It's entirely up to you - Nixanz

The units are whatever you want them to be. The application is designed for you to enter your recipes. It is up to you what units you decide to enter. Most (not all) of the sample recipes are metric, but those recipes are samples ONLY. The whole point is that you store your own recipes with the application (in your own recipe collection file).

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Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 01:41 PM PDT

Never Tried Yum, but I will. - Lickableunix

and when do I'll be sure to have my metric measuring capabilties ready before I try the Yum recipes. Thanks for the heads up on that count; sincerely.
However, fasten your seat belt because I'm about to flame you a little: I do not think it is fair for so few stars to be given on your observation.
So, here are a couple of quick points, far from a comprehensive argument:
1. Please realize that only 3 countries in the entire world: Liberia, Myanmar and the United States (according to my sources) have not adopted the metric system. I am a 10th generation American. I cry when they play the National Anthem at the World series, but that is largely because the greatest country in the world could be so much greater if we did not think the planet should revolve around the USA.
2. Among other things, I am a mechanic and a machinist. I work with multiples of 64ths and 128th of an inch very often: I know how it works, and I'll tell you right now: we are hurting ourselves as Americans by not adopting the metric system. One significant (of course not the most significant) reason we can't sell as many American made products to competing nations is that the inch, foot, yard, and mile system is inferior, confusing and un-needed. It makes our products less desirable. It's a deal breaker in many cases. (Pronounce it: "Our monumental trade deficit is adversly affecting our economy and YOUR long term financial security.") I'm looking out for YOU and YOUR financial security as an American when I take this time to inform you that you really should open your MIND a little bit every day. It is healthy. It's also easy once you start to do it more often.

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Monday, July 16 2007 @ 10:54 AM PDT

Supports any weight and measures you care for - ibjoshua

I'm not sure if Wheels06010 actually tried the application or not but it supports both metric and the antiquated US Imperial system, and for that matter anything else you want to add. I guess there is the chance that the developer missed out a few US abbreviations but as they're fully editable, you could add those that are missing. Just go into Preferences and click on the Units tab. This is a great piece of software. It does not require you to choose one system or the other, which means that you need not 'translate' recipes, they happily sit alongside each other. You can add as many abbreviations for a single measure as you like so that when cutting and pasting lists of ingredients from different sources they still work. For example, the pre-set mappings list for kilograms includes the following (editable) abbreviations "kg, k, kgm, kgrm, kgs, ks, kgms, kgrms", likewise the Imperial quart is mapped to "qrt, q, qt, qrts, qs, qts".

I'm guessing that Wheels06010 is either not a native English speaker or is just plain lazy. The former is forgivable and if that is the case then he/she should stop reading now. Laziness is, however, despicable. The web is full of people wasting our time but that still does not make it excusable. If the post was supposed to be a statement then it was either a lie or pure ignorance of the truth. If it was supposed to be a question then it should have been framed as such. i.e. "Does anyone know if this app supports US Imperial weights and measures?" 5.5 billion people use the metric system, writing "kg??" says quite a lot about your pathetic world view.

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Sunday, June 01 2008 @ 07:08 PM PDT