Is there a site where it gives you familiar things to correspond with weights and distances etc.
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January 17th, 2017
Like a pound/kg would be whatever fruit, or vegetable, (sold by the item not weight, like grapefruit). So you would say “it weighs 5 grapefruits” and a mile/km would be x number of city blocks and so on and and so forth.
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What ? I buy Bebe Lemons that are 40% the size of Sunkist Lemons.
As far as the city block thing:
Generally, a city block is averaged out to be 1/10 of a mile in most cities in the States, ten blocks per mile. That is how cabbies generally figure distance and cost when off the meter.
A mile is 1.6 kilometers or about 1½ kilometers, and a kilometer is 0.6 of a mile, or about half a mile. If you want to be exact just multiply the amount of miles times 1.6 to get kilometers, or multiply the amount of kilometers times 0.6 to get miles. Always multiply.
Most people run into trouble when trying to convert cooking ingredients from English or “Standard” measure to metric. Here’s a site that will convert them for you. But watch out, make sure you convert dry to dry weight and liquid to liquid. For example, 1 cup of liquid is 24 cl, but 1 cup of something dry, like flour, is 350g. Tsp and tbsp are alway measured in ml whether dry or wet. Be careful.
Oven temps can be a bitch, because converting degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius requires an algebraic formula, and most people forgot their algebra ages ago. So Here’s a converter that will do that for you.
A mile would be approximately ten city blocks and a kilometer six, in the U.S.
Yes. What’s a ton like, a) for a farmer? and b) for a city person?
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a) Approximately the weight of a tractor.
b) Approximately the weight of a Toyota Yaris.
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