A recipe says bake at 175 degrees Celsius, but your oven temperature units are Fahrenheit, to what temperature should you set it? Unfortunately, different temperature units of measure are not proportional, so it is not possible to state a number you just have to multiply or divide with to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit. The…
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Units of measure – Weight (mass) 🧮
Just as for lengths, this blog also uses metric units of measure – mostly gram (g) and kilogram (kg, 1 kg = 1000 g) – to describe weight (in fact, mass, see note at the bottom of this page). Btw, many recipes improperly use gr to denote gram. The abbreviation gr however is the unit…
Units of measure – Length 🧮
This blog sticks to continental European units of measure. For example, lengths are given in cm (centimetre) or mm (millimetre, which is one tenth of a cm, i. e. 10 mm = 1 cm). If you are used to describe lengths in inches, just divide the cm value by 2.54 to get the length in inches. If the length…
Cooker on the Orient Express 