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I'm tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

454 ml! Because 1 gram of water is also 1 milliliter.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Density of whole milk according to first google answer is 1,034g/cm^3.

It's been a while, but would that make it 438,68 ml?

Edit: But I totally agree with your statement. SI/ metric units is superior in every way with how easy it is to convert between them. At university in Norway I had American textbooks in all but one of my chemistry classes and all used SI/metric and proper names for the elements

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

The US isn't as entirely devoid of metric as a lot of people get the impression. We all learn it in school and are perfectly familiar with it, we just never made the switch for everyday units, so a lot of people lack the intuition around what the values mean. I can't tell you what 25c feels like without thinking about it for a minute.

I'm curious though, does anyone not use the proper names for the elements?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago

1 gram of pure, distilled water at average gravity at sea level etc. but close enough.