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by snapcaster 700 days ago
You answered your own question in the comment? If you require two instances to memorize it that means you needed unit conversion twice in cooking
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Exactly. And given that there are probably 50 different common conversions you'll encounter in cooking, both between imperial units and between imperial and metric, not to mention common weight-vs-volume conversions of things like flour, good luck in not only memorizing them all but getting them exactly perfectly right every single time.

You mess up a single conversion and your finished baked goods go straight in the trash.

I do not understand how a voice assistant help with this, it has never worked for me. Seems like pretty hard things to do on the fly with recipes.

Weight to volume conversions are rare here but sure I do those on the fly so I guess it makes sense, do you really do you guys really do it that often? If you do extensive conversions of recipes you will need to get the ratios correct as well it is just not something I see myself doing with a voice assistant.

> I do not understand how a voice assistant help with this, it has never worked for me.

What do you mean it has never worked? What do you ask your assistant, and what does it respond?

> Seems like pretty hard things to do on the fly with recipes.

What's hard? I don't understand. If you need a quantity in unit x, but you only have a measuring cup or spoon in unit y, then you ask for the conversion and then you measure out that amount in unit y.

I genuinely don't understand the difficulties you seem to be encountering.

> do you really do you guys really do it that often?

Yes, literally all the time.

If I have a measuring cup that maxes at at one cup, and I need to add a pint of something to a pot on the stove, being able to say "Hey Jibble, how many cups are in a pint" and getting an answer would be pretty nifty.

As things stand, I walk over to the conversion chart hanging on the fridge.