Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions
by tomn on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @06:33PM
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> American or British recipes
American or old British recipes; ours are all metric now.
The exception is perhaps teaspoons/tablespoons, but those are trivial metric values (5ml and 15ml), so easy enough to scale and convert if you don't have the right measuring spoon handy.
Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions
by emj on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:32AM
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That is probably it, never would have occurred to me. When doing international recipes doing a translation/conversion is not always straight forward. I cook a lot and often it becomes a investigation into the ingredients and what to replace rather than a simple conversion of units. Not something Alexa does.
And since that stuff isn't metric, orders-of-magnitude conversions (e.g. scaling a recipe up/down) become needlessly more complex as well.