Monday, May 14, 2007

keep this handy

often, i am either dividing or doubling recipes and don't feel like sitting there trying to figure out all the conversions.

the following is a useful chart to keep in the kitchen.

click on it to enlarge & print it.

6 comments:

Beenzzz said...

That is very useful! I'm printing this out and keeping it with my recipes. Thanks!!

burekaboy — said...

hey beenzzz - thanks :) hope it comes in handy for you.

as you can see converting imperial/standard measures isn't so easy unless you're good at fractions! here in canada, everything is in metric, based on multiples of 10 making it much easier to calculate, but a majority of north american recipes are still in cups and spoon measures.

btw, i scanned the chart and made a jpeg of it since i don't have a webhost for the pdf file of it, so it's kind of a crappy copy but still legible -- i hope. if you can't see it well after printing, please let me know so i can reformat it somehow. Tx.

Jihan said...

my mom never uses measurements.
So when i learned to cook i had to learn by average. It drives me crazy sometimes. Especially when I have to but oil...

thankx a bunch for sharin...

burekaboy — said...

lol, PJ, my parents also always measured with hands and eyes unless they had to be very specific with soemthing they were making. almost impossible to copy down a recipe!

hope the list helps you.

Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

Thanks, that will be very useful as sometimes I end up with immense calculations or headaches ;-P!!!

burekaboy — said...

you're welcome, rosa. hope it helps you out. i'm definitely not mathematically oriented, either.