Why is the U.S. still refusing to switch to the metric system?

[PersonalFavors]

What’s so hard about getting used to the metric system? It’s simple decimal arithmetic: multiply or divide by ten, or powers of ten.

One hundred centimeters make a meter. A thousand meters make a kilometer. A thousand grams make a kilogram, and a thousand kilograms make a ton.

Zero is freezing, 100 is boiling -- basic.


Meanwhile... 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard... and 1,760 yards in a mile.

The metric system is not hard. Nor is 10th of a mile.
But a kilo or sum number of kg or mg when making a recipe is nothing I can estimate.
Specially temperature. Freezing is important. Water boiling is largely a range based on how hot the water looks when cooking. No idea what 375 is for frying. Or the numbers needed for candy. Never saw those in metric either.
And for outside. I hate when they give the temp in metric. I know what 0, 25, 32, 35 40, 50, 70, 80, 90, 100 is. But tell me its 58 I got no idea in metric. To the point of frustrating.
Do they measure humidity in Metric?

 

[dmallord]

Ducky wannabe. You are a humorless prick. Just needed saying.

Aloud? To vent about some bad thing that happened in your day? Not sure what the 'ducky wannabe' relates to, Bubba. You sound a bit fuzzy. Meds?

 

[Pad_Foot]

Cooking for the most part would be fine in grams and is far more effective than anything in Amerikkka

How many teaspoons in a tablespoon?

How many tablespoons in a cup ?

 

[Baztrachian]

I don't know if it's been said already, but probably because American men refuse to measure in anything but inches lol

Memo: When we American boys start talking about millimeters and klicks (kilometers) that's a good time to find cover.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Cooking for the most part would be fine in grams and is far more effective than anything in Amerikkka

How many teaspoons in a tablespoon?

How many tablespoons in a cup ?

Not sure I ever needed to know how many tsp in a TB, but 3. Because there are 48 in a cup. 16TB in a cup.
About 2 TB you can squeeze out of a lime and 3TB sometimes more from a lemon.
4TB is about 2 oz. 2oz comes roughly 57 grams. Guessing all the recipes have an even number of grams which would not only change the recipe but the amount of all the other ingredients. Can't imagine how much work it would be to convert or modify recipes to fit metric. Come to think of it many of my recipes are hand me downs from Pennsylvania Dutch who learned them from their parents and grand parents and those from their grandparents.... When did Germany stop using cups, tablespoons and teaspoons...?
I've seen some really tempting recipes to attempt to convert on Russ' recipe repository.
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/russs-restaurant-and-recipe-repository.1512336/
Lots of good stuff on there. I've made several of the posts. However, what people share is their favorites. So beware of what might happen to your waist line. It will add more centimeters than inches but they say everything is relative.

 

[SimonDoom]

It is all explained here:

 

[billgladstone]

"Third and 0.914" doesn't have the panache of "third and one." It will never happen.

 

[Pad_Foot]

A furlong is 1/8 of a mile. A furlong by a chain (66 feet) is 43,560 square feet, or one acre.

OK.............. but a MILE was 5000 FEET for the Romans. The English adjusted it to fit their furlongs.

5280 feet makes NO FUCKING sense. You can't even do fractions with it unless you know what the FUCK a furlong is.
No one has known that since the streets were all covered in horse shit.

AMERIKKKA... will never adopt this Globalistic measurement crap. No one is any good at Maths anyways!!
We don't even know what MATHS are!!

Science?!! There ain't no science just what it in the GOOD BOOK and what we know from FLAT EARTH FACTS!
According to Scripture, it was ten cubits across and 'a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference' (1 Kings 7:23; 2 Chron. 4:2). This implies that the value of π (pi) is 3, but that is incorrect. We know that π is an irrational number slightly greater than 3.14159.” There you have it!! Irrational numbers. Transcendental CRAP. We just won't teach that stuff!!

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
A furlong is 1/8 of a mile. A furlong by a chain (66 feet) is 43,560 square feet, or one acre.

OK.............. but a MILE was 5000 FEET for the Romans. The English adjusted it to fit their furlongs.

5280 feet makes NO FUCKING sense. You can't even do fractions with it unless you know what the FUCK a furlong is.
No one has known that since the streets were all covered in horse shit.

AMERIKKKA... will never adopt this Globalistic measurement crap. No one is any good at Maths anyways!!
We don't even know what MATHS are!!

Science?!! There ain't no science just what it in the GOOD BOOK and what we know from FLAT EARTH FACTS!
According to Scripture, it was ten cubits across and 'a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference' (1 Kings 7:23; 2 Chron. 4:2). This implies that the value of π (pi) is 3, but that is incorrect. We know that π is an irrational number slightly greater than 3.14159.” There you have it!! Irrational numbers. Transcendental CRAP. We just won't teach that stuff!!

The furlong and the cubit are just quaint antiques. π being transcendental is a much more modern thing, though.

 

[Levorotatory]

Cooking for the most part would be fine in grams and is far more effective than anything in Amerikkka

How many teaspoons in a tablespoon?

How many tablespoons in a cup ?

I figure those things out by remembering the (approximate) metric conversions, and I convert US unit recipes in my head while cooking.

1 tsp = 5 mL (or 5 g of something with a density similar to water)
1 tbsp = 15 mL
1 Oz = 30 mL or 30 g
1 cup = 250 mL
1 US quart = 946 mL
1 US gallon = 3.78 L

The latter two I remember to higher precision because of the widespread use of American sized packaging in Canada.

 

[Hel_Books]

What's cool now is that the kilogramme is officially defined in terms of the Planck Constant, the speed of light and the hyperfine transition frequency of Caesium 133!

 

[Pad_Foot]

Its ok.. there a sacred yard stick someplace to keep the American System constant.

 

[HisArpy]

Its ok.. there a sacred yard stick someplace to keep the American System constant.

It's not a yardstick, it's a very carefully machined metal block called a gauge block (or Jo Block after their inventor.)