converted directly from metric (7/8 teaspoon ground cummin). And I just made a recipie for "Reisfliesch" by Wolfgang Puck where he neglected to mention to "bring the pot to the boil" before saying "add the rice and cook on low for 20 minutes. If you never get it to the boil, it takes an hour or more. |
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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message ... "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: Oh and you can never have too much garlic. My wife and I regard garlic as a vegetable, not as a spice or aromatic. It's a staple, yes. |
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message ... On Tue, 4 May 2004 09:54:49 +0800, "Neil Gerace" wrote: I can just imagine some American hippies watching those ads and getting ENTIRELY the wrong idea... "Let's move to Canada, man. They got it in the stores!" ...Let'em go. Canada's only good for deporting hippies anyway :-) [Cue Henry Spencer] "Henry's not here, man!" |
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message ... On Mon, 03 May 2004 23:22:51 -0700, Mary Shafer wrote: On Mon, 3 May 2004 22:05:15 -0400, (Peter Stickney) wrote: And, of course, the truly important values - 6.0#/U.S. Gal. for 100/130, 6.5 #/USGal for JP-4, and 6.7#/USGal for JP-5. At what temperature? And what the correction for other temps? ...And what values for my favorite, JP-7? She could tell you, but then ... |
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In article ,
OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: "Let's move to Canada, man. They got it in the stores!" ...Let'em go. Canada's only good for deporting hippies anyway :-) [Cue Henry Spencer] Now, now, be nice, or we'll start selling lessons in how to kick the butts of American invaders. :-) -- MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. | |
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With any kind of instrumentation, you have to ask "how good does it have
to be?" Any bread maker knows that flours are different in several ways, including water content. Eggs vary in size. Some vinegars are more acidic than others. Some cayenne peppers are hotter than others. Some basil is more more intensely flavored than other. If the cups and spoons are more consistent than the raw ingredients, then they are good enough. And, barring spoiled ingredients, the most important are the wheat and the yeast. Wheat varies in protein content by a factor of about two, and also in fineness of grind. Making pizza dough with cake flour is a bad idea; likewise making a cake with high-gluten flour. Different yeasts rise at different rates, and may or may not require blooming in warm water before mixing in. (I have a friend who is a professional baker.) |
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"Nicholas Fitzpatrick" wrote in message ... Please though, feel free to point me to scientific papers that use kgf though .... I'd be interested to know what disciplines think this way! I've seen kgf-m used as a unit of torque in car specs from Japan, of all places. And they measure power in something called PS. Anyone know how many watts in a PS? I think 1 PS = 750W, ie a "metric horsepower". |
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"Tomas Lundberg" wrote in message ... I agree that in everyday usage some "polluting" units are still used, but as Henry noted they are used less and less: in Sweden atmospheric pressure is now given in hPa instead of mm of Hg, nails and lumber is specified in metric units instead of inches, as is also bicycle tyres (but I'm not sure about car tyres), etc. On the other hand the "size" of an bicycle is specified as the size of the rims -- in inches. Michelin tried millimetric car wheel rims in the early '80s, but other manufacturers didn't join the movement. You could get sizes like 205/60R380 and such. 380 mm ~ 15 inches. Our atmospheric pressure is measured by the Bureau in hPa too. 1 hPa = 1 millibar. But that's a real kludge as hecto- is not an SI prefix. I would much prefer to see kPa. Standard atmosphere = 1013.25 hPa = 1013.25 mb = 101.325 kPa. |
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Just as a footnote, this was exactly the case with switching to the Euro
in quite a lot of european contries. Suddenly a few hundred million people had to deal with new units in a very central part of everyday living. While this did cause a certain amount of confusion for a while, it worked amazingly well. You just had no choice. This certainly helps. It also appears to have paid off big time in forcing companies to rationalize their financial software. Rather than struggling along with legacy and non-communicating billing, accounting, payroll etc. systems, running on a mixed lot of legacy hardware, and trying to patch them to handle the Euro, the European IT community seems to have gone in for retooling with more modern integrated solutions, and also modernized their hardware. |
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