Baking needs procedures that are consistent and always work. It will use scientific knowledge when it's helpful, but has no problem with just knowing what works without explanation. That's engineering, not science.
Baking needs procedures that are consistent and always work. It will use scientific knowledge when it's helpful, but has no problem with just knowing what works without explanation. That's engineering, not science.
LAP's latest Instagram post also advertises this book and it shows the divider method when you overshoot:
@lostartpress Using Dividers
I would be careful with such generalizations. I have been priviliged to have world class bread to eat, courtesy of my wife, who bakes all of our bread at home. When I die, if they bury me with a couple of loaves of her sourdough olive and a tub of fresh butter, I'll have a happy journey across the Styx. I've never seen her measure ingredients for bread, let alone weigh them.
She also makes muffins and scones to die for. Those she does use measuring cups for, although rather carelessly compared to what I see some people doing.
You are looking at this metric stuff from the wrong end, - and that makes things a lot more complicated than they actually are...... Metric is not only about length, - it covers length, area, volume, weight, velocity, - everything, - and all is about factors of ten..... Metrics came about in an attempt to unify or fing common grounds for scientific and commersial work, in contrary to the more or less chaos that existed up until the 1700s.. various units was not only causing confusion, but also downright fraud. AS for the confusion, - here in Scandinavia there were several definision of "thumbs", which is the local name ( tumal in old norse). This actually relates to the roman "uncia", which was the width of the thumb at the first joint. Uncia is also the origin of "inch". However - failing to find an agreement on which of the existing systems or units to use, the Frech Science Academy decided to make a new system which became the metric system.
Millimeters is for medium precision work. I don't go to the lumber yard to buy 3400mm of 2x4s, - I ask for 3,4 meters - or so. For most of everyday work around the house, we use centimeters or meters, - depending on the task or accuracy expected, - all in factors of ten..... easy-peasy! Same goes for weight and volume, - one litre is 1 cubic desimeter ( a cube of 10 cm, - just shy of 4"...) is egual to 1 kilogram, - and the original definition og weight was 1 cubic centimeter of water = 1 gram....
This was the basis for the CGS system ( centimeters- grams- seconds), from which all other units was defined. Later Ampere was added for electrisity, and the system was called the MKSA system, - Meters, Kilograms, Seconds, Amperes, which is again the basis for the SI ( Systeme International) which rules all trades and sciences today, also in the US.....
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I once owned a metric adjustable wrench needed it for metric nuts, I guess?
I've got a matched pair of adjustable wrenches - one metric and one SAE. I purchased these at Sears about 40 years ago.
David
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Well...those are the lengths of the tool to indicate size/strength. LOL But think about it...marketing a 16" long tool in a place that folks only use metric might be confusing and vice versa. 400mm and 16" are similar lengths. Out of curiosity, what's on the other side in the way of markings?
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
Yep, conversions will kill you
"NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.
A navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet and pounds.
As a result, JPL engineers mistook acceleration readings measured in English units of pound-seconds for a metric measure of force called newton-seconds."
IIRC, The probe crashed before it would have deployed the parachute. Right out of a Road Runner cartoon.
Yeah..... an ounce, or more correctly, an avoirdupois once, is 28.3 grams, a troy or apothecaries ounce is 31.1 grams.... and then there's the fluid ounce, which is not quite the same in Britain and the US..... there's an s-load og other ounces,too..... and the there were 12 inches to the foot, 12 lines to the inch, 12 scruples to the line.... Thank you folks, for inventing metrics.....