Weights and measures

[DiamondEcho]

Probaly 1/3rd of all new recipes I use for the first time I have to put some measurements through a translator of some kind. Metric <> UK Imperial is no problem. US pounds [etc, etc!] > UK Imperial or metric is not obvious to me. Then all the Asian etc measures that are unique to them. Worse still when it's my wife's Asian cuisine, perhaps from her mother, and I'm meant to 'have the feel' and a 6th sense lol

'[DE] add a thumb of sambal blacan*. Then cook till fragrant ah? Then when the oil rises...' blah blah. It's just the British way of having 'The feel' but in an inevitably alien Asian framework.


* who's thumb? My wife's tiny digit, or my chunky one? And how fat, what brand, what pack size? If I gauge their measures wrongly and it'll almost melt the pot it's so fierce.