i really do appreciate adam's interest and knowledge of our british stuffs but i think this is the first time i've heard the words "plaster" and "Boris" with an american accent and i couldn't help but feel slightly uneasy xD
Every customer in every shop that only publishes imperial measures: "what's that in grams and kilo's please mate?" They'd get bored of that within a day.
I have in my hand a container of Semi-skimmed milk from Waitrose. It is FOUR PINTS! It says so on the label. It also says 2.272 litres! Boris is a clown.
I never liked black pepper growing up, because it was always pre-ground and who knows how many years old. I love freshly ground black pepper now. Nutmeg is another spice worth grating fresh.
@@ZapAndersson Sorry but I'm gonna have to disagree plenty of cheaper cheddars, and monterey cheeses are fine pre grated. Sometimes I'm just making some tacos and want to throw some cheese on without having to clean up a grater afterwards. The only real difference is corn starch to keep it from clumping.
I remember Alton Brown talking about buying a small crock pot that plugs into a cigarette lighter (or the port based on the same) and can run while driving long distance. It was designed for long-haul truckers. That's an option.
Adam, I'm a Brit, and lemme tell you, this going back to imperial measurements is what we call the 'dead cat strategy' from our Prime Minister. Basically, he is caught up in scandal after scandal and we are in a cost of living crisis currently, so he is doing this to distract us from it. Like, if you're sat arguing at the table about something then they put a dead cat on it - it draws your focus onto the cat instead! We only use imperial to measure our height, dicks and how much beer we've drank. Anyways, love your brownies - keep the work up.
Distance when it comes to driving is mostly done in miles (imperial) as well, but other than that you’ve got everything we use imperial measurements for.
Yes, this announcement wasn't aimed at Boris/Brexit supporters, it was for his critics. I've only seen one conservative commenter enthusiastic about bringing back Imperial measures, but seen plenty of those on the left getting worked up about it!
At school I learned both, it was the late 70s and metric was kind of new. We were still using old half and shilling coins as 5 and 10 pence, it was *movie voice* a time of change. While learning both I just came to the conclusion that the people that came up with the imperial system were either just making it up as they went along or were drunk. I couldn't stand it. 14 of this but 16 of that, an 8th here, a 16th there... A pound there but a different pound elsewhere. 144 what in that... (ok, not, that's money and that was gone before I started school). This is nothing but a diversion really. A stone dropped in to the pond to cause some ripples. This is a guy who seems to have forgotten about being told about a sexual assault carried out my a conservative MP. An MP with a history of such things who Johnson made chief whip, the position that investigates sexual assault. This is not a man who cares about imperial/metric as I doubt he's never actually used them in any kind of kitchen, like, ever.
The German Bread Institute (because of course we have something like this) states that we historically mostly used rye because it grows much better on the sandy soil than wheat does. And then after that of course tradition and so on... So your explanation seems correct to me.
How poorly suited German soil is for growing wheat is very noticeable in the low protein content of most supermarket flour here in Germany. Regular 550 flour will typically have 10.5 to 11% protein (and protein means mostly gluten), whereas e.g. Italian flour brands will easily go up to 13-15% protein, because Italy is more suitable for wheat. This actually makes baking wheat bread in Germany quite tough, as you almost always need to buy specialty flours so that your sourdough doesn’t just become a runny mess that can‘t hold any structure.
@@mortuos557 ich hab mich da selber jahrelang damit herumgeplagt, bis ich mir Manitoba-Weizenmehl und italienisches Mehl gekauft habe, und plötzlich alle Sauerteigweizenbrote ihre Form wie erwartet gehalten haben. 😀Bis man das raus hat, kann Sauerteig mit normalen Supermarket-Zutaten unglaublich frustrierend sein.
My favourite example of this is that condensed milk is sold in cans of 397 grams. Clearly they just decided they weren't going to change the size of what were 14 ounce cans.
When I was a kid (elsewhere in the world), we would buy Lurpak, a Danish brand of butter which was sold in 454g and 227g packets... I found it confusing until I came to the US and realized that was a pound and a half-pound of butter... But now I'm confused, because I thought Denmark, along with the rest of Europe was pretty much on board with the metric system
adam didn't mention alcohol stoves. the fuel is fairly cheap, the fuel isn't compressed and is probably less explosive than compressed fuels, it's very portable, setup and cleanup is easier than charcoal, and you don't have to risk your battery on it. on the other hand, the fuel is not as energy dense as others, which can make cooking slow.
@@potapotapotapotapotapota Depends, here in the UK you can buy methylated spirit which is mainly ethanol with additives to make it discoloured/bad smelling/dangerous to drink
We have been using Imperial and Metric units somewhat interchangably for years. Milk and beer is measured in pints, we measure speed and distance in miles. We can buy gallon containers, as well as litre containers. We measure our heights in feet and inches as much as we do centimetres, but use metres for pretty much everything else.
I'm perfectly comfortable with metric for most things but as far as getting a 'feel' for height and weight I still prefer feet and inches and stones. Can't imagine saying 'this burly 183cm guy started shouting at me'.
I'm from the UK and there is something most people don't really realize: everything might be written in metric but it's amazing how many things are still actually in imperial measurements. You'll still see packaging that says things like: 57g (2 oz), 115g (~4 oz), 200g (7 oz, most tins), 227g (8 oz), 340g (12 oz), 454g (16 oz), and so on. The factories still use all of the old measurements but have just changed the packaging instead (which is the entire legal point). There is also a weird issue in that eggs are defined in effectively imperial masses too still, with a good example that if you crack the contents of a large egg on to a scale, it will weigh ~57g (2 oz). Another good example of a weird place where imperial is pretending to be metric are recipes. You'll see weird amounts such as 225g, or 115g, or 450mL or whatever, and then you clearly know that this was originally an imperial recipe. Whilst if you read recipes from "The Continent", they will use more "round" numbers in metric. A unit system is a language in itself and finding what works takes a long time. To be clear, I am not suggesting we should at all go back to the imperial system legally (far from it), just that things never actually changed in many places, only their legal value. And that even if more people think in metric nowadays, the things they buy are only legally metric.
@gingerBill Geez Ginger, you are only announcing your insularity. Follow your buddies and travel abroad, Ibiza, Mallorca maybe? Okay Bill, I got your point but it was funny.
@@Adscam huh? How did you get that irrelevant non-sequiter from my comment? I was just showing the oddities of sizes in the UK which imperial masquerading as metric.
@@GingerGames What I said was logical and just followed up on your statement, “even if more people think in metric nowadays, the things they buy are only legally metric”. Which means that the British have not really changed their thinking. Thanks for the conversation, it was very funny.
We have a somewhat similar thing here in the States, our bottled water is 16.9 fl oz .... because that's 500 mL; if it were sold solely in imperial units, it should be 16 fl oz which is obviously smaller so in this case, it is beneficial for us to use 500 mL.
As a Canadian, I don't actually mind shifting back and forth between the imperial system. I find I use whatever is most convenient (celsius for outdoor temperature, imperial for cooking temperature). When talking about distances, we typically talk about travel time instead of metric/imperial measurements.
Also as a Canadian (expat to the US) its the opposite for me regarding outdoor temperature for me. Especially in high humidity environments in the US, the finer increments of Fahrenheit I find more intuitive for outdoor temperature, but Celsius better for cooking temperatures. MPH for cars, KPH for fast things like planes and jets, imperial volume for cooking over metric weight measurements, etc. Maybe it's just a Canadian thing in general but I've never met anybody even in the engineering field who has trouble interchanging the two systems when most intuitive.
Same. The only thing that could go imo is “stone” for weight. It’s not even intuitive. Like 14 lbs in a stone? Why? At least with ounces it’s 16 in a pound which is nicely divisible by 2 - 4 times!
Exactly! Canadians are essentially bi-lingual when it comes to metric v imperial. I know exactly how cold it is in both systems! I cook in Fahrenheit temperatures, I buy butter by the pound, I'll purchase 250g of sliced ham, I travel on the highways at about 110kph, and I am 5'11" tall. The good news is that travelling to the States to visit my kids doesn't throw me into a panic wondering how to purchase butter, or fuel, or calculate how long it is going to take to travel 300miles. Being bi-lingual has definite advantages. Realizing that 1000 grams of cheese is a kilogram (which is a lot of cheese!) is very liberating. It is almost as exciting as being able to carry on a conversation in a foreign language! I am 73 years old, grew up on Imperial measurement, and was subjected to the initial confusion of converting to metric, measuring my fuel consumption in litres/100km and room temperature suddenly became 21degrees. But without any studying, or books, or exams, I soon learned that 250g of sliced meat makes a heck of a big sandwich!
@@scrooglemcdoogle A lot of classic recipes I use were from before the shift to metric in Canada, so they use 350F. I think outdoor temperature might depend on where you live. Having 0= freezing is probably a lot more helpful in a colder place where it makes the difference between snow/rain/ice rain. A lot of older Canadians I know like to keep their thermostats in F since 70 vs 71 is a lot easier to switch between than the metric equivalent where you're going into decimals. I like being able to go back and forth between the systems. It's not like the imperial measurements have any association with each other. You learn the measurement for the thing you're measuring.
As much as I agree with the first 11 minutes of this, as a Brit, we already live in a muddled up messed up world of both imperial and metric. I grew up learning Imperial in the kitchen from my Mum, but was taught Imperial as school. I use mm, cm, and metres for small distances, but I think in miles over long ones. Speed is mph, I know my weight in stone and lbs AND in kgs. Our buildings are built in standard multiples of 1.2m because when metric came in the building industry was simply too locked in to the 4*8ft standard for sheet material and joist distances to do anything except relabel them.
Hey we also get plywood and drywall (UK 'plasterboard'?) in 4x8ft sheets here in the US... Interesting to learn how other countries standardize their sizes
@@pqrstsma2011 Some standards are just too powerful to ignore. Inches for TVs or monitors, server racks for example are still in use in the most hardcore metric system countries.
@@limiv5272 maybe not as much but certainly not infrequently, especially young adults who drive, buy milk, buy draught beer, or even just go on long walks when discussing height and weight of people, so I'd say yeah
@@PCDelorian Interesting. I'm from Israel and here people use metric for everything. If it wasn't for YT I probably wouldn't encounter imperial measurements at all.
"I don't think any songwriter has much of value to say when they get as old as I am now." With all due respect, Adam, I think a lot of people have a misconception that you have to be young to make it in the music industry (understandably so, they want to develop young voices to fit the sound of the label rather than seek out the ones that fit naturally). Bruno Mars is actually 36, though lots of people think he's a lot younger due to the fact that he "made it" in the industry later than most in his life. Chris Motionless? 35. Leonard Cohen only started in music at 33, and now his rendition of Hallelujah is one of the very first songs that you learn when you start playing any instrument. Pharrell Williams didn't release "Happy" until age 40! Susan Boyle reached her fame from Britain's Got Talent when she was in her late 40s back in 2009. Honestly, go for it! You're not too old to start releasing music, and even if you think you'll only do well because of your previous achievements, I don't think releasing art purely for success is good motivation (though if that works for you, more power to ya). If you're happy doing it, go ahead! On their deathbeds, people usually regret the things they didn't do rather than what they did. You'll never truly know if you never try. Love to you and your family from this young (18M) ex-punk singer from Kansas, Goose \m/
Try Buckethead. Marvelous guitar player with hundreds of hours of music. Does wear a mask, does not speak, never anything vocal but he is brilliant in the way how he touches hearts with his music. The comments section on his TH-cam videos must be the gentlest places on earth. Also wears a bucket on his head. th-cam.com/video/uKUYSl8c-90/w-d-xo.html
Weird AL has been kicking ass since, like, a billion years ago, and still keeps making bangers. Dude was definitely not a young man when Straight Outta Lynnwood came out
You are right, but after watching Lindybeiges history of British coinage I can see why 240 is an amazing number. Not worth changing back but the odd numbers from premetic times had good ideas behind them, but are terrible for engineers and scientists or anyone trying to convert volume to weight etc.
I live in Canada (Alberta to be more specific) and the only thing I would say is that people really don't ever use miles per hour here when referring to speed limits. But yes, height always in feet!
The UK's mix of measurements is nowhere near as great as that of Canada. Unlike Canada, the UK doesn't have a (larger) neighbour that uses non-metric measurements almost exclusively, necessitating you to know the intricacies of both. The UK's use of imperial is relatively marginal these days: pounds, stone, feet, and inches are almost entirely for measuring humans, pints for milk and beer (do they even bother selling milk by the pint these days though? I only ever see 1L, 2L, and 3L measures of it), and miles for roads. Outside of that, everything is metric. Meanwhile Canadians need to deal with both systems for everything.
@@talideon that large neighbor has been officially metric longer than the UK. You clearly do t know what you're talking about. The US is officially metric informally traditional units. Just like the UK and Canada.
@@lookoutforchris Yes, but most of Europe uses metric both officially and informally since the start of the 20th century or earlier, the last country in mainland Europe being Estonia in 1929. Just about nobody alive has ever used anything but metric in their daily lives.
@@lookoutforchris If I may... You are both right and wrong. US may be officially metric but it is completely foreign to most of the population, who will use it for nothing and have almost no workable concept of what the units are. However, Imperial, just like the culture, has deeper and stronger roots in the UK, and so It's hybridization with metric is done so with more weight given to it than it does in Canada. It seems to me that for Canada, the pull is between two modern systems, metric from the world and imperial from the US, whereas for the UK, the pull is between the system of the past (imperial) and the system of the present (metric). Sounds fair? My mom is British and I am Canadian, to reference of my perspective.
As a brit I was born at a weird time, they were trying to teach us both imperial and metric so that we could understand people who used either. All it resulted in was me not being able to think in either
Yes this speaks to my read on several other comments: the irony of using stone and pint as examples. Yes we sell beer in pints, but most Americans have no idea that a pint is 2 cups because we don't use it in baking(we just say 2 cups). I've only ever heard Brits use stone for weight. I had to look up what that was
Yep, just the desperate flailings of a cynical nationalist who lost a double-digit poll lead with his lies. Rallying the base with nostalgic appeals to the “good old days.”
As a Brit, I can confirm we are happy as we currently are, which include using both metric and imperial wherever it makes our lives easier. We also hate Boris for a multitude of reasons, more each month I'm finding.
With cooking when living in a car, I feel like many of Steve Wallis’s camping videos might be somewhat educational. Of course he’s camping rather than living in vehicles but he certainly seems to know decent portable cooking (and heating) hardware pretty well. Mostly the gas kind, though not always.
40 years old is not too old to be writing music. Haydn was still writing symphonies into his 60s. Frank Zappa made some of his most genius and emotional work towards the end of his life.
In Britain we measure our heights in Feet and Inches, our weights in Stone and Pounds - unless we're at a doctors where they measure us in cms and kgs - we buy beer and cider in pints (proper British pints not your stingy customary measure pints) but wine, vodka, water, oil in ml. Milk we buy in either pints or litres depending on where we get it from. We measure our rooms in feet and inches then buy carpet by the metre. We measure speeds in mph and fuel efficiency in mpg (a different gallon, btw) then buy petrol (that's gasoline to your guys) priced in litres. A return to Imperial is nonsense, but we've never been remotely coherent or consistent. The difference to Germany (where I live now) is quite striking.
As an American living in Canada, I appreciate when items have both Imperial and Metric measurements. Obviously, I've not grown up on the metric system, and all the recipes from my parents/grandparents/etc are in imperial. But I'm also in favour of universal adoption of metric. Not having to convert from one system to the other while I'm in the grocery store is very much appreciated.
When I was a truck driver in the 1990s, I used to use a 12 volt CrockPot type device for cooking. I remember some other truck driver wrote a cookbook sold at truck stops with cooking times measured in miles, as in pot roast cooked in 200 miles, then add the carrots, and cook for another 70 miles, etc.
24:00 while you can plug an electrical appliance into your car, typically you can’t draw more than 150 watts, or at most 225 watts, which doesn’t seem likely to be enough for induction cooking. Induction cookers are often rated at 1500 watts or more. So, I’m skeptical about that suggestion.
Adam, I think black pepper is more common because, it is ... more common (at least in Europe). Meaning the plant is more common. While for most other spices you had to import them.
Regarding metric, I never learned imperial. I have no concept of what it is after having gone through the Scottish Primary, Secondary and University system doing Engineering. I have only ever used miles when doing my driving. Even today I use metric then convert to imperial when needed only to process times there.
from a canadian cooking channel I've learned they use metrics but with/for volumes to weight, that was weired. I was always wondering why they have those 'funny' recip ^^ it was metrics but felt wrong at the same time 😆
@@ThePongles yeah, but some of the dimension are still mostly american or like measuring cup that is easier to see in imperial when held by right-hand.
In Canada, things sold by weight are advertised with the price per pound most prominently displayed because it is a lower price per unit, and it seems like a better deal. Construction materials are in imperial I think because of the trade of lumber with the US, and the standards of building codes.
Hybrid system works just fine for now . I like my miles and pints and inch and a quarter wood screws . I like my centimetres and kilos too . Anyone after me just does the metric , and that's great .
There are some really good things baked-in on the metric system. It's all derived from base units, so it basically means there's no weird conversion constants to remember. And while not precise enough for science, for the kitchen it's more than good enough to say that 1 ml = 1 cm^3 = 1g of water. And since most foods are mainly water, food is about as dense as water. 15 ml (~tablespoon) is about 15 g. I think there are even charts out there for general densities of foods, and they're in that 0.8-1.2 g/cm^3 range (so 0.8 g/ml or 1.2 g/ml). No ambiguity in packing ratio either!
Hi Adam! Refined wheat flour (Maida) is a somewhat taboo thing in Indian households. Compared to whole wheat flour, it is considered less nutritious while being more expensive. For long term storage, people here prefer to store the entire wheat grains - getting a small batch milled every month or so for consumption.
Can I just add that with increasing almost instant access to the internet and the riches/horrors contained within, does it mattter if we use grains and cubits, because we can convert them as quick as typing the question?
regarding the "freedom" of using imperial units without metric: Even though it would allow retailers and some other industries more "freedom" it would ultimately make things more complicated for the majority of people who just use metric and now need to convert again if they want to make sure to buy enough. But I also expect that for that very same reason, most retailers and industries will keep displaying metric (possibly alongside imperial), as customers who use metric might be more inclined to choose a store/brand that displays thigs in metric.
Boris: let's give citizens the choice to use imperial. Adam: they might return to their warring world conquering ways. Hopefully they die before they get the chance.
I find your comments on old guys making music interesting, whilst I agree with you in general there are many excellent exceptions, my personal favourite is Dan Reeder who released his first album at 50 and is absolutely wonderful
@Rick Please watch Matt Parker's video about imperial measurements, it's really funny and kind of highlights the shortcomings of that measurement systemt.
I mean, the SI system specifically is designed to standardize *Weights And Measures*, and it actually does that brilliantly. However, I struggle to think of any field (at least adjacent to physics and chemistry) that actually uses straight SI units for doing actual day-to-day work. People that work in electronics/condensed matter use cgs, the high energy weirdos use "natural units", and there's actually a lot of stuff in chemistry and biology where calories are way more convenient to use. I honestly don't really see much difference between those examples and a baker measuring in cups because that's approximately one "egg equivalent" of flour. Once you have your answer you can always convert back to SI for portability...
You can still ask a retailer for food by pounds and ounces. The scales all have both. So if you're at a deli or butcher you can ask for half pound of chopped pork. They weigh it out and it has both lb/kg on the scale
Agreed. Use what you are comfortable with. I'm not a Boomer, but we can use either systems or both here in the Midwest because of the reason you suggest.
Somethings that are not metric are more convenient such as the height of a person, miles on roadsigns, pints of milk, a persons weight in stone, and pounds are all still used. I don't know my height and weight in metric, nor the distance to the nearest town in metric but I know it in imperial and I'm 44 years old. When I was at school I was taught metric.
@Gareth Fairclough I'm pretty old and I was only taught metric so the use of Imperial quirks for beer and height has been acquired through ongoing usage so will likely never die out. I don't understand ounces and pounds though and I do think it will largely die out because it doesn't have a place in common parlance so could easily become forgotten. Everyone understands when someone says 'fancy a pint' or 'this guy was a 6 footer'. It's more than just a measurement so it has more staying power.
The height of a person is more convenient in feet only because you were always using that. We use only metric here and when you say a height in metric everybody understand it.
@@clad95150 I think height just sounds more impactful in feet as it's just more punchy and puts a person's stature into mind more effectively. I think this sort of usage will persist regardless, as it doesn't really cause any harm or confusion anyway. Weights for food and recipes are a lot more divisive and less likely to last over the next few generations. I know that I'm 191cm tall but if someone asks me how tall I am I'll say 6 foot 3; if I'm filling in my height on a fitness app I'll use cm.
@@PotatoPirate123 Where I live people don't usually recite height as a single number. It's usually the number of meters followed by the number of centimeters. So, to achieve the "punchy feel", you say something like "meter ninety" or "one ninety".
@@2712animefreak perhaps it's largely down to the region. Over here you will commonly here someone referred to as a statuesque six-footer. I don't know, it just carries more impact for some.
Canadian here. I can mentally convert between metric and imperial units when I'm grocery shopping. For meats and vegetables, our signs next to bulk goods Ike produce and meats are listed in $/lb, but labels and receipts show kilograms. Our cars have the Kilometers in larger font than the mile markings on the speedometer. Gas is priced by the litre. Household thermostats are mostly in Centregrade, but ovens show temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. I still weigh myself in pounds and know my height in feet and inches, although all medical records are in kilograms and centimetres. Yeah, I think we have an identity crisis lol
If relying on a combustion engine battery to power an appliance consider getting a solar-powered trickle/float charger ($35-$40) to keep the battery charged without having to run the engine (i.e. use gas unnecessarily).
Adam is so constantly amused by the differnce between American and British English. This podcast series is my favorite thing he has ever done on the channel. Edit: Also, not to burst your bubble but one can open other apps and TH-cam will play Picture-in-Picture on your phone or tablet. You can even turn your phone or table off and the audio kf the video will keep playing just like a music service. In fact, TH-cam Music has a swap between audio and A&V functions for almost every video. Podcast apps are out of date, my man. Besides watching YT on your phone is old. Watching on your TV or PS5 while gaming or working, that's the stuff.
Totally agreed. I can't even imagine launching an app just for podcasts. Also Adam is the only one I've ever heard refer to it as "Pod" and for some reason I find it really grating lol.
Concerning the car cooking equipment: I'm surprized that you didn't mention the obvious choice: A stove which runs on gasoline. (or is it called petrol? or benzine? I'll never remember who uses which for what.) A couple of years ago I tavelled in my holidays to a country where I have never been before and learnt he hard way that not all butane stoves and canisters are compatible. One of the first things i did when back home was to buy a Coleman gasoline stove. I have never looked back.
To be fair, the UK does have some industries which still use imperial measures, mainly draught measures and milk; and road signs, and most of us do measure ourselves (height-wise) in feet and inches, our waist-line in inches, and weight in stone and pounds (or pounds and ounces when talking of babies). I would also say that not all young persons are against the idea of imperialism, but most aren't going to go out of their way to see it and admittedly do understand metric a lot better. Football although officially now defined in metric still has the 6 yard box, 10 yards distance on a free kick, 12 yard penalty spot, 18 yard penalty box, goals measured in feet, the UK isn't as split on the system as Canada but its not really fair to say we use metric exclusively.
I've literally never seen anyone under 60 give a shit about imperial measurements. There's a few things we never fully changed over to and held onto, particularly miles, just because they didn't want to change the signs. But when people say a pint or a pound they just mean basically half a litre/half a kilo unless you are over 55. It's actually why I think we should formally adopt the metric pint (500ml) and metric pound (500g) like we did with the metric ton. Like fewer and fewer people use stones , feet and inches and so on. There's just a few things that do hold over.
@@mytimetravellingdog It must be an indication on where you live. Using feet and inches is very, very common. There's plenty of folks from the UK in this comment section saying they frequently use imperial measurements for some things. It doesn't seem to have much to do with age, just which is easier to use.
@@mytimetravellingdog The thing is that a tonne/metric ton is just a colloquialism for a megagram, so it's still a legitimate unit consistent with the rest. Your idea of a metric pint and pound just makes things more messy; just get rid of it. There's already the weird inconsistency where there's both cubic meters and liters for volume, we don't need more of them.
@@mytimetravellingdog Go to a bar and find a single 18 year old asking for 568ml of Beer, or going to a supermarket and being confused by what they mean by 4 pints. Being in my 20s I can speak quite well for the people I studied and played sport with and nobody gave their weight in kgs or height in cm. You may well have good arguments for the use of metric but don't act like people under 60 don't know or use imperial. Road signs would need to be changed overnight, which is a gargantuan task in an era where near on everyone drives because its not like when they redesigned the stop sign in the seventies where the odd one would be replaced later you see a speed limit posted in km/h thinking its in mph or mph thinking its km/h someone could die, there's a big difference between doing 70 mph and 70 km/h or doing 110 mph on the motorway. I don't think we should necesarily undo the changes made by the EU directive causing courts to intentionally misread the Weights and Measures Act where the word 'or' is used we have got used to it, I likewise see no reason to undo the measures we are used to, like the pint. Again people play football and refer to it as the 6 yard box not the 5.4864m box.
@@Persun_McPersonson I'd agree with the metric pound idea, but no if we change we should adopt a metric pint (I actually like the pint as it is because 68ml isn't a lot but getting rid of it still feels like I'm getting less for my money) because half a litre or 500ml is an annoying unit to order multiple of like I'd like 4 half litres, or 4 500ml glasses, is not as nice as just saying can I get 4 pints please.
From a former car life guy, jackery makes some awesome products that bridge the gap between using your car as a power source and having electricity to do things like use a laptop or a hot plate. They can charge off your car while you drive or use a solar panel - great for camping and emergencies as well. Not sponsored at all, just a fan.
Really. A lot of people who are obliged, rather than choosing, to live in their vans are trying to make it in urban situations rather than national parks. I'm a fan of vanlife/skoolie/tiny home videos, and from what I've seen, a Weber is first of all, awfully bulky, and second of all awfully messy for everyday use in a tailgate situation. I'd stick with electric/solar if space is really limited. In a larger build, you might go to propane as long as you house the tank in an insulated/ventilated spot, and don't forget your detectors.
Took a bit to watch this video and see you responded to my question. I left the scenario mostly vague because it was directed at you. I’m fine and was mostly curious about your perspective on the idea. My family has participated in many tailgates so I knew where to start. If you are curious about my situation, it involves marital issues. We have two vehicles, a car and a scooter. The car was mine because I needed it for work, so when it came to which of us got kicked out, I was the one who ended up in the car because at least I could sleep in my vehicle. As for why I haven’t gotten a bachelor pad? Rent is expensive. I’d rather take the free spirit path of the car and not worry about rent or having excess stuff. The car is a hybrid and I mostly stick to urban areas. Thank you for answering so quickly. Enjoying your content.
@Gareth Fairclough however, on a cooking channel, a cup may literally be different in every home, therfore a weight dependant recipe becomes a lesson in ratios, and that's a bit like hard work when an SI unit will do
@Gareth Fairclough This is a very old argument and it really doesn't hold any weight. Just because a foot is based on the rough size of a foot doesn't magically make it more intuitive for estimation, it's just a flimsy defense for a messy system that relies on weird platitudes about being naturalistic instead of scientifically-backed logic. When it comes to intuitiveness of the individual units, it's all about what you're used to-if you're used to imperial, then inches and feet are more intuitive; if you're used to metric, then centimeters and meters feel more intuitive. Both systems' units are suitably large and small enough to work well for their purpose, it's simply a unit from one system being too small or big _relative to the other system_ that makes the other seem less intuitive-if you're not used to them. What makes metric overall better and more intuitive than imperial is that it's based on all units being related to each other by powers of 10, which means the connection between larger and smaller units is more intuitively understood, and converting between them is ridiculously easy; imperial is a jumbled mess in that regard. Metric replaced imperial for a good reason. In what way would metric somehow not work for those things?
We use both metric and imperial in Canada. We just use them for different things. Distance? Metric. Body height? Imperial. Air temperature? C. Pool temperature? F.
That's so dumb, atleast Americans are consistent in their idiocy (minus using 2 liters of soda lol). In all seriousness though, I would've expected better from a country with free healthcare, but I guess English-speaking countries are all full of shit.
This 'cooking channel' doesn't shy away from political controversies - or culinary ones, for that matter - and I personally find that highly acceptable. Excellent, even.
I do listen to the youtube video while doing other stuff, so basically I use it as a podcast - with premium you can turn the screen off or go to other apps. For me it’s convenient to listen to you pods from here.
Videos not playing in the background is an artificial software limitation introduced to devices not labeled as "desktops" and "laptops" that have more robust multitasking management systems. Simply loading TH-cam into a browser with a 'View in Desktop Mode" button completely bypasses this, while also allowing the potential for add-ons like ad blockers and video speed controllers. Good pod btw
I like metric for large measurements base 10 is easier for that. For small eyeball measurements, I prefer imperial, base 12 is easier to divide and eye ball. Slice a pizza into 12 and you can share between 2, 3, 4, and 6, and 12 friends equally. Slice it into 10 and you can only share between 2, 5, and 10. For temps, I greatly prefer Fahrenheit. Most people most of the time on earth experience between 0-100 f, so you get 100 degrees of specificity. With Celsius you get around 54 degrees to express the same temperature range. The rest I could take or leave in either direction.
You can still share things between 12 people in metric, you just don't use meters as measurement, but the thing you're dividing itself. Or, if you have something that comes in pieces, you just buy the amount that is divisible with the number of people you're dividing with. I don't really think that more than 50-ish divisions are necessary for e.g. weather. Even with Celsius, I still don't really care whether it is 31°C or 32°C outside.
@@2712animefreak I was using the pizza as reference for why base 12 is easier to work with in small numbers. When you are just eye balling and working informally, I think inches/feet/yards work better. That shows in a lot of my cooking and what not, I might make dough and then divide into thirds or fourths. It could just be my upbringing, but anecdotally, I do seem to be a little better at eye ball estimates of smaller things than my friends who grew up with metric. It's only my subjective opinion though, I haven't been able to find studies one way or the other. As far as temps go, a couple of degrees matters to me less so for outdoor weather, but for setting my thermostat. I definitely can tell the difference when my thermostat is 75 Vs 76.
So it’s time to talk about English. Although English is a wacky and “hard” langue to learn, it is also one of if not the most breve languages in the world, which gives us an advantage when it comes to trade because “time is money.” Another reason why English is a surprising good candidate for a global langue is the fact that the second most used language is Mandarin. The reason why Mandarin is an even worse candidate is because it is a tonal langue which means that even a slight variation in your speaking pitch would change what word you may want to say. This is especially difficult for European based languages due to the fact that most of us when asking a question will slightly raise that pitch of our voices to convey that what we just said was in fact a question and not a statement. This alongside that the Chinese writing system is symbol based which means that every word has its own symbol which is highly inefficient and tedious to learn even if you already use a symbol system. I will give you that we do spell words weirdly but that mainly due to the fact that we have basically taken the best aspects of Germanic languages like how we can talk about the future without having to use another tense, English just like German doesn’t use a true future tense instead we say going to or will … I also personally believe as the child of both a Native Latin language group speaker that most of the confusion whilst learning English is the lack of rules that we have and the fact that we have consolidating some of our words through the process of Marketization of the language. For example in all Latin languages there are two forms of know. For example if I were to say I know her, or I know that she is here, I used know in both sentences. For example in French they would say Je la connais. And Je sais qu’elle est ici. The two different verbs are Connais, and Sais. For my parent this transition was hard because of the fact that they always thought of the word know as two different words, whereas in English it is one, this is just one example of many, some of which are we don’t have both an informal and formal way of saying you unlike lots of other prominent languages. I’m going to stop here because most people don’t care, and I would rather go to bed than write a 20 page essay in the TH-cam comments that will most likely never be read.
What do you mean by "breve"? Just as how many people have trouble distinguishing Mandarin tones, so do many people have trouble distinguishing English vowel qualities. That being said, what about Spanish? Given that Spanish has less phonemes than English, a rather standardized orthography and more restrictive phonotactics, it definitely seems like a good pick. Looking at the top 10-ish most spoken languages, most others don't make the cut for one reason or the other. Maybe Malay/Indonesian.
Whole wheat flour usually has more gluten than white flour, not less. Examples: King Arthur (Bread Flour: 12.7%, All purpose: 11.7%, White Whole Wheat, 12.2%, Whole Wheat: 13.8%), Bob's Red Mill (Whole Wheat: 13-15%, Unbleached All Purpose: 10-12%, Artisan Bread Flour, 12-14%). The bran and the germ tend to sever gluten strands, which is why you don't get as much rise out of it. I actually used to add gluten to my 100% whole wheat bread and it did very little to fix the issue (and I tried a wide range of gluten addition, from reasonable to beyond excessive). I've found that the best way to get a fluffy 100% whole wheat bread is to replace 50% of it with white flour. lol. I ate it for years, but I'm now doing a mix with 30-50% white. I suspect there are ways to get fluffier whole wheat bread. I haven't found it yet. And part of it is probably the whole wheat that you use, though I've tried 3 different brands and seen little difference.
In the UK we still use a weird mix of imperial and metric measures, most notably we use miles not kilometers for most things. My dad always used to tell me that we will finish switching to metric when it makes the fuel look cheaper.
Fresh grated nutmeg is definitely a thing in some recipes. I'm not aware of any other spices that people will encourage you to grind fresh when you need them.
We've always used a mixture of both, we still have pints in pubs. When cooking I find grams better, when I cut wood I favour marking in inches, even though I was brought up in school with metric. Going back to imperial would be dumb.
My dad is a free spirit who lived in his car for a couple of years. He got a slow cooker at a truck stop store that plugs into the car lighter outlet. He made potatoes, stew, and cornbread in it (separately) 😂
36:31 What’s we’re hearing is: 1) Yes you have new hit music and 2) you care enough to not tarnish your audience’s attention. Props to you for staying humble but please indulge yourself and make a music channel for us. We’ll be there and be supportive!
That is actually the case. It wasn't until recently the farmers/agricultural scientists got wheat breeds with higher tolerance for the colder Scandinavian climate and it could be grown locally in a much bigger extent.
I'm 72. I wanted to be a Physicist, so I started going metric IN THE 1960s! So I'm an old who has been a metric for a long time. As you said it is political stunt.
Piperine is the compound in pepper that activates and makes bioavailable the curcumin in turmeric. If you need the health benefits of curcumin better grind the pepper fresh. Pre-ground pepper loses piperine super fast.
this is the first im hearing about it and im in the UK. also, we basically use both interchangeably anyway, we still buy most produce in imperial, meat, veg , milk, alcohol, though drugs have shifted to metric XD we measure ourselves in imperial, in fact a lot of people don't even know how tall they are in cm, only feet and inches. still dont think it'll catch on, its just something for the sun and daily mail to get behind for a few weeks... though thats what we all thought brexit was...
I find it hilarious that some brits keep thinking they are somehow separate from Europe just because they're on an island and have now left the EU. Culturally and economically, they are very much west europeans
Adam I love it when you discuss economic and cultural topics in such a deep and philosophical way. Plus your soothing voice makes it a great listening experience!
I tend to grind my spices as I use them. I do think the flavor is better. I use an old blade-type coffee grinder. That's my opinion, it's free and worth every penny.
It always boggled my mind how the UK officially switched to metric in everything...except road signs (distances in miles, speed limits in mph). Like...why is that the bridge too far? Canada used to use miles on its road signs, and they switched to metric (and I would argue that Canada's proximity to the USA makes staying the course with imperial measures a lot more sensible, since Canada gets a lot of American drivers on its roads; conversely British people have a lot more Europeans than Americans on their roads, making it more likely that they WOULD switch...at least in my opinion). Never made sense to me. Unofficially though, vital statistics like weight and height are still usually expressed in imperial units in the UK (pounds, stone, feet and inches), but on official documents, the metric versions are given. And I do think that expressing height in cm is far more common now than it was 20 years ago, so maybe there is a gradual cultural change happening here (you never hear peoples' weight in kg though).
I think it comes down to trade. Things are bought and sold in metric measurements so the same product can be sold in the U.K. or the rest of Europe. You’re not selling the distance to work or your height. I think this can be exemplified well with gasoline (or, I suppose, petrol.). As I understand it, fuel is sold by the liter, but efficiency is listed at miles per gallon. Although, that is also partially because the switch to selling in liters was made when petrol was hitting 1£/ gallon, so moving over to liters gave stations some grace period in updating their pumps, as the mechanical displays didn’t necessarily handle dealing with the extra digit well. It was easier to recalibrate/retrofit then to read in liters than update the whole thing. And… miles per gallon or liters per km isn’t something really easily visualized, rather just a number you compare to other products to say “this one is more efficient.” Although, thinking about visualizing fuel efficiency, I did realize that the measurements are wrong anyway to make them intuitive. If it was measured in gallons per mile, that would mathematically simplify to an area. So you could view instantaneous efficiency as a circle. Then you line up the circles as you drive, basically making a tube following your path that gets fatter as you accelerate or drive uphill, and skinnier as you slow down or coast downhill. But… that’s getting a bit close to rambling.
@@UrbanPanic Good points. It still seems weird though...like, if you're going metric, go ALL metric. I get that unofficially, people will use the units with which they are familiar, meaning that it will take a couple of generations to fully transition peoples' habits (of reporting their height and weight, but also things like their vehicle speed and acceleration rate) to metric. But officially, the country is metric, the decision having been made at the governmental level - why should distance and speed limit signs be the ONLY major exception to the official transition? When every shopkeeper is forced to sell their wares in metric units, it just feels weird for those shopkeepers to then drive home on roads with imperial signs. As far as efficiency goes, I've always liked the litres per 100 km unit standard (which is what has taken over here in Canada, and Europe as well I think) because it does exactly what you say - gives you a volume for a standard distance. It's easier to visualize a round number distance like 100 km, than the 31.6 miles you might travel on a gallon of fuel. And the variability is in volume, not distance, which is as it should be because you're paying for gas by the litre, not by the mile or kilometre.
This could be a northern irish thing but weight is very rarely in stone here, heights mostly feet and inches but people here would understand cm too most of the time
I'm late to this but loads of business in the UK atleast where I live still use imperial measurements, the grocer stall still sells by the lb and oz and funnily enough the ironmonger still sells nails, washers, screws etc by the oz and lb
As a Brit, it's an awful idea, it's only being introduced to placate 80 year old Brexit voters. No large shop will do it, it would be pointlessly expensive. Maybe someone running a 1950s style greengrocer or butchers will do it as a gimmick but that's it.
EUropean integration dates back about 70 years now. So dear Adam, the EU wasn't around before those 30 years you mentioned but it's direct predecessors were, the organisations that directly evolved into nowadays EU. Beginning with the Montane Union, then the EEC, later the EC and EURATOM etc. The British never were forced to use metric during their failed coup with EFTA but as soon as they weaseled their way into the EC and EURATOM the pressure rose.
Even then, standardization of measurements across Europe is older than even that. The metric system spread across Europe during the 19th century, a century or so before attempts at European integration.
I am in NZ. I bake bread for my family. I add gluten flour/wheat gluten to my wholemeal bread - 1 tablespoon per cup is the usual ratio. I currently do half wholemeal, half high-grade flour, but I want to experiment to get the wholemeal ratio up, as I am working on adding more fibre to my life, as I approach my 40th!
"Bring back the good o'l days!" Is probably one of the scariest phrases/ mindsets of our time... And something many politicians are starting to play with again, even here in South Africa.
I hope you know that the listener count is reflective of many people restricting themselves to shorter content and not at all reflective of the quality of your product. Because these episodes are superb.
As a canadian let me explain how crappy it is to have 2 systems of measure. We went metric because of our ties to britain or just because it makes more sense. Consumer laws dictate that prices have to be based on metric. Now businesses defended the right to advertise prices by the pound even though the price has to be stated in kilograms at the point of sale. Grocers advertise cost per pound in their flyers cuz I guess the lower price is appealing but when you get to the store the cost is in kilograms, so we actually have to know both systems and how to convert. Its a really stupid pain in the ass. Just switch to metric.
Metric in the UK also predates WW1:The Weights and Measures Act 1897 provided that metric units could be used in addition to the traditional imperial units for purposes of trade.
I used to be pro metric, and wanted the US to move to metric. I'm now pro imperial, because i can measure shit with my body, without any tools, and it's actually pretty accurate (at least for length).
Imperial having it's upsides is totally a hill I'm willing to die on. We probably should metrify everything industrial and commercial etc, but honestly Imperial is pretty good for everyday use. Farenheit is at least more intuitive for communicating the weather.
@@christopherhunt6828 i wouldn't even adopt it in industry. I think we should all agree on a unit system, and that unit system should mostly be imperial units. (At least for physical stuff that was covered by imperial, i'm okay with keeping around metric units for voltage, or illumination, and such.) I see no reason to measure in meters and yards, the yard does everything the meter does, and more. The only real advantage metric units have is scientific notations, such as "kilogram" or "microgram" but there is litterally nothing stopping me from measuring in "miliounces" and "kiloyards"
I disagree with your view on globalism. It’s driven by corporate greed to find cheap/slave labor. As far as it making the world safer than it’s ever been I suspect the Ukrainians would disagree.
yup, and then have to fight for such a long time, though i have to admit the trial had its moments esp. with ambers lawyers trying to do something with what she gave them
in canada imperial is only used as it benefits the stores because they can charge more by weight. meat for exam example is often sold cheaper in bulk by the kg vs by the pound in grocery stores.
The US went metric in the 1800s. If your primary existence is as a consumer then I can understand how you think what you posted. What you don't know is that everything is officially metric in the US and has been for ages.
The car industry has also gone metric. Nuts and bolts are metric, platforms are developed in metric. The visible non metric things are wheel diameters. Tyre sizes are mixed. 225/50/17 means a tyre is 225 milimeter wide, 50% of width is the height of tyre and 17 is the wheel size in inches.
50:03 On Android phones, you can automatically have the TH-cam app minimize into a picture-in-picture window while you're doing something else on your phone. I've heard recently that on Apple phones, you have to pay for youtube premium(or whatever the name is) in order to enable the picture-in-picture setting.
Adam, have you ever considered doing the narration of books for Audible? I am serious. Your vocal prosody is wonderful and keep the listener engaged and interested in the narrative. Just a thought.
My guess to why pepper is so predominant in western cooking would be that some french monarch liked his food with only salt and pepper and since that would influence french cuisine whch in turn influenced almost all western european cuisine which in turn would all western cuisine. Just a hunch.
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We're not dumping the metric system. We will continue using a random mixture of both systems regardless of politics.
You guys really need to get rid of "stone" for human weight. Even if you move to pounds or kilos. You gotta get rid of "stone".
@@karozans nah stone is cool. I don't use it but it's a funny ooga booga caveman unit. Uggg that be 5 stones
Exactly; park runs will continue to be 5k and marathons will continue to be 26.2m.
You'll never replace 5 pounds of Flour, Corn, Sugar and a dozen Eggs in my kitchen! 🇺🇸 😎👍 ☕ (and a pound of Coffee)
Sounds similar to the way it is here in Canada. We use a mix of metric and imperial as well
i really do appreciate adam's interest and knowledge of our british stuffs but i think this is the first time i've heard the words "plaster" and "Boris" with an american accent and i couldn't help but feel slightly uneasy xD
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Linguistic uncanny valley?
You never watched rocky and bullwinkle I guess
But Boris is plastered all the time, you should be used to uneasy by now. I wish for you to be at ease again.
I love how much lingo and general knowledge of Britain Adam has! Buying sweets, a shopkeeper in Yorkshire, it’s actually impressive
As someone in the UK, the imperial thing isn't going to happen. It's a 12 week consultation they've announced, I imagine it'll die over that
Every customer in every shop that only publishes imperial measures: "what's that in grams and kilo's please mate?" They'd get bored of that within a day.
Bloody hope so
I have in my hand a container of Semi-skimmed milk from Waitrose. It is FOUR PINTS! It says so on the label. It also says 2.272 litres! Boris is a clown.
South African checking in, and we use the metric system. It's the only system that makes sense!
Why the shift though?
@@sadiqmohamed681 Boris Johnson? Lol, we have the same issues with our leaders, mate
I never liked black pepper growing up, because it was always pre-ground and who knows how many years old. I love freshly ground black pepper now. Nutmeg is another spice worth grating fresh.
With Nutmeg it makes an insane difference they are like completely different spices.
As is ALL cheese worth grating or slicing fresh. Never buy pre-grated or pre-sliced. Get a Swedish cheese-slicer tool instead.
@@ZapAndersson Eh, while it is generally better to get a block of cheese there are plenty of cheeses that are fine pregrated or sliced.
@@ChaosTherum No *good* cheeses are "fine" pre-grated or pre-sliced.
@@ZapAndersson Sorry but I'm gonna have to disagree plenty of cheaper cheddars, and monterey cheeses are fine pre grated. Sometimes I'm just making some tacos and want to throw some cheese on without having to clean up a grater afterwards. The only real difference is corn starch to keep it from clumping.
I remember Alton Brown talking about buying a small crock pot that plugs into a cigarette lighter (or the port based on the same) and can run while driving long distance. It was designed for long-haul truckers. That's an option.
Adam, I'm a Brit, and lemme tell you, this going back to imperial measurements is what we call the 'dead cat strategy' from our Prime Minister. Basically, he is caught up in scandal after scandal and we are in a cost of living crisis currently, so he is doing this to distract us from it. Like, if you're sat arguing at the table about something then they put a dead cat on it - it draws your focus onto the cat instead!
We only use imperial to measure our height, dicks and how much beer we've drank.
Anyways, love your brownies - keep the work up.
Distance when it comes to driving is mostly done in miles (imperial) as well, but other than that you’ve got everything we use imperial measurements for.
Agreed
Good thing those “olds” die, eh?
Yes, this announcement wasn't aimed at Boris/Brexit supporters, it was for his critics. I've only seen one conservative commenter enthusiastic about bringing back Imperial measures, but seen plenty of those on the left getting worked up about it!
At school I learned both, it was the late 70s and metric was kind of new. We were still using old half and shilling coins as 5 and 10 pence, it was *movie voice* a time of change.
While learning both I just came to the conclusion that the people that came up with the imperial system were either just making it up as they went along or were drunk.
I couldn't stand it. 14 of this but 16 of that, an 8th here, a 16th there... A pound there but a different pound elsewhere. 144 what in that... (ok, not, that's money and that was gone before I started school).
This is nothing but a diversion really. A stone dropped in to the pond to cause some ripples. This is a guy who seems to have forgotten about being told about a sexual assault carried out my a conservative MP. An MP with a history of such things who Johnson made chief whip, the position that investigates sexual assault.
This is not a man who cares about imperial/metric as I doubt he's never actually used them in any kind of kitchen, like, ever.
The German Bread Institute (because of course we have something like this) states that we historically mostly used rye because it grows much better on the sandy soil than wheat does. And then after that of course tradition and so on... So your explanation seems correct to me.
How poorly suited German soil is for growing wheat is very noticeable in the low protein content of most supermarket flour here in Germany. Regular 550 flour will typically have 10.5 to 11% protein (and protein means mostly gluten), whereas e.g. Italian flour brands will easily go up to 13-15% protein, because Italy is more suitable for wheat. This actually makes baking wheat bread in Germany quite tough, as you almost always need to buy specialty flours so that your sourdough doesn’t just become a runny mess that can‘t hold any structure.
@@OttoStrawanzinger und ich dachte ich wäre einfach ein beschissener Bäcker xD
@@mortuos557 ich hab mich da selber jahrelang damit herumgeplagt, bis ich mir Manitoba-Weizenmehl und italienisches Mehl gekauft habe, und plötzlich alle Sauerteigweizenbrote ihre Form wie erwartet gehalten haben. 😀Bis man das raus hat, kann Sauerteig mit normalen Supermarket-Zutaten unglaublich frustrierend sein.
When I was last in Britain, I noticed that many food products were sold by weight of 454 grams, sounds like a pound to me.
Those businesses were still running when imperial was a thing, they changed their units but kept the same product weights.
like what lol
My favourite example of this is that condensed milk is sold in cans of 397 grams. Clearly they just decided they weren't going to change the size of what were 14 ounce cans.
@@gemofamara92 Having just used such a can to make a banoffee pie, since all the other ingredients were in grams, it seemed to turn out....just fine.
When I was a kid (elsewhere in the world), we would buy Lurpak, a Danish brand of butter which was sold in 454g and 227g packets... I found it confusing until I came to the US and realized that was a pound and a half-pound of butter... But now I'm confused, because I thought Denmark, along with the rest of Europe was pretty much on board with the metric system
adam didn't mention alcohol stoves. the fuel is fairly cheap, the fuel isn't compressed and is probably less explosive than compressed fuels, it's very portable, setup and cleanup is easier than charcoal, and you don't have to risk your battery on it. on the other hand, the fuel is not as energy dense as others, which can make cooking slow.
is that ethanol?
@@potapotapotapotapotapota Depends, here in the UK you can buy methylated spirit which is mainly ethanol with additives to make it discoloured/bad smelling/dangerous to drink
Beside being safer, ethanol is also easier to get than butane: you can get it at most supermarkets and don’t have to find an outdoor supplies store
We have been using Imperial and Metric units somewhat interchangably for years. Milk and beer is measured in pints, we measure speed and distance in miles. We can buy gallon containers, as well as litre containers. We measure our heights in feet and inches as much as we do centimetres, but use metres for pretty much everything else.
And people's weight in stones!
I know my dlck size in feet and inches but not in metres and centermetres
The fun is... your gallon is different than ours here in the US...
@@ZS-bg7jo Even more fun you have two different size of feet. Not at all confusing.
I'm perfectly comfortable with metric for most things but as far as getting a 'feel' for height and weight I still prefer feet and inches and stones. Can't imagine saying 'this burly 183cm guy started shouting at me'.
I'm from the UK and there is something most people don't really realize: everything might be written in metric but it's amazing how many things are still actually in imperial measurements. You'll still see packaging that says things like: 57g (2 oz), 115g (~4 oz), 200g (7 oz, most tins), 227g (8 oz), 340g (12 oz), 454g (16 oz), and so on. The factories still use all of the old measurements but have just changed the packaging instead (which is the entire legal point). There is also a weird issue in that eggs are defined in effectively imperial masses too still, with a good example that if you crack the contents of a large egg on to a scale, it will weigh ~57g (2 oz).
Another good example of a weird place where imperial is pretending to be metric are recipes. You'll see weird amounts such as 225g, or 115g, or 450mL or whatever, and then you clearly know that this was originally an imperial recipe. Whilst if you read recipes from "The Continent", they will use more "round" numbers in metric. A unit system is a language in itself and finding what works takes a long time.
To be clear, I am not suggesting we should at all go back to the imperial system legally (far from it), just that things never actually changed in many places, only their legal value. And that even if more people think in metric nowadays, the things they buy are only legally metric.
@gingerBill Geez Ginger, you are only announcing your insularity. Follow your buddies and travel abroad, Ibiza, Mallorca maybe? Okay Bill, I got your point but it was funny.
@@Adscam huh? How did you get that irrelevant non-sequiter from my comment? I was just showing the oddities of sizes in the UK which imperial masquerading as metric.
@@GingerGames What I said was logical and just followed up on your statement, “even if more people think in metric nowadays, the things they buy are only legally metric”. Which means that the British have not really changed their thinking. Thanks for the conversation, it was very funny.
We have a somewhat similar thing here in the States, our bottled water is 16.9 fl oz .... because that's 500 mL; if it were sold solely in imperial units, it should be 16 fl oz which is obviously smaller so in this case, it is beneficial for us to use 500 mL.
As a Canadian, I don't actually mind shifting back and forth between the imperial system. I find I use whatever is most convenient (celsius for outdoor temperature, imperial for cooking temperature). When talking about distances, we typically talk about travel time instead of metric/imperial measurements.
Also as a Canadian (expat to the US) its the opposite for me regarding outdoor temperature for me. Especially in high humidity environments in the US, the finer increments of Fahrenheit I find more intuitive for outdoor temperature, but Celsius better for cooking temperatures. MPH for cars, KPH for fast things like planes and jets, imperial volume for cooking over metric weight measurements, etc. Maybe it's just a Canadian thing in general but I've never met anybody even in the engineering field who has trouble interchanging the two systems when most intuitive.
Being 'Bi-lingual' has advantages.
Same. The only thing that could go imo is “stone” for weight. It’s not even intuitive. Like 14 lbs in a stone? Why? At least with ounces it’s 16 in a pound which is nicely divisible by 2 - 4 times!
Exactly! Canadians are essentially bi-lingual when it comes to metric v imperial. I know exactly how cold it is in both systems! I cook in Fahrenheit temperatures, I buy butter by the pound, I'll purchase 250g of sliced ham, I travel on the highways at about 110kph, and I am 5'11" tall. The good news is that travelling to the States to visit my kids doesn't throw me into a panic wondering how to purchase butter, or fuel, or calculate how long it is going to take to travel 300miles. Being bi-lingual has definite advantages. Realizing that 1000 grams of cheese is a kilogram (which is a lot of cheese!) is very liberating. It is almost as exciting as being able to carry on a conversation in a foreign language! I am 73 years old, grew up on Imperial measurement, and was subjected to the initial confusion of converting to metric, measuring my fuel consumption in litres/100km and room temperature suddenly became 21degrees. But without any studying, or books, or exams, I soon learned that 250g of sliced meat makes a heck of a big sandwich!
@@scrooglemcdoogle A lot of classic recipes I use were from before the shift to metric in Canada, so they use 350F. I think outdoor temperature might depend on where you live. Having 0= freezing is probably a lot more helpful in a colder place where it makes the difference between snow/rain/ice rain. A lot of older Canadians I know like to keep their thermostats in F since 70 vs 71 is a lot easier to switch between than the metric equivalent where you're going into decimals.
I like being able to go back and forth between the systems. It's not like the imperial measurements have any association with each other. You learn the measurement for the thing you're measuring.
As much as I agree with the first 11 minutes of this, as a Brit, we already live in a muddled up messed up world of both imperial and metric. I grew up learning Imperial in the kitchen from my Mum, but was taught Imperial as school. I use mm, cm, and metres for small distances, but I think in miles over long ones. Speed is mph, I know my weight in stone and lbs AND in kgs. Our buildings are built in standard multiples of 1.2m because when metric came in the building industry was simply too locked in to the 4*8ft standard for sheet material and joist distances to do anything except relabel them.
Hey we also get plywood and drywall (UK 'plasterboard'?) in 4x8ft sheets here in the US... Interesting to learn how other countries standardize their sizes
How about younger people? Do they use imperial as much as metric?
@@pqrstsma2011 Some standards are just too powerful to ignore. Inches for TVs or monitors, server racks for example are still in use in the most hardcore metric system countries.
@@limiv5272 maybe not as much but certainly not infrequently, especially young adults who drive, buy milk, buy draught beer, or even just go on long walks when discussing height and weight of people, so I'd say yeah
@@PCDelorian Interesting. I'm from Israel and here people use metric for everything. If it wasn't for YT I probably wouldn't encounter imperial measurements at all.
"I don't think any songwriter has much of value to say when they get as old as I am now." With all due respect, Adam, I think a lot of people have a misconception that you have to be young to make it in the music industry (understandably so, they want to develop young voices to fit the sound of the label rather than seek out the ones that fit naturally). Bruno Mars is actually 36, though lots of people think he's a lot younger due to the fact that he "made it" in the industry later than most in his life. Chris Motionless? 35. Leonard Cohen only started in music at 33, and now his rendition of Hallelujah is one of the very first songs that you learn when you start playing any instrument. Pharrell Williams didn't release "Happy" until age 40! Susan Boyle reached her fame from Britain's Got Talent when she was in her late 40s back in 2009. Honestly, go for it! You're not too old to start releasing music, and even if you think you'll only do well because of your previous achievements, I don't think releasing art purely for success is good motivation (though if that works for you, more power to ya). If you're happy doing it, go ahead! On their deathbeds, people usually regret the things they didn't do rather than what they did. You'll never truly know if you never try. Love to you and your family from this young (18M) ex-punk singer from Kansas, Goose \m/
Try Buckethead. Marvelous guitar player with hundreds of hours of music. Does wear a mask, does not speak, never anything vocal but he is brilliant in the way how he touches hearts with his music. The comments section on his TH-cam videos must be the gentlest places on earth. Also wears a bucket on his head. th-cam.com/video/uKUYSl8c-90/w-d-xo.html
I'm inclined to include Rick Astley's "voice aged like fine wine" resurgence among this list.
Steven Wilson is like 50 and only made it to the charts last year, after making dozens upon dozens of prog rock albums
Weird AL has been kicking ass since, like, a billion years ago, and still keeps making bangers. Dude was definitely not a young man when Straight Outta Lynnwood came out
Came for this comment, 100% agree. Adam can do what he wants but "being 40" is a poor reason not to do it.
When Boris suggests we go back to pre decimal money, that’s when you know he’s in real trouble.
You are right, but after watching Lindybeiges history of British coinage I can see why 240 is an amazing number. Not worth changing back but the odd numbers from premetic times had good ideas behind them, but are terrible for engineers and scientists or anyone trying to convert volume to weight etc.
heyyyyyy Boo Booo
this one aged like wine xD
Adam I hate to break it to you but the Brits already do live like Canadians. Everyone asks for height in feet and inches, speed limits are in mph etc.
I live in Canada (Alberta to be more specific) and the only thing I would say is that people really don't ever use miles per hour here when referring to speed limits. But yes, height always in feet!
The UK's mix of measurements is nowhere near as great as that of Canada. Unlike Canada, the UK doesn't have a (larger) neighbour that uses non-metric measurements almost exclusively, necessitating you to know the intricacies of both. The UK's use of imperial is relatively marginal these days: pounds, stone, feet, and inches are almost entirely for measuring humans, pints for milk and beer (do they even bother selling milk by the pint these days though? I only ever see 1L, 2L, and 3L measures of it), and miles for roads. Outside of that, everything is metric. Meanwhile Canadians need to deal with both systems for everything.
@@talideon that large neighbor has been officially metric longer than the UK. You clearly do t know what you're talking about. The US is officially metric informally traditional units. Just like the UK and Canada.
@@lookoutforchris Yes, but most of Europe uses metric both officially and informally since the start of the 20th century or earlier, the last country in mainland Europe being Estonia in 1929. Just about nobody alive has ever used anything but metric in their daily lives.
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If I may... You are both right and wrong.
US may be officially metric but it is completely foreign to most of the population, who will use it for nothing and have almost no workable concept of what the units are.
However, Imperial, just like the culture, has deeper and stronger roots in the UK, and so It's hybridization with metric is done so with more weight given to it than it does in Canada.
It seems to me that for Canada, the pull is between two modern systems, metric from the world and imperial from the US, whereas for the UK, the pull is between the system of the past (imperial) and the system of the present (metric).
Sounds fair? My mom is British and I am Canadian, to reference of my perspective.
As a brit I was born at a weird time, they were trying to teach us both imperial and metric so that we could understand people who used either. All it resulted in was me not being able to think in either
Yes this speaks to my read on several other comments: the irony of using stone and pint as examples. Yes we sell beer in pints, but most Americans have no idea that a pint is 2 cups because we don't use it in baking(we just say 2 cups). I've only ever heard Brits use stone for weight. I had to look up what that was
we are definitely not dumping the metric system dw hahahaha
Yep, just the desperate flailings of a cynical nationalist who lost a double-digit poll lead with his lies. Rallying the base with nostalgic appeals to the “good old days.”
Don’t be so quick to laugh it off, stupid is the norm these days.
They are, I think. Gradually
@@peeledapples4176 the good ole days were leaps and bounds better than modern UK.
Yall still use stones tbf 💀
As a Brit, I can confirm we are happy as we currently are, which include using both metric and imperial wherever it makes our lives easier. We also hate Boris for a multitude of reasons, more each month I'm finding.
With cooking when living in a car, I feel like many of Steve Wallis’s camping videos might be somewhat educational. Of course he’s camping rather than living in vehicles but he certainly seems to know decent portable cooking (and heating) hardware pretty well. Mostly the gas kind, though not always.
40 years old is not too old to be writing music. Haydn was still writing symphonies into his 60s. Frank Zappa made some of his most genius and emotional work towards the end of his life.
In Britain we measure our heights in Feet and Inches, our weights in Stone and Pounds - unless we're at a doctors where they measure us in cms and kgs - we buy beer and cider in pints (proper British pints not your stingy customary measure pints) but wine, vodka, water, oil in ml. Milk we buy in either pints or litres depending on where we get it from. We measure our rooms in feet and inches then buy carpet by the metre. We measure speeds in mph and fuel efficiency in mpg (a different gallon, btw) then buy petrol (that's gasoline to your guys) priced in litres.
A return to Imperial is nonsense, but we've never been remotely coherent or consistent.
The difference to Germany (where I live now) is quite striking.
As an American living in Canada, I appreciate when items have both Imperial and Metric measurements. Obviously, I've not grown up on the metric system, and all the recipes from my parents/grandparents/etc are in imperial. But I'm also in favour of universal adoption of metric.
Not having to convert from one system to the other while I'm in the grocery store is very much appreciated.
Every product sold in the US is dual labeled and has been for my entire life.
@@lookoutforchris Not where I grew up. Some things were, sure, but not everything.
When I was a truck driver in the 1990s, I used to use a 12 volt CrockPot type device for cooking. I remember some other truck driver wrote a cookbook sold at truck stops with cooking times measured in miles, as in pot roast cooked in 200 miles, then add the carrots, and cook for another 70 miles, etc.
24:00 while you can plug an electrical appliance into your car, typically you can’t draw more than 150 watts, or at most 225 watts, which doesn’t seem likely to be enough for induction cooking. Induction cookers are often rated at 1500 watts or more. So, I’m skeptical about that suggestion.
Adam, I think black pepper is more common because, it is ... more common (at least in Europe). Meaning the plant is more common. While for most other spices you had to import them.
Regarding metric, I never learned imperial. I have no concept of what it is after having gone through the Scottish Primary, Secondary and University system doing Engineering. I have only ever used miles when doing my driving. Even today I use metric then convert to imperial when needed only to process times there.
We definitely don't say that we're buying 'a sweet', we say that we're buying sweets. 😋
Sure you do , you would ask a child " do you want to go pick a sweet".
Sweet/dessert/pudding = 3 synonyms in British English. Regions may vary.
I grew up in Canada having to learn both systems of measurement, and now as an adult I think in neither.
from a canadian cooking channel I've learned they use metrics but with/for volumes to weight, that was weired. I was always wondering why they have those 'funny' recip ^^ it was metrics but felt wrong at the same time 😆
I'm good at converting in my mind. I do a lot of cooking, and do a lot of converting in my mind. Canadian here too.
@@nopenope1 because a lot of canadian cooking equipment are mostly from America or designed for American first, hence you get those funky mix.
@@Banom7a that used to be the case, though nowadays I find pretty much any cooking equipment that deals with measurement has both on it.
@@ThePongles yeah, but some of the dimension are still mostly american or like measuring cup that is easier to see in imperial when held by right-hand.
In Canada, things sold by weight are advertised with the price per pound most prominently displayed because it is a lower price per unit, and it seems like a better deal. Construction materials are in imperial I think because of the trade of lumber with the US, and the standards of building codes.
Hybrid system works just fine for now .
I like my miles and pints and inch and a quarter wood screws .
I like my centimetres and kilos too .
Anyone after me just does the metric , and that's great .
If you work with wood or fabric, being able to divide a foot or a yard neatly into thirds and quarters is great.
There are some really good things baked-in on the metric system. It's all derived from base units, so it basically means there's no weird conversion constants to remember. And while not precise enough for science, for the kitchen it's more than good enough to say that 1 ml = 1 cm^3 = 1g of water. And since most foods are mainly water, food is about as dense as water. 15 ml (~tablespoon) is about 15 g. I think there are even charts out there for general densities of foods, and they're in that 0.8-1.2 g/cm^3 range (so 0.8 g/ml or 1.2 g/ml). No ambiguity in packing ratio either!
My thoughts on not mandating a standardised measurement system, it will make price comparising much harder.
Hi Adam! Refined wheat flour (Maida) is a somewhat taboo thing in Indian households. Compared to whole wheat flour, it is considered less nutritious while being more expensive. For long term storage, people here prefer to store the entire wheat grains - getting a small batch milled every month or so for consumption.
Can I just add that with increasing almost instant access to the internet and the riches/horrors contained within, does it mattter if we use grains and cubits, because we can convert them as quick as typing the question?
regarding the "freedom" of using imperial units without metric:
Even though it would allow retailers and some other industries more "freedom" it would ultimately make things more complicated for the majority of people who just use metric and now need to convert again if they want to make sure to buy enough.
But I also expect that for that very same reason, most retailers and industries will keep displaying metric (possibly alongside imperial), as customers who use metric might be more inclined to choose a store/brand that displays thigs in metric.
"The good thing about the olds is that they die"
This quote will go down in history, lmao, I'm dying.
Neither the Queen nor Chuck Grassley (USA) have read that memo.
He is paraphrasing Thomas Kuhn from "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" it would seem.
Yeah, we all are.
You're dying because you're old ?
Boris: let's give citizens the choice to use imperial.
Adam: they might return to their warring world conquering ways. Hopefully they die before they get the chance.
I find your comments on old guys making music interesting, whilst I agree with you in general there are many excellent exceptions, my personal favourite is Dan Reeder who released his first album at 50 and is absolutely wonderful
Whoever says that the inherent benefit of the metric system is that it used more commonly clearly isn't an engineer or scientist.
@Rick "20 and a half Shaquille O'Neals"
@Rick Please watch Matt Parker's video about imperial measurements, it's really funny and kind of highlights the shortcomings of that measurement systemt.
I mean, the SI system specifically is designed to standardize *Weights And Measures*, and it actually does that brilliantly. However, I struggle to think of any field (at least adjacent to physics and chemistry) that actually uses straight SI units for doing actual day-to-day work. People that work in electronics/condensed matter use cgs, the high energy weirdos use "natural units", and there's actually a lot of stuff in chemistry and biology where calories are way more convenient to use.
I honestly don't really see much difference between those examples and a baker measuring in cups because that's approximately one "egg equivalent" of flour. Once you have your answer you can always convert back to SI for portability...
As long as the number system we use is base-10, a measurement system that only uses powers of 10 is obviously inherently better.
@@pajander If you're having to bisect material very frequently it might be useful to have some base-2 thrown in there...
You can still ask a retailer for food by pounds and ounces. The scales all have both. So if you're at a deli or butcher you can ask for half pound of chopped pork. They weigh it out and it has both lb/kg on the scale
Agreed. Use what you are comfortable with. I'm not a Boomer, but we can use either systems or both here in the Midwest because of the reason you suggest.
Somethings that are not metric are more convenient such as the height of a person, miles on roadsigns, pints of milk, a persons weight in stone, and pounds are all still used. I don't know my height and weight in metric, nor the distance to the nearest town in metric but I know it in imperial and I'm 44 years old. When I was at school I was taught metric.
@Gareth Fairclough I'm pretty old and I was only taught metric so the use of Imperial quirks for beer and height has been acquired through ongoing usage so will likely never die out. I don't understand ounces and pounds though and I do think it will largely die out because it doesn't have a place in common parlance so could easily become forgotten. Everyone understands when someone says 'fancy a pint' or 'this guy was a 6 footer'. It's more than just a measurement so it has more staying power.
The height of a person is more convenient in feet only because you were always using that. We use only metric here and when you say a height in metric everybody understand it.
@@clad95150 I think height just sounds more impactful in feet as it's just more punchy and puts a person's stature into mind more effectively. I think this sort of usage will persist regardless, as it doesn't really cause any harm or confusion anyway. Weights for food and recipes are a lot more divisive and less likely to last over the next few generations. I know that I'm 191cm tall but if someone asks me how tall I am I'll say 6 foot 3; if I'm filling in my height on a fitness app I'll use cm.
@@PotatoPirate123 Where I live people don't usually recite height as a single number. It's usually the number of meters followed by the number of centimeters. So, to achieve the "punchy feel", you say something like "meter ninety" or "one ninety".
@@2712animefreak perhaps it's largely down to the region. Over here you will commonly here someone referred to as a statuesque six-footer. I don't know, it just carries more impact for some.
As a Canadian, I greatly enjoy the mishmash of metric and imperial, having more measurements to use whatever's most convenient is nice.
Canadian here. I can mentally convert between metric and imperial units when I'm grocery shopping. For meats and vegetables, our signs next to bulk goods Ike produce and meats are listed in $/lb, but labels and receipts show kilograms.
Our cars have the Kilometers in larger font than the mile markings on the speedometer. Gas is priced by the litre. Household thermostats are mostly in Centregrade, but ovens show temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. I still weigh myself in pounds and know my height in feet and inches, although all medical records are in kilograms and centimetres.
Yeah, I think we have an identity crisis lol
If relying on a combustion engine battery to power an appliance consider getting a solar-powered trickle/float charger ($35-$40) to keep the battery charged without having to run the engine (i.e. use gas unnecessarily).
Adam is so constantly amused by the differnce between American and British English. This podcast series is my favorite thing he has ever done on the channel.
Edit: Also, not to burst your bubble but one can open other apps and TH-cam will play Picture-in-Picture on your phone or tablet. You can even turn your phone or table off and the audio kf the video will keep playing just like a music service. In fact, TH-cam Music has a swap between audio and A&V functions for almost every video.
Podcast apps are out of date, my man. Besides watching YT on your phone is old. Watching on your TV or PS5 while gaming or working, that's the stuff.
Totally agreed. I can't even imagine launching an app just for podcasts. Also Adam is the only one I've ever heard refer to it as "Pod" and for some reason I find it really grating lol.
I think Adam VASTLY overestimates how many people actually watch the screen on TH-cam podcasts
Concerning the car cooking equipment: I'm surprized that you didn't mention the obvious choice: A stove which runs on gasoline. (or is it called petrol? or benzine? I'll never remember who uses which for what.) A couple of years ago I tavelled in my holidays to a country where I have never been before and learnt he hard way that not all butane stoves and canisters are compatible. One of the first things i did when back home was to buy a Coleman gasoline stove. I have never looked back.
To be fair, the UK does have some industries which still use imperial measures, mainly draught measures and milk; and road signs, and most of us do measure ourselves (height-wise) in feet and inches, our waist-line in inches, and weight in stone and pounds (or pounds and ounces when talking of babies). I would also say that not all young persons are against the idea of imperialism, but most aren't going to go out of their way to see it and admittedly do understand metric a lot better. Football although officially now defined in metric still has the 6 yard box, 10 yards distance on a free kick, 12 yard penalty spot, 18 yard penalty box, goals measured in feet, the UK isn't as split on the system as Canada but its not really fair to say we use metric exclusively.
I've literally never seen anyone under 60 give a shit about imperial measurements. There's a few things we never fully changed over to and held onto, particularly miles, just because they didn't want to change the signs. But when people say a pint or a pound they just mean basically half a litre/half a kilo unless you are over 55.
It's actually why I think we should formally adopt the metric pint (500ml) and metric pound (500g) like we did with the metric ton.
Like fewer and fewer people use stones , feet and inches and so on. There's just a few things that do hold over.
@@mytimetravellingdog It must be an indication on where you live. Using feet and inches is very, very common. There's plenty of folks from the UK in this comment section saying they frequently use imperial measurements for some things. It doesn't seem to have much to do with age, just which is easier to use.
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The thing is that a tonne/metric ton is just a colloquialism for a megagram, so it's still a legitimate unit consistent with the rest. Your idea of a metric pint and pound just makes things more messy; just get rid of it. There's already the weird inconsistency where there's both cubic meters and liters for volume, we don't need more of them.
@@mytimetravellingdog Go to a bar and find a single 18 year old asking for 568ml of Beer, or going to a supermarket and being confused by what they mean by 4 pints. Being in my 20s I can speak quite well for the people I studied and played sport with and nobody gave their weight in kgs or height in cm.
You may well have good arguments for the use of metric but don't act like people under 60 don't know or use imperial. Road signs would need to be changed overnight, which is a gargantuan task in an era where near on everyone drives because its not like when they redesigned the stop sign in the seventies where the odd one would be replaced later you see a speed limit posted in km/h thinking its in mph or mph thinking its km/h someone could die, there's a big difference between doing 70 mph and 70 km/h or doing 110 mph on the motorway. I don't think we should necesarily undo the changes made by the EU directive causing courts to intentionally misread the Weights and Measures Act where the word 'or' is used we have got used to it, I likewise see no reason to undo the measures we are used to, like the pint. Again people play football and refer to it as the 6 yard box not the 5.4864m box.
@@Persun_McPersonson I'd agree with the metric pound idea, but no if we change we should adopt a metric pint (I actually like the pint as it is because 68ml isn't a lot but getting rid of it still feels like I'm getting less for my money) because half a litre or 500ml is an annoying unit to order multiple of like I'd like 4 half litres, or 4 500ml glasses, is not as nice as just saying can I get 4 pints please.
From a former car life guy, jackery makes some awesome products that bridge the gap between using your car as a power source and having electricity to do things like use a laptop or a hot plate. They can charge off your car while you drive or use a solar panel - great for camping and emergencies as well. Not sponsored at all, just a fan.
Really. A lot of people who are obliged, rather than choosing, to live in their vans are trying to make it in urban situations rather than national parks.
I'm a fan of vanlife/skoolie/tiny home videos, and from what I've seen, a Weber is first of all, awfully bulky, and second of all awfully messy for everyday use in a tailgate situation. I'd stick with electric/solar if space is really limited. In a larger build, you might go to propane as long as you house the tank in an insulated/ventilated spot, and don't forget your detectors.
I'm 34, my boyfriend is 37, and my sister is 38 and none of us has known anything other than metric. I think most people in their 40s haven't either.
God, I envy you. I hate how backwards thinking is given power when logic should be the deciding factor.
Took a bit to watch this video and see you responded to my question. I left the scenario mostly vague because it was directed at you. I’m fine and was mostly curious about your perspective on the idea. My family has participated in many tailgates so I knew where to start.
If you are curious about my situation, it involves marital issues. We have two vehicles, a car and a scooter. The car was mine because I needed it for work, so when it came to which of us got kicked out, I was the one who ended up in the car because at least I could sleep in my vehicle. As for why I haven’t gotten a bachelor pad? Rent is expensive. I’d rather take the free spirit path of the car and not worry about rent or having excess stuff. The car is a hybrid and I mostly stick to urban areas.
Thank you for answering so quickly. Enjoying your content.
In what world would moving back to imperial measurements be a good move? SI units should be just that!
@Gareth Fairclough then again, the UK isn't really being made to do this because it makes sense
@Gareth Fairclough however, on a cooking channel, a cup may literally be different in every home, therfore a weight dependant recipe becomes a lesson in ratios, and that's a bit like hard work when an SI unit will do
@Gareth Fairclough
This is a very old argument and it really doesn't hold any weight. Just because a foot is based on the rough size of a foot doesn't magically make it more intuitive for estimation, it's just a flimsy defense for a messy system that relies on weird platitudes about being naturalistic instead of scientifically-backed logic. When it comes to intuitiveness of the individual units, it's all about what you're used to-if you're used to imperial, then inches and feet are more intuitive; if you're used to metric, then centimeters and meters feel more intuitive. Both systems' units are suitably large and small enough to work well for their purpose, it's simply a unit from one system being too small or big _relative to the other system_ that makes the other seem less intuitive-if you're not used to them.
What makes metric overall better and more intuitive than imperial is that it's based on all units being related to each other by powers of 10, which means the connection between larger and smaller units is more intuitively understood, and converting between them is ridiculously easy; imperial is a jumbled mess in that regard. Metric replaced imperial for a good reason.
In what way would metric somehow not work for those things?
WOW, you can express an answer of geopolitical questions , in the same way you dissect,adopt and convey a recipe!
You'll know metric has fully displaced imperial when you use kilopascals rather than pounds per square inch for tire pressure.
in the UK everything for tyres has bar and psi, I'd only have a good idea of what a bar is. No clue about psi really, and isn't a bar 100kPa?
We use both metric and imperial in Canada. We just use them for different things. Distance? Metric. Body height? Imperial. Air temperature? C. Pool temperature? F.
That's so dumb, atleast Americans are consistent in their idiocy (minus using 2 liters of soda lol). In all seriousness though, I would've expected better from a country with free healthcare, but I guess English-speaking countries are all full of shit.
This 'cooking channel' doesn't shy away from political controversies - or culinary ones, for that matter - and I personally find that highly acceptable. Excellent, even.
I do listen to the youtube video while doing other stuff, so basically I use it as a podcast - with premium you can turn the screen off or go to other apps. For me it’s convenient to listen to you pods from here.
Gotta love these podcast episodes! Always good to have more content from Adam.
Videos not playing in the background is an artificial software limitation introduced to devices not labeled as "desktops" and "laptops" that have more robust multitasking management systems. Simply loading TH-cam into a browser with a 'View in Desktop Mode" button completely bypasses this, while also allowing the potential for add-ons like ad blockers and video speed controllers. Good pod btw
We still don't have metric in the UK because all road signs are in miles.
i still don't know how much my british mates weigh
what the fuck is even a stone? :')
I like metric for large measurements base 10 is easier for that. For small eyeball measurements, I prefer imperial, base 12 is easier to divide and eye ball. Slice a pizza into 12 and you can share between 2, 3, 4, and 6, and 12 friends equally. Slice it into 10 and you can only share between 2, 5, and 10.
For temps, I greatly prefer Fahrenheit. Most people most of the time on earth experience between 0-100 f, so you get 100 degrees of specificity. With Celsius you get around 54 degrees to express the same temperature range.
The rest I could take or leave in either direction.
You can still share things between 12 people in metric, you just don't use meters as measurement, but the thing you're dividing itself. Or, if you have something that comes in pieces, you just buy the amount that is divisible with the number of people you're dividing with.
I don't really think that more than 50-ish divisions are necessary for e.g. weather. Even with Celsius, I still don't really care whether it is 31°C or 32°C outside.
@@2712animefreak I was using the pizza as reference for why base 12 is easier to work with in small numbers. When you are just eye balling and working informally, I think inches/feet/yards work better. That shows in a lot of my cooking and what not, I might make dough and then divide into thirds or fourths. It could just be my upbringing, but anecdotally, I do seem to be a little better at eye ball estimates of smaller things than my friends who grew up with metric. It's only my subjective opinion though, I haven't been able to find studies one way or the other.
As far as temps go, a couple of degrees matters to me less so for outdoor weather, but for setting my thermostat. I definitely can tell the difference when my thermostat is 75 Vs 76.
So it’s time to talk about English. Although English is a wacky and “hard” langue to learn, it is also one of if not the most breve languages in the world, which gives us an advantage when it comes to trade because “time is money.” Another reason why English is a surprising good candidate for a global langue is the fact that the second most used language is Mandarin. The reason why Mandarin is an even worse candidate is because it is a tonal langue which means that even a slight variation in your speaking pitch would change what word you may want to say. This is especially difficult for European based languages due to the fact that most of us when asking a question will slightly raise that pitch of our voices to convey that what we just said was in fact a question and not a statement. This alongside that the Chinese writing system is symbol based which means that every word has its own symbol which is highly inefficient and tedious to learn even if you already use a symbol system. I will give you that we do spell words weirdly but that mainly due to the fact that we have basically taken the best aspects of Germanic languages like how we can talk about the future without having to use another tense, English just like German doesn’t use a true future tense instead we say going to or will … I also personally believe as the child of both a Native Latin language group speaker that most of the confusion whilst learning English is the lack of rules that we have and the fact that we have consolidating some of our words through the process of Marketization of the language. For example in all Latin languages there are two forms of know. For example if I were to say I know her, or I know that she is here, I used know in both sentences. For example in French they would say
Je la connais. And Je sais qu’elle est ici. The two different verbs are Connais, and Sais. For my parent this transition was hard because of the fact that they always thought of the word know as two different words, whereas in English it is one, this is just one example of many, some of which are we don’t have both an informal and formal way of saying you unlike lots of other prominent languages. I’m going to stop here because most people don’t care, and I would rather go to bed than write a 20 page essay in the TH-cam comments that will most likely never be read.
who asked?
The irony of writing a wall of text talking about English brevity is outstanding.
@@thelanguagecaviller3657 it was a topic in the episode and they were offering their opinion. Why leave such a worthless comment?
@@Wertsir oh look, someone that's never heard of the academic study of languages nor the concept of a nuanced discussion.
What do you mean by "breve"? Just as how many people have trouble distinguishing Mandarin tones, so do many people have trouble distinguishing English vowel qualities. That being said, what about Spanish? Given that Spanish has less phonemes than English, a rather standardized orthography and more restrictive phonotactics, it definitely seems like a good pick.
Looking at the top 10-ish most spoken languages, most others don't make the cut for one reason or the other. Maybe Malay/Indonesian.
Whole wheat flour usually has more gluten than white flour, not less. Examples: King Arthur (Bread Flour: 12.7%, All purpose: 11.7%, White Whole Wheat, 12.2%, Whole Wheat: 13.8%), Bob's Red Mill (Whole Wheat: 13-15%, Unbleached All Purpose: 10-12%, Artisan Bread Flour, 12-14%). The bran and the germ tend to sever gluten strands, which is why you don't get as much rise out of it. I actually used to add gluten to my 100% whole wheat bread and it did very little to fix the issue (and I tried a wide range of gluten addition, from reasonable to beyond excessive). I've found that the best way to get a fluffy 100% whole wheat bread is to replace 50% of it with white flour. lol.
I ate it for years, but I'm now doing a mix with 30-50% white.
I suspect there are ways to get fluffier whole wheat bread. I haven't found it yet. And part of it is probably the whole wheat that you use, though I've tried 3 different brands and seen little difference.
Glad to know you share the same amount of respect for boris as the rest of us in the UK
*Boffwit
In the UK we still use a weird mix of imperial and metric measures, most notably we use miles not kilometers for most things.
My dad always used to tell me that we will finish switching to metric when it makes the fuel look cheaper.
As a Desi I find very little to redeem the British empire but thanks for the tea and railroads I guess. Return the Kohinoor, Liz
Given civilization and modernization and yet still ungrateful. Story old as time.
Fresh grated nutmeg is definitely a thing in some recipes. I'm not aware of any other spices that people will encourage you to grind fresh when you need them.
I'm from Alabama and have 14 toes so I prefer imperial
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You must me a muslim migrant married to a cousin. Praise diversity.
We've always used a mixture of both, we still have pints in pubs. When cooking I find grams better, when I cut wood I favour marking in inches, even though I was brought up in school with metric. Going back to imperial would be dumb.
My dad is a free spirit who lived in his car for a couple of years. He got a slow cooker at a truck stop store that plugs into the car lighter outlet. He made potatoes, stew, and cornbread in it (separately) 😂
36:31 What’s we’re hearing is: 1) Yes you have new hit music and 2) you care enough to not tarnish your audience’s attention. Props to you for staying humble but please indulge yourself and make a music channel for us. We’ll be there and be supportive!
Unconfirmed, but I thought rye grew better than wheat in Germany/Scandinavia, so breads that are brown, in part due to rye content are common
its very possible! rye bread is very popular in denmark
That is actually the case. It wasn't until recently the farmers/agricultural scientists got wheat breeds with higher tolerance for the colder Scandinavian climate and it could be grown locally in a much bigger extent.
Bro doesn’t miss with these podcasts rlly enjoy them
I'm 72. I wanted to be a Physicist, so I started going metric IN THE 1960s! So I'm an old who has been a metric for a long time. As you said it is political stunt.
Piperine is the compound in pepper that activates and makes bioavailable the curcumin in turmeric. If you need the health benefits of curcumin better grind the pepper fresh. Pre-ground pepper loses piperine super fast.
this is the first im hearing about it and im in the UK.
also, we basically use both interchangeably anyway, we still buy most produce in imperial, meat, veg , milk, alcohol, though drugs have shifted to metric XD
we measure ourselves in imperial, in fact a lot of people don't even know how tall they are in cm, only feet and inches.
still dont think it'll catch on, its just something for the sun and daily mail to get behind for a few weeks... though thats what we all thought brexit was...
yeah adams much dumber and less worldly than he thinks he is. such is typical of american leftists.
Then you're not very up on current events.
Freshly crushed star anise has an extremely different taste than pre-ground anise. I'd argue it's much more different than black pepper berries
I find it hilarious that some brits keep thinking they are somehow separate from Europe just because they're on an island and have now left the EU. Culturally and economically, they are very much west europeans
Adam I love it when you discuss economic and cultural topics in such a deep and philosophical way. Plus your soothing voice makes it a great listening experience!
I suggest the Brits rather dump Boris than metric
Love this podcast! Came here to say you're so right about Boris and Vlad. Spot on.
You should look into making Curries from different cultures. For example Trinidadian style curry or Jamaican
Aye, a video on the "less obvious" kinds of curries (beyond just the classic indian & british curries) would be interesting.
I tend to grind my spices as I use them. I do think the flavor is better. I use an old blade-type coffee grinder. That's my opinion, it's free and worth every penny.
It always boggled my mind how the UK officially switched to metric in everything...except road signs (distances in miles, speed limits in mph). Like...why is that the bridge too far? Canada used to use miles on its road signs, and they switched to metric (and I would argue that Canada's proximity to the USA makes staying the course with imperial measures a lot more sensible, since Canada gets a lot of American drivers on its roads; conversely British people have a lot more Europeans than Americans on their roads, making it more likely that they WOULD switch...at least in my opinion). Never made sense to me.
Unofficially though, vital statistics like weight and height are still usually expressed in imperial units in the UK (pounds, stone, feet and inches), but on official documents, the metric versions are given. And I do think that expressing height in cm is far more common now than it was 20 years ago, so maybe there is a gradual cultural change happening here (you never hear peoples' weight in kg though).
I think it comes down to trade. Things are bought and sold in metric measurements so the same product can be sold in the U.K. or the rest of Europe. You’re not selling the distance to work or your height.
I think this can be exemplified well with gasoline (or, I suppose, petrol.). As I understand it, fuel is sold by the liter, but efficiency is listed at miles per gallon. Although, that is also partially because the switch to selling in liters was made when petrol was hitting 1£/ gallon, so moving over to liters gave stations some grace period in updating their pumps, as the mechanical displays didn’t necessarily handle dealing with the extra digit well. It was easier to recalibrate/retrofit then to read in liters than update the whole thing.
And… miles per gallon or liters per km isn’t something really easily visualized, rather just a number you compare to other products to say “this one is more efficient.” Although, thinking about visualizing fuel efficiency, I did realize that the measurements are wrong anyway to make them intuitive. If it was measured in gallons per mile, that would mathematically simplify to an area. So you could view instantaneous efficiency as a circle. Then you line up the circles as you drive, basically making a tube following your path that gets fatter as you accelerate or drive uphill, and skinnier as you slow down or coast downhill. But… that’s getting a bit close to rambling.
@@UrbanPanic Good points. It still seems weird though...like, if you're going metric, go ALL metric. I get that unofficially, people will use the units with which they are familiar, meaning that it will take a couple of generations to fully transition peoples' habits (of reporting their height and weight, but also things like their vehicle speed and acceleration rate) to metric. But officially, the country is metric, the decision having been made at the governmental level - why should distance and speed limit signs be the ONLY major exception to the official transition? When every shopkeeper is forced to sell their wares in metric units, it just feels weird for those shopkeepers to then drive home on roads with imperial signs.
As far as efficiency goes, I've always liked the litres per 100 km unit standard (which is what has taken over here in Canada, and Europe as well I think) because it does exactly what you say - gives you a volume for a standard distance. It's easier to visualize a round number distance like 100 km, than the 31.6 miles you might travel on a gallon of fuel. And the variability is in volume, not distance, which is as it should be because you're paying for gas by the litre, not by the mile or kilometre.
This could be a northern irish thing but weight is very rarely in stone here, heights mostly feet and inches but people here would understand cm too most of the time
I'm late to this but loads of business in the UK atleast where I live still use imperial measurements, the grocer stall still sells by the lb and oz and funnily enough the ironmonger still sells nails, washers, screws etc by the oz and lb
As a Brit, it's an awful idea, it's only being introduced to placate 80 year old Brexit voters. No large shop will do it, it would be pointlessly expensive. Maybe someone running a 1950s style greengrocer or butchers will do it as a gimmick but that's it.
nobody will do it anyway and it will make no difference to anything, which is why it must be vehemently opposed by all right thinking people
We should instead go fully metric instead of this weird hybrid
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Please somehow force the US to switch fully too, we literally barely use it and it drives me crazy how backwards this country can be.
@@Persun_McPersonson I'll have a word with Biden, it'll be sorted soon
Every large shop sells milk in pints 🤪
I honestly never expected to hear you get political after just watching your cooking videos, but I appreciate this. Well said
EUropean integration dates back about 70 years now. So dear Adam, the EU wasn't around before those 30 years you mentioned but it's direct predecessors were, the organisations that directly evolved into nowadays EU. Beginning with the Montane Union, then the EEC, later the EC and EURATOM etc.
The British never were forced to use metric during their failed coup with EFTA but as soon as they weaseled their way into the EC and EURATOM the pressure rose.
Even then, standardization of measurements across Europe is older than even that. The metric system spread across Europe during the 19th century, a century or so before attempts at European integration.
@@2712animefreak A spred that wasn't going all too well. And it was on "the continent" only, not on the isles off the coast.
I am in NZ. I bake bread for my family. I add gluten flour/wheat gluten to my wholemeal bread - 1 tablespoon per cup is the usual ratio. I currently do half wholemeal, half high-grade flour, but I want to experiment to get the wholemeal ratio up, as I am working on adding more fibre to my life, as I approach my 40th!
"Bring back the good o'l days!" Is probably one of the scariest phrases/ mindsets of our time... And something many politicians are starting to play with again, even here in South Africa.
So you prefer 2022 because the world is in such great shape and things are so awesome right now 😂
@@lookoutforchris beats 1990
@@lookoutforchrisShe is from South Africa so, depending on the color of your skin and how far back the "good o'l days" are, it most certainly is
I hope you know that the listener count is reflective of many people restricting themselves to shorter content and not at all reflective of the quality of your product. Because these episodes are superb.
As a canadian let me explain how crappy it is to have 2 systems of measure. We went metric because of our ties to britain or just because it makes more sense. Consumer laws dictate that prices have to be based on metric. Now businesses defended the right to advertise prices by the pound even though the price has to be stated in kilograms at the point of sale. Grocers advertise cost per pound in their flyers cuz I guess the lower price is appealing but when you get to the store the cost is in kilograms, so we actually have to know both systems and how to convert. Its a really stupid pain in the ass. Just switch to metric.
Metric in the UK also predates WW1:The Weights and Measures Act 1897 provided that metric units could be used in addition to the traditional imperial units for purposes of trade.
I used to be pro metric, and wanted the US to move to metric. I'm now pro imperial, because i can measure shit with my body, without any tools, and it's actually pretty accurate (at least for length).
Imperial having it's upsides is totally a hill I'm willing to die on. We probably should metrify everything industrial and commercial etc, but honestly Imperial is pretty good for everyday use. Farenheit is at least more intuitive for communicating the weather.
@@christopherhunt6828 i wouldn't even adopt it in industry. I think we should all agree on a unit system, and that unit system should mostly be imperial units. (At least for physical stuff that was covered by imperial, i'm okay with keeping around metric units for voltage, or illumination, and such.) I see no reason to measure in meters and yards, the yard does everything the meter does, and more. The only real advantage metric units have is scientific notations, such as "kilogram" or "microgram" but there is litterally nothing stopping me from measuring in "miliounces" and "kiloyards"
This podcast should be called, „middle aged man occasionally talks about food”.
Love your work, keep it up :)
"I don't want to be a Depp, for any number of reasons": I don't think anyone wants to be a victim of domestic abuse.
I disagree with your view on globalism. It’s driven by corporate greed to find cheap/slave labor. As far as it making the world safer than it’s ever been I suspect the Ukrainians would disagree.
Yes.
yup, and then have to fight for such a long time, though i have to admit the trial had its moments esp. with ambers lawyers trying to do something with what she gave them
in canada imperial is only used as it benefits the stores because they can charge more by weight. meat for exam example is often sold cheaper in bulk by the kg vs by the pound in grocery stores.
When I was a kid in the 70's the USA decided to go metric, but the only industry to make the change was the liquor industry. Go figure.
God, that was so long ago, America is such a backwards country. We could have already been metric for 50 fucking years...
The US went metric in the 1800s. If your primary existence is as a consumer then I can understand how you think what you posted. What you don't know is that everything is officially metric in the US and has been for ages.
The car industry has also gone metric. Nuts and bolts are metric, platforms are developed in metric. The visible non metric things are wheel diameters. Tyre sizes are mixed. 225/50/17 means a tyre is 225 milimeter wide, 50% of width is the height of tyre and 17 is the wheel size in inches.
50:03 On Android phones, you can automatically have the TH-cam app minimize into a picture-in-picture window while you're doing something else on your phone.
I've heard recently that on Apple phones, you have to pay for youtube premium(or whatever the name is) in order to enable the picture-in-picture setting.
@NorsemanPatriot I do it without premium. There's a setting for it in my system youtube settings
@NorsemanPatriot whoops, I misread your comment as saying you CAN'T do it without premium. My addition was unnecessary.
Adam, have you ever considered doing the narration of books for Audible? I am serious. Your vocal prosody is wonderful and keep the listener engaged and interested in the narrative. Just a thought.
My guess to why pepper is so predominant in western cooking would be that some french monarch liked his food with only salt and pepper and since that would influence french cuisine whch in turn influenced almost all western european cuisine which in turn would all western cuisine. Just a hunch.