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[miffy]

Just wondering really, am I the only Omleteer who still used pounds and ounces, rather than grams and kilograms?

[Guest]

Despite being taught in metric at school, I always use imperial now. Asking the butcher for half a kilo of mince just doesn't sound right, but a pound of mince does, for some reason..

[Egluntyne]

I tend to still use imperial, but can only think of eggs in terms of grammes.

[jlo]

I automatically use imperial when I am assessing weights and heights and stuff. For instance, I can tell you how much I weigh in stones and pounds (but am not going to!! ) but I wouldn't have a clue how much in kilos. When I am cooking I measure in metric, simply because that's what most things are in now.

 

I also agree with Chookiehen about asking for 200grams of something. It's just wrong!

[Lydia]

I too was taught metric but all my mum's cook books were written in imperial so I've always cooked using imperial.

 

I swear cakes measured in pounds and ouncesl taste better anyway

[..lay a little egg for me]

I'm completely mixed up...sometimes I use metric sometimes imperial...it depends on the circumstances. However, I have noticed that I have been tending towards metric in recent years...

[Clur]

Completely imperial for me despite (apparently, coz I can't remember) being taught metric at school. Not sure if it was home reasons, but whatever, I get really confused by metric!!!

[Lesley]

I use both despite only being taught Imperial!

 

I cook a lot with my two grandchildren and I convert weights all the time - so they understand Imperial as well.

 

I only think in Imperial though and have to make an effort to use Metric.

[Omletina Kyckling]

I use both depending on what I'm doing.

 

I think of filling my Landy in terms of gallons, even though it says litres on the pump, I convert it in my mind to gallons as I'm filling, so if I put in 45 litres, I'm thinking "ten gallons"....

 

Heights are always in feet and inches to me, but if I'm measuring something smaller, it's cms and mms!!

 

When I cook I use grams, simply because my digital scales default to that, but I don't like ml or dl, prefer to think in pints!

 

I think I'm of the crossover generation who were partly taught imperial and partly metric, and had imperial at home so we are confused and in the middle!!

[pistachio]

I was taught metric at school but as with most things - home is the real influence and I was brought up baking in pounds and ounces. I now have an antique pair of scales and only imperial weights. I curse Nigella!

[kitbag]

i only use imperial - all of our cookbooks have been passed down through the family, so its just what i have grown up with!

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[Mrs Frugal]

I was taught metric but find imperial so much easier, especially as I use old balance scales with the original imperial weights. I have to convert recipes in modern cookery books before I can make anything . I also ask for things in pounds and ounces on the market and at the butcher. Thank goodness they don't object

[Seagazer]

I do both - for cooking its metric. If anybody told me a baby's weight in metric though I would have no idea!!

 

I'm no good with lengths in metric though either. In one way I wish we had one or the other and not a mixture of both. It would be simpler

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I use both (depending on which cookbook I am using). I have electronic kitchen scales so I can change over at the press of a button. I was an in betweenie too, one minute learning pounds and ounces then suddenly (or so it seemed) metric.

 

It does cause some hilarity chez Webmuppet when calculating the cooking time of the weekend roast ( convert kilos to pounds then do the 20 mins per pound thing) ..........LMW always wants to know why I need a calculator to hand to cook sunday dinner!

[ubereglu]

I use both, even though I'm supposed to be a 'metric child'!

[SarahJo]

Worked in a butchers shop as a student - and also a pub, so still aske for Lbs and Oz weights, and pints

 

Will convert anything in Kg to Lbs on a converter, and then cook. Old habits die hard I am afraid, but it works for me.

[Milly]

I use both. Mainly metric for cooking, as that is what recipes come in nowadays. But try asking for metric in the butcher's shop! Luckily my scales convert from one to the other quite easily.

 

I use metric for weather - but if it has been really hot it's better in imperial.

 

And as for petrol - I buy in litres but convert to miles per gallon.

 

I think our mixed up system in this country is to blame.

 

Milly

[BarbaraJ]

Hmm i'm all over the place.

Metric and Imperial for distance.

both for my height lol

for my weight imperial metric means nothing

and totally imperial for cooking. though as a childminder when we cook, i use metric

[redhotchick]

I thought I used both but now I realise that I mostly use metric, I can convert between them most of the time though.

Measurement is part of my job and it's all metric, but I worked in the Caribbean where sometimes drawings were in imperial (very odd to measure!)

Height and weight I know in both, but as someone said before, baby weights only make sense to me in lbs and ounces!

I weigh eggs in grammes. Recipes I am very slapdash and often measure by eye using tablespoons, mugs or chunks of butter.

Petrol I can only think of in monetary terms I don't buy litres or gallons I buy £25 or a tankful.

Oven temperature is centigrade, hot days are fahrenheit.

[Geoid]

I use metric, It makes sense! (apart from milk, pint of milk sounds better)

This country should change over to metric fully, roads in meters and kilometers. Speed in Kilometers per hour.

Also food in cans should not be sold as 486g (which has been converted from imperial) it should be sold as 500g.

They should also get rid of inches on rulers. Just CM and MM

[redhotchick]

Fred you will be no doubt be pleased to know that the rulers I use for work have no imperial scale on them and they are freely available, try WHSmith.

I'm guessing canned food producers are being slow to turn over their production to metric, but it will come. It's a big investment to change over and doesn't really add value. I for one would not be happy to pay more just because beans/soup were now available in rounded 100s of grammes.

Milk is sold in litres in supermarkets, but in pints on the doorstep! (I think?)

Beer is still sold in pints in pubs. I'm not a big milk or beer buyer!

[Ardene5]

Hi Everyone

When I wanted to buy a Sat Nav I wanted one which would talk to me in English and not American English or chat about metric.

I was brought up on feet and inches, mph and mpg what I call sensible measurement.

So I wanted a machine which talked the way I think ..... I found one it is a Navman F20.

Can recommend it to anyone, it is like Ronseal it does what the tin says.

 

Simple to use I think it is great.

 

Best regards

 

Ian

 

Ian & Valerie

William & Harry

Missy & Millie dog

9 lovely hens

Henian Castle with inside it

 

 

PS

Imperial or Metric really depends on a few things.

1) What age you were at school when Metric came in.

2) I expect the younger end e.g 30 ish and below to use Metric and 40 plus have a leaning to Imperial.

[Geoid]

Do any of you remember this? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMydtcswTU

 

'And we will do our decimal shopping in pounds and new pence only'

They should of changed everything then.

[redhotchick]

Everything should have been changed then Fred. It wasn't though,

 

I was barely 2 in Feb 71. I fall between the under 30 over 40 category that Ardene5 suggests

(just )

[miffy]

'And we will do our decimal shopping in pounds and new pence only'

They should of changed everything then

 

Yes I do remember d day I was 13 . Even then I couldnt see the point of it, and now Im not sure what it achieved. Ditto with weights and measures.