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  • rbos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldPersonal Pizza Party
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    3 months ago

    I’d never heard of premade dough powder. It might be something you can make yourself though. Pizza dough is just flour, water, salt, yeast. Optionally a little sugar, garlic powder, oregano.

    We do an overnight ferment then freeze the dough balls.







  • rbos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldW Celsius
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes!

    But yeah, no, chocolate bars are usually 50-60g. Which is also a thing, because they used to be 72g. I remember that number specifically because that’s two of your “ounces”, except on a second Tuesday during the ides of march when an ounce is like 85 grams. But only for red things. There’s a whole separate system for blue things.



  • rbos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldW Celsius
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    4 months ago

    True that, especially as they shrinkflate it. A chocolate bar is usually 50-60g these days. Used to be 71g as I was a kid. Gee I wonder where that number came from…

    I’ve heard that one of the reasons that metrification didn’t take off in the States was that when they converted highway signs, they rounded down instead of up, so people got mad at “losing” a couple km/h. Tactical error, there.


  • rbos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldW Celsius
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    4 months ago

    yeah, a duodecimal metric system would have been better. Still, it’s more important to have a standard system than it is for it to be ideal. It’s the strongest argument for US customary system within the USA, as well - but that argument breaks down when you widen the scope to the world.

    In the 18th century context, and its dozens of competing measurement systems, something like the metric system was sorely needed just for standardization. We’re just lucky that it was something more or less sensible. Had the US customary system won out, I think we’d be objectively worse off.

    So it could have been better, but it could also have been MUCH much much worse.


  • rbos@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldW Celsius
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    4 months ago

    In any context where it’s important, you’d note it with +/-. Not really a problem.

    I guess there’s nothing wrong with saying 1/8th metre, 1/8th centimetre, 15/16th metre either. Just as some people might use 0.356 inches.