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 »
In building my kit of metric measuring and installation tools, I set about finding the right type of screw for mounting the life safety equipment (fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, etc.). And ran smack into the Invisible Metric Embargo, again. Situation: Most Screws in Your Toolbox are Wrong for This There is no ISO standard for wood screws, similar to ANSI/ASME… 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 »