/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13188988
Because it works

>>13188988
I use grams as often as possible

to upset you

>>13188988
because america is a very backwards country in many areas

>>13188988
How is an ounce different from a gram?

>>13189036
An ounce measures weight (force caused by gravity), a gram measures mass. Since weight is mass times acceleration due to gravity (a constant), they are practically the same.

>>13189003
>places around the world are different from one another
>those backwards first worlders...
You're a moron bruh, but yes, measuring by weight is much more efficient when baking.

>>13188988
Piss off eurotrash, you're meaningless.

>lol americans measuring weight instead of mass
okay how do you measure mass?
>by weighing it

genius

>>13189036
1 gram = 1000 milligrams

1 once = 437.5 grains -> 28.3 grams

The Imperial system is literally based on the weight of grains.

>>13189058
u r mom got my mega mass last night if u know wut i mean

>>13189063
cringe

>>13189061
So what? It's all arbitratry like the swing of a pendulum.

Time isn't kind, but then who defines what time is?
Time Isn't Kind - Fine Young Cannibals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0eBJXnFsP8

>>13189070
Counting by tens is easier than 28.3s

>>13189091
Different ways for different purposes, like for logarithims and within that different ones as well. Sometimes hex sometimes octal, it's best to know them all.

>>13189091
Being consigned to only base 10 is stupid and makes no sense.

>>13188993
that's really all that matters

The shitty communist metric system is horrible. All the units are way too small to be useful for anything. The American system has propelled us to the front of the pack. Why do you think the only world superpower left is also the only country to use the American system?

>>13189113
Ours isn't right or wrong, it works, it's Imperial and is what it is. It's just as arbitrary as some eurotrash metric shit.

>>13189045
how about using actual scientific units like GRAMS, boomer?

>>13189129
What's "scientific" about grams except that others accept it? It's based on a swinging pendulum and that's that, so that's "scientific?"

>>13189129
That uppercase grams really helps in your discussion.

>>13189096
why?

>>13189141
Exactly, but we do have to come to terms so we can agree on things from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrBYsPJ0rkA
I used to be a real evil motherfucker
Fine Young Cannibals - I'm Not the Man I Used to Be

Americans made this massive mistake when naming "fluid ounces", not realising that most of their population would never be smart enough to understand the distinction between volume and mass

>>13189150
That's niggers and an aged based education system, you're learning it now in eurofagland. You're catching that now by goosestepping to merkel.

>>13189150
Unions and people that can never be fired for lack of skill really fucked things up and if you euros think that your shit doesn't stink then you're even more fucked up than we ever were.

It's not about Imperial vs Metric, it's about weight vs volume. It's almost always preferable to go by weight. That way it doesn't matter if you pack it in or lightly scoop it.

Metric has the distinct advantage of easy and consistent unit conversions.

In regards to the pedantic points about mass vs weight, it's moot given that you are cooking on Earth. Kitchen scales convert measurements of weight into mass (yes, even if your chosen unit is metric), given the Earth's gravity.

Ultimately, cooking is about RATIOS. A 75% hydration ratio dough, 16:1 water to grounds for coffee, 2 parts whiskey to 1 part vermouth for a Manhattan, etc. You could measure in anything you fucking want: a coffee cup, your grandma's slipper, the concave spot above your top lip. So long as you are consistent in your measuring vessel and your means of filling that vessel.

>>13189058
kek

>>13189177
>Ultimately, cooking is about RATIOS.
-t. michael ruhlman

Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've), live 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-LTtZbWL-A

HAH!

>>13189187
I ratioed u r mum

>>13189091
>Counting by tens is easier
so are velcro sneakers

>>13189207
Thank NASA for that.
Go for broke, https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

>>13189096
>>13189207

making things unnecessarily convoluted for no reason other than pride is worse than stupid

>>13189219
The Saturn 5 is still a bad motherfucker by modern standards

>>13189230
It's not convuluted like stupid islamic shit, I just call it like I see it. I'm a cheap and simple date and don't wear diapers on my head.

>>13189230
MOA is more precise

>>13189235
It got the job done when it was necessary, what are you some foreigner that wasn't "included?"

>>13189230
>making things unnecessarily convoluted for no reason other than pride is worse than stupid
its not unnecessarily convoluted.
Trying to connect everything together through base 10 is unnecessarily convoluted.

I can imagine a mile.
I can imagine a foot.
They're two different units used for two different orders of magnitude.

But measuring in kilometers is meaningless.
Yeah you can say a kilometer is 1000 meters, and that's true, but your mind cannot envision 1000 meters end to end.

>>13189256
>your mind cannot envision 1000 meters end to end.

>>13189268
Your mind can't envision that's it's arbitrary.

>>13189268
What precisely is a "meter" and where do you get that from? Who tells you blue from red?

>>13189044
>gram measures mass

>>13189278
>What precisely is a "meter"
1000 centimeters.

>>13189268
Some cunt in eurofagland tells you that something is 1 or 2, you don't question it, like a a german goosestepping faggot.

>>13189289
So who defines a "centimeter?"
A bunch of eurofags? No thanks.

>>13189289
ohh so a kilometer is actually a million centimeters, yeah that makes it a lot easier to imagine a million of something

>>13189278
The metre is determined from the wavelength of some radioactive material or other. I forget.
It's definitely more scientific than "a foot".

>>13189317
I thought it was based on some swing of some random pendulum.

>>13189321
>some random pendulum

a gravimeter

>>13189278
The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's circumference is approximately 40,000 km. In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar (the actual bar used was changed in 1889). In 1960, the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86.
See, you're not the only one who started with retarded arbitrary lenghts, except everyone else moved past it.
As for who determines it, it's the general conference on weights and measures which has around 80 countries as members or associates from all over the world.

>>13189300
You can't visualize a kilometer because you grew up with miles. I can't visualize miles and have to think of it in terms of "what is that in km"

There's no doubt, however, that the metric system is more accurate and intuitive.

>>13189289
>>13189300

>1000 centimeters.

its 100
10 millimetre = 1 centimetre
100 centimetre = 1 metre
1000 metres = 1 kilometre

in conversion you only have to move decimal places around, its very straightforward

>>13189324
>>13189325
Indeed.
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inld-zDad0c

>>13189331
But that's only base 10, as I wrote it's best to know more bases than one can chuck a stick at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAON-MwUPY
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Passenger

>>13189003
They have better healthcare and universities than any Nordic country. Don't confuse quantity with quality.

>>13189354
>better healthcare
>better universities

tell me this is bait

>>13189003
We're not Imperial Rome, we do have a system of laws and a declaration of independence and a constitution, look up our founding documents before trying to fuck with the USA, the federalist papers is a start for you types.

>>13189058
I measure it by u r mum sucking muh dik

>>13189372
Our healthcare is good enough to keep fatasses alive longer; obesity being one of the objectively worst things you can do to shorten your lifespan. Meanwhile Yuropoors waste their lives away smoking more than anyone else on earth.

>>13189372

bernie isn't being totally honest with you

>>13189380
Those socialist faggots are never honest, even with themselves.

>>13189340
why?
why is it better?

why make everything more difficult than it has to be?
its ridiculous when even for a simple wooden-furniture-making video on youtube americans have to jump through fractions and antiquated units like "yards" and "feet"

like dude. Just use metres and centimetres already. Its so primitive.

>>13189388
It's just different, I spoken with a lot of Russians, there's not one that I've met that liked that top down control system. It up to us to make stuff better and it's not socialism or communism.

>>13189388
Disagree and get sent to the gulag, great system there.

>>13189372
Harvard is better than anything in the Nordic countries.

If you can pay for it, the quality of care is much higher in the US.

>>13189388
For your bullshit have ever spoken to a Russian or someone from the former USSR that wasn't in power that liked projecting it?

>>13188988
probably because it doesn't matter much
also ounces are not inaccurate, they are a specific thing

>>13189402
Even many random state schools in the Midwest and West are better than basically every school that isn't Oxford or Cambridge in the entire rest of the world

Like 10 UC schools, Michigan. Wisconsin, Illinois, Washington, North Carolina, Colorado, Minnesota. All absolutely excellent schools that the rest of the world combined can hardly compete with

https://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm

>>13189426
Compared to Africa where hundreds of thousands are slaughtered on a daily basis? Don't be a fucking hypocrite.

>>13189295
Reminder that your retard units are literally defined by our units.

>>13189241
lmao are you some esl foreigner who doesn't know what "bad motherfucker" means
or are you just a retard?

>>13189426
Your hypocrasy really does preceed you.

>>13189441
I got your unit bitch!
So please tell me, why not use both or are you such a scumbucket that it has to be one or the other? I do realize that it's good to have a standard but what makes one better than the other? Explain yourself if you're capable.

>>13189256
a 1000 m is roughly 2/3 of a mile so if you can imagine one you should be able to imagine the other, you fucking squid brain

Who decides whether a dress will be long or short?
That's a good Babylon 5 Justin thing... very interesting, very interesting indeed.

>>13189442
Maybe

>>13189325
>general conference on weights and measures which has around 80 countries
>80 countries
>a meter is exactly 25 chicken bones long
not helping you argument

>>13189331
peasant math for retarded farmers and blacksmiths, just because its easy doesn't mean its good ... kinda like sluts

>>13189486
mongo like chicken bones

>>13189486
It's literally explained how length is define in the exact same post, retard.

>>13189499
is that the movie where the big guy was popping dudes on the head with one punch?

>>13189522
I think he punched out a horse, Blazing Saddles.
It's a good one.
Maybe that was Conan where he punched out a horse.

>>13189516
and they used 79 retarded 4th world countries as pawns to back up their claim

What kind of retard doesn't know what inaccurate means?
what a shitty thread.
fuck you.

>>13189532
Go finger your mom

>>13189475
I'm interested in this picture. What are those things?

>>13189527
i watched that shit buzzed thinking it was a serious western which made it that much funnier

>>13189531
Who's "they", retard? Is this another retarded attempt at scapegoating someone you don't like?

>>13189531
wat about prawns?

>>13188988
Like it or not
It's faster then using a scale
And time is money

>>13189536
Shadow battlecrab vessels from the series Babylon 5, it's a classic.

>>13189448
8 or 12 base units where useful back when pretty much nobody was educated and people didn't have much tools for mental math nor did they have electronic calculators. Literally the only advantage it has is that it makes dealing with thirds and quarters easier. That's all. For your average uneducated peasant that was a great advantage.

But you're still dealing with a 8/12/... base unit systems while simultaneously using a 10 base number system. Which makes the whole thing harder to use. Anyone who completed elementary school has enough knowledge of mathematics to deal with base 10 fractions and if they aren't, they still have access to calculators.

Besides, now you have to problem not being able to do "fifths". So what now? A base 30 system? But then you lose the "fourths", so move it up to base 60? The Babylonians did it, and we still use it to measure angles (No, don't look at radians!).

And on top of that you have to use IS units when communicating with the rest of the world anyway. Which is the biggest disadvantage in an interconnected would where information goes the world round in less than a second. Any meager advantage your system has loses all its power in light of this fact.

>>13189552
I think they used to chop up coins into "bits" so 8ths or 12ths for weight.

>>13189552
If one looks into historical English coinage it was based on "bits."

>>13189561
Yes. Used to. Using highly composite number base systems was great until about 50~ years ago.
Perhaps if the rest or at least a large enough part of the world used imperial units there would still be value in using it. Now it's nothing but an obstacle.

>>13189550
It's a very unsettling shape. It must evoke a very primitive kind of fear somewhere in the mammal brain.

>>13189582
That's why it's best to know arithmetic in multiple base systems, also logical operations such as AND OR NAND NOT etc...

>>13189590
Not really, getting into the series they just wanted to not be left alone, but then who does?

>>13189582
Multiple base systems is a different way of thinking, and the more different ways of thinking the better. That's just my goofy opinion, it's best to learn as much as possible instead of being constrained to just one system.

>>13189654
>>13189616

You see, that's unpractical.
People have gotten more educated, not smarter. We're forcing kids to sit for 8 hours of schooling pretty much every day for 18 years and yet when they graduate after just a few years they've forgotten almost all of it.

You forget what you don't use. Nobody has a problem with the 60/24 system of time because we use it all the time. But unless it's part of your daily life you're probably not using units of measurement all the time. I'm not an American, but even I've seen Americans say stuff like "How many inches makes a foot again?". Even OPs pic says something like it. It's clearly a problem.

Now IS units are a uniform base 10 system. The same for all measurement. The same as our number system. Not even an 85 IQ baseline retard would forget it. That's why it's superior.

In a perfect would maybe we would use base 60 for everything, but alas.
Since calculators and international communication are a thing, standards have a huge merit. Even if those standard aren't always the best.

>>13189758
But Celsius is still fucking retarded for weather measurements, way too granular, should not be used for anything besides maybe cooking really

>>13189776
>But Celsius is still fucking retarded for weather measurements

>hurr hurr i use liter and ml, murricans are so retarded
>what the fuck is deciliter and centiliter?

>>13189758
metric was great for the industrial revolution where they need mindless drone factory workers that could do simple measurement but still not be educated enough to think for themselves. We have moved past that time in history, its time for you to escape you base ten box and explore multiple base systems

>>13189797
great point dude

Fahrenheit is great for weather because it pretty closely uses 0-100 for normal weather conditions providing for more information to be transferred with fewer numbers. Now if you lived somewhere equatorial you might even prefer a small range for this but for America and Europe these numbers happen to work quite well

Celsius decides to use the fucking boiling point of water as its 100 which puts it absurdly out of touch with earthly weather, but reasonable for cooking and chemistry (though Kelvin is better for that as it has a non-arbitrary 0)

>>13189776
this, metric and Celsius is fine for engineering and science but it doesn't function well for human scale, it either to precise or to broad

>>13189061
Yeah and the metric system (for mass) is based on the weight of water. What's your point, obsessed yuropoor?

>>13189825
At the same time you're not gonna notice a difference of 1 or 2 fahrenheit degrees, making the larger scale sort of pointless.

>>13189846
Metric is good overall, but Celsius is not

>>13189036
ounce by volume not ounce by weight you fucking dumbo

>>13189854
this is straight up false

We argue at work about whether the thermostat should be set at 69 or 70 or 71 literally every day. It is definitely perceptible. I immediately know when I walk in the room if someone has set it differently than usual

>>13189858
You argue about that at work? What are you, secretaries?

>>13189858
Aren't you paid to do something useful?

>>13189855
meh, measuring a person height in 2 units is to broad and centimeters is way to precise

>>13189846
>it either to precise or to broad
It doesn't work that way. You're just not used to it.

>>13189858
YES. if the a/c is set to 71 at my house it feels muggy but 69 is noticeably cooler

>>13189872
I measure height by muh dik length

>>13189883
upgrade to a proper a/c with a dehumidifier function

>>13189882
would you measure a persons height with kilometers or millimeters? No...no you wouldn't because one is to precise and the other is to broad

>>13189890
i live in Florida, our a/c game is top notch

>>13189799
>>what the fuck is deciliter and centiliter?
I use these words.

>>13189896
Ok retard.

>>13189289

>>13189825
>Now if you lived somewhere equatorial you might even prefer a small range for this but for America and Europe these numbers happen to work quite well
Do you think people use Fahrenheit in Europe?

>>13189858
>We argue at work about whether the thermostat should be set at 69 or 70 or 71 literally every day.
That's because you're autists.

It is literally impossible to feel the difference between single degrees Fahrenheit.

>>13189825
>Fahrenheit is great for weather because it pretty closely uses 0-100 for normal weather
Holy shit imagine being this fucking dumb.
0 degrees Celsius literally corresponds with the freezing point of water.
If it's going to be 0 degrees or less I know its gonna freeze and I need to watch out if I go outside.
For Fahrenheit that's an arbitrary 32 degrees.

I know boiling water is 100 degrees Celcius.
For Fahrenheit that's an arbitrary 212.

>>13189927
not in all temperature ranges but between 69 to71 you can easily notice it

>>13189906
Enjoy your cute chameleons, seriously though a dehudifier and a remote control on the a/c is top notch.When I was a mean little kid friends and I in Florida used to put them on paper airplanes and launch them from like 30 stories up, I've learned better.

>>13189896
>would you measure a persons height with kilometers or millimeters?
These are not two separate systems.

It's not like inch and feet.

1 km = 1000000 mm

>>13189915
Who cares? It's eurotrash zone.

>>13189938
holy fuck...is that real?

>>13189438
>>13189443
Huh?

>>13189951
that is a lot of unnecessary zeros to measure a persons height

>>13189959
Welcome to common core. Hope they ditch it soon because this shit is retarded.

>>13189959
refer to
>>13189426

>>13189975
Go to private school to avoid that shit

>>13189976
>B.A., City College, CUNY
>CUNY
The dude is already a meme.

>>13189975
When it's private school then you can avoid the government shillary agenda of utter bullshit

>>13189982
>>13189996
I'm nowhere near any place that teaches common core, so I'm fine. Plus I'm not in school anymore and haven't been for over a decade, still I wouldn't want my or anyone's children to learn that stuff.

>>13189976
how bad did i fuck up to get bumped into this timeline? now if you'll excuse me i have to go cut my dick off and eat some bugs

>>13190018
I'm 100% glad that I'm out of school as well. Nobody could pay me to go back to that shit.

>>13190019
Spricy thai bugs?
Enjoy!
https://www.thai.lt/thai-food/thai-food-blog/231-a-guide-to-thai-taste-eating-insects-in-thailand

>>13189372
The united states has some of the best colleges in the world and more than any other country. We also have the world’s highest cancer survival rates. We lead the world in medical innovations and research. The reason drugs are cheaper in other countries is because AMERICANS are paying 1000% times the price to subsidize everyone else.

>>13190048
That's true on the drug prices, just compare the same prices for the same products between the USA, Canada, and Mexico, it's retarded that we're subsidising those fucks.

>>13190048
We pay for the R&D but they get the shit for next to nothing without the R&D included.

>>13190048
We do have the best universities and all the best ones we have are fucking full of foreign students and faculty

>>13190066
>99.66% more oil
chart made by morons for morons

>amerimutts cannot into per capita as well

It's as if these stupid ragheads want to steal my precious bodily fluids.

>>13190110
eurotrash is still seething in jealous hate

>>13188988
Those are fl oz measuring cups. You can measure a cup of sugar by volume with it, but you need a scale if you're looking for 2 ounces of sugar by weight, for example. American recipes don't usually do that though since they can ask for 1/2 cup or whatever volume matches up with weight. I have no issue using either imperial or metric for anything as long as I can go by weight in baking.

>>13190048
This. America is dying to create better medicine while the world leeches.

>measures flours in volume rather than weight

The way best way to fuck up any dough

>>13188988
>quarters, thirds, halves and wholes
>2, 4, 6, 8
>inaccurate and random

ITT: absolute dilapidated rusty shanty town of a favela that is amutticope education

>>13190091
it means almost twice as much
brainlet mutty

>>13189280
Reeeetaaaard

>>13189256
>I can imagine a mile.
You can imagine a meter.
You can estimate 10 of them and you can imagine a decameter
You can't imagine 1 km like you can't imagine 1000 miles

>>13188988
>inaccurate and random measurement systems such as "ounces"

An ounce is defined as 29.6 mL, what's inaccurate or random about that?

>>13191338
>You can't imagine 1 km
Who can't imagine a 10 minute walk?

>>13188988

I'm drinking a gin and tonic with a 1/4 cup of gin.

>>13188988

Nonsense, it’s metrics that is the arbitrary system and more importantly, it has no relation to the users.

For example, a liter is defined as 1000 cubic centimeters, which is a derivative of the meter, which is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. If that’s not fucking arbitrary, I dunno what is.

Meanwhile, the good old traditional gallon is based on the quantity of liquid an _average human_ can comfortably carry and pour and this has remained more or less constant throughout thousands of years of human history, with pottery jugs from ancient Mesopotamia being roughly one gallon in capacity.

>>13189165
don't confuse public sector union workers with private sector ones
i'm in a union and union workers are sought after in my field and we can absolutely be fired

>>13189325
>United States is a member
We picked your system

>>13192438
Metric being based on measurable physical constants means that there's no need to have a physical standard to define the unit, which has been proven to be unreliable in the past. Just by knowing the definition of a meter and with the proper measuring equipment, anyone anywhere at anytime can accurately measure a meter. Did you know that the modern imperial system is defined in terms of metric units?
https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.pdf

>>13192438
OH YEAH?
then why do we have a yardstick?
A yardstick is only 3 inches or 10 cm less than a meter
btfo americuck

Time to post this fine gem.
>american education

>using defined measurements in cooking
Ask me how I know you're a shitty chef.

Of course I can imagine a meter. It's half my height, easy.
1km are 2.5 rounds on a running track.

>>13191351
>implying amerifats walk

>>13192438
>pic
Ironic since USA is the most Kiked© country in the world.

>>13188988
I reckon you're the only inaccurate thing 'round these parts.

>>13189975
The thing they're trying to teach with common core is fine, it's how smart people break up complicated math in their head to make it easier/do it faster. Ex: Instead of doing 39x6 you do 40x6 and then subtract 6.
The problem is the teachers are too fucking stupid to teach it properly, so you get questions like that. It's supposed to be a supplemental method, a means to an end, not the end itself.

>>13190066
You forgot:
>have 2752% more land

>>13193253
I'm Yuro and kinda get it because way I do simple math in my head is
27 + 65
Take 3 from 65 leaving 62
3 + 27 = 30
30 + 62 = 92
It was never thought to us like that but I do it because it is easier to add number to a next round ten (I dont know the exact term but you probably get the point)

>>13188988
Because america wanted to feel special

>>13189256
>can imagine mile
>can't imagine a kilometer
Have you considered the possibility that you're just retarded?

>>13189776
>way too granular
So what do you use? Fahrenheit is even MORE granular.

>>13189590
>It's a very unsettling shape. It must evoke a very primitive kind of fear somewhere in the mammal brain.

>>13189133
It's easy to use because it makes sense intuitively how many Xs are in a KiloX, unlike imperial which is basically random how much of a thing is in the next level of measurement.

>>13193467
Miley Cyrus is sooo unattractive

>>13188988
We tried to switch to metric years ago but the knuckledraggers in the red states threw a pissfit claiming it was a socialist atheist conspiracy. However, the military uses metric.

>>13189058
>not measuring the inertia of your ingredients
get on my leve

>>13189325
Everyone else moved past it to what, exactly? They're still seething foreignfag losers. Unaccomplished simpletons who need everything to be divisible by 10.

They tried forcing their fag french measurement system decades ago. It failed because it is not useful. It fails especially badly in the kitchen, which one would think /ck/ would recognize but we have so many deeply retarded foreigners here, I guess it is no surprise.

There is a natural correlation between 2 eggs, 2 cups of flour, a cup oa sugar, etc. Meanwhile in eurofag measurements you're stuck with either kilograms which are massive or grams which are tiny and useful only to drug dealers.

>>13192547
> Did you know that the modern imperial system is defined in terms of metric units?

Sure, in fact the auto industry here in Detroit (I was a machinist for 25 years) designs cars and trucks in metric and then converts the measurements into American standard for production.

But that doesn’t change my point, that metrics is wholly arbitrary and has nothing to do with the end users of the measurement system.

A pint is a pint because that’s the most convenient size container for a _human_ to consume liquids, whereas a liter is both too big for casual sipping yet too small for transporting liquids so while metric measurements can easily be divided/multiplied by ten, this is irrelevant in 99% of real life situations.

When you’re making dinner and the recipe calls for X cups of water, you’re not stopping to do the math in your head to figure out how many ounces that is, you just pour in the correct amount and get on to cooking.

>>13193046
> then why do we have a yardstick?

A yard was original derived as the distance from one’s nose to the tips of the fingers with an outstretched arm and was how rope, cloth and other items were measured by _humans_.

>>13193781
Imma be real. They make 1 litre water bottles. They fit in my jean pockets when i work

>>13193798

Doesn’t change the point that the liter wasn’t _designed_ to be convenient for the human users, it’s a wholly arbitrary measurement that just happens to fit your pocket, a pocket that was designed to be convenient for the human user.

That metrics can be easily divided/multiplied doesn't matter except to scientists and engineers, regular normal people aren't doing the math when they're cooking and such.

>>13193757
Here's a revelation: you CAN use grams for certain things and cups or spoons for others.

>>13193757
Bullshit, recipes here for baking are always in volume - 2 desilitres of flour or sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 4 desilitres of milk etc. Something like butter is in grams but packages have markings on them that mark 50grams each.
Same as yours but with different volume sizes.
Besides baking is not rocket science as some people claim it is, little measurement errors wont ruin your dough.

>>13193171
considering that no one in America refers to 0-9 by the name Arabic numerals 56% isn't actually that bad, even if you remove the bias factor i'd bet 56% would be against roman numerals as well because its redundant.

>>13194006
>baking is not rocket science as some people claim it
bullshit it isn't! i even correct for ambient temperature, humidity, windage and even coriolis effect.

>>13188998
Indeed. "A gram is better than a damn."

>>13194968
I hope you are joking.

>>13194976
i measure all my ingredients in MOA

>>13188988
Because they've grown up with it and are used to it. Trying to use Imperial measurements when you've grown up with metric is a clusterfuck, and I imagine it's the same way for people that have grown up with imperial and try to use metric.

>>13195011
most Americans actually use both, i find it ironic because euros brag about speaking more then one language but can't handle more then one measurement system

>>13190870
Mass is measured in Newtons.

>>13188988
>how many ounces are in a cup
>look at cup
>8 oz. = 1 cup
well, case fucking solved.

>>13190870
You don’t even realize that gram-force is a thing as is a pound-mass, retard

>>13194935
That's kind of the point. 56% of amerimutts are so uneducated they don't even realize the name or origination of their numerical system.

>>13193171
It's funny because the numerals in Arabic are completely different.

>>13195511
yea but that is arbitrary knowledge, not really necessary to the function.

What more important a brilliant mathematician that doesn't know any trivia about the naming schemes or a idiot that knows the history of Arabic numerals but not how to use them?

>>13195511
top laffs

>>13193458
>complete lack of reading comprehension
Have you considered the possibility that you're just retarded?

>>13189590
It kinda looks like a sea urchin.

>>13188988
How is an ounce inaccurate? It’s a measure of weight just like a gram

>>13189856
That’s a fluid ounce and is a different measure than an ounce, ya dunce

>>13190110
Congrats. CNN claims they can hit a state a lot of us want gone?

>>13195307
This

>>13195761
Nope, you miss the point. Most americans, using the very numerical system developed by muslims, are scared of it because they think every muslim is a terrorist and it's a conspiracy to institute sharia law, lol! Iow, it would be better to eliminate 0 from our numerical system than give credit to muslims. Flyovers are a rare breed.

>>13195925
Where did you get CNN from a retard /pol/tard infographic?

>>13196004
The “Arabic” numeral system was invented in India.

>Ctrl-F: Imperial
>11 hits
We don't use the imperial system and we never have. If you cunts are going to go on and on about how accurate and scientific the metric system is, you could at least know what the fuck you're comparing it to.