#measurements

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[phoenixyfriend]

Anyone want another measuring hot take/fun fact?

In highly precise recipes like baking and especially pastry: Eggs should be volumetric.

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If an Australian recipe calls for 6 Large Eggs (52g), and you are in the EU and use eggs marked as Large at the grocery store (63g), you will be putting in 7.27 eggs worth into the recipe.

That's more than an entire extra egg! And if you factor in the ranges from the second image then that could go up to 8.76 eggs!

That's like. A difference of anywhere from 21% to 46% in the amount of egg you're using!

Ergo: pastry recipes should say "300ml of egg white" to maintain consistency.

[feedinghersoftly]

Pics and gifs from new weigh in and measurements video.

[incognitopolls]

Do you struggle to conceptualize measurements in your mind? Are you autistic?

I'm autistic and I struggle a lot with this

I'm autistic and I struggle with this somewhat

I'm autistic and I have no problem with this

I'm autistic and I have a much BETTER sense of measurements than others do

NOT autistic and I struggle a lot with this

NOT autistic and I struggle with this somewhat

NOT autistic and I have no problem with this

NOT autistic and I have a much BETTER sense of measurements than others do

Voting ended onJun 19, 2025

For example:

if someone says an object weighs 10 pounds, do you have a sense of how heavy that is?

If someone says an area is 2ft by 8ft, do you have a sense of how big that is?

If someone says they're 3 miles away, do you have a sense of how long it will take them to arrive?

If someone asks how many people were at an event, can you easily estimate a number?

(Or whatever units you're most accustomed to. Assume the person asking the question uses the units you're used to.)

Anon is autistic and struggles with this, and they assume it's related.

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[vinceaddams]

Serious question: How the fuck are you supposed to math things in inches? When everything's divided into stupid insufferable halves of halves of halves of halves instead of good sensible decimals?? I did a 1917 pants draft, where I had to divide many measurements, and unless my number ended in something like a .5 or .25 or .75 the best I could do was round to the nearest tenth and then eyeball that tenth on the ruler.

Edit: Seems like the answer is "be less precise" and "memorize the fractions so you can translate regular numbers to them". Thank goodness I have no obligation to actually do that! Next time I try an imperial drafting pattern (if ever) I might just convert it all to metric before starting, though eyeballing tenths worked out fine.

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