I like metric for weight, that's about it. Cooking with metric is a lot easier. Celsius is nonsense. There's very little real life use of having the boiling point being an anchor. Fahrenheit is anchored on real life daily measurements.
Fahrenheit is anchored on real life daily measurements.
Intentionally or not, you've just touched on why Imperial measurements survived 2000 years of empires. Because every single one was designed to be as relative to an individual person as possible, with no measuring tools required. You could trade with anyone civilized and they will understand exactly how much you required or were talking about
A mile was 1000 steps. 100 Fahrenheit is the point temperature becomes an active danger to human life as it's above our body temp. Retards like to mock the "foot" as though measuring things in body parts is backwards except that's literally where it came from; an average foot size. This was divided into twelfths because a twelfth offers the greatest amount of precise divisions without requiring tools (whole, half, third, quarter, sixth and eighth). You can't get a third of a meter without precisely measuring it.
The temperature is really the only metric part I don’t understand. Why would someone insist on using it over the clearly superior Fahrenheit? Nothing more than a middle finger to America I suppose.
It works better in purely scientific mediums, but Kelvin works even better than that in purely scientific mediums, so it's got some weird middle-kid energy.
Not a great idea in a base 10 number system. This is how you start to make mistakes that cause planes to fall out of the sky, all because the US must identify itself as "not Europe" in every possible way.
Cooking with weight is easier. Metric is shit. The Imperial system for volume is a doubling system, where we have stopped using a couple of the steps. Incredibly intuitive.
Length is the one that gets me. Twelve is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, all super useful. Ten is divisible by 2 and 5. You never need a fifth of something. Supposed, Euro lumber yards sell by the 1.2 meter length for this reason. It's a foot with extra steps.
For some reason this popped into my head: "Welcome to cooking class! For our honey mustard chicken recipe we require 200 cubic centimeters of chicken and 2.365 deciliters of water...."
meh, for fahrenheit you arbitrarily remember 70 is room temp, for celsius you arbitrarily remember it's 20-21. but then for fahrenheit freezing is 32 for some reason and boiling is 212... makes no sense.
Yes, but having boiling being only 100 degrees higher causes a much smaller gap of useful everyday temperatures. Most places rarely see temperatures below 0°F. We also know that going above 100°F are dangerously hot temperatures. Even with water temperature, we know that around 100°F is an enjoyable bathing temperature, but going above that starts to get dangerous. Drinking liquids slightly above that, etc.
At the end of the day, I guess it's all relative to what you're used to, but I prefer the temperature ranges in Fehrenheit. Plus. The whole scale was built for powers of 2, it made more sense in a less digital world.
Celsius is such a shit scale for outside temperatures. Just use Fahrenheit for weather and Celsius for chemistry.
I like metric for weight, that's about it. Cooking with metric is a lot easier. Celsius is nonsense. There's very little real life use of having the boiling point being an anchor. Fahrenheit is anchored on real life daily measurements.
Intentionally or not, you've just touched on why Imperial measurements survived 2000 years of empires. Because every single one was designed to be as relative to an individual person as possible, with no measuring tools required. You could trade with anyone civilized and they will understand exactly how much you required or were talking about
A mile was 1000 steps. 100 Fahrenheit is the point temperature becomes an active danger to human life as it's above our body temp. Retards like to mock the "foot" as though measuring things in body parts is backwards except that's literally where it came from; an average foot size. This was divided into twelfths because a twelfth offers the greatest amount of precise divisions without requiring tools (whole, half, third, quarter, sixth and eighth). You can't get a third of a meter without precisely measuring it.
It's just fractions. Idiots don't know how to do fractions, so they use metric instead.
The temperature is really the only metric part I don’t understand. Why would someone insist on using it over the clearly superior Fahrenheit? Nothing more than a middle finger to America I suppose.
It works better in purely scientific mediums, but Kelvin works even better than that in purely scientific mediums, so it's got some weird middle-kid energy.
Not a great idea in a base 10 number system. This is how you start to make mistakes that cause planes to fall out of the sky, all because the US must identify itself as "not Europe" in every possible way.
Metric is better, but not for temperature. Fahrenheit should be used in all but scientific applications.
Cooking with weight is easier. Metric is shit. The Imperial system for volume is a doubling system, where we have stopped using a couple of the steps. Incredibly intuitive.
Length is the one that gets me. Twelve is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, all super useful. Ten is divisible by 2 and 5. You never need a fifth of something. Supposed, Euro lumber yards sell by the 1.2 meter length for this reason. It's a foot with extra steps.
Dealing with fractions of an ounce is annoying compared to whole grams.
For some reason this popped into my head: "Welcome to cooking class! For our honey mustard chicken recipe we require 200 cubic centimeters of chicken and 2.365 deciliters of water...."
Exactly. I can see Germans being ok with that. You think Mediterraneans give a shit past tenths?
meh, for fahrenheit you arbitrarily remember 70 is room temp, for celsius you arbitrarily remember it's 20-21. but then for fahrenheit freezing is 32 for some reason and boiling is 212... makes no sense.
Celsius is anchored on the freezing point being 0.
Yes, but having boiling being only 100 degrees higher causes a much smaller gap of useful everyday temperatures. Most places rarely see temperatures below 0°F. We also know that going above 100°F are dangerously hot temperatures. Even with water temperature, we know that around 100°F is an enjoyable bathing temperature, but going above that starts to get dangerous. Drinking liquids slightly above that, etc.
At the end of the day, I guess it's all relative to what you're used to, but I prefer the temperature ranges in Fehrenheit. Plus. The whole scale was built for powers of 2, it made more sense in a less digital world.
Never in my entire life have I thought ''I really need the nuance to express halfway between 22°C and 23°C''.
Kelvin