As the title says, it’s mildly infuriating seeing someone say " cook this at 210° " and stuff like that, we are in a international context!! Do i have to put those cookies in the flames of hell or just around the boiling point of water?!

Edit: the cookie thing was just an example and i throw a random number lol

    • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      17 天前

      Why do you need their time zone if you know their local time? You’ll either be in the same time zone as them, or in one that you can reference your time to theirs.

  • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    17 天前

    As with everything, we know it’s all the Americans’ fault. Joking. Halfway, anyway - they are a majority of the people who, internationally speaking, wanted to be all precious about this stuff. Although even if they didn’t, it’d still seem like “good practice” to include units anyway, though.

    The cooking does tend to just be context, though, or at least “same as all the other recipes”. There’s only so many sane temps to pick for any given thing, and there’s a factor of ~2 between the two choices. E.g. if you were baking, 210° is either pretty hot or way too cool for most things.

    • Makr Alland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      17 天前

      An unspoken rule of the Internet: If a post doesn’t specify country, units, server, or time zone, and that information is relevant, then it was written by someone who is unaware of those things. You know, Americans.

    • Axolotl@feddit.itOPEnglish
      6·
      17 天前

      That would be ideal but honestly I don’t mind too much if someone just uses the °F or °C, i can convert it easly, it’s annoying if they don’t use any unit at all tho and expect me to just guess

      • MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.deEnglish
        3·
        17 天前

        True, however the “convert it easily” part is getting tricky as soon as you deal with seismic activities or radio nuclides.

  • Burninator05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    16 天前

    Can I hijack this to complain about small town newspapers that don’t specify the state? There are 88 cities, states, counties, or districts named “Washington”. Is it so hard to clear up which one youre talking about?

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      16 天前

      I saw an article where it was like, Washington on fire!

      And I immediately thought we had another Jan 6 attack with MAGA terrorists. Nope. Just climate change setting the forests on fire in Washington state.

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
    5·
    17 天前

    I work in metric as an American, my industry is probably the only one that works in metric world wide. Temp is mixed

        • holy_scroller@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          17 天前

          My last project in aerospace with 100’s of people was mostly Imperial. There is a lot of mixing of units and you can basically design your subsystem however you want. There was a mandate decades ago to go metric, but that has largely been ignored. It’s the worst of both worlds!

          My current project is just a couple people, so I mandated all metric. I have to spend a lot of money on tooling, but it is largely fine. I would say 10 years ago getting some fancy aerospace grade fasteners was easier in Imperial, less so today.

          My mind still defaults to Imperial for very small dimensions like a 8 thou gap or something.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            17 天前

            Didn’t that happen because of the Mars Climate Observer crashing? Caused by a us team using pounds-force-seconds where nasa expected newton-seconds (sending it hurtling towards mars at a too-low dip into the atmosphere)

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
            2·
            17 天前

            30+ years satellites, we are all metric. But as @FuglyDuck said it was a mixed team that mixed measurements that caused the failure.

            We do everything in house so when parts\waveguide\antenna’s\etc all gets ordered its all metric.

            And I do agree 10+ years ago it was a nightmare to source but since we are international we could have bulk sent over from Europe and eventually Canada.

            Oh I missed the “The worst of both worlds” part LOL I can imagine, I guess if it comes to modules they could be mixed as long as they can fit in the footprint of the engineering drawings :)

            • holy_scroller@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              16 天前

              A lot of duel dimensioned drawings when you are interfacing.

              I just have to be able to convert back and forth, sometimes in a single sentence: “we are using a 500mm X 450mm base made from 1/16” sheet metal."

              • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
                2·
                16 天前

                Yeah I’ve been here, in the US so getting raw stock in metric is prohibitively expensive. So sheet metal is where it all falls down and makes me a bit of a fibber. We would convert it to mm for the final drawings.

                Before CNC’s were common I can tell you some horror stories going to a local machine shop needing it all in metric and you could hear the modem noises in their heads. We would bring them metric micrometers and scientific rulers to help them along. Mind you this was in the late 90’s and they were masters of their art, but metric wasn’t the norm in their world.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    17 天前

    Considering that most cookie recipes are usually at 170c or 350 f to 204c or 400 f, surely you can figure that out from context?

    Especially since certain chemical reactions only begin to happen at the low side of that. For example the Maillard reaction enhances the flavor of sugars and such; or double acting baking powder (as well as greatly accelerating the reaction of single acting powder, soda or cream of tartar.)

    Low temp ovens would just dry out that cookie or biscuit into dog treats.

    • Axolotl@feddit.itOPEnglish
      3·
      17 天前

      Considering that most cookie recipes are usually at 170c or 350 f to 204c or 400 f, surely you can figure that out from context?

      Well that was mostly an example, i never made cookies so i just said a random number

      Especially since certain chemical reactions only begin to happen at the low side of that. For example the Maillard reaction enhances the flavor of sugars and such; or double acting baking powder (as well as greatly accelerating the reaction of single acting powder, soda or cream of tartar.)

      Well, i am not a chemist, i just know a handful of stuff that i can use in everyday life, eg: using hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stained on clothing

  • Codpiece@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    17 天前

    Don’t even get me started on the yanks thinking cups is an acceptable measurement of both weight and volume.

    And how big are we talking? Espresso cup or sports direct mug, because there’s a massive difference.

    • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      17 天前

      I’m not from the US and don’t use it, but a cup there is an actual measurement (for liquid - it’s not used to measure weight). 8 fluid ounces or about 240ml. The metric alternative of a US cup is 250ml

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        17 天前

        We don’t measure weights in cups, but we do measure some ingredients (like flour) by volume, so it’s not uncommon here to see a recipe that calls for 1 cup of flour instead of 120g

        However, we do use “ounce” to mean both 1/8 of a cup in volume and 1/16 of a pound in weight…

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          17 天前

          Well that’s simply because there’s are 2 cups in a pint. So an ounce is 1/16 pint or 1/16 pound.

          Never heard someone say mind your cups and pints, they’d have to be a hobbit. (Mind your p’s & q’s)

    • Axolotl@feddit.itOPEnglish
      2·
      17 天前

      Usually they mean the imperial unit “cup” i fucking hate imperial…also, it’s annoying in this case because you have to guess that it’s the imperial unit and not a random cup