Learn the metric system

I’m getting a bit better at this! As terrible as my math skills are, making it difficult for me to be able to convert certain measurements to another, I have been trying to use only metric measurements when cooking. Millilitres, decilitres and grammes, instead of pounds and ounces. And metres instead of feet. It’s getting easier to “visualise” those measurements now. The only thing I have great difficulty with still, is visualising kilometres and kilogrammes. I’m just far too used to miles and stones…..but, a little bit at a time….

I order things from over seas a lot and instead of relying on converters I want to just learn the system.

I don’t even know the imperial system that well….I just have terrible number skills.
But, the metric system does seem to make more sense. I think the hardest thing for me will be trying to get used to using kilometres, rather than miles. I don’t even know all the measurements used in either systems so perhaps I need to do a little more studying of them both….

It took me like two hours to learn the basics of the metric system and come up with enough “examples” to make it concrete. Interestingly, I realized in the course to studying the metric system that I really don’t even know the US system of measurement that well considering it’s supposedly what I know. I don’t know how many ounces are in a quart or quarts in a gallon or any of that.

I think this is a testament to the fact that the metric system is a much easier and more comprehensible system.

Seriously. What is up with all this feet and pounds and miles and gallons nonsense? Why can’t we Americans have something in a nice, elegant decimal system that’s consistent across multiple units of measurement? 12 inches in a foot? 5280 feet in a mile? What is this crap? I’ve had it. I’m not going to be some chump who only knows an arcane, nonsensical measurement system when 95% of the world uses the metric system.