Kitchen ratios – part 1 If there is any mathematical topic which you absolutely can’t avoid in preparation of food and drinks, then it is ratios and proportionality. They are used in conversions of units of measure, adapting the recipe to the desired number of servings, and many more. I plan to write a series…
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Units of Measure – Temperature 🧮
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…
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…
Cooker on the Orient Express 