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Love that you can convert the measurements to preferred units (such as metric). I second Bruce's comment about cup sizes being regional. So are teaspoons and t

Love that you can convert the measurements to preferred units (such as metric). I second Bruce's comment about cup sizes being regional. So are teaspoons and tablespoons for that matter. The wikipedia pages do reasonable coverage on this. So good to clearly indicate which region's measurements are being used. Always been a frustration of mine when reading recipes as having to figure out what country the recipe is published in to figure out what the measurements actually are. (Unless they are in metric, which is unambiguous.)

rojobuffalo 9y ago
I was under the impression that the Imperial (UK) measures were mostly no longer used. Is that wrong?
- anotherevan 9y ago
  Not sure on that, but there are more regions than just the US and UK. For instance, here in Australia a teaspoon[1] is 15ml, not 14.92ml, and a tablespoon[2] equals four teaspoons, not three, so 20ml, not 14.8ml. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon#United_States_customary_teaspoon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon#United_States_customa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon#Traditional_definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon#Traditional_definit...
  - codefined 9y ago
    Currently living in the UK, perhaps 90% of the recipe books and equipment I currently have in my house are Imperial. Definitely do value that as an option.
    - pbhjpbhj 9y ago
      Recipes are an area that is quite hard to shift to metric because often recipes are handed down from previous generations. Simplistic conversions are easy, but will often create slight problems in the recipe - eggs, 'spoon based measures, etc., break the rounding that goes on in moving between measure systems. Cookware passed down too could help to promulgate Imperial measures, we have a heap of tins that are inch-based measures. They're small effects but they add up.
neoteo 9y ago
In fact a country selector would allow not just measures to be adapted but also the ingredients (eg. in some countries dry-yeast is a lot harder to find than the regular kind). Cuts of meat are different too and you often have to resort to Wikipedia's language options to see what a tenderloin cut (say) is in your own language. Finally you could have alternatives with which you could swap out any missing ingredients.

rojobuffalo 9y ago

I was under the impression that the Imperial (UK) measures were mostly no longer used. Is that wrong?

anotherevan 9y ago
Not sure on that, but there are more regions than just the US and UK. For instance, here in Australia a teaspoon[1] is 15ml, not 14.92ml, and a tablespoon[2] equals four teaspoons, not three, so 20ml, not 14.8ml. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon#United_States_customary_teaspoon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon#United_States_customa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon#Traditional_definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon#Traditional_definit...
- codefined 9y ago
  Currently living in the UK, perhaps 90% of the recipe books and equipment I currently have in my house are Imperial. Definitely do value that as an option.
  - pbhjpbhj 9y ago
    Recipes are an area that is quite hard to shift to metric because often recipes are handed down from previous generations. Simplistic conversions are easy, but will often create slight problems in the recipe - eggs, 'spoon based measures, etc., break the rounding that goes on in moving between measure systems. Cookware passed down too could help to promulgate Imperial measures, we have a heap of tins that are inch-based measures. They're small effects but they add up.

neoteo 9y ago

In fact a country selector would allow not just measures to be adapted but also the ingredients (eg. in some countries dry-yeast is a lot harder to find than the regular kind). Cuts of meat are different too and you often have to resort to Wikipedia's language options to see what a tenderloin cut (say) is in your own language. Finally you could have alternatives with which you could swap out any missing ingredients.