Re: OT: Units (was Re: Numbers in Qthen|gai (and in Tyl Sjok) [long])
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 13, 2005, 15:07 |
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > Do Europeans use metric cups (250 mL), teaspoons (5 mL) and tablespoons
> > (20 mL)?
The 20-mL tablespoon surprises me, given the 5-mL teaspoon. Over here a
tablespoon (0.5 fluid ounce) is exactly 3 teaspoons.
(In the US a cup is 8 fluid ounces = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons;
so the exact metric values are 236.5882365 mL for a cup, 14.78676478125 mL
for a tablespoon, and 4.92892159375 mL for a teaspoon. Given which,
250/15/5 seems a perfectly reasonable metric approximation, and
250/20/5 seems like a recipe for a culinary catastrophe for the unwary.
:))
-Marcos
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