What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy.

[valiantdust@feddit.org]

My grandma is very partial to the easily reproducable measures "until it has the right consistency" and "until it has the right colour". As in "add water until it has the right consistency" or "add milk until it has the right colour". Nearly her recipes use them.

Funnily enough the latter is also used by Aperol in their recipe for Aperol Spritz on their bottles. At least they provide a picture of what the "right colour" is supposed to be.

[codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

(I had to dig these from the back of a kitchen drawer, so not "favorites" exactly.)

[lagg_3@hexbear.net]

I like how 1ml of water weighs about 1g

[alice@beehaw.org]

My beloved teaspoon... When I'm too lazy to fish the tablespoon out of my coffee tin and clean it... three teaspoons

I would truly starve to death if I didn't have a teaspoon

[melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

And let's not forget how useful it is when making tea!

[chadmctruth@lemmy.world]

these are clearly mislabeled

[melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm also a fan of the "pinch"

[cptkrkisclmbngthmntn@hexbear.net]

I sometimes like to make simple, big, one-pot meals that just rely on increments of tablespoons for spices and cups for lentils/rice/etc.

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

1 mL of pure water weighs exactly 1 g at 20 °C and 1 atm pressure It's a defined standard, useful for calibrating other things.

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

100 ml is pretty easy to use. You can multiply it or divide it evenly without having to think at all.

[hbar@lemmy.ml]

A peck, equivalent to 2 dry gallons. Yay imperial units!

[glans@hexbear.net]

2000mL of water weighs 2kgs and 355mL weighs about 1/3kg.

To get my mind away from stupid imperial measures of weight, I think of bottles and cans of cola.

(Above is very approximate as sugar, packaging etc have weight. And conventional package size can vary by region.)

[woodscientist@lemmy.world]

Microacres^(3/2)

[woodscientist@lemmy.world]

I prefer milligallons myself.

[woodscientist@lemmy.world]

Even better, add emotions!

Season with salt until it tastes angry.

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

Wood Science must be a rather strange field.

[xavienth@lemmygrad.ml]

The definition was actually for 4 °C, the point at which water is most dense. At 20 °C the density of water is about 0.997 g/mL. However, we don't use water to define the metric system anymore, so even at 4 °C - or more precisely 3.983035(670) °C - water is not exactly 1 g/mL.

[kurcatovium@lemm.ee]

Or an Indian way: season with chilli until Europeans cry...

[bradleyuffner@lemmy.world]

Decibels

[melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I see what you did there.