Handy guide for estimating portion sizes

a year ago by DearMoogle to c/coolguides

radiantshackles 43 points a year ago

Americans will use anything but metric

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Bluefalcon 10 points a year ago

We use mm more than any other country. Just ask our school kids.

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chuckleslord 5 points a year ago

I can't parse this. What do you mean?

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Noved 7 points a year ago

Mm as in millimeters as in guns.

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chuckleslord 8 points a year ago

Ah. So, the joke only makes sense if you think about mm the way an American would. Understood. Kind of, but it doesn't matter

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dmention7 3 points a year ago

The mano-digital system is clearly superior.

Does your metric system tell you how many fingernails are in a pint? Didn't think so!

Go eat some more cheese and ride a reasonably priced train, euro-snob.

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certified_expert 1 point 8 months ago

USians. The rest of America is happy with the metric system

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danekrae 1 point a month ago

I believe the definition of an inch is 25.4 millimeters at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

So americans actually use metric, whether they like it or not.

https://www.nist.gov/metric

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Hegar 19 points a year ago

I find this guide so confusing that I doublechecked if this was a shitposting community.

These amounts only hold for certain things, a palm sized slab of meat, a fist sized serving of casserole, a cupped hand of pudding. You know, normal, helpful ways of measuring.

If the entire guide was that right hand panel with the silhouttes and the actual information, it would at least be clear that they weren't saying you can fit more in a closed fist than an open palm, they're just encouraging you to eat pretzels out of your cupped hands like you're feeding yourself at a petting zoo.

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ninjabard 16 points a year ago

But hands are all different sizes. Terrible guide.

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otter 2 points a year ago

So are guides. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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rumschlumpel 13 points a year ago

I prefer scales and measuring cups.

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DearMoogle 5 points a year ago

I measure when home cooking too, but I find this is helpful for eyeballing amounts when eating out

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ILikeBoobies 3 points a year ago

Why would you need to know that?

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BCsven 1 point a year ago

In case you want to check if your flat roast beef slice in your palm is the same weight as your 3/4" steak, obviously

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Archangel1313 8 points a year ago

This doesn't add up.

1 cupped hand = 1/2 a cup ...and, 2 cupped hands = 1 ounce?

Except, 1 cup = 8 ounces.

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LodeMike 5 points a year ago

All hands are different sizes, but "it works on my machine"

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BreadOven 5 points a year ago

Hello. I put one cup in my partner, and now it's stuck. What do I do?

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dumbass 3 points a year ago

Just don't let Andre The Giant do the baking.

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Bonus 2 points a year ago

2 hands = 1 ounce*, 1 hand = 3-4 ounces

*Ooh, you forgot to scrunch your hands for accuracy

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