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Post by dawn on Oct 19, 2022 10:37:37 GMT
Makes me laugh when you do a reduced servings conversion and it wants you to add 2/3 of an egg 😂 Sometimes I crave cookies and I don’t want to make a large batch- I know I will eat them. I will take a recipe and reduce it. If you beat the egg in a bowl, count out the teaspoons as you move it into another bowl, then you can convert it to 1/2 an egg or 2/3 etc. Too much egg in a cookie makes it cakey. I prefer soft/chewy cookies... so I stick with the conversion. |
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Post by Clarabelle on Oct 19, 2022 11:19:14 GMT
It looks like a Hair of the dog hangover recipe
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Post by maggiemay on Oct 20, 2022 3:37:52 GMT
Well, I saw that there was a conversion option so I used it. Do you have measuring spoons and cups that are that precise?  to answer your question, Bean, we have scales for the weight (grams) and glass measures for the liquids (mls), as well as spoons and cups sizes for other measures.......not for eg 56.29 grams though, we would round that up or down or just guess, near enough is good enough usually |
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Post by joono on Oct 20, 2022 14:11:24 GMT
The one I don't understand in American is a stick of butter. What the hell is a stick of butter?
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Post by dawn on Oct 20, 2022 14:43:39 GMT
A stick of butter is 1/4 of a pound of butter.
Typically you would purchase four sticks of butter which would be 1 pound of butter in a box o butter.
Each stick contains 8 tablespoons or 1/2 of a cup or 1/4 pound.
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Post by dawn on Oct 20, 2022 14:44:28 GMT
And last week when I purchased a box of butter it cost over five dollars. Which is insane.
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Post by goblins on Oct 20, 2022 19:31:03 GMT
Here is a recipe from the drunkest state in the US.......
Wisconsin Beer and Cheddar Soup. Hey now, those are fightin' words. Wisconsin is only #3. (According to 2011.) I am from a town of 840 people, and we have five bars.  The people of North Dakota have more opportunity to get drunk in bars than any other state in the
country. According to this chart of the number of people per bar in each state created by INFORUM,
North Dakota has a bar for every 1,620 people. Congratulations, North Dakota. Your bars are less crowded, or something?
North Dakota narrowly wins over slightly less boozy neighbor, Montana, which has one bar per 1,658 people.
The rest of the top five include Wisconsin, South Dakota and Nebraska. The chart, which was cobbled together
from 2011 Census county business data, shows that Virginia is the driest state in all the land, with a very sober
one bar for every 64,773 residents. The article also has a nifty interactive "booze in the USA" map with even more
bars per capita data, which is below, along with the full list in order.
People Per Bar by State, in Order
· North Dakota, 1,621
· Montana, 1,658
· Wisconsin, 1,877
· South Dakota, 2,258
· Nebraska, 3,102
· Iowa, 3,118
· Wyoming, 3,303
· Rhode Island, 3,982
· West Virginia, 4,051
· Alaska, 4,302
· Pennsylvania, 4,320
· Nevada, 4,494
· Illinois, 4,604
· Oregon, 4,676
· Idaho, 4,832
· Ohio, 5,046
· Minnesota, 5,271
· Louisiana, 5,414
· New York, 5,629
· Washington, 5,670
· Indiana, 5,798
· Hawaii, 6,056
· Michigan, 6,104
· Kansas, 6,324
· Vermont, 6,328
· Colorado, 6,452
· Massachusetts, 7,199
· Washington, 7,851
· New Jersey, 8,019
· Missouri, 8,057
· Texas, 9,909
· Maryland, 10,136
· Oklahoma, 10,192
· Florida, 10,301
· Arizona, 10,804
· Connecticut, 11,225
· California, 12,159
· South Carolina, 12,855
· Kentucky, 13,321
· Maine, 13,553
· Delaware, 15,375
· North Carolina, 15,701
· Utah, 15,739
· Alabama, 18,261
· New Mexico, 18,759
· Tennessee, 18,889
· Arkansas, 21,445
· Georgia, 21,812
· Mississippi, 27,326
· New Hampshire, 34,689
· Virginia, 64,773
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Post by goblins on Oct 20, 2022 21:00:36 GMT
I guess we all have to be good at something. Didn't you say once you went to school in Wisconsin? Or was that someone else? |
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Post by humanbean on Oct 20, 2022 21:01:36 GMT
Yea! Go mid-west leading in the race to the bottom....
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Post by humanbean on Oct 20, 2022 21:08:06 GMT
I guess we all have to be good at something. Didn't you say once you went to school in Wisconsin? Or was that someone else? I lived in Wisconsin for over 15 years. I finished college there. Long story..... Anyway, I was stunned by the number of bars there but I guess when it's freezing cold for most of the year people have to go somewhere when desperate to get out of the house. |
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Post by humanbean on Oct 20, 2022 21:09:20 GMT
Also, Wisconsin does make the greatest cheese!
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Post by humanbean on Oct 22, 2022 14:52:44 GMT
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Post by pepe on Oct 22, 2022 21:54:36 GMT
the world would be a better place if we all just measured stuff the same way - so you guys need to switch to metric  |
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Post by maggiemay on Oct 22, 2022 22:29:25 GMT
that's interesting, Bean......measurement there for "old recipes", i have scales which have imperial and metric, ounces and grams, so using my mother's recipes is easy....not so easy with liquid cup measures though, there's a big difference between 250ml and 284ml
i agree with Pepe, switch already!!
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Post by figlet on Oct 23, 2022 0:08:06 GMT
"In Australia, the standard tablespoon measure holds 20ml or 4 teaspoons. However, in the US, UK and New Zealand a tablespoon holds 15mls or 3 teaspoons"
I have Aust. measuring spoons and use NZ recipe books. Also still have some NZ sized measuring spoons.
I did notice the baking powder measure was too much in baking and reduced it.
Measuring by grams is better..as in above example measuring cup sizes can differ from country to country.
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Post by humanbean on Oct 23, 2022 16:02:46 GMT
I pick my battles and the measurement thing is not one of them.....all you have to do now is convince the rest of the world to go along with you.  I don't do much cooking that requires exacting measuring and hardly use recipes anyway. Baked goods is a different matter and I hardly ever do it. So, I will continue to eyeball and use the palm of my hand method to measure with.  |
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Hey now, those are fightin' words.
