Teaspoon measuring

[sanking]

I'm attaching the text of "Kitchen Tested Soups" in PDF form. If that works, I'll send the test photos in a couple of days.

I down loaded it with no problem. Looks, acts and quacks like any .pdf file.

But expect no glory from this. Rather, expect to get whacked firmly around the head by multiple parties and spend the next month defending what you wrote 20 years ago.

Sandy

[gainer]

I down loaded it with no problem. Looks, acts and quacks like any .pdf file.

But expect no glory from this. Rather, expect to get whacked firmly around the head by multiple parties and spend the next month defending what you wrote 20 years ago.

Sandy

Actually it was 36 years ago, but who's counting? I'm more than twice as old as I was then, and have defended papers that were much more controversial than this one. It's going to be fun, as photography should be when practised as a hobby. I don't recommend teaspoons for pros, but I'll bet some of them use them sometimes.

[Sirius Glass]

Actually it was 36 years ago, but who's counting? I'm more than twice as old as I was then, and have defended papers that were much more controversial than this one. It's going to be fun, as photography should be when practised as a hobby. I don't recommend teaspoons for pros, but I'll bet some of them use them sometimes.

I find that teaspoons work best for eating food and stirring hot drinks, but maybe that is just me.

Steve

[gainer]

I find that teaspoons work best for eating food and stirring hot drinks, but maybe that is just me.

Steve

Cold drinks too.
Remember that when I wrote that piece there was no such thing as a cheap digital scale. Even the balances for weighing gunpowder were expensive relative to an average paycheck. Most of those who could afford a good balance were either lab tecnicians or drug dealers, not government employees with a wife and six kids.

[Sirius Glass]

Cold drinks too.

Agree.

Remember that when I wrote that piece there was no such thing as a cheap digital scale. Even the balances for weighing gunpowder were expensive relative to an average paycheck. Most of those who could afford a good balance were either lab tecnicians or drug dealers, not government employees with a wife and six kids.

Understood. Even recently I started a thread on APUG about finding a reasonably priced scale and got no responses. Then several month later, under an unrelated topic a poster made an aside comment about having a low cost scale from eBay. I PMed him and he sent me the information that I needed. I ended up get a 100 gm and a 1kg scale. The postage and handling costs rivaled the coast of the purchase.

Steve

[Kirk Keyes]

I PMed him and he sent me the information that I needed. I ended up get a 100 gm and a 1kg scale. The postage and handling costs rivaled the coast of the purchase.

I hope they are working well for you. :^)

[Sirius Glass]

I hope they are working well for you. :^)

They do.

Steve

[Keith Tapscott.]

I'm attaching the text of "Kitchen Tested Soups" in PDF form. If that works, I'll send the test photos in a couple of days.

I have saved a copy of the PDF. Thanks Patrick.

[michaelbsc]

I have purchase several analog Ohaus scales used of of epay, never more than $15-20 including shipping. I know the electronic are easier to use but they will not last as long. I also would worry about accuracy with the cheap ones.

I wouldn't worry about them. In a previous life I ran a metrology service lab, and it is astonishing how good the stuff is in the sense of repeatability. While it is true that if you take a calibrated weight and put it on 10 different cheap as dirt scales you'll probably get 3 slightly different weights, but if you put it on the same scale over and over and over it's going to come out the same over and over and over.

In the arena of process control repeatability is significantly more important than measurement accuracy. If you want to "check" your scale, throw a clean coin of known weight on it. A US nickel weighs 5 grams unless it dirty or damaged. Is that traceable to national standards? No. Is it right? Yes. If you aren't in the US, then almost all modern coin currency has pretty precise known weights. Google is your friend. If you're in the US here, http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint...specifications, is an instant set of calibration standards to put your mind at ease.

If the cheap-o scale stops working, it will probably quit rather than drift. But now that you've got a set of known weights, you can check that yourself.

[Sirius Glass]

The cheap digital scales that I got on eBay came with 100g weights to check the calibration.

Who can say how accurate the weights are relate to the "real" 100g? But they all were within 0.1 gram of each other.

Steve