• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      01·
      6 days ago

      A mole is a very useful unit of measurement in chemistry, but much less so in baking.

      How many moles of flour are you putting into your bread dough?

        • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          01·
          6 days ago

          Feet aren’t a measure of volume or weight.

          But feel free to stick your feet in flour and let me know how it goes.

          Also, what cookbook specifies fractions of kilograms of flour? Unless you’re running a bakery, the conversion isn’t useful.

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            Fractions?

            Fractions use a numerator and denominator (e.g., (3/4)). Decimals use a decimal point with place values based on powers of 10 (e.g., 0.75.)

            So to answer which cookbooks use fractions; it’s American ones.

            Take 1/4th cup this 2 cups that 2&7/8ths of a fl oz this and 1/2 quart of water.

            So yeah. American cookbooks use factions.

            “the conversion isn’t useful”

            There no conversion going on. You can say 200g of flour or 0.2kg of flour. Both equally understandable to anyone who grew up with the metric system. Hell my grandpa even uses hecto- and deca- in everyday conversations.