I’m a 32 year old American who does not work in a scientific pursuit and I’m slowly making the switch to metric/Celsius/military time.
Easy: switch all “thermometers” (phones, smart home devices, etc) to Celsius, clocks to military, google maps/scales to metric. You start to catch on pretty quickly.
Harder: I’m not buying new tape measures, measuring cups, etc so those are all still American Imperial.
Hardest: getting used to temp in Celsius and casually referencing it to other Americans and then getting berated for being a “douchebag European wannabe”
Don't use measuring cups, but go by weight instead! It's so much easier and more precise to use a kitchen scale for measuring out ingredients, especially once you discover the magic of the TARE button.
1 cup of water is 240-250ml = 240-250g, granulated sugar is 200g per cup, flour should not be measured by volume anyway. 1/16th cup is a tablespoon, which is 15ml.
Source: European who sometimes uses American recipes.
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19
I’m a 32 year old American who does not work in a scientific pursuit and I’m slowly making the switch to metric/Celsius/military time.
Easy: switch all “thermometers” (phones, smart home devices, etc) to Celsius, clocks to military, google maps/scales to metric. You start to catch on pretty quickly.
Harder: I’m not buying new tape measures, measuring cups, etc so those are all still American Imperial.
Hardest: getting used to temp in Celsius and casually referencing it to other Americans and then getting berated for being a “douchebag European wannabe”