Dang! How am I going to measure that?
This evening I was reading a cookbook that has a recipe calling for 30nl of fish sauce - but I don't have a spoon set that measures in nanoliters! Oh well, I always ignore that metric crap anyway and use the standard measures. 2T seems a much more reasonable amount of fish sauce anyway.
The tablespoon is a nice reliable and easy to proofread measure, 3t the world around - except in Australia where it's 4t. What were they thinking (or drinking)? |
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I'm sure that's what all the girls say!
They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
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:-)
I assume it was a typo, with the correct units being ml.
A handy web page for volume unit conversions (if you don't have a calculator handy) is: http://www.ilpi.com/.../volumeunits.html They have similar pages for mass, etc. 30 microliters is 0.0010144 ounces, so 30 nl is 0.0000010144 ounces. Supposedly 24 drops = 1/4 teaspoon, and 1 teaspoon = 0.1666667 ounces. The conversion from nl to drops is left as an exercise for the reader. Cheers, Scott. (Who feels like dissecting the frog this morning.) |
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30nl is 0.000002 Tablespoon - and . . .
. . that just doesn't seem like enough fish sauce - I'm still going with the 2T.
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True.
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Dang! How am I going to measure that?
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (5)
- Jan. 26, 2009, 03:14:42 AM EST
I'm sure that's what all the girls say!
-NT
- (Meerkat)
- Jan. 26, 2009, 07:19:29 AM EST
:-)
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- Jan. 26, 2009, 07:27:31 AM EST
30nl is 0.000002 Tablespoon - and . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- Jan. 26, 2009, 12:13:59 PM EST
Better conversion table
- (drook)
- (1)
- Jan. 26, 2009, 08:13:58 PM EST
True.
- (Another Scott)
- Jan. 26, 2009, 08:25:35 PM EST
