Replying to make this easier to see, I feel like fahrenheit should be ranked a bit higher bc it is more accurate as a fahrenheit/celcius ratio is close to two fahrenheit to one celcius
@@DragonAttack515 not as hard as these units make it sound at least. Only reason I say that is because I don't often convert from one unit to another but when I do, I would rather be using metric because imperial sucks.
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu they are synonymous, and we need to call it Metric sometimes so that US people understand what we are talking about. "SI unit" is not an intelligible expression overseas.
@ZopcsakFeri You are correct. The first place I heard the term "SI Unit" was in my high school chemistry class; chemistry was an optional class. That was on one day, and we called them metric units after that one day in class. In college I hear SI units a little more frequently but metric is still preferred in America.
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I got my engineering degree in America. We were taught the following method when solving problems in imperial units: 1) convert given inputs to metric 2) solve normally 3) convert solution back to imperial
I think a whole Apollo rocket failed its mission due to this, its foggy but i remember something i saw somewhere here in yt about the team having people from abroad or something and the computer correctly translated a unit of measurement from imperial to metric but the value was misaligned to said rocket's hardware and lost control, thats crazy that happened because of that, ain't no way boy
Human brain: great at detecting patterns Weight and volume of water in Earth's gravity and the speed of light in void in a specific sexagesimal unit _casually_ fitting all together in a easy scalable system of adding 0s: Americans: Freedom/Shelby, cows², Miles Morales, Feet kink
The kilogram is a little suspect, why does the SI base unit for mass have a prefix on top of another unit, the gram? You also end up with a lot of people using kilograms to discuss weights/forces, instead of Newtons (and even stuff like gram-force). SI units being coherent is really convenient and helpful, but people have still managed to add weird quirks to it.
@@aperson6291 I'd still put it in S tier since it's solely defined on natural constants now. People using it for weights/ forces instead of masses is an incoherence on there part. The prefix kilo being weird is true though.
@@aperson6291 you absolute baboon, its because Kilo means "1000", 1Kg = 1*1000g=1000g. thats not a "quirk". thats why in video games when people say "100k gold" they mean "100000 gold"
@@pyramidteam9961 Phineas and Ferb had some special episodes that took place in different time periods, and the inventions that Phineas and Ferb’s ancestors were responsible for include the wheel, the English language, and I think also the Great Wall of China. Phineas and Ferb’s ancestors could absolutely be responsible for the metric system.
@@Cinnamonsionas a American myself it would be much easier to just use the superior metric system but people just haven’t switched over for some reason
They are not intuitive at all... I mean, theoretically yes, but there's so many spoon and cup sizes that it's a hassle dealing with it. When I cook I simply use a scale and everything is perfectly balanced.
@@mateusfccp I guess it matters what you grew up with, but I don't find it to be difficult. Measuring spoons and cups are easy to deal with. And with very small quantities -- like for spices -- measuring spoons are the only way to go. Scales can't register fractions of grams. Internet chef Adam Ragusea did a good video on this topic and explains why he prefers to cook by volume rather than weight: th-cam.com/video/04ID_Qdm1Q8/w-d-xo.html
@@mateusfccp it’s just a shame that so much of video included the interesting history behind the origins of the measurements but then entirely skipped how the cooking measurements played a great deal in winning world war 1
That happens when you have to make numbers smaller than 0. It is same as with batteries. We have AA. AAA. Not that Europe is more logical as those are LR-6 and LR-03. (note the zero on just one is not a typo).
I genuinely think that the AWG system is the best of all these, or least bad, whichever way you put it. Why? Because it is just used for wires and you don't need to do any calculations with it. You just know that 28 is fine for a thin signal wire and 14 is useful for something rather power hungry. I hate all the other of those units though and live in a metric country, but for wires I actually use AWG and find it useful.
@@zapador why would you need to use calculations when using mm2? 1.5mm2 is standard for 16A/230V short runs, 2.5mm2 for longer runs. Its easy. 4mm2 has double thickness of 2mm2. How do you double thickness with AWG? You don't. Its arbitrary.
@@KoeiNL Never said you need to do calculations when using metric wire measures. Nothing bad about the metric wire units either, I've just been less exposed to that system so to me AWG works fine. I still think it has to be the least bad of their units.
@@zapador No, metric is still better because IEC 60228 is based on the cross-section and not the diameter of the cable. Because the cross section is directly proportional to weight and strength (en negatively to resistance). AWG is based on SWG, but even the British figured out that metric is far superior in this application. I guess if you are not an engineer and just need to look up AWG in a book to see which number you need then it works fine. Doesn't mean its better though.
Thank God I studied engineering in SI units like a regular human being and didn’t have to deal with this imperial nonsense. I refused to calculate anything in imperial units. Never touched a question using them
Wasn’t the metric system created by a French guy with anger issues who had to be in a bathtub all the time due to getting a skin disease from staying in the sewer too long?
My opinion (fact). Inches, feet, and yards are good. Yards are almost the same as meters. But ounces are total stupidity, cannot understand why most food packages list as ounces, completely confusing and useless. Inches and feet are superior to the metric system because metric doesn't have an equivalent to feet, it just has meters. And feet is a useful measurement that metric has no equivalent to. Of course there are probably some more stupidities in the imperial system, for example Pounds refers to either force or mass. If you put the wrong unit it can break some equations. But on the other hand the metric has a problem of too much uniformity, humans remember things in a non-uniform way, and metric promotes roboticism. So I wouldn't ban the imperial system but it needs some upgrades.
@@earthensciencedude meters is the goat, it’s just much better because for inches and feet: 12 inches make a feet or something like that, for meters: 10 meters are a decameter, 100 are a thing i don’t know how to say in english, 1000 are kilometers and so on, 1/10 of a meter is a decimeter, 1/100 is a centimeter, 1/1000 is a millimeter and so on, it’s just better because it’s perfect for calculations and everyday’s problem
@@idkjhgr Don't tread on me. Nobodies trying to ban Metric. I know Metric has its uses in Astronomy. But its all one sided because everyone's trying to bash Imperial and ban the Imperial system, nobody points out the good of the Imperial system. There is an advantage of not robotically adhering to a Borg system of only base 10. Imperial is part of an authentic culture and heritage, for instance an acre was about how much work oxen could do in 1 day. And Imperial offers a richer mathematics, such as Division by 2, division by 3, quarter inch, eight of an inch, half an inch etc. Metric is just zombie divide by 10 multiply by 10. I know imperial isn't perfect it has some confusing stupid stuff in it like pounds and ounces. But imperial also adds of lot of value.
This video is a roasting of the US customary system, which is very similar to the imperial system but different in arbitrary ways As if the units weren't bad enough, you also have to specify which one you're using for certain units
@pappi8338 I don't get mad at all, I'm just left confused why you seem to care so much about what I want to define as 1 of something. I grew up with both systems and my entire life I've heard that metric is better. Most of the time I still use US customary units out of convenience. All of the reasons that "metric is better" kind of disappear when I want to measure something and I don't have a meter stick with me but I do have my foot with me. :)
You forgot American octane rating for petrol. It’s absolute lunacy. The rest of the world either uses RON or MON system. But Americans decided to use (RON + MON)/2 as a unit of measurement. Imagine inventing a new system of length measurement that uses (cm + inch)/2 as its unit. This is just pure attention seeking behaviour.
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as someone who grew up with metric and more importantly Celsius, hearing someone talk about temperature and saying "60 degrees" - "100 degrees" gives me a whiplash until i remember Fahrenheit exists
Growing up on Fahrenheit, celsius still confuses me. I'm just used to gauging it based on 100 and not between 0 and 40. I use it for calculations all the time but in terms of human comfort it makes zero sense unless you grew up with it. I get our measurements are dumb but Fahrenheit is the one I can make the most sense with
Fahrenheit imo is better to use for daily life. 98 degrees is good. 100 is fever. 104 is emergency room. 105 your body stops regulating temperature. But science, Celsius is better
@tombraendle7156 celsius does not make science easier. Kelvin and rankine do. We only use celsius because it's already integrated into your other units if Fahrenheit hadve been used it would all be the same
The fact that there are three "ton"s (long ton, 2240 lbs; short ton, 2000lbs; metric ton, 1000 kg) that are actively used in the world gives me an aneurism.
That only proves you have a serious medical problem that needs prompt attention. In the USA, hardly anybody is bothered by this at all. If someone's work involves commodities shipped internationally, the unit is the Metric ton. For other purposes, "ton" means the short ton, but that is rarely used. For everyday purposes, we use pounds. Engineers dealing with large weights and forces might use kips (1000 lbs).
tbf, fahrenheit isnt THAT bad. i mean it is, but speaking from what my friends told me, you get used to it. It seems a bit more convenient to use in day-to-day life according to them. Therefore, it should be in E tier. right between D and F
The spoons and cup are actually pretty handy when cooking. I live in an metric country, but imperial units for homecooking is agodsend for trying out recipes quickly and lessening dishes. It quickly shows approximates. Add 2 tablespoon of honey is much easier to visualize vs add 40ml of honey or 50 grams of honey is hard. I know Regular eating tablespoon are smaller than measuring table spoons but thats kay because I can always add ingredients to what im cooking after a quick taste. The quarts/pint/gallon suck though.
At school in the early 60s we had whole maths exercise books devoted to calculations in poles, perches, rods, fathoms, reams, scores, dozens, leagues, as well as the more obvious inches, feet, yards, miles and so on. No calculators of course, just log tables and slide rules. Big relief when taught the SI / MKS system in physics 10 years later and calculators arrived.
This sounds like the teacher at the beginning of a Brick in the Wall… “an acre is an area of land whose length is 1 furlong and whose width is 1 chain”
at some points even Europeans use imperial measurements, every backer know, i wand a 1,5kg bread if i order a 3 pount bread, or one dozen eggs, Zentner for 100 pount or 50kg is also still in use. at least from older people
Imperial measurements built the world and won two world wars ,and got to the moon and back.Roman empire ,British empire and USA built on Imperial,original and best!
When I worked in the USA as an engineer in the marine industry, I used to do all my calculations in SI units (metric) and convert to US Customary units (Imperial) at the end. All of the conversion factors you need in the US system are insane.
I worked as an exchange student from Europe back in 84. I had the same experience. They all told me it was less work to do so and less prone to mistakes.
not enough though. I mean non of these are anything other than F tier. With miles he did not even Mention that there are other length called miles and this is the stupid one.
It’s not the units that are the problem, it’s the fact that they don’t relate to each other. In the SI system all units derive from basic units for time, mass, length, charge, etc. and all go up in factors of 10^3, so it aligns with our decimal number system.
@@Tailspin80 that is one problem. The other big one is, that for all of these Units there are countless other units with the same names, but slightly different meanings.
Gee it's almost like Imperial is a convoluted mess of completely arbitrary measurements that came about at different points in time and were forced to kinda sorta work together. If only there was a simpler, more cohesive system with simple conversions, based around the decimal system, with base measurements defined with universal constants...
I worked in Saudi Arabia for a long time. We got a new employee who was American. He needed a bathroom scale and was happy to see that the digital scale he bought had a switch to change between metric and imperial. The next day at work he asked, "What's a stone?"
A stone is the thing you stumble upon because you were trying to measure some distance by looking at your feet while walking. "Pound" is the noise you make when you fall. Then you're free to get your blood back in spoons. Tablespoons are better because you finish your work three times faster than with teaspoons. It all makes perfect sense.
It is about 6.3kgs. Im from Eastern Europe but live in the UK. Here it's commonly used, but as far as I can tell almost exclusively to measure bodyweight.
@@arthurcrown3063 Indeed, I have forgotten that a couple times. But why the "s" ? - the latin plural is definitely not *libras and measurement units should never have plurals written anyway :)
@@ZopcsakFeriprobably someone made a typo that stuck. They wrote LBS all capital and because to an English speaker that’s just a random string of letters anyways they just thought that that was the shortening
In Sweden, *the* cookbook for generations was "Our Cookbook", which was published alongside the launch of a standardized set of kitchen measures. The teaspoon was standardized at 5ml and the tablespoon at 15ml, and the book used half or full deciliters for most other measurements. So in Sweden, we do use teaspoons and tablespoons, but not cups, and those are standardized to specific metric measurements.
Even in France, home of metric system, we still use teaspoon/tablespoon for cooking. The only difference is that we NEVER use them for critical ingredients, but only for side/preference-related things... For example, "Fry it in a tablespoon oil", "Add a teaspoon of XXXX flavor", "Add one to three tablespoon of sugar according to your preferences", and so on. And, in fact, we never use a real spoon to "measure" that, we add the approximative quantity because it IS approximative. For everything else, metric system is the one and only rule, but there is also no house without proper measurement tools in the kitchen (precision scale and measuring glass mostly), and/or ingredients sold in convenient packaging (100g, 250g, 500g, 1 kg). And yeah, there is recipes specifying "add 5 ml of oil", "add 15 ml of water" when it NEEDS to be precise.
Unfortenally rest of the world don't use standard teaspoons and table spoons as we do in Sweden, it's actually very convenient. The only anoyance is that tablespoons being 15 ml won't fit evenly in a deciliter. 50 ml is the same as 3 tablespoons and a teaspoon so rounding up to 50 ml is usually fine if you are trippling a recipe. Using a scale is slow compared to mesuring cups, for example pancakes: 6 decliters milk, 3 dl milk, 3 dl flour and a teaspoon of salt is a very easy recipe to remember and messure.
@@SkepticalCaveman actually reading the comments I came to the conclusion that at least all Europe may still have this use. In Italy we also use pints (just for beers tho) (I don't think it's just Italy)
The roman mile actualy was 1000 double paces on the march of a legion. They had legionaires tasked with counting how many times their left (right?) foot stroke the ground.
Thing about teaspoon and tablespoon in Germany is they refer to the literal implements. Not since separate special measuring spoon. If i need a teaspoon of a spice, I'll grab a literal teaspoon from my cutlery and just accept that teaspoons are not standardised in size because I'm already using an inaccurate way of measuring things
British: force their colonies to use the imperial system Also British: Look at these absolute BUFFOONS using INCHES Also British: This is Timothy. He weighs 5 stones, 3 cloves of garlic, and a tod.
Worked in Australia during the pre decimal days. Had to learn to count money in Pence, Hapenneys, Thrupence, Shillings. Florins, Thrupppence, so on. Had to add columns of coins divided by 12 and 20. Took a bit to get used to then came change over to decimal with two legal currencies running side by side for a time. Ran into the same thing in Ireland and Germany with the Euro conversion.
Many (older) Brits still use imperial measures in casual day-to-day life. But we switch to metric when precision is important. And speed limits are still in miles per hour...
That shouldn’t make it confusing, aught literally means 0 like the Canadians saying zed for Z. A “30 aught 6” is a .30 caliber round developed in 1906. And gauge makes more sense in shotguns when you understand how it’s derived. A 12 guage shotgun has a barrel diameter that a sphere of lead the diameter of the barrel would weigh 1/12 pound. The smaller the diameter the more spheres would be required to make a pound. Hence a 20 gauge requires 20 balls Where as shot sizes inside a shotgun shell are also a number system that gets bigger as the numbers get smaller. But Phillips screwdrivers get smaller with number. Ph 3 down to a Ph0000 most common is a ph2 though.
To be honest, I do admire Americans, being able to use such an inconsistent measurement system with ease is remarkable. Edit: based on some of the replies it seems that my assumption is wrong, I assumed Americans used the imperial system with eases because, well, they've been using it since birth, something you're used to should be easy for you. In that regard I'll make a rectification: I do admire the Americans persistence to use an inconsistent measurement system despite having the option to switch to a consistent one.
@@bromanned7069a lot of us do though, and I can guess a 12 inch measurement within 1/2 and inch, usually closer. Personally I love the imperial system but I know I'm one of very few people who actually likes the imperial system
What is even crazier is that back in the old days, every European country - often even different cities in the same country - had their OWN version of the foot and inch, and other units. It was always 12 inches to the foot, but the length of a foot varied by up to 10cm! The shortest was around 25cm while the largest "foot" was over 35cm. It just so happens that America adopted what was the British Standard at the time. This variance, combined with the growth of industrialization is, I suspect, part of the reason Europe embraced the metric system so quickly and thoroughly. It would be VERY difficult to have mass production when, say, ½" bolts from a factory in Hamburg are a totally different size from the ½" threading press you got from Berlin, and neither match the ½" nuts you ordered from Dresden. Meanwhile, the US had settled on the UK Imperial standards throughout, and its industrial revolution was much more self-sufficient and self-contained. Without a pressing need for a new unifying standard, there was little incentive for US industry to convert to a new system. This is my hypothesis, anyway.
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Germany went metric the year after it was finally created in 1871. It was rather late to the party, but then again, it didn't exist before 1871, and parts of what became Germany went metric before that. As to the US and their bastard version of imperial: two factors that play a big role (in addition to what you and others said, industrial laziness and inertia surely are important contributors) are American Exceptionalism and Tradition; the US is so young, they cherish every tiny little tradition they do have, even when they routinely claim to want to abolish one, like, for instance, the Electoral College.
Napoleon imposed the metric system (created in France) in France and conquered lands (and its civil code still used by many countries), the old units came back after his loss but still it was a standardized unit in every sectors which help in trades and science...so it took over the old units which varied from places to places, easier to have the same units in rotterdam and Madrid for trades and industries.
I recommand to check the channel Machine Thinking. There are top quality videos on thr history of precision manufacturing. And how the "Swedish Metric Inch" for US export of precision measurement tools was adopted by Ford and forced on the US auto industry. And then during WW2, the US auto industry forced it in all war related companies. It's only after WW2 that the entire US adopted it.
So what actually happened is throughout the 18th century there has been talks about creating a unified system of units to solve that exact problem Britain was the first country to ratify a national standardised system (the Imperial System) During the French Revolution, the newly minted government used the works of all the European Scientists that talked about a universal system, and created the metric system It came into law shortly after The Napoleonic campaigns had Napoleon impose the metric system on the conquered lands and it thus became more and more popular throughout the european colonial empires and thus the world
This is great. The only thing more confusing than the American units of measurement is the Canadian version. We're technically metric, but good luck finding a tape measure that isn't in inches. For cooking, we use cups, tsp and tbsp, but also ml and litres. We drive in km/h but measure power in hp. Great system right?
@@PUNROTUTORIALSaboyou actually have to look for any mesuring tool in inches or any imperial unit At least that's the case in Germany A few things though are always in inches for some reason Like screen sizes and bicycle tires
I bake a lot. I'm from Europe and as any respectable baker I use a scale on a daily basis. Sometimes I base my recipes on American ones, and the most mind-boggling measurement I've ever seen was cups of cold butter. Idk how anyone would ever think of measuring solid butter that way, but I'm guessing their baked goods were hardly any good anyway so accurate measurements were the least of their concerns. Just so you know, professional bakers weight their ingredients with a scale, even if they're based in the US, and it's a waste of time, money and water to measure your ingredients by volume. You gotta wash the utensils afterwards so just buy a freaking scale.
The sticks of butter come marked. You cut off what you need. I was also taught that you can fill a 2 cup glass measurig cup with one cup of cold water and submerge butter or shortning in it until the level gets to two cups.
Well, besides that "professional" butter sticks in Europe are marked too, the standard 250gr package divided into five 50gr stripes AKA sticks isn’t really rocket science and can easily eyeballed.
Literally don't know what you're talking about. Are you talking about marking on the butter sticks? Because it's simple to use. Sure weighing stuff is nice but if your recipe is so sensitive that 1 gram off ruins it its not a good recipe. I'm not busting out the scale for 1/4 tsp of nutmeg. Unless I'm baking baking volume works just fine
@aceystar1478 we don't have butter sticks in Europe. Our butter is 250g, divided into 50g increments. A cup is 220g. That's enough for baking to be noticeably charged.
A cool thing in many pre or renaissance building is the use of "hands" for measurements. Aproximately 22cm and 6 of them make a "stick". Most doors would be 2 sticks in height and 1 in width, creating a sort of canon for traditional european architecture practice
Depends on where in Europe you live and if there's forced standardization for tea/table spoons. I can look into my kitchen drawers and find 4 different size teaspoons and like 6 different size tablespoons. So if I find a recipe that only gives ingredient amounts in tea/table spoons I'll just chalk the author up as an idiot and ignore it's existence.
@@Jack_Rakan You can buy measuring spoons in IKEA and I'd assume more places which come with a standard set of tea- and tablespoons (which are standardized to 5 and 15 ml, respectively)
@@TheMrMe1 Yeah, no thanks, I'm not going out of my way to buy something I don't need just because some ass-backwards idiots don't want to use a logical system over their retarded one, and use that for cooking recipes.
@@TheMrMe1or you know, just specify what amount it is. Imagine a guide giving lengths where to mix in metric foot (30 cm) and metre. That's what it is having a recipe that gives me units in litre and spoons. We shouldn't have a different name for a unit like this. Also tablespoons are 20 ml in Australia, so international recipes is a mess.
@@Jack_Rakan Cooking measures use measuring spoons, not whatever random spoons you find in your cutlery drawer. Although even there there's a difference: an international teaspoon is 5ml (giving a tablespoon of 15ml, except in Australia where it's 20 for some reason), but an American teaspoon is actually slightly less than 4.93 ml
@@pa28cfiCharge isnt a Fundamental Quantity. Current is. So it makes sense that Coulomb would be defined in terms of Currwnt and Time. Also Curr. and Charge are different, versatile, and widely used enough that they should have their own seperate units. Ij terms of Slugs on the other hand there is no such reasoning or defence. Mass is possibly the most fundamental and basic quantity out there. And if you still need to define it in terms of one hyper specific unit acting on another hyperspecific unit, then yeah idl what to say after that. Hope this helped clear things up 😊❤
Some of these (BTU, Slug, Rankine, Thou) are metric units redefined with imperial units instead. A calorie is the energy needed to raise one litre of water by one degree C, exactly like the BTU's "energy needed to raise one pound by one degree F".
Love that you have the wire gauge in there. In metric the sizing of wires is done by the cross sectional area in mm² but for really small stuff the diameter is used, as to not have it be 0,000001mm2 but 0.001mm
Another less-known unit is used when manufacutring PCBs in electronics: The height of copper in a layer is measured in Oz (mass). The reason is that you assume the mass of copper to be spread over a square foot, resulting in a height of copper. Mass is used to describe a height. S E R I O U S L Y.
look at how AWG is measured. Pulling a piece of copper from a certain length to another certain length, and having your unit of measurement be how often it has been pulled by that much.
Sounds like shotgun gauges. How many balls the diametr of the barrel you can make out of a pound of lead. Basically mass is used to measure distance (diameter).
US Measurement System is kinda weird. First of all, I've been using this system my entire life. The moment I started doing research in college everything switched over to the metric system. For example, if I'm working on a project that will be published specifically to a group of americans, I must use "american units" (that is what my advisor calls it), but if its being published to a journal, it must be in metric units. To make it even stranger, the default measurement units in most geographic information systems (which are mostly american made) are programmed in metric units and it confuses a lot of students who are using these systems for the first time.
As someone not in America, watching and reading educational content and shows also confused me alot for using those systems, it straight up build no knowledge and framework about how strong a tiger bite is or how fast a baseball can be thrown, such a big waste to everybody's time
Cups, teaspoons and tablespoons made a ton of sense in a time where scales were these humongous things that took counterweights and had questionable accuracy at best. But that was then, and these days everyone has measuring cups and digital scale sitting in their kitchen. So just use normal units already!
As a Canadian, I give Fahrenheit - F minus grade. The lack of effort to have these number mean anything, is ridiculous. A brine of water?!... how much salt was used in how much water? No body knows. Probably not even measured... let alone in (f minus )oz.
As an American who started learning wiring at the age of 5 or so using those "snap circuit" things, I learned AWG at like 8 years old and was very confused by the inverse proportionality of it.
It's not really an inverse proportionality. It is a negative logarithmic scale. Incremental differences in gauge sizes, are multiplicative changes in the size of the wire.
The teaspoon and tablespoon measurements are probably the most useful if you have nothing in your kitchen to measure small quantities with, and in cooking a little bit too much sugar or salt for example wouldn't be all that bad, however if you're asked to put in one eighth of a teaspoon of a very powerful spice, you're better off using your hand instead.
Recipes using volumetric measures like cups and spoons are scaleable. As a result, as long as you are consistent in the ratios it does not matter what base volume you use, you could use buckets and half buckets for catering purposes and it would still be following the recipe.
@@martinconnelly1473 yes but if you instead used a scale and a cup with measurements in Metric .... You could use exactly the same amount of ingredients every single time you make the same thing, nobody eats the same thing everyday so it's only natural to forget the amount you used last time if you're using spoons and teaspoons and it might actually affect the taste, being inconsistent while cooking is bad, this is how you end up with inedible stuff on your plate, that being said you really don't have to he all that accurate if you're just cooking for yourself, nobody's gonna judge you and say "it's not as tasty as last time..."
@@martinconnelly1473 That doesn't work with teaspoons and measuring in volumes is a stupid idea anyway, despite the differences at certain temperatures, try measuring a cup of Butter. Or replacing normal sugar/salt with finer or coarser grained one.
You better have something to measure if you want to cook ! Not every spoon are the same size , and inside the same spoon you can put Different measurement of product ! Just buy ONE KITCHEN SCALE , then you can measure every thing . 1/2 a teaspoon , a 1/4 cup , God damn that's horrible when you wanna cook . That doesnt make any sense , It belongs in the "Z" tiers .
3:06 There are currently 3 different tons used in the USA. There is the short ton of 2000lbs which everybody uses, the metric ton which is used in food production like the annual wheat harvest and the long ton of 2240lbs which is used by the navy to measure the size of ships.
As a former fridge and air con technician it warms my cold heart (pun intended), that ton of refrigeration is included on this list. For the freedom unit impaired it's equal to about 3.5kW of cooling capacity. And staying close to my former trade I'd like to add one more unit: grains. Which is used to measure absolute humidity in air conditioning. Because of course it is, it just makes sense (1 grain is 1/7000th of a pound by the way).
@Ikreisrond US American HVAC technicians do to measure the amount of water vapour/humidity in the air. Don't ask me why they don't use fractional ounces or maybe drams (16 drams is an ounce). In metric countries we use gramms for the same (about 15 grains is one gramm).
As an engineer my absolute favorite imperial unit is kip - which stands for kilopound-force over square inch. Yes, this is an actual unit in common use. And a pint has an advantage. In the metric side of the world, a large beer is usually 0.5L, which is less than a pint. So you get more beer.
I would like to point out that you are using English Imperial Pints not US customary pints which are smaller at 0.47 pints per litre. No source of confusion there then 🤥
The Imperial pint is actually a bit of a screw-up, to be honest. When Parliament revised the measures in the 1820s they (smartly) set the definition of a fluid ounce such that that quantity of water weighed an ounce. Had they stopped there, it would have followed that a pint of water would weigh a pound as there were formally 16 ounces to both the pint and the pound. But oh no, they had to sort-of half-assedly get on the decimal bandwagon and set things such that an Imperial gallon of water would weigh 10 pounds and then backed that out through the rest of the units so we ended up with bonkers 20 ounce pints, pints that are also 2½ cups rather than the 2 cups they are in the US.
As an European and electronics engineer working with and us company, I hate gauges SO FRICKING MUCH. Even more so as a person with stretched ears because someone thought using gauges as a measurement for ear plugs is a great idea even though you need like half millimeters to a millimeter increments. I kinda like Fahrenheit, because 0 F is about how cold usually winters are here and 100 F is a temperature of a very hot summer.
I find particularly cooking cups system user friendly, because it suggest standard size for cooking appliances, and producers follow it making it standartized.
Just to make things awkward, when Australia converted to the Metric system it was decreed that the tablespoon would be 20ml or four teaspoons unlike the 15ml measure used elsewhere.
I'm guessing metric would have been a short video as we have two basic measurements the gram and metre and everything else is derived from them. As a Brit it's weird how we cling to the old imperial measurements for some things, Like roads are mostly done in miles and miles per hour. We measure people and milk in both metric and imperial.
A funny thing is, that we use a few units with similar names in Germany as well, but with different definitions: One German pound is exactly half of a kilogram. A German tablespoon (Esslöffel) is a very unprecise measurement, were you just get a regular spoon and use whatever size it has. Just slightly above not measuring at all, so you have at least some consistency. The same for tea spoons (Teelöffel). German horse power (Pferdestärke) is also defined differently using metric values and a horse. This is still used to advertise cars, because people are used to them. The German mile (7532,5m) (also known as the Prussian mile) hasn't been used for centuries. The same for the German geographical mile (7420,44m) (1/15 of a equatorial degree). The last German mile, that was used, was exactly 7500m=7,5km. Fun fact: In Europe the different definitions of miles ranged from 1,5km up to 11km.
@@peterebel7899 Not really, the Netherlands were rather early with going fully metric, but re-used old names for the new units, so the kilometer became the "mijl", the centimeter "duim", the kilogram "pond", "aas" for miligram and so on... Most of those uses have been forgotten but some, especially "ons" for hectogram and "bunder" for hectare are still used somewhat.
I'm glad I live in a metric using nation. For the record, US imperial measurements are now based off of a conversation from metric system. IE 1 inch is 25.4 millimetres and 1 foot is 305 millimetres :-)
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Wrong on the foot. The foot, being defined as 12 inches, is of course 304.8 mm.
I love how you made a video absolutely roasting the imperial system that was also one of the most comprehensive explanations of it that I've seen! Great work!!
As much I love the humour/reality of this video, there’s also some practical reasons explained why certain units of measure were selected and I found that interesting. Btw, if we look how certain metric units are defined, they are totally arbitrary from users perspective. In fact backwards-defined. First they had a reference object, then someone found a way to define it with some natural phenomenom. Tier ranking of the SI units?
OMG so based, I'm studying for a fluid mechanics midterm in CANADA where we use BOTH imperial and metric (kill me). I have had to use almost all of these in my calculation (including the loathsome slugs) and I can confirm, they're all F tier
MM/DD/YYYY is the worst, sneaking it in because it's a measurement of time. It fails because (1) it's completely arbitrary and (2) there are no units, resulting in a whole collection of dates where you just can't know which system they're using.
The reason for it is probably due to how US citizens often say dates: March 8th, 2022. You can of course say: The 8th of March, 2022 to get to DD/MM/YYYY, but most would say the first one. But for anything being used internationally just use YYYY/MM/DD it's more reliable and sorts well in computer systems.
What I really hate about the cooking measurements is that all those measurements are really hard to measure exactly unless you're actually using the device the unit is named after. And converting them to exact and universal measurements like grams or liters is difficult, because the conversion ratio is dependent on the ingredient. Here's an example (using "kitchen-grade accuracy"): 1 tbsp of flour is around 8 grams. 1 tbsp of water is 15 grams (aka 15 ml, g = ml for water). 1 tbsp of honey is 21 grams. So if a recipe is using imperial units and asks you to add "2 tablespoons of honey", you actually have to use a tablespoon, squeeze the honey on there before mixing it in, making another piece of equipment dirty, and because honey is sticky, you can't really reset your measuring device to a neutral "0" (i.e. empty the spoon for the second scoop). With "40g" on the other hand, you can simply tare the scale, and then squeeze the honey directly into the mixing bowl until it says "40g". So much simpler, cleaner, and more accurate.
I have never seen anyone use a kitchen scale in the US. Nor have I ever seen a US cookbook which gave the weight of ingredients other than meat and pasta.
and if you squeeze too hard, how do you get the excess honey out? and note that you are still using a device to measure. as for the honey, fill your measuring spoon, wipe it out with the stirring tool, fill it again. it's not rocket science.
I love how volume and mass measures' rating is nothing about the actual disasters they are and just based on the fact that it'd be different in some other place in the universe which is oh so important in day-to-day life and which is also the problem for the beloved metric kilogram and cubic metre units which also have their force counterpart.
I don't know why the imperial system had so much impact on medicin that its still in use : -Blood pressure : mmHg, not bar or pascal, or kg/m2 -Needle size : Gauge, not mm or micrometers -Suture string resistance : Some weird unnamed unit similar to gauge based on how many parallel strings are required to resist 1/2 lbf, not newtons.
@@merbudd yeah, my mistake, but it is still a shitty idea to mesure a pressure in liquid head height for medicin applications, especially when the liquid isn't even water. Bars would be much better.
I would put the volume units at the end in C-tier. I prefer using those in cooking and baking over the metric system because I just have a set of "cups" each sized exactly to the respective units and its halves. I prefer filling a standardised cup with a liquid then trying to measure 240mL in a measuring cup
A very common response Americans make on this subject is that the imperial system is iNtUiTivE. Of course you feel it's intuitive because you grew up with it. Having grown up with the metric system I feel it's more intuitive than the chaotic mess that Americans are used to. Apart from the totally subjective intuitiveness thing, the metric system is objectively better facilitating easy calculation and conversion. Just get over with it already.
But here's the thing, I don't need to know the conversion factor from inches to miles, because no one does that conversion. Why does everyone on the internet think conversion is some kind of important necessity? I couldn't even tell you the last time I converted something not for a college class. It's just not a pressing issue.
The teaspoon and tablespoon are the only units that I like in all units of freedom. They are only the ones that work better than the metric system when you're adding seasoning to whatever you're making.
@@mateusfccp nah, using spoons is easier to clean up, easier to use, granular enough to be accurate, but general enough to be multipurpose. British bakers who have cooked with U(SA)nits before know it’s much easier but will never admit it. Similar to how I will never admit a kilometer makes more sense than a mile even tho it does (it doesn’t)
There are "spoons" in european cooking recipes too sometimes, but they actually refer to the real tea spoons and table spoons. And are known to be a rough estimation. That said, i rarely cook something big enough to need spoons for the seasoning. The amounts of seasoning i use are more in the ballpark of a "knifetip" or what the english language calls "pinch" or "dash". So not really something one would measure but guestimate.
A standardised size for Teaspoon and tablespoon are the only things that are good. Metric home baking is fun and logical, until it comes to measuring trace ingredients.
I am a chemist, but in college I tried out engineering. I was slammed by slugs, lb-f, lb-m, BTU, BTUs, etc etc. and it was the most chaotic infuriating piece of crap I’ve ever had to deal with. Why not just do things by metric already? It makes 1kilo% more sense! Anyway, I would never be an engineer in America for that reason. I’m sure I could eventually get all that conversion stuff, but it seems dumb considering there’s a better system out there.
AWG is still used today - It's placement is not representative of the fact that hobbyists, electricians, and engineers in the US use it. Despite the confusion around the number to physical size, it doesn't take long to get used to. I'd place it in B tier since It takes experience to understand it.
When you mentioned thous you could’ve also brought up kips (kilopounds) which also conveniently use that decimal-place-shifting method that would’ve been such a nice system to use
@@abattlescar 1 kip equals 1/2 of a short ton, or 25/56 of a long ton. And exactly 45 359 237 / 100 000 000 of a metric ton. Just in case you were wondering.
Another episode of 2 Truths & Trash will be out soon! Sorry for the delay, this video took way too long lol
How would you rate PSI?
Mann if you posted this one day later it would have been a great birthday gift
Replying to make this easier to see, I feel like fahrenheit should be ranked a bit higher bc it is more accurate as a fahrenheit/celcius ratio is close to two fahrenheit to one celcius
Happy belated birthday!
@@JaDroppingScience thanks :)))
"it'd be cool if there was a whole unit system based around this principle" LMAO
I actually laughed out loud!!! Haha
As a Canadian this made me laugh hysterically.
Me in my mind: USE THE METRIC SYSTEM STOP USING WEIRD AND MESSY CONVERSIONS!!!
I wonder how hard school must be for Americans.
@@DragonAttack515 not as hard as these units make it sound at least. Only reason I say that is because I don't often convert from one unit to another but when I do, I would rather be using metric because imperial sucks.
At this point i am suprised that 1$ is 100 cents and not something like 144 cents
Cent means hundred, and other countries do have cents
Americans were among the first to decimalize money.
@@kenbrown2808 among
@@cheesehead2808us
Do you know the old British system for money division? It was changed not so long ago.
"A yard is no where near the size of an average yard." Pure gold!
I dunno, homes are built on smaller and smaller plots these days. My front yard is just about a yard.
Considering that significant portion of the population dont even have a yard. We could say that is somewhere near the average.
Loved the Thou "if only there was a measurement system that used this principle"
Metric system: S-Tier
SI system, not metric
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu they are synonymous, and we need to call it Metric sometimes so that US people understand what we are talking about. "SI unit" is not an intelligible expression overseas.
@@ZopcsakFerisome metric units are not SI. Calories or electroc-volts for example.
@ZopcsakFeri You are correct. The first place I heard the term "SI Unit" was in my high school chemistry class; chemistry was an optional class. That was on one day, and we called them metric units after that one day in class. In college I hear SI units a little more frequently but metric is still preferred in America.
@@johnettipio America tends to use calories for chemical energy. They are metric but not SI
As a European, i see this as an absolute win and I appreciate that not a single unit made it above B tier.
I blame the Brits they invented most of these units
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@@Themasterofkeys.You obviously didn't, and even if, do you really think the algorithm will let you go? No! Noooo! Ajahahahahaha! Ajahahahahaha! Forever and ever and ever!
We still have the greatest unit of measurement usd the global unit of wealth
We are still guilty of horsepower
I got my engineering degree in America. We were taught the following method when solving problems in imperial units:
1) convert given inputs to metric
2) solve normally
3) convert solution back to imperial
I think a whole Apollo rocket failed its mission due to this, its foggy but i remember something i saw somewhere here in yt about the team having people from abroad or something and the computer correctly translated a unit of measurement from imperial to metric but the value was misaligned to said rocket's hardware and lost control, thats crazy that happened because of that, ain't no way boy
@@leandrolahiteau8162close. You might be thinking about the mars mission where the rover crashed because of miscommunication between ESA and NASA
@@leandrolahiteau8162I think a MARS mission
@@leandrolahiteau8162 This was Mars climate observer in 1999 and the idiots were Lockheed Martin
@@leandrolahiteau8162 i feel like i just had a stroke after reading that
Human brain: great at detecting patterns
Weight and volume of water in Earth's gravity and the speed of light in void in a specific sexagesimal unit _casually_ fitting all together in a easy scalable system of adding 0s:
Americans: Freedom/Shelby, cows², Miles Morales, Feet kink
I'm dying
Meth is a hell of a drug.
Every single unit of the SI system: S tier
Bros spitting facts over here
The kilogram is a little suspect, why does the SI base unit for mass have a prefix on top of another unit, the gram? You also end up with a lot of people using kilograms to discuss weights/forces, instead of Newtons (and even stuff like gram-force). SI units being coherent is really convenient and helpful, but people have still managed to add weird quirks to it.
@@aperson6291 I'd still put it in S tier since it's solely defined on natural constants now.
People using it for weights/ forces instead of masses is an incoherence on there part.
The prefix kilo being weird is true though.
@@maxkoller6315 The inch is defined by the centimeter (1 in = 2.54 cm exactly), is the inch an S tier unit?
@@aperson6291 you absolute baboon, its because Kilo means "1000", 1Kg = 1*1000g=1000g. thats not a "quirk". thats why in video games when people say "100k gold" they mean "100000 gold"
such a shame there isn't a simpler measurement system, it would make life so much easier.
Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!
@@pyramidteam9961 Phineas and Ferb had some special episodes that took place in different time periods, and the inventions that Phineas and Ferb’s ancestors were responsible for include the wheel, the English language, and I think also the Great Wall of China. Phineas and Ferb’s ancestors could absolutely be responsible for the metric system.
Ever heard about the metric system
@@Cinnamonsion No way they haven't
@@Cinnamonsionas a American myself it would be much easier to just use the superior metric system but people just haven’t switched over for some reason
The buildup to cooking measurements saying they're all pretty intuitive only to say "I hate them all, F Tier" was hilarious
Yeah, that's why I gave this video an F. It's just stupid, baseless, and irrational. Inconsistent and illogical.
They are not intuitive at all... I mean, theoretically yes, but there's so many spoon and cup sizes that it's a hassle dealing with it.
When I cook I simply use a scale and everything is perfectly balanced.
@@mateusfccp I guess it matters what you grew up with, but I don't find it to be difficult. Measuring spoons and cups are easy to deal with. And with very small quantities -- like for spices -- measuring spoons are the only way to go. Scales can't register fractions of grams.
Internet chef Adam Ragusea did a good video on this topic and explains why he prefers to cook by volume rather than weight: th-cam.com/video/04ID_Qdm1Q8/w-d-xo.html
@@mateusfccp it’s just a shame that so much of video included the interesting history behind the origins of the measurements but then entirely skipped how the cooking measurements played a great deal in winning world war 1
@@mateusfccpAs all things should be.
I lost it when wire gauges went to 00, 000 and 0000. What kind of idiot would invent such a measure system.
That happens when you have to make numbers smaller than 0. It is same as with batteries. We have AA. AAA. Not that Europe is more logical as those are LR-6 and LR-03. (note the zero on just one is not a typo).
I genuinely think that the AWG system is the best of all these, or least bad, whichever way you put it. Why? Because it is just used for wires and you don't need to do any calculations with it. You just know that 28 is fine for a thin signal wire and 14 is useful for something rather power hungry. I hate all the other of those units though and live in a metric country, but for wires I actually use AWG and find it useful.
@@zapador why would you need to use calculations when using mm2? 1.5mm2 is standard for 16A/230V short runs, 2.5mm2 for longer runs. Its easy. 4mm2 has double thickness of 2mm2. How do you double thickness with AWG? You don't. Its arbitrary.
@@KoeiNL Never said you need to do calculations when using metric wire measures. Nothing bad about the metric wire units either, I've just been less exposed to that system so to me AWG works fine. I still think it has to be the least bad of their units.
@@zapador No, metric is still better because IEC 60228 is based on the cross-section and not the diameter of the cable. Because the cross section is directly proportional to weight and strength (en negatively to resistance). AWG is based on SWG, but even the British figured out that metric is far superior in this application. I guess if you are not an engineer and just need to look up AWG in a book to see which number you need then it works fine. Doesn't mean its better though.
As a chemical engineering graduate, having to deal with these atrocities was like half the difficulty of the degree.
I feel your pain. Use SI and then convert back was always my solution 😅
Thank God I studied engineering in SI units like a regular human being and didn’t have to deal with this imperial nonsense. I refused to calculate anything in imperial units. Never touched a question using them
I used to think the US measurement system was a complete joke. After watching this video, I still do lol. Great video thanks!
It’s not the US system. It’s the outdated British the Americans use
Wasn’t the metric system created by a French guy with anger issues who had to be in a bathtub all the time due to getting a skin disease from staying in the sewer too long?
My opinion (fact). Inches, feet, and yards are good. Yards are almost the same as meters. But ounces are total stupidity, cannot understand why most food packages list as ounces, completely confusing and useless. Inches and feet are superior to the metric system because metric doesn't have an equivalent to feet, it just has meters. And feet is a useful measurement that metric has no equivalent to. Of course there are probably some more stupidities in the imperial system, for example Pounds refers to either force or mass. If you put the wrong unit it can break some equations. But on the other hand the metric has a problem of too much uniformity, humans remember things in a non-uniform way, and metric promotes roboticism. So I wouldn't ban the imperial system but it needs some upgrades.
@@earthensciencedude meters is the goat, it’s just much better because for inches and feet: 12 inches make a feet or something like that, for meters: 10 meters are a decameter, 100 are a thing i don’t know how to say in english, 1000 are kilometers and so on, 1/10 of a meter is a decimeter, 1/100 is a centimeter, 1/1000 is a millimeter and so on, it’s just better because it’s perfect for calculations and everyday’s problem
@@idkjhgr Don't tread on me. Nobodies trying to ban Metric. I know Metric has its uses in Astronomy. But its all one sided because everyone's trying to bash Imperial and ban the Imperial system, nobody points out the good of the Imperial system. There is an advantage of not robotically adhering to a Borg system of only base 10. Imperial is part of an authentic culture and heritage, for instance an acre was about how much work oxen could do in 1 day. And Imperial offers a richer mathematics, such as Division by 2, division by 3, quarter inch, eight of an inch, half an inch etc. Metric is just zombie divide by 10 multiply by 10. I know imperial isn't perfect it has some confusing stupid stuff in it like pounds and ounces. But imperial also adds of lot of value.
There are three things you can watch forever: fire burning, water falling and someone roasting the imperial system.
This video is a roasting of the US customary system, which is very similar to the imperial system but different in arbitrary ways
As if the units weren't bad enough, you also have to specify which one you're using for certain units
US Customary system
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdluThat doesn't change the fact that it's horrendous. It's also fun to call it Imperial Units so you get all patriots mad lol
@pappi8338 I don't get mad at all, I'm just left confused why you seem to care so much about what I want to define as 1 of something. I grew up with both systems and my entire life I've heard that metric is better. Most of the time I still use US customary units out of convenience. All of the reasons that "metric is better" kind of disappear when I want to measure something and I don't have a meter stick with me but I do have my foot with me. :)
@@shannonroberts5080 there are three things that are infinite: the universe, human stupidity, and SI fans claiming it is universally superior.
The best thing about fahrenheit is that you can count how many chirps a cricket makes in 14 seconds, add 40, and that's the temperature.
you know it's a chilly day when the cricket chirps -20 times
Actually the best thing about fahrenheit is that you appreciate more the Celcius 😂
@user-ow6oj4bw8s celcius sucks though you europoor
Also, way more precise, people give it crap, but it's way better for temperature than Celsius
@@frenchfry1479huh?
You forgot American octane rating for petrol. It’s absolute lunacy. The rest of the world either uses RON or MON system. But Americans decided to use (RON + MON)/2 as a unit of measurement. Imagine inventing a new system of length measurement that uses (cm + inch)/2 as its unit. This is just pure attention seeking behaviour.
Personally, I use "Handfulls" for volume; "Bloody Freezin'" to "Effin' swelterin'" for temperature; and "About This Much" for length.
Works for me! 😎👍
America:
"Write that down!"
please build a rocket, carpet a floor, bake bread, check for a fever etc.
@@stm7810
Build a rocket? : Paper fins, Coca Cola in a bottle, an aspirin and quick reactions are all that's needed.
Carpet a floor? : Get a bit of carpet slightly bigger than the floor, put the carpet on the floor and cut off the bits you don't want.
Check for fever? : Place hand on forehead and if it feels "Effin Swelterin" it's a fever and if it feels "Bloody Freezin" it's a chill.
Etc., etc., etc. 😎👍
@@stm7810 If you want a more powerful rocket, you could always invest in a full acetylene cylinder and knock the valve off with a sledge hammer BUT :-
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. 🤯>🤕
About yay high
as someone who grew up with metric and more importantly Celsius, hearing someone talk about temperature and saying "60 degrees" - "100 degrees" gives me a whiplash until i remember Fahrenheit exists
Growing up on Fahrenheit, celsius still confuses me. I'm just used to gauging it based on 100 and not between 0 and 40. I use it for calculations all the time but in terms of human comfort it makes zero sense unless you grew up with it. I get our measurements are dumb but Fahrenheit is the one I can make the most sense with
Fahrenheit imo is better to use for daily life. 98 degrees is good. 100 is fever. 104 is emergency room. 105 your body stops regulating temperature. But science, Celsius is better
@@aceystar1478 no because its easyer to calculate science and it makes no sense to have 2
@tombraendle7156 celsius does not make science easier. Kelvin and rankine do. We only use celsius because it's already integrated into your other units if Fahrenheit hadve been used it would all be the same
@@aceystar1478 Having the triple point of water being at 0 degrees does kinda make a difference
How stupidly you want to measure?
USA: YES!
The fact that there are three "ton"s (long ton, 2240 lbs; short ton, 2000lbs; metric ton, 1000 kg) that are actively used in the world gives me an aneurism.
That only proves you have a serious medical problem that needs prompt attention. In the USA, hardly anybody is bothered by this at all. If someone's work involves commodities shipped internationally, the unit is the Metric ton. For other purposes, "ton" means the short ton, but that is rarely used. For everyday purposes, we use pounds. Engineers dealing with large weights and forces might use kips (1000 lbs).
As someone who doesn't use the US units system i completely agree, apart from the fact that all of them were supposed to go in F
Fair enough haha
As someone who does use US units, I agree. Except Fahrenheit. I like that it's more granular than Celsius.
Nah Fahrenheit is definetly not F tier. Its obvously FF. The "F*ck Fahrenheit" tier.
tbf, fahrenheit isnt THAT bad. i mean it is, but speaking from what my friends told me, you get used to it. It seems a bit more convenient to use in day-to-day life according to them. Therefore, it should be in E tier. right between D and F
@@StarfoxHUNFahrenheit is better than Celsius for daily use
As someone who grew up with the international unit system, every single unit in this video and its logic made me rage
lmao cope commie
The spoons and cup are actually pretty handy when cooking. I live in an metric country, but imperial units for homecooking is agodsend for trying out recipes quickly and lessening dishes.
It quickly shows approximates. Add 2 tablespoon of honey is much easier to visualize vs add 40ml of honey or 50 grams of honey is hard.
I know Regular eating tablespoon are smaller than measuring table spoons but thats kay because I can always add ingredients to what im cooking after a quick taste.
The quarts/pint/gallon suck though.
@@jakkankput horsepower and food measurements aside, the others suck
Fahrenheit is a good way to measure temperature outside of scientific settings.
@@Gtx-ij9ffonly if you’re used to it
At school in the early 60s we had whole maths exercise books devoted to calculations in poles, perches, rods, fathoms, reams, scores, dozens, leagues, as well as the more obvious inches, feet, yards, miles and so on. No calculators of course, just log tables and slide rules. Big relief when taught the SI / MKS system in physics 10 years later and calculators arrived.
This sounds like the teacher at the beginning of a Brick in the Wall… “an acre is an area of land whose length is 1 furlong and whose width is 1 chain”
at some points even Europeans use imperial measurements, every backer know, i wand a 1,5kg bread if i order a 3 pount bread, or one dozen eggs, Zentner for 100 pount or 50kg is also still in use. at least from older people
Imperial measurements built the world and won two world wars ,and got to the moon and back.Roman empire ,British empire and USA built on Imperial,original and best!
Wow, that's a lot of gobbledegook just to measur meters, kilometers (aka a thousand meters) and centimeters (aka a hundredth of a meter)! 🤯
@@LRM12o8 Tell that to the Americans. They still use imperial units in engineering (although not science I believe).
I lost it with the slug measurement 😂😂😂
When I worked in the USA as an engineer in the marine industry, I used to do all my calculations in SI units (metric) and convert to US Customary units (Imperial) at the end. All of the conversion factors you need in the US system are insane.
I worked as an exchange student from Europe back in 84. I had the same experience. They all told me it was less work to do so and less prone to mistakes.
Horsepower pisses me off the most since we already use Watts for electronics
Why do metric system users quote weights in kilograms instead of newtons?
@@m14speeder Because the kg is one of the 7 SI units. It's official.
@@astranger448 kg is a unit of mass not force even if it is official.
The fact that he was practically dissing the entire system was hilarious
not enough though. I mean non of these are anything other than F tier.
With miles he did not even Mention that there are other length called miles and this is the stupid one.
It’s not the units that are the problem, it’s the fact that they don’t relate to each other. In the SI system all units derive from basic units for time, mass, length, charge, etc. and all go up in factors of 10^3, so it aligns with our decimal number system.
@@Tailspin80 that is one problem. The other big one is, that for all of these Units there are countless other units with the same names, but slightly different meanings.
Well there is nothing not to dis about it, so
@@MusikCassette True. US gallon vs Imperial gallon being one.
1:20 For my fellow Celsius users, 212°F is the boiling point, or in other words, 100°C
Gee it's almost like Imperial is a convoluted mess of completely arbitrary measurements that came about at different points in time and were forced to kinda sorta work together. If only there was a simpler, more cohesive system with simple conversions, based around the decimal system, with base measurements defined with universal constants...
this video is gonna have to go in F for forgetting about the most important american unit, the football field
Its a metric measurement. 100 meters is a football field.
@@deltalima6703 shhhhh they dont know that
@@deltalima6703an American football field is 109meters
@@antonyslaughter because ofcourse it is
But what about bald eagles per glazed doughnut?
I worked in Saudi Arabia for a long time. We got a new employee who was American. He needed a bathroom scale and was happy to see that the digital scale he bought had a switch to change between metric and imperial. The next day at work he asked, "What's a stone?"
This was my question too,when I got my new bathroom scale in Hungary. I soon found the switch.
A stone is the thing you stumble upon because you were trying to measure some distance by looking at your feet while walking. "Pound" is the noise you make when you fall. Then you're free to get your blood back in spoons. Tablespoons are better because you finish your work three times faster than with teaspoons. It all makes perfect sense.
A stone is a really weird unit of weight measurement.
@@RufianEmbozadoif you manage to trip while looking down, you’ve got some serious problems
It is about 6.3kgs. Im from Eastern Europe but live in the UK. Here it's commonly used, but as far as I can tell almost exclusively to measure bodyweight.
Now do the civilized world and put all metric units in S-tier please.
You seem to have missed the ridiculous fact that POUND is abbreviated LBS, where 3 letters out of the 3 don't even appear in the word "POUND"
LB is for "libra" - Latin for 'pound'.
@@arthurcrown3063 Indeed, I have forgotten that a couple times. But why the "s" ? - the latin plural is definitely not *libras and measurement units should never have plurals written anyway :)
the s sneaked in ...@@ZopcsakFeri
@@ZopcsakFeriprobably someone made a typo that stuck. They wrote LBS all capital and because to an English speaker that’s just a random string of letters anyways they just thought that that was the shortening
Most people: Rules of Thumb are supposed to be easy.
American electricians: „The 39th root of 92 is approximately 2 if you raise it to the power of 6“
Of or if?
Believe me, I was ready for *some* shit, but I was not ready for *that* shit!
Put it into Desmos: It actually ends up being approximately just 1. Still pretty cool! 92^(1/36)^6
And even then I don't understand why they didn't just simplify the power to (92)^(2/13)
@@Flashzap15not 1/36 but 1/39
In Sweden, *the* cookbook for generations was "Our Cookbook", which was published alongside the launch of a standardized set of kitchen measures. The teaspoon was standardized at 5ml and the tablespoon at 15ml, and the book used half or full deciliters for most other measurements. So in Sweden, we do use teaspoons and tablespoons, but not cups, and those are standardized to specific metric measurements.
Luckily the table spoon measures I’ve got in my home have their liter conversion engraved haha
1dL is 5/12 of a cup , 0.5dL is 5/24 of a cup (1 cup is 240mL)
Even in France, home of metric system, we still use teaspoon/tablespoon for cooking.
The only difference is that we NEVER use them for critical ingredients, but only for side/preference-related things... For example, "Fry it in a tablespoon oil", "Add a teaspoon of XXXX flavor", "Add one to three tablespoon of sugar according to your preferences", and so on. And, in fact, we never use a real spoon to "measure" that, we add the approximative quantity because it IS approximative.
For everything else, metric system is the one and only rule, but there is also no house without proper measurement tools in the kitchen (precision scale and measuring glass mostly), and/or ingredients sold in convenient packaging (100g, 250g, 500g, 1 kg). And yeah, there is recipes specifying "add 5 ml of oil", "add 15 ml of water" when it NEEDS to be precise.
Unfortenally rest of the world don't use standard teaspoons and table spoons as we do in Sweden, it's actually very convenient. The only anoyance is that tablespoons being 15 ml won't fit evenly in a deciliter. 50 ml is the same as 3 tablespoons and a teaspoon so rounding up to 50 ml is usually fine if you are trippling a recipe. Using a scale is slow compared to mesuring cups, for example pancakes: 6 decliters milk, 3 dl milk, 3 dl flour and a teaspoon of salt is a very easy recipe to remember and messure.
@@SkepticalCaveman actually reading the comments I came to the conclusion that at least all Europe may still have this use. In Italy we also use pints (just for beers tho) (I don't think it's just Italy)
The roman mile actualy was 1000 double paces on the march of a legion. They had legionaires tasked with counting how many times their left (right?) foot stroke the ground.
Thing about teaspoon and tablespoon in Germany is they refer to the literal implements. Not since separate special measuring spoon.
If i need a teaspoon of a spice, I'll grab a literal teaspoon from my cutlery and just accept that teaspoons are not standardised in size because I'm already using an inaccurate way of measuring things
Well, i guess in casual cooking there are many things you can cook without specified amount of something :0
British: force their colonies to use the imperial system
Also British: Look at these absolute BUFFOONS using INCHES
Also British: This is Timothy. He weighs 5 stones, 3 cloves of garlic, and a tod.
As opposed to being 28 bananas tall in America.
Worked in Australia during the pre decimal days. Had to learn to count money in Pence, Hapenneys, Thrupence, Shillings. Florins,
Thrupppence, so on. Had to add columns of coins divided by 12 and 20. Took a bit to get used to then came change over to decimal with two legal currencies running side by side for a time. Ran into the same thing in Ireland and Germany with the Euro conversion.
Let's also not forget the old British money system. That scale to weigh Timothy cost 1 pound, 3 shillings, 2 pence
Many (older) Brits still use imperial measures in casual day-to-day life. But we switch to metric when precision is important. And speed limits are still in miles per hour...
Now, when US are no longer forced to use those stupid British units, it's time to change to metric, right? Right?..
What makes wire guage even more confusing is that in the trades we dont call 000 wire "zero zero zero"
We call it "triple aught"
It means triple naught. But americans just love being lazy and getting rid of random letters. Brits too, for that matter. Or should I say ma'er.
That shouldn’t make it confusing, aught literally means 0 like the Canadians saying zed for Z.
A “30 aught 6” is a .30 caliber round developed in 1906.
And gauge makes more sense in shotguns when you understand how it’s derived. A 12 guage shotgun has a barrel diameter that a sphere of lead the diameter of the barrel would weigh 1/12 pound. The smaller the diameter the more spheres would be required to make a pound. Hence a 20 gauge requires 20 balls
Where as shot sizes inside a shotgun shell are also a number system that gets bigger as the numbers get smaller.
But Phillips screwdrivers get smaller with number. Ph 3 down to a Ph0000 most common is a ph2 though.
"48,000 slugs in a slug". Thank you for resting my curiosity. It was all i could think of. I was gonna paus the video. BUT I didn't need to :)
To be honest, I do admire Americans, being able to use such an inconsistent measurement system with ease is remarkable.
Edit: based on some of the replies it seems that my assumption is wrong, I assumed Americans used the imperial system with eases because, well, they've been using it since birth, something you're used to should be easy for you. In that regard I'll make a rectification: I do admire the Americans persistence to use an inconsistent measurement system despite having the option to switch to a consistent one.
Issue is we don’t use it with ease
If we used it with ease there would be one more lander on mars
It does mean we are good with fractions.
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@@bromanned7069a lot of us do though, and I can guess a 12 inch measurement within 1/2 and inch, usually closer. Personally I love the imperial system but I know I'm one of very few people who actually likes the imperial system
What is even crazier is that back in the old days, every European country - often even different cities in the same country - had their OWN version of the foot and inch, and other units. It was always 12 inches to the foot, but the length of a foot varied by up to 10cm! The shortest was around 25cm while the largest "foot" was over 35cm. It just so happens that America adopted what was the British Standard at the time.
This variance, combined with the growth of industrialization is, I suspect, part of the reason Europe embraced the metric system so quickly and thoroughly. It would be VERY difficult to have mass production when, say, ½" bolts from a factory in Hamburg are a totally different size from the ½" threading press you got from Berlin, and neither match the ½" nuts you ordered from Dresden.
Meanwhile, the US had settled on the UK Imperial standards throughout, and its industrial revolution was much more self-sufficient and self-contained. Without a pressing need for a new unifying standard, there was little incentive for US industry to convert to a new system.
This is my hypothesis, anyway.
Germany went metric the year after it was finally created in 1871. It was rather late to the party, but then again, it didn't exist before 1871, and parts of what became Germany went metric before that.
As to the US and their bastard version of imperial: two factors that play a big role (in addition to what you and others said, industrial laziness and inertia surely are important contributors) are American Exceptionalism and Tradition; the US is so young, they cherish every tiny little tradition they do have, even when they routinely claim to want to abolish one, like, for instance, the Electoral College.
Napoleon imposed the metric system (created in France) in France and conquered lands (and its civil code still used by many countries), the old units came back after his loss but still it was a standardized unit in every sectors which help in trades and science...so it took over the old units which varied from places to places, easier to have the same units in rotterdam and Madrid for trades and industries.
I recommand to check the channel Machine Thinking.
There are top quality videos on thr history of precision manufacturing.
And how the "Swedish Metric Inch" for US export of precision measurement tools was adopted by Ford and forced on the US auto industry. And then during WW2, the US auto industry forced it in all war related companies. It's only after WW2 that the entire US adopted it.
They are Just stunborn, the British and even nasa are using the metric sistem
So what actually happened is throughout the 18th century there has been talks about creating a unified system of units to solve that exact problem
Britain was the first country to ratify a national standardised system (the Imperial System)
During the French Revolution, the newly minted government used the works of all the European Scientists that talked about a universal system, and created the metric system
It came into law shortly after
The Napoleonic campaigns had Napoleon impose the metric system on the conquered lands and it thus became more and more popular throughout the european colonial empires and thus the world
For more than a half of them, I didn't note of their existence even.
I love the end. “Used in cooking quite intuitive… I hate them all.” 😅 I love our metric system 😂
This is great.
The only thing more confusing than the American units of measurement is the Canadian version.
We're technically metric, but good luck finding a tape measure that isn't in inches. For cooking, we use cups, tsp and tbsp, but also ml and litres. We drive in km/h but measure power in hp.
Great system right?
Also we use both day month year and month day year when writing dates
everyone uses hp to measure power
It's the same in Europe, except for the tape measure part. Ours usually have both inches and centimeters or just centimeters
@@sintenklaasthat's literally only car nerds
@@PUNROTUTORIALSaboyou actually have to look for any mesuring tool in inches or any imperial unit
At least that's the case in Germany
A few things though are always in inches for some reason
Like screen sizes and bicycle tires
I bake a lot. I'm from Europe and as any respectable baker I use a scale on a daily basis. Sometimes I base my recipes on American ones, and the most mind-boggling measurement I've ever seen was cups of cold butter. Idk how anyone would ever think of measuring solid butter that way, but I'm guessing their baked goods were hardly any good anyway so accurate measurements were the least of their concerns. Just so you know, professional bakers weight their ingredients with a scale, even if they're based in the US, and it's a waste of time, money and water to measure your ingredients by volume. You gotta wash the utensils afterwards so just buy a freaking scale.
The sticks of butter come marked. You cut off what you need. I was also taught that you can fill a 2 cup glass measurig cup with one cup of cold water and submerge butter or shortning in it until the level gets to two cups.
Well, besides that "professional" butter sticks in Europe are marked too, the standard 250gr package divided into five 50gr stripes AKA sticks isn’t really rocket science and can easily eyeballed.
@agn855 A cup of butter is less than 250g. Your arrogance in asserting that their complaints are unfounded is fallacious.
Literally don't know what you're talking about. Are you talking about marking on the butter sticks? Because it's simple to use. Sure weighing stuff is nice but if your recipe is so sensitive that 1 gram off ruins it its not a good recipe. I'm not busting out the scale for 1/4 tsp of nutmeg. Unless I'm baking baking volume works just fine
@aceystar1478 we don't have butter sticks in Europe. Our butter is 250g, divided into 50g increments. A cup is 220g. That's enough for baking to be noticeably charged.
Humorous and informative. Thank you
A cool thing in many pre or renaissance building is the use of "hands" for measurements. Aproximately 22cm and 6 of them make a "stick". Most doors would be 2 sticks in height and 1 in width, creating a sort of canon for traditional european architecture practice
As a European, I have a soft spot for teaspoons and tablespoons, and we use it a lot when cooking. A teaspoon is 5 ml, a tablespoon is 15 ml.
Depends on where in Europe you live and if there's forced standardization for tea/table spoons. I can look into my kitchen drawers and find 4 different size teaspoons and like 6 different size tablespoons. So if I find a recipe that only gives ingredient amounts in tea/table spoons I'll just chalk the author up as an idiot and ignore it's existence.
@@Jack_Rakan You can buy measuring spoons in IKEA and I'd assume more places which come with a standard set of tea- and tablespoons (which are standardized to 5 and 15 ml, respectively)
@@TheMrMe1 Yeah, no thanks, I'm not going out of my way to buy something I don't need just because some ass-backwards idiots don't want to use a logical system over their retarded one, and use that for cooking recipes.
@@TheMrMe1or you know, just specify what amount it is. Imagine a guide giving lengths where to mix in metric foot (30 cm) and metre. That's what it is having a recipe that gives me units in litre and spoons. We shouldn't have a different name for a unit like this.
Also tablespoons are 20 ml in Australia, so international recipes is a mess.
@@Jack_Rakan Cooking measures use measuring spoons, not whatever random spoons you find in your cutlery drawer. Although even there there's a difference: an international teaspoon is 5ml (giving a tablespoon of 15ml, except in Australia where it's 20 for some reason), but an American teaspoon is actually slightly less than 4.93 ml
The fact that you need to create a unit to define when you divide 1 by 1 should tell you everything you need to know about the US customary units
Oh, you mean like the Coulomb?
@@pa28cfiCharge isnt a Fundamental Quantity. Current is. So it makes sense that Coulomb would be defined in terms of Currwnt and Time.
Also Curr. and Charge are different, versatile, and widely used enough that they should have their own seperate units.
Ij terms of Slugs on the other hand there is no such reasoning or defence. Mass is possibly the most fundamental and basic quantity out there. And if you still need to define it in terms of one hyper specific unit acting on another hyperspecific unit, then yeah idl what to say after that.
Hope this helped clear things up 😊❤
Some of these (BTU, Slug, Rankine, Thou) are metric units redefined with imperial units instead. A calorie is the energy needed to raise one litre of water by one degree C, exactly like the BTU's "energy needed to raise one pound by one degree F".
Dude a Newton is defined by multiplying 1 by 1; it’s not any better
@@yaakovborovoi5905 but thing is you can just between those easily, that 1 gram takes up 1 cc of space is 1mL and the same mass as a mole of hydrogen.
"I am 6 slugs"
"In mass?"
"In a trenchcoat"
Love that you have the wire gauge in there. In metric the sizing of wires is done by the cross sectional area in mm² but for really small stuff the diameter is used, as to not have it be 0,000001mm2 but 0.001mm
and anything in the US above 4/0 size is measured in circular mils - which is the diameter of the wire in thousandths of an inch, squared.
Another less-known unit is used when manufacutring PCBs in electronics: The height of copper in a layer is measured in Oz (mass). The reason is that you assume the mass of copper to be spread over a square foot, resulting in a height of copper. Mass is used to describe a height. S E R I O U S L Y.
Paper is a bit similar.
Galvanized steel (zinc plated) is the same, but in metric: height is in grams per square meter
similar to yards suddenly being a volume of dirt or similar material
look at how AWG is measured. Pulling a piece of copper from a certain length to another certain length, and having your unit of measurement be how often it has been pulled by that much.
Sounds like shotgun gauges. How many balls the diametr of the barrel you can make out of a pound of lead. Basically mass is used to measure distance (diameter).
US Measurement System is kinda weird. First of all, I've been using this system my entire life. The moment I started doing research in college everything switched over to the metric system. For example, if I'm working on a project that will be published specifically to a group of americans, I must use "american units" (that is what my advisor calls it), but if its being published to a journal, it must be in metric units. To make it even stranger, the default measurement units in most geographic information systems (which are mostly american made) are programmed in metric units and it confuses a lot of students who are using these systems for the first time.
As someone not in America, watching and reading educational content and shows also confused me alot for using those systems, it straight up build no knowledge and framework about how strong a tiger bite is or how fast a baseball can be thrown, such a big waste to everybody's time
They brought this confusion to the hospital. Surgical needles and wires are also have an inverted measurement.
I despise the cooking units such as teaspoon so you putting them all in F brought me so much joy
Cups, teaspoons and tablespoons made a ton of sense in a time where scales were these humongous things that took counterweights and had questionable accuracy at best. But that was then, and these days everyone has measuring cups and digital scale sitting in their kitchen. So just use normal units already!
As a Canadian, I give Fahrenheit - F minus grade. The lack of effort to have these number mean anything, is ridiculous. A brine of water?!... how much salt was used in how much water? No body knows. Probably not even measured... let alone in (f minus )oz.
As an American who started learning wiring at the age of 5 or so using those "snap circuit" things, I learned AWG at like 8 years old and was very confused by the inverse proportionality of it.
It reminds me of paper sizes where a5 is half the size of a4, a6 is half the size of a5 etc, so I'm inclined to give it a pass.
It's not really an inverse proportionality. It is a negative logarithmic scale.
Incremental differences in gauge sizes, are multiplicative changes in the size of the wire.
@@carultch You know what I meant to say
Gauge is a weird unit in general, it’s the same deal with shotguns. A 12 gauge is bigger than a 20 gauge, and this is used all over the world
Gotta love those snap electronic kits!
The teaspoon and tablespoon measurements are probably the most useful if you have nothing in your kitchen to measure small quantities with, and in cooking a little bit too much sugar or salt for example wouldn't be all that bad, however if you're asked to put in one eighth of a teaspoon of a very powerful spice, you're better off using your hand instead.
Recipes using volumetric measures like cups and spoons are scaleable. As a result, as long as you are consistent in the ratios it does not matter what base volume you use, you could use buckets and half buckets for catering purposes and it would still be following the recipe.
@@martinconnelly1473 yes but if you instead used a scale and a cup with measurements in Metric .... You could use exactly the same amount of ingredients every single time you make the same thing, nobody eats the same thing everyday so it's only natural to forget the amount you used last time if you're using spoons and teaspoons and it might actually affect the taste, being inconsistent while cooking is bad, this is how you end up with inedible stuff on your plate, that being said you really don't have to he all that accurate if you're just cooking for yourself, nobody's gonna judge you and say "it's not as tasty as last time..."
@@martinconnelly1473 That doesn't work with teaspoons and measuring in volumes is a stupid idea anyway, despite the differences at certain temperatures, try measuring a cup of Butter. Or replacing normal sugar/salt with finer or coarser grained one.
You better have something to measure if you want to cook !
Not every spoon are the same size , and inside the same spoon you can put Different measurement of product !
Just buy ONE KITCHEN SCALE , then you can measure every thing .
1/2 a teaspoon , a 1/4 cup , God damn that's horrible when you wanna cook .
That doesnt make any sense , It belongs in the "Z" tiers .
@@outdooropaholger9998two sticks. Butter here comes in eight tablespoon (half cup$ sticks.
What? Not gona mention the cubit? Very useful for quick approximation of the size of items as everyone has the ruler for it.
Im really impressed you found some reason to put them higher then F 😂
3:06 There are currently 3 different tons used in the USA.
There is the short ton of 2000lbs which everybody uses, the metric ton which is used in food production like the annual wheat harvest and the long ton of 2240lbs which is used by the navy to measure the size of ships.
7:52 this is literally how the whole world except USA measure things lmao
That was the joke.
One good use for the Inch is in welding, measure the thickness in inchs then set your welders amps to that as a starting point. Great video
I was born and raised in a metric system, so the imperial system is looks like something from the medieval ages to me.
You're not wrong. They are medieval ages.
As a former fridge and air con technician it warms my cold heart (pun intended), that ton of refrigeration is included on this list. For the freedom unit impaired it's equal to about 3.5kW of cooling capacity.
And staying close to my former trade I'd like to add one more unit: grains. Which is used to measure absolute humidity in air conditioning. Because of course it is, it just makes sense (1 grain is 1/7000th of a pound by the way).
Ah, yes.
But of course.
Elementar, really.
With freedom units you mean the units that the empire forced upon its colonies?
You were formerly a fridge? 😬
Am I wrong or are grains used for gunpowder measurement as well?
@Ikreisrond US American HVAC technicians do to measure the amount of water vapour/humidity in the air. Don't ask me why they don't use fractional ounces or maybe drams (16 drams is an ounce). In metric countries we use gramms for the same (about 15 grains is one gramm).
As an engineer my absolute favorite imperial unit is kip - which stands for kilopound-force over square inch. Yes, this is an actual unit in common use.
And a pint has an advantage. In the metric side of the world, a large beer is usually 0.5L, which is less than a pint. So you get more beer.
I would like to point out that you are using English Imperial Pints not US customary pints which are smaller at 0.47 pints per litre. No source of confusion there then 🤥
@@martinconnelly1473 good point! UK pint is where you get more beer, not with the US pint though!
The Imperial pint is actually a bit of a screw-up, to be honest. When Parliament revised the measures in the 1820s they (smartly) set the definition of a fluid ounce such that that quantity of water weighed an ounce. Had they stopped there, it would have followed that a pint of water would weigh a pound as there were formally 16 ounces to both the pint and the pound. But oh no, they had to sort-of half-assedly get on the decimal bandwagon and set things such that an Imperial gallon of water would weigh 10 pounds and then backed that out through the rest of the units so we ended up with bonkers 20 ounce pints, pints that are also 2½ cups rather than the 2 cups they are in the US.
That’s kpsi, one Kip per square inch. A kip is a thousand pounds of force.
Why would anyone drink beer when their girlfriends piss is free and tastes slightly less bad?
As an European and electronics engineer working with and us company, I hate gauges SO FRICKING MUCH. Even more so as a person with stretched ears because someone thought using gauges as a measurement for ear plugs is a great idea even though you need like half millimeters to a millimeter increments.
I kinda like Fahrenheit, because 0 F is about how cold usually winters are here and 100 F is a temperature of a very hot summer.
I find particularly cooking cups system user friendly, because it suggest standard size for cooking appliances, and producers follow it making it standartized.
Just to make things awkward, when Australia converted to the Metric system it was decreed that the tablespoon would be 20ml or four teaspoons unlike the 15ml measure used elsewhere.
mfers try to use "every measurement should have different conversion method" in metric
Yes but it really doesn't make any difference in cooking recipes. I think a lot of tablespoons are 15g anyways.
7:57 since i live in Australia i can truly appreciate this joke since i use metric everyday
I'm guessing metric would have been a short video as we have two basic measurements the gram and metre and everything else is derived from them. As a Brit it's weird how we cling to the old imperial measurements for some things, Like roads are mostly done in miles and miles per hour. We measure people and milk in both metric and imperial.
Fahrenheit is the most infuriating to me because the metric equivalent makes so much sense and is so insanely easy to define / measure
A funny thing is, that we use a few units with similar names in Germany as well, but with different definitions: One German pound is exactly half of a kilogram. A German tablespoon (Esslöffel) is a very unprecise measurement, were you just get a regular spoon and use whatever size it has. Just slightly above not measuring at all, so you have at least some consistency. The same for tea spoons (Teelöffel). German horse power (Pferdestärke) is also defined differently using metric values and a horse. This is still used to advertise cars, because people are used to them.
The German mile (7532,5m) (also known as the Prussian mile) hasn't been used for centuries. The same for the German geographical mile (7420,44m) (1/15 of a equatorial degree). The last German mile, that was used, was exactly 7500m=7,5km. Fun fact: In Europe the different definitions of miles ranged from 1,5km up to 11km.
Imperial units differ between Britain and America.
long ton, metric ton, short ton, ....
Diversity makes life exciting!
I've never even heard of the german mile while living my whole life in germany
"Fun fact: In Europe the different definitions of miles ranged from 1,5km up to 11km."
Nope, the Dutch mile (1816-1870) was 1 km by definition.
@@ThW5 Dutch stepping short?
@@peterebel7899 Not really, the Netherlands were rather early with going fully metric, but re-used old names for the new units, so the kilometer became the "mijl", the centimeter "duim", the kilogram "pond", "aas" for miligram and so on... Most of those uses have been forgotten but some, especially "ons" for hectogram and "bunder" for hectare are still used somewhat.
I'm glad I live in a metric using nation. For the record, US imperial measurements are now based off of a conversation from metric system. IE 1 inch is 25.4 millimetres and 1 foot is 305 millimetres :-)
Wrong on the foot. The foot, being defined as 12 inches, is of course 304.8 mm.
@Does it matter? The US Measurement System is shit either way
the US purposefully kept its measurement system so that other countries wouldn't get too jealous of the US, since we're better at everything else
I love how you made a video absolutely roasting the imperial system that was also one of the most comprehensive explanations of it that I've seen! Great work!!
The US has never used the British Imperial system.
As much I love the humour/reality of this video, there’s also some practical reasons explained why certain units of measure were selected and I found that interesting.
Btw, if we look how certain metric units are defined, they are totally arbitrary from users perspective. In fact backwards-defined. First they had a reference object, then someone found a way to define it with some natural phenomenom.
Tier ranking of the SI units?
Every SI must be above US units, though I got ur point and maybe meter should below gram or celcius
OMG so based, I'm studying for a fluid mechanics midterm in CANADA where we use BOTH imperial and metric (kill me). I have had to use almost all of these in my calculation (including the loathsome slugs) and I can confirm, they're all F tier
come to europe, we have cookies. But for real im sory
@ibag3621 which country do you recommend? I'm planning on doing an exchange program/year abroad
Slugs are far superior to lbm and i shall die on this hill
@@Zoltan00 For engineering? Germany of course.
But you can just make a list: unit*factor=metric unit to replace in equations.
6:40 "can EASILY converted to any other unit of length"
**continues to drop random numbers**
MM/DD/YYYY is the worst, sneaking it in because it's a measurement of time. It fails because (1) it's completely arbitrary and (2) there are no units, resulting in a whole collection of dates where you just can't know which system they're using.
The reason for it is probably due to how US citizens often say dates: March 8th, 2022. You can of course say: The 8th of March, 2022 to get to DD/MM/YYYY, but most would say the first one.
But for anything being used internationally just use YYYY/MM/DD it's more reliable and sorts well in computer systems.
what makes part of them even more confusing is the US and Imperial version being different as well
Cups and spoons work well enough in cooking where the margin of error is quite loose, however when you start to bake it all falls appart.
What I really hate about the cooking measurements is that all those measurements are really hard to measure exactly unless you're actually using the device the unit is named after.
And converting them to exact and universal measurements like grams or liters is difficult, because the conversion ratio is dependent on the ingredient.
Here's an example (using "kitchen-grade accuracy"):
1 tbsp of flour is around 8 grams.
1 tbsp of water is 15 grams (aka 15 ml, g = ml for water).
1 tbsp of honey is 21 grams.
So if a recipe is using imperial units and asks you to add "2 tablespoons of honey", you actually have to use a tablespoon, squeeze the honey on there before mixing it in, making another piece of equipment dirty, and because honey is sticky, you can't really reset your measuring device to a neutral "0" (i.e. empty the spoon for the second scoop).
With "40g" on the other hand, you can simply tare the scale, and then squeeze the honey directly into the mixing bowl until it says "40g". So much simpler, cleaner, and more accurate.
Yes. It's just that in the past we didn't have kitchen scales so had to use sth else.
I have never seen anyone use a kitchen scale in the US. Nor have I ever seen a US cookbook which gave the weight of ingredients other than meat and pasta.
No, we had kichen scales, they just weren't digital. @@LibraryofAcousticMagic3240
You have sold me. I'm getting a kitchen scale.
and if you squeeze too hard, how do you get the excess honey out? and note that you are still using a device to measure.
as for the honey, fill your measuring spoon, wipe it out with the stirring tool, fill it again. it's not rocket science.
Interesting and hillarious, thanks
I love how volume and mass measures' rating is nothing about the actual disasters they are and just based on the fact that it'd be different in some other place in the universe which is oh so important in day-to-day life and which is also the problem for the beloved metric kilogram and cubic metre units which also have their force counterpart.
7:12: Unfortunately, blood pressure is measured in mmHg, not inches Hg.
I don't know why the imperial system had so much impact on medicin that its still in use :
-Blood pressure : mmHg, not bar or pascal, or kg/m2
-Needle size : Gauge, not mm or micrometers
-Suture string resistance : Some weird unnamed unit similar to gauge based on how many parallel strings are required to resist 1/2 lbf, not newtons.
@pierrevilley6675 ... but mmHg isn't imperial, the mm there is literally "milimeter"
@@merbudd mmHg is also called Torr, after Evangelista Torricelli, the inventor of the mercury barometer. Indeed, very imperial.
@@merbudd yeah, my mistake, but it is still a shitty idea to mesure a pressure in liquid head height for medicin applications, especially when the liquid isn't even water. Bars would be much better.
This video is correct and i aint even watched it yet because i trust in you not to fail me 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hopefully I don't disappoint you haha
I would put the volume units at the end in C-tier. I prefer using those in cooking and baking over the metric system because I just have a set of "cups" each sized exactly to the respective units and its halves. I prefer filling a standardised cup with a liquid then trying to measure 240mL in a measuring cup
We absolutely Loved it mate!! Its confusing beautiful
The metric tonne is 2205lb, but there's also another imperial unit, the long ton, which is 2240lb.
We know
Diversity makes life exciting!
Bro making me pause the video 0:06 into it
Bro definitely likes it a bit too much
we, US, almost went total metric in the 70's or 80's. wish we had. it's so much simpler and more intuitive.
A very common response Americans make on this subject is that the imperial system is iNtUiTivE. Of course you feel it's intuitive because you grew up with it. Having grown up with the metric system I feel it's more intuitive than the chaotic mess that Americans are used to. Apart from the totally subjective intuitiveness thing, the metric system is objectively better facilitating easy calculation and conversion. Just get over with it already.
But here's the thing, I don't need to know the conversion factor from inches to miles, because no one does that conversion. Why does everyone on the internet think conversion is some kind of important necessity? I couldn't even tell you the last time I converted something not for a college class. It's just not a pressing issue.
The teaspoon and tablespoon are the only units that I like in all units of freedom. They are only the ones that work better than the metric system when you're adding seasoning to whatever you're making.
I still prefer scaling, as there's really no consistency in spoon sizes...
@@mateusfccp nah, using spoons is easier to clean up, easier to use, granular enough to be accurate, but general enough to be multipurpose. British bakers who have cooked with U(SA)nits before know it’s much easier but will never admit it. Similar to how I will never admit a kilometer makes more sense than a mile even tho it does (it doesn’t)
@@memyselfandi4109 yeah but winging it works pretty good too if the granularity of spoons is enough.
There are "spoons" in european cooking recipes too sometimes, but they actually refer to the real tea spoons and table spoons. And are known to be a rough estimation.
That said, i rarely cook something big enough to need spoons for the seasoning.
The amounts of seasoning i use are more in the ballpark of a "knifetip" or what the english language calls "pinch" or "dash". So not really something one would measure but guestimate.
@@memyselfandi4109imagine using miles lmaooo
A standardised size for Teaspoon and tablespoon are the only things that are good. Metric home baking is fun and logical, until it comes to measuring trace ingredients.
I am a chemist, but in college I tried out engineering. I was slammed by slugs, lb-f, lb-m, BTU, BTUs, etc etc. and it was the most chaotic infuriating piece of crap I’ve ever had to deal with. Why not just do things by metric already? It makes 1kilo% more sense! Anyway, I would never be an engineer in America for that reason. I’m sure I could eventually get all that conversion stuff, but it seems dumb considering there’s a better system out there.
AWG is still used today - It's placement is not representative of the fact that hobbyists, electricians, and engineers in the US use it. Despite the confusion around the number to physical size, it doesn't take long to get used to. I'd place it in B tier since It takes experience to understand it.
It also makes nice round numbers for the max amperage the wire can take.
it's also used in pretty much any other field that measures round things, including injection needles, and shotgun pellets.
When you mentioned thous you could’ve also brought up kips (kilopounds) which also conveniently use that decimal-place-shifting method that would’ve been such a nice system to use
Wikipedia's lack of listed creator for that unit has either saved a life or a grave today
But how does that compare to a short ton and a long ton
@@abattlescar 1 kip equals 1/2 of a short ton, or 25/56 of a long ton.
And exactly 45 359 237 / 100 000 000 of a metric ton. Just in case you were wondering.
Confusingly enough, a kip is closer to the weight of a Swampert than a Mudkip.
2:13 As an Arizona resident, 100 Fahrenheit is not uncomfortably hot.
A/C or outside? ;-)
As a former Arizona resident... I'd agree only because 110-120°F days existed which means 100°F days feel not as bad.
1:47 and yet 100⁰F (37.5⁰C) is considered fever
At that point it's more subjective than anything
you should also create a video explaining entire metric system where it is