Goomba38 wrote:

Sqwertz wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:03:20 +0100, Michael Kuettner wrote:

400 grams Gruyere, roughly grated
400 grams Appenzeller (or any other sharp Swiss cheese you can get), roughly
grated
400 millilitres dry white wine (or champagne)
3 tea spoons corn starch
4 centilitres Kirschwasser (a schnapps distilled from cherries)

Why is liquor so often measured in centiliters while almost all
other liquids (including wine) in milliliters?

-sw (metrically ignorant)

same difference SW. A cc=mL

Sure. But if one is usually described in cc and the other is usually
described in ml then the question is still valid. He didn't say the
*amounts* were different; just that the labels are different.


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