I learned this from Cooking for Engineers - somebody commented.

Say you are trying to convert cups to teaspoons - just go to Google and
type in your problem:

1/8 cup to teaspoons

hit enter. It will tell you. (http://www.google.com in case you're
utterly clueless)

Or say you are in the USA and using a terrific recipe posted by one of
our European posters.

400 grams to ounces

(14.1095848 ounces)

G'wan, try it!

It will also convert between miles and kilometers, inches and meters,
etc.

It also converts currency, and you can just do basic calculations in it
like a calculator (i.e. 5*37, hit enter)

Kewl, huh? Now if it will only convert pan sizes for those of us trying
to bake 1.5 recipes of brownies. Or convert a cheesecake recipe from a
10" pan to a 9" pan. Maybe if we were good at geometry we could plug in
the numbers. I'll work on it. Meanwhile I have a crib sheet printed
from an old post that gives me the answers.

Leila

On 25 Nov 2005 03:38:03 -0800, "Leila" >
wrote:

>I learned this from Cooking for Engineers - somebody commented.
>
>Say you are trying to convert cups to teaspoons - just go to Google and
>type in your problem:
>
>1/8 cup to teaspoons
>
>hit enter. It will tell you. (http://www.google.com in case you're
>utterly clueless)
>
>Or say you are in the USA and using a terrific recipe posted by one of
>our European posters.
>
>400 grams to ounces
>
>(14.1095848 ounces)
>
>G'wan, try it!

For me it doesn't work, I wonder why ? I get the usual search
>
>It will also convert between miles and kilometers, inches and meters,
>etc.
>
>It also converts currency, and you can just do basic calculations in it
>like a calculator (i.e. 5*37, hit enter)

Yup, currency converter and calculator works. Good to know, thanks!

Nathalie in Switzerland

Have you tried it with imperial measures?


On 25 Nov 2005 03:38:03 -0800, "Leila" >
connected the dots and wrote:

~I learned this from Cooking for Engineers - somebody commented.
~
~Say you are trying to convert cups to teaspoons - just go to Google
and
~type in your problem:
~
~1/8 cup to teaspoons
~
~hit enter. It will tell you. (http://www.google.com in case you're
~utterly clueless)
~
~Or say you are in the USA and using a terrific recipe posted by one
of
~our European posters.
~
~400 grams to ounces
~
~(14.1095848 ounces)
~
~G'wan, try it!
~
~It will also convert between miles and kilometers, inches and meters,
~etc.
~
~It also converts currency, and you can just do basic calculations in
it
~like a calculator (i.e. 5*37, hit enter)
~
~Kewl, huh? Now if it will only convert pan sizes for those of us
trying
~to bake 1.5 recipes of brownies. Or convert a cheesecake recipe from
a
~10" pan to a 9" pan. Maybe if we were good at geometry we could plug
in
~the numbers. I'll work on it. Meanwhile I have a crib sheet printed
~from an old post that gives me the answers.
~
~Leila

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:03:40 +0100, Nathalie Chiva wrote:

> For me it doesn't work, I wonder why ? I get the usual search

I don't know why. Which google do you use? I tried a couple of other
google sites... like google.com.uk and it just fine.
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