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On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:57:53 -0500, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

> sf wrote on Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:12:55 -0800:
>
> > Do you have a favorite conversion calculator site to share? Gourmet
> >Sleuth's is more comprehensive, but it's also harder to use.

>
> I've never had much of a problem with mental arithmetic. There aren't
> really a lot of factors to memorize and, when we rented apartments in
> Europe, we never had much trouble remembering the approximate needed
> weight in grams for various foodstuffs. Cooking is not an exact science
> :-)


You go right ahead and do that. I round up or down to standard US
measurements after I find out what the real conversion is.

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