Even though I’m Canadian, I’m so used to American culture that sometimes I’m a little taken aback when confronted with our own metric system. I’m making supper right now and the taco kit is made by a Canadian company so the instructions call for 454 grams of beef and 125 ml of water. I was confused until I realized they mean a pound of meat and half a cup of water.
Duh. I am Canadian, eh?
(In related cooking talk, why in the hell have I never gotten a salad spinner? Drying lettuce by hand is a pain in the arse.)
lol – why must the US be so contrary and make things confusing for us normal, metric-using Canucks? 😉 Enjoy your meal, and yeah, invest in a salad spinner. lol They rock.
a salad spinner! well I’m not canadian neither american, and I feel really ignorant now… where I come from, we never use those things. I had to google it cause I was really intrigued hehe.So now I finally saw them, think I’ve seen them before but nobody I know uses them… as far as I know.
Anyway, now buying one doesn’t sound like a bad idea!
Most of my measuring containers have metric on one side and cups / ounces on the other side. It really comes in handy when scaling recipes. Add a scale and its the perfect setup to make breads by weight.
I can vouch for the benefits of a salad spinner. They work so well getting off the water … which makes the dressing stick to the greens that much better.
I agree with the stupidity of not dumping the “English” system in favor of the metric. It ultimately boiled down to politics and the morons won. Don’t they always? Heavens, even the English dumped the English system. Hello?