I was really hoping for a thread on the etiquette of emailing your grandmother.
I first read this as “embalming your grandmother.”
Well, the first rule is “be really, *really *sure she’s dead.”
Declan
October 26, 2010, 5:21am
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No idea
Looks like my problem was that a gallon is a gallon, but the liquid that fills the gallon will vary from substance to substance. So your gallon of whole milk and someone elses gallon of molten lead will give me different degrees of weight.
Had my blinkers on when remembering reading a passage in a book regarding fueling operations. Did’nt bother to even remember that weight of water =|= weight of kerosene.
And even then I was off by two pounds for kerosene.
Declan
From here, on the question of how many grams of creatine does a teaspoon weigh.
Answer
My measurements show that in actual standardized measures you use for cooking:
This was measured w/ GNC brand unflavored creatine monohydrate powder which is somewhat finer than table salt but coarser than protein powder. Scooped 10 tablespoons, weighed that and divided by 10. (repeated 2x )
Note for the unfamiliar that the utensil teaspoon (that you might eat cereal with) is generally a lot larger than the tsp measurement. An average teaspoon from my drawer filled to “rounded” (but not heaping) measured out to about 10g.
The instructions on the tub suggested that a 5g serving is “a heaping teaspoon”. That seems about right for a teaspoon MEASURE, but NOT for the utensil.
If this is correct, then it would be a little less than a teaspoon (measurement).
Tangent
October 26, 2010, 7:53am
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I keep hoping somewhere in one of these threads we’ll stumble upon what “14 k of g in a f p d” means.
Nava
October 26, 2010, 8:47am
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No, because the density of water (that is, the amount a cc of water weighs) varies with temperature.
(Pst, can we haz nested quotes back?)
WhyNot
October 26, 2010, 9:24am
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That’s really weird…where did my earlier reply go?
Eh, good enough for kitchen work, if not laboratory. 0.64 ounces difference. (18 grams. 280 grains. 0.003 stones. 10.24 drams. 11.67 pennyweight.)
Ale
October 26, 2010, 12:27pm
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WhyNot:
A gallon of milk will weigh between 8.63 (skim) and 8.6 (whole) pounds, by dairy industry standards. A gallon of water weighs in at 8 pounds, which we remember by that ditty “a pint’s a pound the world around.” (1 gallon = 8 pints)
I’m not sure what would weigh in at 4 pounds to the gallon. Oil, perhaps? Something considerably less dense than water. ETA: Ah, google, how I love thee. Pumice and some woods are almost exactly half the density of water. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen them in a gallon measurement, however.
This and the talk about gallons and fuel weight reminded me of a story I read in Air & Space magazine… ahh, here it is: Above & Beyond: Milk Run .
A good reminder of why you should keep your volumes, weights and densities in good order.
WhyNot:
A gallon of milk will weigh between 8.63 (skim) and 8.6 (whole) pounds, by dairy industry standards. A gallon of water weighs in at 8 pounds, which we remember by that ditty “a pint’s a pound the world around.” (1 gallon = 8 pints)
Except it’s only good enough for kitchen work in the US, not “the world around”.
In places that use the imperial system, you’d be out by 4 oz, which is a significant difference.
