Food, recipies, & conversions

Cooking Measurment Equivalents: 16 tablesppns = 1 cup; 12 tablespoons = 3/4 cup; 10 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons = 2/3 cup; 8 tablespoons = 1/2 cup; 6 tablespoons = 3/8 cup; 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon = 1/3 cup; 4 tablespoons = 1/4 cup; 2 tablespoons = 1/8 cup; 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons = 1/6 cup; 1 tablespoon = 1/16 cup; 2 cups = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon; 48 teaspoons = 1 cup

U.S. to Metric
Capacity: 1/5 teaspoon = 1 milliliter; 1 teaspoon = 5 ml; 1 tablespoon = 15 ml; 1/5 cup = 50 ml; 1 cup = 240 ml; 2 cups (1 pint) = 470 ml; 4 cups (1 quart) = .95 liter; 4 quarts (1 gal.) = 3.8 liters

Weight: 1 fluid oz. = 30 milliters; 1 fluid oz. = 28 grams; 1 pound = 454 grams

Metric to U.S.
Capacity: 1 militers = 1/5 teaspoon; 5 ml = 1 teaspoon; 15 ml = 1 tablespoon; 34 ml = 1 fluid oz.; 100 ml = 3.4 fluid oz.; 240 ml = 1 cup; 1 liter = 34 fluid oz.; 1 liter = 4.2 cups; 1 liter = 2.1 pints; 1 liter = 1.06 quarts; 1 liter = .26 gallon

Weight: 1 gram = .035 ounce; 100 grams = 3.5 ounces; 500 grams = 1.10 pounds; 1 kilogram = 2.205 pounds; 1 kilogram = 35 oz.

For All Who Have Difficulty Converting Units…

Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

1 million- microphones = 1 megaphone

2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

365.25 days = 1 unicycle

2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

52 cards = 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

10 rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

2 monograms = 1 diagram

4 nickels = 2 paradigms

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League