to think there is something wrong with Americans?

[TheBloodManCometh]

In Colorado, here for 5 weeks.

Why the HELL is there a half inch gap on either side of the door in all public toilets?? You can see everything going on!!!
This has been the case everywhere I've been in America?
AIBU to be both baffled and embarrassed

lighthearted btw. I don't really think there's something wrong with the Americans

I grew up on a lake so I just can't be doing with 30+ temperatures if I don't have a body of water to submerge myself in.

30 your temp, of course

i was in kansas city a month or so ago. i actually started moulting - the hair from my head seemed shed everywhere in the heat!

I don't get it either. We have -40 winters sometimes, which is the same as your -40. But my 85 is your 30 or thereabouts.

How?!

What I love about the uk is how we flit from imperial to metric depending on what we are talking about.
You buy milk in pints, but cream and butter in mls. Cars are quoted as doing x miles per gallon but we buy petrol in litres. Ask me to measure something and I'll do so in metric, ask me how tall I am or to guess a measurement and I'll do it in imperial.
My favourite though is temperature relating to the weather. Hot? Fahrenheit. Cold? Celsius.

A cup is 8 fluid oz. NOT normal oz, because of course it varies depending on what you're measuring.

Great use for no longer needed baby bottles. Especially if you bought the wide neck ones.

Hot? Fahrenheit. Cold? Celsius

My uncles band in the 80's was called "Eighty in the Shade". When I asked my dad why he said "Because 26 and a bit in the Shade" would sound stupid!" :o

cheerful it is because 0C is 32F the simple way to convert is:

C-F multipy by 9/5 and add 32
F-C subtract 32 and multiply by 5/9

-40C * 9/5 is -72 add 32 is -40F

85F -32 is 53 multiply by 5/9 is 30ish

Even with a "proper" measuring cup, if you asked ten people to measure out a cup of flour and then weighed it, you'd have quite a bit of variation in how much flour they had.

Dry things should be weighed, wet things measured by volume.

I did like the story of the accidental 40 oz if beer instead of 24.

I love cooking using cups. It just keeps things in the right proportion to each other.

I didn't sleep at all last night.

Alcohol has %ABV on the label and that's the required one, but most liquors print the proof as well. And we define proof as twice %ABV.

I've always wondered if we feel temperature more sensitively as we have more of a difference. Two people could have a debate over whether to set the thermostat to 68 or 69 degrees here, but they're both 20 degrees celsius.

And what's the temperature you bake most things at? 177 to our 350? What would be a little lower than that? Oddly, when I put in 325 F to C, it came up with three different "baking temperature conversion charts" one saying 163, one 165, and one 170. I can't figure out why that would be.

Baking using weights keeps things in the right proportion too, and you know that you definitely have the right amount.

i would do 350F at 180C. 325F probably at 165C. i think it can depend on what your oven temperature knob has on it - some go up in fives, some in tens, some more graduated or digital so you can set it more sensitively. and of course as i'm sure with american ovens it depends on the oven itself, your mileage may vary etc

I bake everything at 180 or 160 (220 for chips)

That is true Trills.

letterto In the UK proof is 7/4 of the ABV rather than twice, based on the origional testing (alcohol mixed with gunpowder would burn if over 57% ABV, so '100% proof' it was alcohol).

ovens are worth a whole new extra thread...

Oh, and I do own a kitchen scale. Somewhere in the back of the cupboard somewhere. Far too annoying.

  Oops, too much   Sigh. 

Or just open the flour, scoop the measuring cup, level off, done.

"Surely 160C is 160C and it shouldn't matter how much the air is wafting about"

I concur. Doesn't make sense.

Very interesting about the oven temperatures!

i have just checked the conversion chart from the waitrose magazine that's taped to the inside of one of the kitchen cupboard doors. 325F is 170C according to the oracle. though i would set it to less than that due to fan nonsense