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We all prefer different units; that's a fact of sharing cooking internationally. That's relatively easy to solve here - we can put up a unit-conversions post here on Meta as a resource for folks wh...
#2: Post edited
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ArtOfCode
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2020-06-11T11:38:08Z (almost 4 years ago)
- We all prefer different units; that's a fact of sharing cooking internationally. That's relatively easy to solve here - we can put up a unit-conversions post here on Meta as a resource for folks who want to convert to their own preferred units.
- What's slightly more problematic are things like eggs. I discovered to my detriment a couple weeks ago that a US "large" egg is a fair bit _smaller_ than a UK "large" egg, so where my recipe called for "6 large eggs", I should've used 4. We can add these to our conversion tables too, but some folks won't know there's a difference and will just use what the recipe says.
To that end... should we make sure that all posts in our Recipes category specify what units they're using? This could be as simple as saying "6 US large eggs", or we could create tags (along the lines of [us-units], [uk-units], [eu-units], etc.
- We all prefer different units; that's a fact of sharing cooking internationally. That's relatively easy to solve here - we can put up a unit-conversions post here on Meta as a resource for folks who want to convert to their own preferred units.
- What's slightly more problematic are things like eggs. I discovered to my detriment a couple weeks ago that a US "large" egg is a fair bit _smaller_ than a UK "large" egg, so where my recipe called for "6 large eggs", I should've used 4. We can add these to our conversion tables too, but some folks won't know there's a difference and will just use what the recipe says.
- To that end... should we make sure that all posts in our Recipes category specify what units they're using? This could be as simple as saying "6 US large eggs", or we could create tags (along the lines of [us-units], [uk-units], [eu-units], etc).
#1: Initial revision
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ArtOfCode
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2020-06-10T21:31:16Z (almost 4 years ago)
We all prefer different units; that's a fact of sharing cooking internationally. That's relatively easy to solve here - we can put up a unit-conversions post here on Meta as a resource for folks who want to convert to their own preferred units. What's slightly more problematic are things like eggs. I discovered to my detriment a couple weeks ago that a US "large" egg is a fair bit _smaller_ than a UK "large" egg, so where my recipe called for "6 large eggs", I should've used 4. We can add these to our conversion tables too, but some folks won't know there's a difference and will just use what the recipe says. To that end... should we make sure that all posts in our Recipes category specify what units they're using? This could be as simple as saying "6 US large eggs", or we could create tags (along the lines of [us-units], [uk-units], [eu-units], etc.