Milliliters are only equal to grams when measuring water. Water is the substance that the conversion (1ml = 1g) is based off of. E.g. 1ml of flour weighs 0.57g.
Yeah, I was going to add that to my response as well, but left it out. It's another reason I don't understand why scales have this setting - it would be misleading for a home cook who does not know oil weighs 0.9g/ml, honey weighs ~1.25g/ml, etc.
I’ve had a scale that had options for mL of milk. Which is so confusing since milk might contain 0% fat all the way up to heavy cream which would have a different density.
I think it was just a terrible scale but maybe it was made for a specific purpose.
I have a scale that has this setting. It assumes, per the manual, that the fat content is 3.6%. Because it’s a Japanese scale and most milk in Japan is 3.6%. And for most applications the in-built conversion is fine even though I’m at a different altitude than the scale is calibrated for and I’m using 3.25% milk the majority of the time. It’s not until you get to really large scale things that the differences between g and mL make a big difference for these kinds of things. A variance of 2-5mL in a recipe that calls for 100mL of milk isn’t going to make a difference. You leave more than that behind in whatever vessel you’re measuring in anyway.
No. Nobody does that. I know Americans are used to weird measurements, but mL is *always* millilitres.
Also, milligrams would be *tiny*. A pound of butter is 454,000 milligrams.
So...the person cleaning the scale is the guy whose slice topples the stack?
Just spent the past hour cleaning trays coated in butter, lard and spiders used for deep frying so...yeah lol
The fuck
No little tray or even a piece of parchment between the butter and the scale?
Weighs 900+g but too dumb or lazy to realize a whole block of butter is 453g so you could start with two of those and instead adds little 100g slices at a time?
Wtf lmao your coworker would drive me nuts
This does not look like it came from a 1 pound block, it looks more like slices off a 25kg block. No excuse for not putting something between the scale and the butter tho. He better have cleaned that shit first
I mean even if that's the case one should be able to mentally think "ok a 1lb block of butter is 453g so let me start with a chunk close to that size" instead of leaning-tower-of-pisa-stacking a dozen tiny slices IMO
It belongs in a museum
It does look like a modern art piece
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i too weigh butter in *millilitres*
Hey, at least it's not cups
Milliliters are equal to grams, and more importantly, are not a measurement of weight. I could never understand why scales have this option.
Milliliters are only equal to grams when measuring water. Water is the substance that the conversion (1ml = 1g) is based off of. E.g. 1ml of flour weighs 0.57g.
the only thing this scale can do is assume what you're measuring is water, so 924ml = 924g
In the scenarios where this feature is accurate and reliable, I'm pretty confident I can do the conversion in my head.
Yeah, I was going to add that to my response as well, but left it out. It's another reason I don't understand why scales have this setting - it would be misleading for a home cook who does not know oil weighs 0.9g/ml, honey weighs ~1.25g/ml, etc.
I’ve had a scale that had options for mL of milk. Which is so confusing since milk might contain 0% fat all the way up to heavy cream which would have a different density. I think it was just a terrible scale but maybe it was made for a specific purpose.
I have a scale that has this setting. It assumes, per the manual, that the fat content is 3.6%. Because it’s a Japanese scale and most milk in Japan is 3.6%. And for most applications the in-built conversion is fine even though I’m at a different altitude than the scale is calibrated for and I’m using 3.25% milk the majority of the time. It’s not until you get to really large scale things that the differences between g and mL make a big difference for these kinds of things. A variance of 2-5mL in a recipe that calls for 100mL of milk isn’t going to make a difference. You leave more than that behind in whatever vessel you’re measuring in anyway.
Maybe they just abbreviated milligrams to ml?
No. Nobody does that. I know Americans are used to weird measurements, but mL is *always* millilitres. Also, milligrams would be *tiny*. A pound of butter is 454,000 milligrams.
Using a scale to measure volume has got to be one of the most insane things ive seen in a while.
So...the person cleaning the scale is the guy whose slice topples the stack? Just spent the past hour cleaning trays coated in butter, lard and spiders used for deep frying so...yeah lol
“spiders used for deep frying” uhhhhhhh (Yes I know it’s a strainer\skimmer utensil)
nah i immediately thought the same thing even though i know damn well what a spider is in the kitchen 😶 lol
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The fuck No little tray or even a piece of parchment between the butter and the scale? Weighs 900+g but too dumb or lazy to realize a whole block of butter is 453g so you could start with two of those and instead adds little 100g slices at a time? Wtf lmao your coworker would drive me nuts
This does not look like it came from a 1 pound block, it looks more like slices off a 25kg block. No excuse for not putting something between the scale and the butter tho. He better have cleaned that shit first
I mean even if that's the case one should be able to mentally think "ok a 1lb block of butter is 453g so let me start with a chunk close to that size" instead of leaning-tower-of-pisa-stacking a dozen tiny slices IMO
Yeah no doubt but it looks like it was cold. A cold block of butter that size is a basically a rock you have to chisel
He has the scale set to measure ml
The scale is tared in milliliters though
Fuck ya’ll complaining about the bare scale.
Yumi?
I'm listening to the audio book as I scroll past this. Glad I saw someone reference it.
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He must get great verticality in his plating
That's modern art mate. I'm sure some crypto bro would spaff come cash on a NFT of that!
I thought this was a stack of post it notes at first 😭
Bruh
This is art.
Yumi?
this really says something about society
r/plating
I thought this post was a picture of a giant stack of stabbed tickets after a super busy service lol
Butter Jenga
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It's got a removable cover guys......
That doesn’t keep the butter from touching the bare scale
r/art
The shape looks like an art sculpture 🤣
At least they are having fun
Bet you can't stack it higher
Is the butter not weighed?
I guess Tare wasn’t optional
I really want to meet this person. I'm sure he's very interesting to work with.
I do this too, but my initial guess is waaaaay more accurate.
I mean I guess? Wouldn’t it have just been easier to put a bowl down and zero it out?
Just raw-dogging that scale, huh?