Going metric is not as hard as you might think, it just takes the rare knowledge of how to do it in the best manner, as decades of experience in countries such as Australia has shown. The hardest part is being brave enough to discard the dozen-plus separate medieval and ancient units that make up the U.S. collection of unit… Read more »
Early on in my mulling over how to start this cooking blog, I decided to switch to the metric system. Not just a little bit, when it was easy, but completely metric, and 100% SI (the International System of units, the official name for the metric system since 1960). And using methods that are now known to be superior to… Read more »
I am a geek, and proud of it. That means that I’ve spent most of my life operating as if things such as sleeping, eating, and cooking were tasks to be minimized, because they took away productive hours that could instead be spent researching, writing, testing, and building. Cooking, in particular, seemed the least productive of the necessities, because it… Read more »