Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Among other things, if you cook and use cookbooks, you'd be constantly
> converting forever...unless you threw them all out and replaced them. Most
> of my US cookbooks do not contain metric measurements.
>
> Having said that, I have quite a few cookbooks from the UK and Europe. I
> made a point of buying measuring equipment for that purpose, as well as a
> scale that weighs in both ounces and grams.


I am not that precise with cooking, except with baking. There isn't that
much to conversion. Off the top of my head.... a cup is 250 ml, a Tsp.
is 5 ml, so a Tbsp is 15 ml. A pound is roughly a half kilo. Temperature
is a little tricker, but still just a matter of conversion, and it isn't
a major deal to get a chart with the most frequently used temperature,
like 325, 350 and 375.