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Is this common when giving such recipes to mix imperial and metric units? You mention 20 oz coffee so I assume you are in the US. Yet you use g and ml for the

• derbOac 6y ago
  This mixing made sense to me (I'm in the US) but you're right that it's odd. Drinking cups and mugs are often sold in oz units in the US, but if you have a measuring scale and cup, g an ml are sometimes more precisely reported/demarcated. I also think buying ingredients online sometimes increasingly is in metric. The US is increasingly more mixed in unit use than is acknowledged. Temp and speed are the main holdouts. [As an additional later comment, I also realized I don't like measurements for recipes in oz because it can be confusing if it's referring to weight or volume.]
• AdmiralAsshat 6y ago
  The switch was for accuracy, basically. Your average coffee instructions in the US are very vague: "To make one cup of coffee (where 'cup' means a mug, not a standard unit of measurement cup), add one scoop of coffee using our included coffee scoop tool (which holds maybe 1 tbsp of ground coffee, but can vary wildly) per 4 oz water." My method assumes you're buying coffee in ounces and ultimately measuring your coffee consumption in ounces--since no one I know makes themselves 227ml of coffee in the morning. But for all the precise measurements, I used grams and millimeters. It also makes the 15:1 ratio more obvious; that's why I reiterated that 1 gram equals 1 ml.