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Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across
78 categories
I have been working on my project for the last one year and
developed around 600+ tools. The units converter covers almost
every possible unit and I am planning to add more to it.
Author : KodyBerns99
Score : 108 points
Date : 2023-06-21 16:02 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.kodytools.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.kodytools.com)
| irrational wrote:
| TIL that there are Tablespoons [Metric].
|
| Also, I thought "Library of Congress" was a standard unit of
| measurement? Not to mention the "standard reference pear".
| Symbiote wrote:
| 15mL. Probably listed in the front of most recipe books sold in
| Europe, including Britain.
| lostlogin wrote:
| If recipes listed ingredients in weight I'd be a happier
| person. I bake a lot of bread and weights just work so much
| better for flour and water.
| Symbiote wrote:
| Try adding site:uk on a recipe search. Although note
| different countries can have slightly different grades of
| flour.
|
| https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/bread-
| recipes for example.
| tobinfricke wrote:
| In Germany I encountered the "metric pound" - you can order a
| Pfund (500g) of beef at the butcher for example.
| darrylb42 wrote:
| It should handle fractions I was trying to get the size of a
| quarter section. It rounds .25 to 1.
| myself248 wrote:
| Having the units listed alphabetically rather than by size is
| weird. "Megabits/Minute" then "Megabits/Nanosecond" then
| "Megabits/Second"... ugh.
| generalizations wrote:
| Well, it only makes sense to sort by size if the units are
| comparable. I guess we'd need a converter for that. Oh, wait...
| whartung wrote:
| Has anyone found a more elegant treatment of calculating with
| units than the HP calculators?
|
| I'd love to have an HP48 CLI to do unit calcs with.
| .5 * 10_m/s^2 * (15_s)^2 = 1125_m
|
| Admittedly, the HPs interim results are a bit of a mess:
| sqrt(6.673E-11_N*m^2/kg^2 * 5.98E24_kg / 6780_km) =
| 242603.08_N^.5*m/(kg^.5*km^.5)
|
| But, this converts cleanly to m/s: 7671.8m/s
|
| Everything else I've found have been just super fiddly.
| SAI_Peregrinus wrote:
| TI's graphing calculators work essentially the same way. As
| does GNU Units.
| sigstoat wrote:
| gnu units can do that You have: .5 * (10 m/s^2)
| * (15 s)^2 You want: Definition: 1125 m
| You have: sqrt((6.673E-11 N*m^2/kg^2) * (5.98E24 kg) / (6780
| km)) You want: Definition: 7671.783 m / s
| amenghra wrote:
| Give https://numpad.io/ a try. It's not a CLI though.
| whartung wrote:
| This is very nice, thanks!
| BenjiWiebe wrote:
| You could maybe use the 'units' command line program's database
| of conversions.
| tobinfricke wrote:
| I wanted to put in a plug for my employer's open-sourced C++
| units framework, called Au: https://github.com/aurora-
| opensource/au
|
| The library incorporates dimensional units into the C++ type
| system with an emphasis on correctness (including considerations
| for overflow, rounding, loss of precision, etc) and minimal
| runtime overhead.
|
| As a very simple example of what using this library could look
| like, here is a tiny code snippet taken from one of the
| tutorials: constexpr double speed_mph = 65.0;
| constexpr double speed_mps = (miles / hour)(speed_mph).in(meters
| / second);
|
| In a larger program, of course, the whole point is to avoid using
| naked "doubles" (or floats or ints, etc) at all, and instead use
| the library's "Quantity" types, which encode information about
| their units. Conversions are done automatically, and incompatible
| operations become compile-time errors. const auto
| time = hours(1.0) const auto distance = miles(65.0)
| const auto average_speed = distance/time;
|
| The tutorials are a nice way to be introduced to the library:
| https://aurora-opensource.github.io/au/tutorial/
|
| From a user's point of view (I am a physicist by training), I
| find the library wonderfully unobtrusive and "natural" to use.
| PKop wrote:
| Not a big fan of having social share buttons scattered across
| middle of workspace, a cleaner less cluttered look is better.
| Good work though, looks pretty thorough as far as conversions.
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback. I will work on the UI part to improve
| user experience.
| ivoras wrote:
| Heh, doesn't fully support the furlong-firking-forthinght system
| :(
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system
| huhtenberg wrote:
| No love for elbows either.
| classified wrote:
| *fortnight*
| huhtenberg wrote:
| What kind of a toy converter is this? Doesn't have even the most
| basic units, like Delisle temp scale. Bah, shame.
| amichal wrote:
| I didnt look but http://unitsofmeasure.org which is part of the
| HL7 standard for electronic medical records might be an
| interesting source/reference
|
| It has zillions of base units and a algebra syntax for
| definitions of many more
|
| Edit: "common" units https://github.com/ucum-
| org/ucum/tree/main/common-units
| akisej wrote:
| Appreciate the effort you put into this. In terms of user flow, I
| typically need one or two of these use cases at a time. In that
| case, I just type my conversion into a search engine like Google,
| and often use their default box.
|
| Can you share what types of use cases you've seen people use
| KodyTools for?
| criddell wrote:
| I agree with you. There's clearly been a lot of work put into
| this but it's sooooo busy that I find it unpleasant to use.
|
| For me, a different UI could fix the problem. Give me a field
| where I can ask directly "how many cups are in 4.37 cubic
| meters?"
|
| As it stands now, I can get the answer from any search engine
| or voice assistant more quickly than from this site.
| rjh29 wrote:
| Think it's designed more for SEO than usability.
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| Thanks for appreciation. Actually, user does not cover all
| units. It only shows most common one in terms of length. There
| are various units in terms of weight, area, and length that are
| used on regional level. If you just look at the area and length
| category dropdown, you will be suprised.
| annoyingnoob wrote:
| Looks like the site is currently blocked by Quad9 DNS.
|
| > www.kodytools.com Server: dns9.quad9.net Address: 9.9.9.9
|
| ** dns9.quad9.net can't find www.kodytools.com: Non-existent
| domain
| chillbill wrote:
| Using chat gpt to build software is not good, this is not
| programming.
| wombatpm wrote:
| As a chemical engineer, we would joke about using the worst units
| in problems. Had a professor specify a volumetric rate in
| hogsheads per fortnight for a problem once and density in stone
| per cubic rods
| Someone wrote:
| I cannot find a button to switch the "from" and "to" units.
|
| IMO, any converter needs one, so add it or make it easier to
| find.
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| You will see the link just before the share buttons to switch
| conversion.
| Someone wrote:
| Still don't see it (iOS, both iPhone and iPad).
|
| I see 5 circular buttons: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
| WhatsApp, and a "Copy url to clipboard" one.
| rosebay wrote:
| [dead]
| 6510 wrote:
| Good work. Perhaps you can steal this idea:
|
| Metric intervention https://userscripts-
| mirror.org/scripts/show/130277 > Converting that old French
| system the Brits are still using to the metric standard of
| science. ~ foot, inch (00',00",00'00,00'00"), yard, mile, stone,
| Pound-mass/Lbs., Gallon ~ It will totally convert something
| heretical like: 1'23 1/4" x 2'12 5/8" into something elegant and
| civilized like 89.535 cm x 93.0275 cm
|
| This (uhm) didn't take a year to make but it was rather useful
| when I needed it.
| loufe wrote:
| I got into Qalculate! last year and I haven't found any units in
| my day to day work as an engineer that weren't built in. Unit
| conversion is good but the bundling of it with more of the math
| equation is the ultimate usability win for me.
|
| https://qalculate.github.io/
| mrob wrote:
| I also use this. Units are type checking for equations.
| Qalculate lets you enter the unit for all your known
| quantities, and tells you the unit for your result. If you
| don't get the expected unit you know you did something wrong.
| ocrow wrote:
| You could add GeV/c2 (giga-electronvolts per speed of light
| squared) as a unit of weight that is used by physicists for sub-
| atomic particle mass.
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| Thank you, I will definitely add it.
| chrismorgan wrote:
| As an example of a completely different approach, this works
| out of the box in GNU units (showing both noninteractive and
| interactive usage): $ units GeV/c^2
| Definition: 1.7826619e-27 kg $ units Currency
| exchange rates from FloatRates (AUD base) on 2023-06-21
| 3761 units, 113 prefixes, 120 nonlinear units You
| have: GeV/c^2 You want: [leave it blank]
| Definition: 1.7826619e-27 kg You have:
|
| Because of these various definitions (a selection of lines
| pulled from /usr/share/units/definitions.units, I think I have
| included all the relevant ones recursively): G-
| giga giga- 1e9 # Greek gigas,
| "giant" e 1.602176634e-19 C # electron charge
| (exact) C coulomb coulomb
| A s # charge A ! # The ampere,
| symbol A, is the SI unit of electric current. [...] s
| ! # The second, symbol s, is the SI unit of time. It is
| defined [...] V volt volt
| W/A # potential difference W
| watt watt J/s # power J
| joule joule N m # energy
| N newton newton kg
| m / s^2 # force kg ! # The kilogram, symbol
| kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is [...] m !
| # The metre, symbol m, is the SI unit of length. It is [...]
| c 299792458 m/s # speed of light in vacuum (exact)
|
| (Fun thing, kg being the SI unit. Because of this, gram is
| defined as millikg!)
|
| I really like the approach of specifying what you have, in
| absolutely whatever unit you like, and what you want (though I
| omitted that argument in this case, to just have it show the
| definition), and having it resolve it.
|
| An excerpt from my ~/.units (which does have some serious stuff
| in it too, honest): # Why not? (Question: is
| the slightly-Welsh-sounding ygazillion, yocto-gazillion, 10-24
| gazillion, greater or less than one?) gazillion !
| elephant 6.35 tonne elephant_african 6.35 tonne
| elephant_asian 5 tonne # I want to have ranged values:
| elephant_baby 90-135 kg. This get complicated because of non-
| linear transformations, e.g. 2^(1-10) = 2-1024, but
| log2-biased. # baby_grand is also a baby
| dark-star wrote:
| I randomly picked "Inductance" as category, and the "units" it
| provides are basically a dozen or so variants of the "Henry":
| Attohenry, Gigahenry, Centihenry, Exahenry, Kilohenry, Nanohenry,
| ....
|
| If this is how you get to "5000 units" then that feels a bit
| cheaty
| jedberg wrote:
| The first thing I looked for was football fields, but couldn't
| find it. :)
| _a_a_a_ wrote:
| And no Wales for areas :(
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| Thanks for letting me know. I will add it by tomorrow. I will
| check all units mentioned in the comments and add them one by
| one.
| earleybird wrote:
| Also absent: Smoot's[0] :-)
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| its already added under length category.
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| I will add it by today. It will be available in Area category
| by tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know. I just add units as
| soon as somebody let me know by twitter or email.
| glonq wrote:
| Don't forget "olympic swimming pools" for volume and
| "libraries of congress" for data capacity ;)
| lostlogin wrote:
| Tabloids love this crap. Their units of measure seem to
| consist of pools, Empire state buildings, double decker
| busses etc.
| jedberg wrote:
| Funny, I would have looked in the length area, as that's how
| it's usually used. Part of the problem is that first you have
| to decide if it's 100 yards or 120 yards.
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| I just googled it after your comment and the conversion of
| football field came in terms of acre or hectare so I think
| Area is suitable. I will see what most people are using and
| based on that I will set its value.
| cridenour wrote:
| I've never heard of anyone comparing to a football field
| in the Area domain. Of course this is cultural, but at
| least in the US - the length is what is commonly
| compared.
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| No problem. I will add in both to make Area and Length
| users happy!
| [deleted]
| wizofaus wrote:
| Definitely country-specific, I'd expect it to be used to
| describe areas (and football stadiums be used to describe
| "number of people"). But footy fields in Australia are
| typically oval shaped! "Olympic swimming pools" can be
| used for length, area or volume (but "Sydney Harbours"
| are only used for volume).
|
| PS just tried the tool and couldn't find any of the above
| "units", not even "football fields".
| bhandziuk wrote:
| I agree that it's most commonly an expression of area. I
| think the length alternative is valid but pretty rare by
| comparison.
| digging wrote:
| I've never heard it used for area. "Length of x football
| fields" is the only comparison I've ever heard in the US.
| faiD9Eet wrote:
| since you are already in the ridiculous area, ehm, soccer
| fields... German journalists love to compare weights in Jumbo
| Jets.
| imdsm wrote:
| Someone tell Randall Munroe
| moralestapia wrote:
| Small typo!
|
| Molar Concenration -> Molar Concen(t)ration
| askiiart wrote:
| Good to see the completely realistic terabytes/nanosecond is
| included!
|
| I'm sure messing around with that will never get old.
| bombela wrote:
| I am going to argue that bytes/second is the unit. SI prefixes
| are for convenience. You could use mebibyte/kilosecond for what
| is worth.
| mojomark wrote:
| I'm not sure I understand the sarcasm (i.e. why TB/ns is an
| unrealistic
|
| A.) ...one gram of DNA can store up to 215 Petabytes or
| [215,000 Terabytes], knowing that the human being has about 600
| grams of DNA [129,000,000 TB]. (1)
|
| B.) Now assume a human is traveling at the speed of sound in
| air on earth (~343m/s):
|
| 343 m/s * 129,000,000 TB * 1/1,000,000,000 s/ns,
|
| The result is that for every kilometer the human travels at the
| speed of sound, the information stored in that human's DNA
| yields a data transfer rate of approximately 44.3 TB/ns. Seems
| reasonable.
|
| 1.) https://www.bibalex.org/SCIplanet/en/Article/Details.aspx?i
| d....
| HWR_14 wrote:
| Most of the DNA is redundant copies. We need the amount of
| DNA in a single cell.
| mojomark wrote:
| Using a human host was just an example to show there are
| certainly real possible applications whe magnitudes of
| these units is useful. DNA-based data storage doesn't
| necessarily mean humane genome data - you can store any
| data (1) in a DNA strand and the strands in a container
| could all be unique datasets. Possible, albeit not yet
| practical - but to discuss the realm of the possible you
| still need appropriate units, and TB/ns seems to be
| appropriate for such an application.
| lostlogin wrote:
| The only problem is getting useful data into and out of the
| human.
| mojomark wrote:
| Meh, it was just an example. The point is that extremely
| dense data storage is now concievable, though perhaps not
| yet practical (e.g. using a "DNA drive") so this magnitude
| of units has it's place in the real world.
| accrual wrote:
| I have used your site before for conversion and appreciated
| having everything in one place. Thanks!
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| Thanks for appreciation.
| DylanDmitri wrote:
| What's a reason to use this over Wolfram Alpha?
| j2kun wrote:
| People interested in this should check out Frink. It has been
| around for a while and has thousands of unit conversions with
| explanations, as well as a web interface for the unit conversions
| part
|
| https://frinklang.org/ https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt
| https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp
| op00to wrote:
| I came here to say frink is the master in this space!
| j2kun wrote:
| The units list is hilarious and amazingly detailed, a sample:
| crocodile := megavolt // used informally in UK
| physics labs ... footcandle :=
| lumen/ft^2 // Illuminance from a 1 candela source
| // at a distance of one foot ...
| // In Britain, the deal is apparently any piece of wood over 6
| feet long, over // 7 wide and 2.5 inches thick. The OED
| doesn't give a standard size. A piece // of wood less
| than 7 inches wide is called a "batten". This unit is now used
| // exclusively for fir and pine. deal := 12
| ft 11 in 2.5 in // The standard North American deal [OED]
| wholedeal := 1/2 deal // If it's half as thick as
| the standard // deal
| it's called a "whole deal"! splitdeal := 1/2 wholedeal
| // And half again as thick is a split deal. ...
| parasang := 3.5 mile // Persian unit of length
| usually thought // to be
| between 3 and 3.5 miles
| alok99 wrote:
| The editorial on Hz is particularly funny and insightful.
| // Beware the SI's broken definition // of Hz. You
| should treat the radian as being correct, as a fundamental
| // dimensionless property of the universe that falls out of
| pure math like // the Taylor series for sin[x], and
| you should treat the Hz as being a // fundamental
| property of incompetence by committee. ...
| // You are perfectly right. You are perfectly wrong. You
| look dumb and // unreasonable. The person arguing
| the opposite looks dumb and unreasonable. //
| // Hz == YOU CANNOT WIN // // (Insert "IT'S A
| TRAP" image here.)
| cycomanic wrote:
| If complaining about Hz one should really be consistent and
| not use tau not radian as the fundamental property of the
| universe. Like that we could get rid of all those bloddy
| factor 2s
| fsh wrote:
| I don't find this rambling insightful at all. Here is what
| the BIPM actually says about the topic:
|
| _The SI unit of frequency is hertz, the SI unit of angular
| velocity and angular frequency is radian per second, and
| the SI unit of activity is becquerel, implying counts per
| second. Although it is formally correct to write all three
| of these units as the reciprocal second, the use of the
| different names emphasizes the different nature of the
| quantities concerned. It is especially important to
| carefully distinguish frequencies from angular frequencies,
| because by definition their numerical values differ by a
| factor1 of 2p. Ignoring this fact may cause an error of 2p.
| Note that in some countries, frequency values are
| conventionally expressed using "cycle /s" or "cps" instead
| of the SI unit Hz, although "cycle" and "cps" are not units
| in the SI. Note also that it is common, although not
| recommended, to use the term frequency for quantities
| expressed in rad/s. Because of this, it is recommended that
| quantities called "frequency", "angular frequency", and
| "angular velocity" always be given explicit units of Hz or
| rad/s and not 1/s._
|
| I find this very concise and clear.
| heisenzombie wrote:
| Right, you can explain it but that doesn't make it
| elegant. This is the equivalent of a function with a
| comment in it saying "Here be dragons!".
|
| One very desirable property of a units system is that
| incompatible quantities have incompatible units. So if I
| try to add 1 Joule (== 1 kg[?]m^2[?]s^-2) to 1 meter, I'm
| obviously doing something wrong and I just can't
| continue.
|
| But in SI I can take 1 Hertz (==1 s^-1) and add it to 1
| radian/second (== 1 s^-1) and SI says sure, that's 2
| s^-1. But it's not, that's a totally unphysical thing to
| do and the answer is nonsense.
| fsh wrote:
| There is absolutely no guarantee that the sum of two
| quantities with compatible units makes any physical
| sense.
|
| The issue here is that angles are inherently unitless
| geometrical quantities. "Radian" is merely a reminder
| that a number represents an angle. There is no way to
| make it a consistent physical unit.
| jonwiseman wrote:
| That sum to me is both physical and not nonsense, and I
| think your interpretation is wrong. 1 radian/second != 1
| s^-1, but instead [?] 0.159155 Hz. This is from
| interpreting a radian as a ratio, in which "doing" one
| radian in one second is only going over 1/2pi of a whole
| in a second. So 1 Hz + 1 radian/second, physically and
| sensibly to me, means [?] 1.159155 Hz.
| whatshisface wrote:
| I am afraid you may have misunderstood them. It's not
| that you can't add a centimeter to an inch, it's that you
| have to convert units first. The unit symbols are
| intended to help indicate when a unit conversion would be
| necessary. What many find confusing is the fact that Hz
| and rad/s are both (in terms of basic physical units)
| advertised as s^-1.
|
| To resolve the issue, you could define 1Hz as 2pi/s on
| the grounds that the Taylor series for sin(t) is in
| "units" of rad/s. You could also define one rad/s as
| 1/(2pi s), arguing that since the becquerel is 1/s and
| means "the number of times something happens per second,"
| it would be inconsistent for frequencies to be
| denominated other ways, and that Hz is applicable to
| functions other than sin(t), including square and
| triangle waves, which have no relationship to angles.
| ars wrote:
| The Hubble Constant is also in HZ.
|
| And its reciprocal looks like the age of the universe
| (apparently this is just a coincidence).
| fsh wrote:
| No, the Hubble constant has the unit 1/s. According to SI
| "the hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena".
| krmbzds wrote:
| There is also an open-source Rust implementation called rink-
| rs.
|
| [0] https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs/ [1]
| https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs/blob/master/core/defin...
| [2] https://rinkcalc.app/
| ghaff wrote:
| Years ago, I started a project along those lines and collected
| a bunch of reference material about a lot of the various units.
| But, at some point, I had a working program but lost interest
| in entering all the information that would have needed to have
| been typed in. (This was long enough ago that there wasn't
| really an option to cut and paste a lot of it from online.)
| jonathanberger wrote:
| Cool site! You might consider deleting the cookie notice?
|
| I run a similar site (dateful.com) and I promise the EU
| regulators don't come after sites like ours. :)
| tzs wrote:
| It looks quite extensive, and should cover almost all practical
| cases.
|
| The main limitation I see is that it seems you are limited to
| picking the units to convert between from predefined lists. If
| someone gave you say a volume specified in nmi ft^2 for instance
| and you wanted to convert it m^3 you'd have to do nmi to m and
| ft^2 to m^2 and then multiply the results to get nmi ft^2 to m^3
| because nmi ft^2 is not on the volume unit list.
|
| Those cases are probably pretty rare. It is not often that you
| run in to people who give you say a gasoline consumption rate of
| 23 picoacres or give you a cookie recipe that calls for 1.6 barn
| megaparsecs of vanilla. (BTW, those are 0.04 gal/mile and 1 tsp,
| respectively).
| jzellis wrote:
| It's super cool, but I'm not sure the explanation of how to
| calculate Fahrenheit to Kelvin is, uh, accurate. ;-) <3
|
| "By using our Fahrenheit to Kelvin conversion tool, you know that
| one Fahrenheit is equivalent to 255.93 Kelvin. Hence, to convert
| Fahrenheit to Kelvin, we just need to multiply the number by
| 255.93. We are going to use very simple Fahrenheit to Kelvin
| conversion formula for that. Pleas see the calculation example
| given below."
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| Most of units contain very generic description because my goal
| was to work on the tool rather than the content part. But I
| will optimize it in the upcoming future since I am one guy
| managing everything.
| t0mek wrote:
| The results are correct, but the explanation is wrong, e.g.:
| By using our Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion tool, you know
| that one Celsius is equivalent to 33.8 1000 C = 1000 x
| 33.8 = 1832 F
|
| Probably the explanation engine doesn't support the offset in
| the underlying linear formula.
| quaintdev wrote:
| I wonder if OP used ChatGPT for development as well as content
| of this site
| skilled wrote:
| He did. A lot of the tools say things like, "in this article"
| ...
| jandrese wrote:
| Ooh, this should be very useful when reading article written by
| American journalists.
| progbits wrote:
| Doubtful since those usually use vague analogies to stadiums,
| pickup trucks and guns.
| jandrese wrote:
| If you already have 5,800 units what's the harm of adding
| "typical refrigerator (volume)", "typical washing machine
| (volume)", "American football field (area)", etc...?
| teddyh wrote:
| And washing machines1. And small boulders2.
|
| 1. <https://imgur.com/gallery/VI0B0nl>
|
| 2.
| <https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315>
| bashinator wrote:
| What's the reason to use this over GNU Units?
|
| https://www.gnu.org/software/units/
| KodyBerns99 wrote:
| May be number of units and categories it supports. Plus I am
| adding more units.
| Faaak wrote:
| units(1) is way more simpler to use though. Just type the
| input/output formulas and it will do the rest
| bashinator wrote:
| I couldn't find a way of converting from US teaspoons to
| cubic light-seconds, which is my favorite demo of the GNU
| utility. Also, do you have a way of adding a time dimension
| to the conversions? E.g from kibibytes per day to megabits
| per second?
| lostlogin wrote:
| Are US teaspoons actually a different size to UK ones, or
| just the volume measurements?
| bragr wrote:
| 1 US teaspoon is about 14.8 ml
|
| 1 UK teaspoon is about 17.8 ml.
|
| It goes on: 1 US gallon is about 0.83 imperial gallons
| beojan wrote:
| A teaspoon is 5 ml. I think you're thinking of
| tablespoons.
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| saalweachter wrote:
| Teaspoons aren't particularly common in the US. If you do
| need to stir a beverage or add sugar, you typically use a
| tablespoon.
| tobinfricke wrote:
| Yeah, this isn't true. A teaspoon is a standard unit of
| measurement in US cooking.
| SAI_Peregrinus wrote:
| Tableware sets in the US commonly come with at least two
| different sizes of spoon. These usually bear no relation
| to the "measuring spoons" used to measure volume, though
| they are handy for stirring tea or eating soup (for the
| small & large spoons, respectively).
|
| For people who cook in the US, a set of "measuring
| spoons" is a very common kitchen tool.
|
| "Teaspoon" and "Tablespoon" are units of measurement of
| volume, not bits of silverware. "Tea spoon" and "Table
| spoon" or "Soup spoon" are pieces of silverware, not
| units of measure!
| culi wrote:
| Seems like a weird statement. As someone who cooks and
| bakes, I use teaspoons all the time. Teaspoons for
| certain spices and seasonings are extremely common in
| recipes
| sixothree wrote:
| In hopes of someone posting a relevant xkcd?
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