How to measure an ounce?

[Andy M.]

I still vote for using two tablespoonfuls.

I agree. It's still the right answer.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

I vote that the US should adopt the metric system and then we wouldn't have all this tom-foolery.

How many stone do you weigh?

 

[roadfix]

I vote that the US should adopt the metric system and then we wouldn't have all this tom-foolery.

I agree

 

[taxlady]

Since a gallon(US) of water (128 Fluid oz.) weighs about 8 pounds (within 4%, close enough for government work, or humping a 6 gallon case - ~ 50 lbs of bottled water) an ounce of water weighs roughly 1 oz.(US)

Close enough. But it's not the weight (avoirdupois) ounces that are different; it's the fluid ounces that vary between US and Imperial. An Imperial fluid ounce weighs 1 ounce avoirdupois to several decimal places.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

The difference is 1.04. That's why my 28.3 wasn't 29.5. Or verse vica.

 

[FrankZ]

That's for an ounce of weight, not a fluid ounce.

Winner winner you can cook a chicken dinner!

 

[FrankZ]

Of water.

At 4C no less.

 

[CharlieD]

Of water.

You are corect, of course.

 

[CharlieD]

I vote that the US should adopt the metric system and then we wouldn't have all this tom-foolery.

How many stone do you weigh?

Plus 1!

 

[justplainbill]

I vote that the US should adopt the metric system and then we wouldn't have all this tom-foolery.

How many stone do you weigh?

I try to keep my weight down to that of one full US beer barrel filled with water (31 gallons).

 

[CWS4322]

My measuring spoons and cups have Imperial and metric on them. That means I can cook on both sides of the border.

 

[Andy M.]

I try to keep my weight down to that of one full US beer barrel filled with water (31 gallons).

Yeah, me too.

 

[justplainbill]

Yeah, me too.

Tough to do when one enjoys a wide variety of foods and has a spouse that thinks 4 ounces of dry pasta is a starvation ration. I've cut way back from my years-ago 7 ounces and it's looking like I'll have to cut all the way back to 2 ounces before achieving any weight loss.

 

[Andy M.]

Tough to do when one enjoys a wide variety of foods and has a spouse that thinks 4 ounces of dry pasta is a starvation ration. I've cut way back from my years-ago 7 ounces and it's looking like I'll have to cut all the way back to 2 ounces before achieving any weight loss.

SO and I share 6.6 ounces (half a package).

 

[Dawgluver]

SO and I share 6.6 ounces (half a package).

That's how we rock too.

I should mention that makes enough for leftovers for us the next day.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

I must be odd man out. I standardized my pasta serving at 2 oz. (dry weight) years ago. It's enough to satisfy me and there are never any leftovers to bother with. (And I've kept my weight under 10 stone too.)

I would cook more than that per person if I were having guests. Same concept as restaurants, don't want to send people away hungry.