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This is great - a print-out is going on my fridge.

And a pint is pound world renown!

so, 16 oz. or one pint = 1 lb.

and a half pint or 8 oz. = 1/2 lb.

Oh that is awesome...and a font-lover's dream!

wait, that's kinda brilliant! turn that badboy into a graphic for dishtowels and ovenmitts and you'll be a gazillionaire. :)

How about putting that graphic onto reusable shopping bags? Then it would be with us when we need it :)

Art -- that's really only for water. You could get yourself in trouble if you use that mnemonic (I always heard Alton Brown saying, "A pint's a pound the world around") for corn syrup, for example.

When making rice
Water's twice
(Makes thrice)

i learned that diagram in elementary school and have never forgotten it! hooray for childhood cooking memories (or at least memory aids)!

A quart means a quarter of a gallon. Or was that so obvious that it's not worth pointing out? Also, 4 cups in a quart, easy to remember since quart means four. (On a smaller scale, same theme, four ounces in a quarter cup.)

I use the pint/pound thing often. Most (wet) food is mostly water or oil anyway so it's close enough for me.

Erica-

All my years in school and it never occurred to me that a quart referred to quarter of a gallon....duh

Erica-

Wouldn't it be four ounces in a half cup?

It's more simple to remember numbers than this kind of phrases. Why do you think it's so hard to remember a number ?

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...all this means that it's time to pass to the wonders of the metric system :)

Erica you just destroyed my brownies!

maybe 4 oz in a 1/4 pint

LOVE THE GRAPHIC!

I learned the quart/gallon thing the hard way, at eight years old.......dad sent me to the store to buy "two quarts" of milk. So I bought two 32oz quart cartons. Which apparently cost a small fortune. After his heart attack, dad sat me down for a long torturous lesson about pints, quarts, gallons, ounces, etc, etc.

Similarly, I had an epiphany when I learned/figured out that 1/4 cup is 4 TBS, thus 1 cup is 16 TBS.

This info is useful when scaling down a recipe and you end up with amounts like 3/8 cup, which is more difficult to measure than say, its equivalent, 1/4 c 2 TBS.

pich, actually the imperial system works better for cooking, the metric system is for distances. Recipes work better with well rounded imperial measurements, especially baking. Usually you start with a cup of flour as opposed to 1/5th liter, 1 tsp of an ingredient is 4.93 milliters. Thats why both systems stick around. and to make it more confusing a UK and a US Tablespoon are different, as are pints, cups, gallons, etc.

Ok, I know this is an old post, but if anyone else checks it out, 2 things...

Ohjodi, I'm confused - 32oz is a quart, right? 8oz per cup, 4 cups per quart, 8x4=32. 2 quarts = 2 32oz cartons. Or did I miss something?

Also, the tablespoon gets even more confusing - in NZ, it's 3 (5ml) teaspoons to a tablespoon (15ml), whereas in Oz, it's 20ml (4 teaspoons). I have sets of both and recipe books from both countries (as well as the US and UK), so I do a lot of double-checking!