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Einstein-Landauer culinary units (www.smbc-comics.com)

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[-] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A useful size to package and sell ingredients in, such that the person following a recipe can halve or double the recipe as needed and still use the entire package with no waste.

Would it help if I told you that it was defined as the volume contained in a cube whose length is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/166219513th of a second? I imagine it wouldn't. Obviously the litre is superior, it's a much less arbitrary cube defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/2997924580 seconds.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

But no one weighs flour in litres.

[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

This guy does.

Where I'm from, flour is sold as packages of 1kg, which they say is 1000g (way too much in my humble opinion) , which cannot be easily divided with simple maths when I want to halve or double my recipe. Recipe specify flour in grams, which makes it so very complicated when I need to convert it to ngogn, in the end I'm always left with flour in my package when I want to double the size of my cakes, which wouldn't happen if the package size was sold in cubic potrzebies.