$ pike --help=kladdkaka Ingredients: 4 eggs 5 dl sugar 2 pinches salt 6 msk cocoa 200 g melted butter 3 dl wheat-flour 2 tsk vanilla sugar
1. Mix everything together 2. Pour into a greased circular form. 3. Bake in 175 degrees C (350 degrees F) for 1 hour. 4. Serve while it is still hot with whipped cream.
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It should say "6 tbs / 90 ml cocoa" and "2 tsp/10 ml vanilla sugar" otherwise it's hard to understand for non-Swedish people (Never mind that "kladdkaka" is 100% Swedish, but that's the name :P ).
I vote from "ml" since that is the SI unit. I wonder what the SI unit for "pinches" is though... :-)
But "pinches" isn't really a measurement of mass, but depends mostly on particle size. For example, a pinch of iron rods can have quite considerable mass.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:25:01PM +0000, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
But "pinches" isn't really a measurement of mass, but depends mostly on particle size. For example, a pinch of iron rods can have quite considerable mass.
true, but fortunately, the recipe doesn't call for iron rods, or a random ingredient but for salt, for which the mass is known, so the recipe wouldn't suffer if a volume measurement is translated to weight.
greetings, martin.
But the point is that "pinch" is not a volume measurement at all. The volume that you can pinch depends entirely on what you are pincing. The main difference between the salt and the iron rods isn't that the rods are more dense (which they obviously are), but that they are much larger than grains of salt.
"Pinches" isn't really a measurement, so any measurement unit is better. In this recipe the amount of salt molecules is the interesting bit, but that's luckily constant per gram.
The standard unit kg would be a bit too big.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:05:02PM +0000, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
I vote from "ml" since that is the SI unit. I wonder what the SI unit for "pinches" is though... :-)
but the average person does not know how many ml one spoon is, thus having spoons as measure is still helpful.
greetings, martin.
It reads on the tablespoon measure how many ml it is (15). If you use an actually spoon, then you get a completely random amount.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:45:01PM +0000, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
It reads on the tablespoon measure how many ml it is (15). If you use an actually spoon, then you get a completely random amount.
it's only completely random if you use spoons that gulliver collected on his travels. otherwise it would be within certain tolerable bounds.
most times cooking doesn't require scientific precision. in fact a bit of randomness adds variety and flavor.
greetings, martin.
Well, if people want to add a random amount of stuff for flavour, then it's no problem if they don't know how many ml their spoons are, now is there? After all, they don't know how many tablespoons they are either.
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