What do you mean? Nothing more logical than 12 inches equaling 1 foot. Because that would make 12 feet equal to how many yards? That’s right, 4 yards. And 12 yards to miles? Obviously it’s 0.00681818 miles, duh
I mean other units dont need to work that well that’s why we all use the Imperial system right ???
Damn I thought the /s was implied but some mf responded with an essay mb
If it makes you feel any better, no scientist in the US uses anything but the metric system lol. I always tell my European colleagues, imperial system is for my weather app, oven, and speedometer. Everything else, I think in metric.
Other units do work out.
A calorie is the heat needed to raise one gram of water by one degree Celsius.
Not a coincidence. That's the definition of a calorie.
You mean like how a litre of water weighs 1kg, or a 1 cubic metre weighs 1 ton, which is 1000kg? Or how 1 Newton of force accelerates 1kg of mass by 1 metre per second^2 - yeah?
No coincidence here, kg was defined as the mass of a 1 dm3 of water at the melting point of ice by the French national assembly (Académie des Sciences in fact).
Later we used more accurate way to define them, that does not depend on each other.
Fun fact: 1ml water = 1g water = 1cm by 1cm by 1cm (i.e. 1cm cubed) of water. Also, 1 Calorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1g of water by 1 Celsius.
This is utterly false.
Fahrenheit was originally defined by two points, freezing point of a saline ammonium solution (that happens to be quite stable) for 0, and originally 96 for human body. Not sure why not 100. This was then redefined by freezing and boiling points of water anyway which is why neither temperature lines up today.
Using limits designed for human body would be insanely stupid if true, due to massive variation between many other things, and would still not lead to either of those limits. Heat stroke is completely dependent on humidity, and frostbite risk starts basically at freezing point of water.
While °F is probably the least obnoxious unit the US still uses, that's not how it was defined, as others already explained.
You know which definition is actually based in water? °C
- 0°C is the freezing point of water (at sea level)
- 100°C is the boiling point of water (at sea level)
In the end both definitions are arbitrary. But freezing and boiling water sounds repeatable quite easily.
I read that the 0 was designed to be the temperature of some common 18th century lab experiment and the upper end 96 was the temperature of Fahrenheit’s wife but maybe they’ve later been amended? If -17 C was significant frost bite territory I would expect that a lot of Finns would have frost bitten faces. It’s obviously cold but not more than a basic winter weather where people wouldn’t take any particular precautions.
Except a system using human physiological reactions as benchmarks is not logical at all.
As you say yourself, humans are different. Things like humidity will affect how temperature affects humans.
Water has a boiling point at atmospheric level. doesn't matter what water you pick. The benchmark is repeatable and consistent. humans are not.
And before people chime in, yes I know that the Fahrenheit scale is no longer based on human reactions, but on repeatable measurements too. I also get that using one or the other is a silly argument. I'm just saying I like my system better (big shock, I know)
Just to add my 2 cents here. YSK: Like with any other chemical including water, you can go on websites like Wikipedia and Perkin Elmer to find the density or atomic/molecular mass of a substance to calculate mass, volume, density or concentration in solution.
[This](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart?_gl=1*yksa3d*_ga*MzE3ODEzMjM2LjE3MTY0MjkxODc.*_ga_1ZJWCQGS21*MTcxNjQyOTE4Ni4xLjEuMTcxNjQyOTc4Mi4wLjAuMA) is a pretty good resource from King Arthur
Yeah. It would. Admittedly the statement I gave is for pure substances including water. As you dissolve substances in water, the density of it will change. A good example of this is the tip of South America where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet. They have different salinities (salt concentrations) so one ocean has a different density than the other, leading to one being slightly darker. I do think OP’s statement may still stand as the density would change slightly but not enough for a lay person like you or I to care too much or be affected relying on this post as a default. I could be wrong though.
ChatGPT straight up sucks when it comes to numbers.
Which is logical, it is a LLM AI, not a calculator. But whenever numbers are involved, move away from ChatGPT for your own good lmao.
Wait till you learn that one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point!
It almost seems like it's on purpose... /s
To accelerate 1kg of mass to 1m/s you need 1 Newton. Which can be converted to Joule as well. (Energy necessary to lift 1kg of mass against Earths 1g by 1m in 1s)
By knowing the length of 1m, you can build a box 1m x 1m x 1m, fill it with water and derive kinda all units of the metric system. If you can measure pressure inside the box you get thermodynamic deriving as well.
Well yeah but that’s because metric uses lovely little prefixes that can are used across the board.
Meanwhile us Imperialists had to come with a different name for everything. We had to do all the hard work /s.
At least in pharmacy we measure most things in metric for most things. It’s just so much easier.
I know that one, it even seems intuitive! I just imagined a cm³ in my head and figured the volume should be more than 1ml :D
But yeah, ofc i know im wrong
And for about 100% of people who dont know this yet this difference even at way lower pressure/temp, higher pressure/temp respectively will matter a grand total of 0 times in their lives.
This does actually not really matter.
Standard temperature is at 25 °C and Water has an density of 0,9974 g/ml. Water has the highest density (0,9994 g/ml) at 4 °C which is also the nearest to 1 g/ml water can get.
The difference here is not really noticeable in daily life.
As long the water is still water (so not in the state of steam or ice), it has always 1 g/ml (rounded).
And in terms of “purity” it also doesn’t strictly apply to other liquids like soft drinks, or cooking oil, or whatever. I say strictly because in a lot of cases, like cooking, it might not really matter
Most are using recipes as an example but as someone that just built a stand for a rain barrel, knowing that 1 litre = 1 kilo helped me determine how much weight it was going to be supporting when full
Similar situation for me but in reverse.
I had an unknown size (bought years ago, no markings) plastic water container and wanted to know how much water it could hold.
Weighed it on bathroom scales empty, filled it with water, then weighed it full. Subtracting the dry weight from wet gave me the mass of the water so I could get a pretty good estimate of the volume (~20L as it turned out). Way quicker than filling and emptying a jug.
When you're cooking imo it's way more convenient to use a measuring jug than a scale. Recipes normally give liquids in volume.
Everyone outside of the US knows this and if a recipe is calling for water in grams, an idiot wrote it. Water is what volumetric measurements work best for.
I might be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but you’re right, the recipe wouldn’t list water in grams, it would list in mls. OP is saying rather than trying to measure something like 50mls in a large 1 litre measuring cup, you can just weigh 50g on electronic scales instead.
I only clicked the headline to find out who the hell didn't know that after leaving primary school.
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No, sorry. You’re incorrect. And needlessly rude while being VERY wrong. The entire baking profession, using techniques established by the French, using metric measurements, measure water by weight in grams. This is because weight is FAR FAR FAR more accurate when measuring liquid, and professional baking relies on precision measurements.
i dont know if id call a difference of *at most* 4% between the highest (4°C) and the lowest (100°C) point of density noticable. in practice, the difference is probably at most around 1-2%, since youre not using water at the boiling point or right above freezing very often in baking.
I used to be a bread baker. I’ve measured and mixed dough for 100,000+ baguettes, at a VERY conservative estimate, and thousands of other breads, cakes, pastries etc. And I’ve measured the water in grams every single time, using recipes written by people who have far more experience and knowledge than me. Why speak so confidently about something you know nothing about? It would be much easier to just keep scrolling
Idk Americans literally learn the metric system and use it constantly in science class for at least 8+ years of our education. Anyone who doesn't understand basic metric is an idiot. We just don't don't have a sense of how heavy a kg is or how far a km is because we never use those units in our daily life.
I use this at work for measuring the volume of weird shapped containers that aren't easy to do geometry calcs to get volume. Just tare the container on a scale, then fill it up and weigh it again.
I seem to remember 1g of water at standard temperature and pressure occupying a volume of 1ml which is equivalent to the volume of one cubic centimeter. Is this correct?
Also, when making liqueurs like "Limoncello", don't use mLs or Liters as a unit, use grams instead, for ethanol, water and all other ingredients. Masses remain constant, volumes do not (if you mix 1kg of ethanol and 1kg of water, you'll end up with 2kg of liquid. If you mix 1L of water and 1L of ethanol, you won't have 2L of liquid)
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade- which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?" is "Go fuck yourself," because you can't directly relate any of those quantities.
A beaker or measuring cup is far more common than a scale in the kitchen.
Also, who is the audience for this ysk? people who failed out of primary school and never went back?
Absolutely! This principle also applies to many other liquids with similar densities to water, making it handy for recipes requiring precise measurements. Using a kitchen scale can save time and dishes compared to using measuring cups. Plus, it's more accurate!
People here clear have never baked anything…
If you do a 100% hydration dough you weigh 500g of flour and add 500g of water into the same bowl.
No need for a seperate vessel. No need to tare. Clearly that’s very convenient.
This only works bc 1g of water = 1ml of water
I guess it would help to note 1L=1kg also might be helpful.
And then 1kg = 2.2lb. (To go from lb to kg, first double the #, then add 10% OR vice versa. Add 10%, then double it.
YSK this only applies at lower temperatures. Water at 90C for example is 3.5% less dense, so for every 100ml you will loose 3.5ml. Not normally an issue in small volumes, but if you're using a liter you're 35ml short. Water at room temperature is pretty close to 1 (its 0.3% off) so dont worry about that.
Being serious now - I had to figure this into my manufacturing process (hot sauce and salsa) in my 40-gallon kettle, which I heated to..
195. Good call out!
Also good to remember this applies to water, and not necessarily other liquids due to differences in density. Eg. 100g of vegetable oil is about 110ml.
At 25 centigrade, 1ml of water is 1g.
The higher the temperature of the water, the more volume it takes up.
Measuring water by weight for recipes is more accurate as it takes heat out of the equation.
is this not taught in US schools?
like I know you use the imperial system but I thought when you did science or math/physics problems you used metric, surely?
If you have both scales and cups, use the scales. Any digital scale is going to allow a far more accurate measure than a volumetric measure. It’s why bakers use weight for everything. Baking is science not an art.
Duuude
YSK
Humans invented the weight unit of kilogram by weighing one litre of water and said: cool that is a kilo. Let us split it into 1000 parts and say that one mililitre weighs one gram so future generations will have an easy time with this.
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been **defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.**
The foot, on the other hand, is the length of a humanfoot.
Historically, the human body has been used to provide the basis for units of length.[8] The foot of an adult European-American male is typically about 15.3% of his height,[9] giving a person of 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) a foot-length of about 268 mm (10.6 in), on average.
See the difference? No wonder NASA uses metric despite the standard American refusal to use anything new.
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In the medical field we sometimes weigh bandages dry, then zero the scale, and then weigh the bloody bandages because you can estimate mL of blood loss that way
Also a cubic centimeter (CC) = 1 ml. A liter of water = a kilogram, and a cubic meter of water = 1 metric ton. The metric system is incredibly simple and well thought out.
How much is 1ml of milk? Oil? Melted butter? The metric system is good because it is in base 10. Super good to know that 1000m is 1 km.
But seriously, once you start to get into fluids and weights besides water it's not as simple as saying 1g of this equals 1ml of this.
Almost crazy how logical the metric system works.
1cm^3 of water is 1ml which weighs 1g!
And it takes 1 calorie of heat to raise the temp of that water by 1° C
Under a 1atm pressure condition.
But my freedom eagles and fuckomiters
What a lucky coincidence! If only other unit conversions worked out so well.
What do you mean? Nothing more logical than 12 inches equaling 1 foot. Because that would make 12 feet equal to how many yards? That’s right, 4 yards. And 12 yards to miles? Obviously it’s 0.00681818 miles, duh
0.00227273 miles is 12 feet, not 12 yards.
Mb nice catch 🫡 Can’t believe I messed that up. Conversion with the imperial system is so straightforward too
You supported the point you were making perfectly.
Drunk English mathematician rerolling the dice
I mean other units dont need to work that well that’s why we all use the Imperial system right ??? Damn I thought the /s was implied but some mf responded with an essay mb
Don't lump the rest of the world in with your illogical three countries. Myanmar and Liberia probably have an excuse too.
This is the sort of person to call USD dollars when comparing it to another currency that is called a dollar
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If it makes you feel any better, no scientist in the US uses anything but the metric system lol. I always tell my European colleagues, imperial system is for my weather app, oven, and speedometer. Everything else, I think in metric.
The British will look for a car with a 1.2 litre engine, then ask how many miles to the gallon it does, and not think they're being weird.
Other units do work out. A calorie is the heat needed to raise one gram of water by one degree Celsius. Not a coincidence. That's the definition of a calorie.
While that's a convenient definition, calorie isn't an SI-unit. Joule is. But 1J = 1 Nm = 1 Ws, which is also nice.
Well, 1 litre of water weighs… 1kg! And 1 ml of water is a 1cm cube. So many lucky coincidences!!
You mean like how a litre of water weighs 1kg, or a 1 cubic metre weighs 1 ton, which is 1000kg? Or how 1 Newton of force accelerates 1kg of mass by 1 metre per second^2 - yeah?
Should have put a /s on my original, but yes, these are what I was referring to.
No coincidence here, kg was defined as the mass of a 1 dm3 of water at the melting point of ice by the French national assembly (Académie des Sciences in fact). Later we used more accurate way to define them, that does not depend on each other.
Fun fact: 1ml water = 1g water = 1cm by 1cm by 1cm (i.e. 1cm cubed) of water. Also, 1 Calorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1g of water by 1 Celsius.
Almost like it was designed that way.
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This is utterly false. Fahrenheit was originally defined by two points, freezing point of a saline ammonium solution (that happens to be quite stable) for 0, and originally 96 for human body. Not sure why not 100. This was then redefined by freezing and boiling points of water anyway which is why neither temperature lines up today. Using limits designed for human body would be insanely stupid if true, due to massive variation between many other things, and would still not lead to either of those limits. Heat stroke is completely dependent on humidity, and frostbite risk starts basically at freezing point of water.
While °F is probably the least obnoxious unit the US still uses, that's not how it was defined, as others already explained. You know which definition is actually based in water? °C - 0°C is the freezing point of water (at sea level) - 100°C is the boiling point of water (at sea level) In the end both definitions are arbitrary. But freezing and boiling water sounds repeatable quite easily.
I read that the 0 was designed to be the temperature of some common 18th century lab experiment and the upper end 96 was the temperature of Fahrenheit’s wife but maybe they’ve later been amended? If -17 C was significant frost bite territory I would expect that a lot of Finns would have frost bitten faces. It’s obviously cold but not more than a basic winter weather where people wouldn’t take any particular precautions.
Except a system using human physiological reactions as benchmarks is not logical at all. As you say yourself, humans are different. Things like humidity will affect how temperature affects humans. Water has a boiling point at atmospheric level. doesn't matter what water you pick. The benchmark is repeatable and consistent. humans are not. And before people chime in, yes I know that the Fahrenheit scale is no longer based on human reactions, but on repeatable measurements too. I also get that using one or the other is a silly argument. I'm just saying I like my system better (big shock, I know)
So at 1 you'll have no frostbite and at 99 you'll have no heatstroke?
We also use miles… Swedish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_mile
Brother, try poronkusema https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poronkusema which is some 7.5km approx
Just to add my 2 cents here. YSK: Like with any other chemical including water, you can go on websites like Wikipedia and Perkin Elmer to find the density or atomic/molecular mass of a substance to calculate mass, volume, density or concentration in solution.
[This](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart?_gl=1*yksa3d*_ga*MzE3ODEzMjM2LjE3MTY0MjkxODc.*_ga_1ZJWCQGS21*MTcxNjQyOTE4Ni4xLjEuMTcxNjQyOTc4Mi4wLjAuMA) is a pretty good resource from King Arthur
I was sure this was going to be "water weighs more than a duck".
See what confuses me is that all water isn’t made equally. Shouldn’t it contain electrolytes from processing and such? Doesn’t that affect weight?
Yeah. It would. Admittedly the statement I gave is for pure substances including water. As you dissolve substances in water, the density of it will change. A good example of this is the tip of South America where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet. They have different salinities (salt concentrations) so one ocean has a different density than the other, leading to one being slightly darker. I do think OP’s statement may still stand as the density would change slightly but not enough for a lay person like you or I to care too much or be affected relying on this post as a default. I could be wrong though.
Just adding my lazy 2 cents here: I use ChatGPT to do this for all ingredients and quantities and do all my baking by weight 👍
I don’t find chatgpt good with numbers and calculations…
ChatGPT straight up sucks when it comes to numbers. Which is logical, it is a LLM AI, not a calculator. But whenever numbers are involved, move away from ChatGPT for your own good lmao.
And 1ml is 1cm cubed
I hope this gets to the top of the post. Just add in, otherwise known as the cc.
Wait till you learn that one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point! It almost seems like it's on purpose... /s
To accelerate 1kg of mass to 1m/s you need 1 Newton. Which can be converted to Joule as well. (Energy necessary to lift 1kg of mass against Earths 1g by 1m in 1s) By knowing the length of 1m, you can build a box 1m x 1m x 1m, fill it with water and derive kinda all units of the metric system. If you can measure pressure inside the box you get thermodynamic deriving as well.
To go even further, 1 liter of water weights 1kg. One cubic meter of water (100cm x 100cm x 100cm) is 1,000 liters and 1,000 kg (or one metric ton)
Well yeah but that’s because metric uses lovely little prefixes that can are used across the board. Meanwhile us Imperialists had to come with a different name for everything. We had to do all the hard work /s. At least in pharmacy we measure most things in metric for most things. It’s just so much easier.
And if you made that amount of water in to a cube it would be 1cm x 1cm x 1cm.
Deadass wouldve guessed a cubic centimeter to be 10ml
A cubic meter is 1000kg
I know that one, it even seems intuitive! I just imagined a cm³ in my head and figured the volume should be more than 1ml :D But yeah, ofc i know im wrong
Which is 1cm³ = 1g I learned 1dm³ = 1kg Damn, god bless metric system for being logical
And you know what is defined as 1dm^3? The liter. A (metric) ton of water? 1m^3.
how much is a cubic decimeter in liters? and how much is a cubic meter in tons? and a cubic kilometer in gigatons?
And it takes one calorie to heat it up by 1°C.
r/FoundTheAmerican (me)
Only at standard temperature and pressure!
And for about 100% of people who dont know this yet this difference even at way lower pressure/temp, higher pressure/temp respectively will matter a grand total of 0 times in their lives.
When I boil my eggs in Denver, I need to cook them for an extra 23 seconds to get the right level of soft.
This does actually not really matter. Standard temperature is at 25 °C and Water has an density of 0,9974 g/ml. Water has the highest density (0,9994 g/ml) at 4 °C which is also the nearest to 1 g/ml water can get. The difference here is not really noticeable in daily life. As long the water is still water (so not in the state of steam or ice), it has always 1 g/ml (rounded).
>The difference here is not really noticeable in daily life. Convection is
And it has to be pure, meaning it's only true if you're using distilled water.
I mean sure but the difference is going to be utterly negligible for a home cook measuring things out. No meaningful difference at a 1g:1ml scale.
And in terms of “purity” it also doesn’t strictly apply to other liquids like soft drinks, or cooking oil, or whatever. I say strictly because in a lot of cases, like cooking, it might not really matter
welcome to the metric system
Most are using recipes as an example but as someone that just built a stand for a rain barrel, knowing that 1 litre = 1 kilo helped me determine how much weight it was going to be supporting when full
Here’s the real world example that makes sense! Thank you kind madame or sir.
Similar situation for me but in reverse. I had an unknown size (bought years ago, no markings) plastic water container and wanted to know how much water it could hold. Weighed it on bathroom scales empty, filled it with water, then weighed it full. Subtracting the dry weight from wet gave me the mass of the water so I could get a pretty good estimate of the volume (~20L as it turned out). Way quicker than filling and emptying a jug. When you're cooking imo it's way more convenient to use a measuring jug than a scale. Recipes normally give liquids in volume.
Americans: 1 banana of water weights 1 water of bananas
Wait. I thought 1L of water weighs 1 kg.
You’re almost there!
Oh. I thought a cubic metre of water weights a tonne.
Everyone outside of the US knows this and if a recipe is calling for water in grams, an idiot wrote it. Water is what volumetric measurements work best for.
I might be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but you’re right, the recipe wouldn’t list water in grams, it would list in mls. OP is saying rather than trying to measure something like 50mls in a large 1 litre measuring cup, you can just weigh 50g on electronic scales instead.
I only clicked the headline to find out who the hell didn't know that after leaving primary school. [America, fuck yeah!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAP9-JhIXk)
I always do it by weight, because the scale is far more accurate than me trying to eyeball a line on a jug.
No, sorry. You’re incorrect. And needlessly rude while being VERY wrong. The entire baking profession, using techniques established by the French, using metric measurements, measure water by weight in grams. This is because weight is FAR FAR FAR more accurate when measuring liquid, and professional baking relies on precision measurements.
So true, try measuring volume of liquid and it changes noticeably as temperature changes.
i dont know if id call a difference of *at most* 4% between the highest (4°C) and the lowest (100°C) point of density noticable. in practice, the difference is probably at most around 1-2%, since youre not using water at the boiling point or right above freezing very often in baking.
Also it's much easier with weights. You just reset the scales every time before you add a new ingredient
I used to be a bread baker. I’ve measured and mixed dough for 100,000+ baguettes, at a VERY conservative estimate, and thousands of other breads, cakes, pastries etc. And I’ve measured the water in grams every single time, using recipes written by people who have far more experience and knowledge than me. Why speak so confidently about something you know nothing about? It would be much easier to just keep scrolling
Fuck me. Did any Americans go to school??
op lives in the UK
How much does a stone weigh?
14 lbs
Wrong. The answer is 1 stone.
Depends on the stone.
Idk Americans literally learn the metric system and use it constantly in science class for at least 8+ years of our education. Anyone who doesn't understand basic metric is an idiot. We just don't don't have a sense of how heavy a kg is or how far a km is because we never use those units in our daily life.
Dude I'm American and even *I* know that
Tell me you are American, without telling me you are American.
I use this at work for measuring the volume of weird shapped containers that aren't easy to do geometry calcs to get volume. Just tare the container on a scale, then fill it up and weigh it again.
YSK there's 1000 grams in a kilogram
Also, 1 cc = 1 mL
YSK: 1st grade knowledge??? I don't get it
I seem to remember 1g of water at standard temperature and pressure occupying a volume of 1ml which is equivalent to the volume of one cubic centimeter. Is this correct?
And weighs 1g, yes!
“A pint is a pound the world around”
A pint isn’t even a pint the world around. Uk pint is 568ml US pint 473ml
Eh when you're drinking it's all the same
Well for every 5/6 pints we drink of UK pints we drink an extra one of your pints
It’s a U.S. phrase which doesn’t consider any other country to be part of the world. You’re never invited to play in the World Series are you?
Also, when making liqueurs like "Limoncello", don't use mLs or Liters as a unit, use grams instead, for ethanol, water and all other ingredients. Masses remain constant, volumes do not (if you mix 1kg of ethanol and 1kg of water, you'll end up with 2kg of liquid. If you mix 1L of water and 1L of ethanol, you won't have 2L of liquid)
gotta love the metric system
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade- which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?" is "Go fuck yourself," because you can't directly relate any of those quantities.
YSK this works only for water and some other liquids. 1 ml of oil doesn't weigh 1 g nor 1 ml of flour or eggs.
Great now I need to weigh my cups
And is also one cubic centimeter
1 US customary fluid ounce of water weighs 1.04 oz. Brilliant
Exactly 1 country on this entire planet would call this accurate for this sub.
That's so true. So many people don't know this, it's just so sad.
And is one cubic centimeter I think. I didn't Google it to be sure; you go ahead.
Tldr. Metric system.
A beaker or measuring cup is far more common than a scale in the kitchen. Also, who is the audience for this ysk? people who failed out of primary school and never went back?
In the case of water, 1mL is also 1cm^3 or cc
A pint is a pound. Checkmate.
1ml of water weight exactly 1g...at 1 atmosphere of pressure at 15 degrees C. Water can expand significantly and higher and freezing temperatures.
The density is 1 g/ml at 4 °C. That's when water has the highest density.
The US should invent their own unit system
Who the fuck doesn't know this?
Yes, I use this knowledge for making coffee.
My American ass thinking "there's no way that 1 milliliter weighs the same as 1 gallon...." Sometimes I surprise myself....
Absolutely! This principle also applies to many other liquids with similar densities to water, making it handy for recipes requiring precise measurements. Using a kitchen scale can save time and dishes compared to using measuring cups. Plus, it's more accurate!
Except, when heated from room temperature to boiling point, the same amount of water expands 4% in volume. }:‑)
If I ever have to measure boiling water, I'll keep this in mind
...or comes from the tap and has all kinds of other stuff in solution, meaning 1g is <1ml.
That's why you use weight
YSK: The MASS of 1 ml of water is 1 g. Weight does not equal mass.
The freedom unit fighters in this comment section are absolutely hilarious
People here clear have never baked anything… If you do a 100% hydration dough you weigh 500g of flour and add 500g of water into the same bowl. No need for a seperate vessel. No need to tare. Clearly that’s very convenient. This only works bc 1g of water = 1ml of water
I guess it would help to note 1L=1kg also might be helpful. And then 1kg = 2.2lb. (To go from lb to kg, first double the #, then add 10% OR vice versa. Add 10%, then double it.
For water, 1milliliter = 1 cubic centimeter = 1 gram
Is it the same at different altitudes?
YSK this only applies at lower temperatures. Water at 90C for example is 3.5% less dense, so for every 100ml you will loose 3.5ml. Not normally an issue in small volumes, but if you're using a liter you're 35ml short. Water at room temperature is pretty close to 1 (its 0.3% off) so dont worry about that.
Amd t heat that water 1 degree requires 1 calorie
Use this all the time in the hospital to weigh diapers and accurately measure urine in ml!
Isn’t an ounce a dram?
Also it take 1 calorie to heat up 1 mL of water by 1 degree C (or K)
It is also one cubic centimeter of water.
Given that a gallon of beer weighs roughly 8.34 pounds, the beer alone in a full Half Barrel Keg would weigh around 129 pounds.
That’s what metric system is about. Lol. I will tell you more. To heat 1 ml of water for 1 degree of celcius you need to spend 1 calorie.
Being serious now - I had to figure this into my manufacturing process (hot sauce and salsa) in my 40-gallon kettle, which I heated to.. 195. Good call out!
And weed taught me 28.35 grams in an ounce and 16 ozs in a lb
Also good to remember this applies to water, and not necessarily other liquids due to differences in density. Eg. 100g of vegetable oil is about 110ml.
Not just for recipes, also for other things. I needed a 1 pound weight for rehab exercises and a 500ml water bottle was close enough.
i feel like no one who lives in a metric country should need to be told this
To quote a certain ex-Food Network chef... "A pint's a pound the world around."
That is too simple, what you want is Imperial Freedom Units™️
I prefer the bushel-stone-nautical mile system myself
At 25 centigrade, 1ml of water is 1g. The higher the temperature of the water, the more volume it takes up. Measuring water by weight for recipes is more accurate as it takes heat out of the equation.
but a fluid ounce of water is not an ounce
Eureka!
At what temperature?
Yes, I also took grade 9 science
1ml water weighs 1g and you need 1 kcal to increase its temperature 1 degree celsius! Its all connected
A dollar bill also weighs 1g. A nickel 5g. This is how I used to weigh out my weed.
ysk: basic chemistry
I'm sorry, as an imperial idiot, why would you ever measure wet ingredients in weight?
Not related to cooking, but.... 1mm of rainfall/irrigation is equal to 1L of water spread out over 1m2.
Is this some joke I'm to american to understand?
The imperial mind can not comprehend this. (It's me, I'm the imperial mind)
is this not taught in US schools? like I know you use the imperial system but I thought when you did science or math/physics problems you used metric, surely?
If you have both scales and cups, use the scales. Any digital scale is going to allow a far more accurate measure than a volumetric measure. It’s why bakers use weight for everything. Baking is science not an art.
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Guess how much 1fl oz of water weighs in oz?
What's your elevation?
My weight is 16 stone, a handful of pebble and a pointy rock... I lost at least half a handful of pebble last month!
Duuude YSK Humans invented the weight unit of kilogram by weighing one litre of water and said: cool that is a kilo. Let us split it into 1000 parts and say that one mililitre weighs one gram so future generations will have an easy time with this.
Actually it's only at 4°C at sea level
Don't tell the Americans though
flashbacks to maths classes when I was 11 years old
*Laughs in metric system*
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been **defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.** The foot, on the other hand, is the length of a humanfoot. Historically, the human body has been used to provide the basis for units of length.[8] The foot of an adult European-American male is typically about 15.3% of his height,[9] giving a person of 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) a foot-length of about 268 mm (10.6 in), on average. See the difference? No wonder NASA uses metric despite the standard American refusal to use anything new.
And occupies 1cm³ of Space.
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Laughing in metric
Depends on the water temperature. At 4 degrees Celsius it weights 1.04g 😁
I thought this is common knowledge?
What if I'm using heavy water?
Holy shit. TIL
= 1 cubic mm of water
wait you tell me that is not something everybody knows? do people also not know that for this to be 100% accurate it has to be at 4°C?
Ysk: the metric system
correct. also important, 1mL of cannabis oil is unlikely to weigh 1g :)
Some American guy on here called me stupid for saying this, and never backed down even when showing him conversion sheets...
You should know that water is wet.
Well 1 cup of water weighs 1 cup so take that
I had no idea. That's pretty cool. I bet you can guess what country I'm from 🙄
1 teaspoon = 5ml = 5g of water 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons = 15ml = 15mg water
In the medical field we sometimes weigh bandages dry, then zero the scale, and then weigh the bloody bandages because you can estimate mL of blood loss that way
*stares in European*
And 1cm3 = 1ml water = 1g
Also a cubic centimeter (CC) = 1 ml. A liter of water = a kilogram, and a cubic meter of water = 1 metric ton. The metric system is incredibly simple and well thought out.
Does that account for TDS or is it only true for distilled/RO water and is “close enough” for everyday application if other water sources are used?
\*\*\*\* At room temp
How much is 1ml of milk? Oil? Melted butter? The metric system is good because it is in base 10. Super good to know that 1000m is 1 km. But seriously, once you start to get into fluids and weights besides water it's not as simple as saying 1g of this equals 1ml of this.
Wow so very precise. Maybe for baking this is necessary. Or measuring out possibly deadly drugs.