Decibels
I see what you did there.
1 mL. Studying chemistry has made that extremely useful and now other units seem ridiculous.
If we’re talking about geology or oceanography though, cubic meters are fine.
I like how 1ml of water weighs about 1g
1 mL of pure water weighs exactly 1 g at 20 °C and 1 atm pressure :) It’s a defined standard, useful for calibrating other things.
The definition was actually for 4 °C, the point at which water is most dense. At 20 °C the density of water is about 0.997 g/mL. However, we don’t use water to define the metric system anymore, so even at 4 °C - or more precisely 3.983035(670) °C - water is not exactly 1 g/mL.
2000mL of water weighs 2kgs and 355mL weighs about 1/3kg.
To get my mind away from stupid imperial measures of weight, I think of bottles and cans of cola.
(Above is very approximate as sugar, packaging etc have weight. And conventional package size can vary by region.)
A liter of water’s a pint and three quarters
I prefer milligallons myself.
Wood Science must be a rather strange field.
Mouthful or handful.
(I had to dig these from the back of a kitchen drawer, so not “favorites” exactly.)
these are clearly mislabeled
Two are clearly the same size as well…
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I see what you did there.
tbsp.
Hard same, big fan of big spoon!
Especially for cereal
It’s the perfect amount of instant coffee!
A peck, equivalent to 2 dry gallons. Yay imperial units!
A pint. Preferably of a nice cold lager, but I’m open to suggestions.
Save me a seat
Microacres^(3/2)
Olympic swimming pools.
100 ml is pretty easy to use. You can multiply it or divide it evenly without having to think at all.
Imagine having to fill a 5 gal bucket using a 100ml container.
5 gallons is circa 19 liters. So when the liquid is water, then you don’t need to use the 100 ml container. 1 liter of water weights 1 kilogram, so put the 5 gallons bucket on a scale and pur in 19 kilograms of water.
My beloved teaspoon… When I’m too lazy to fish the tablespoon out of my coffee tin and clean it… three teaspoons
I would truly starve to death if I didn’t have a teaspoon
And let’s not forget how useful it is when making tea!
I sometimes like to make simple, big, one-pot meals that just rely on increments of tablespoons for spices and cups for lentils/rice/etc.
LUFS
“a bowl” of flour
Trying to interpret old recipes is a pain
Oh wait, favorite, half gallon; in the imperial system half gallon is the sweet spot in which my brain effortlessly translates to any other measure. Not the gallon, that’s far too many cups.
