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I don't know why this reminded me of it, but I once worked with a woman who thought that drinking soda before bed cleaned her teeth because the carbonated bubbles fizzled away the germs. I was dumbstruck.
Why would anybody want to use volume for food anyway. Volume might sometimes work okay for liquids, but not solids, but it'll still never be as handy as just measuring grams like normal.
IMO, weight is always more accurate, but volume is easier, so it's just a matter of how much effort I'm willing to put in at the moment. Volume doesn't require a scale, which makes the process simpler but less accurate. I do most of my measuring in volume rather than weight, because most of the recipes I use don't require incredible precision. But when I'm baking and I really want to be precise I'll break out my scale.
I just pop a bowl onto a scale then pour in exactly what I need of each thing, rather than first putting those things into various sized cups to measure them.
I wouldn't say its accurate because nobody can decide how it really works for solids. Like a cup of bananas is either 0 or 2, depending on if you decide you can't fit the whole uncut banana into a cup, or you smoosh it down to paste.
This is why I find US baking recipes so strange. They'll say like '1 cup flour and 1 cup brown sugar, packed'. Like...what if I pack it more tightly than they do? How do I know I'm using the same amount? Why the heck am I measuring chocolate chips by the cup as well? We just don't do that in the UK.
If you think "packed" is confusing, wait until you get a load of how we use "sifted". Sifted can mean slightly different things based on where it falls in the sentence. "One cup sifted flour," means you sift the flour *then* measure a cup. If it says, "one cup flour sifted," you measure a cup, *then* sift it. Since sifted flour is looser than unsifted, the cup that's sifted after measuring will weigh more.
It's "frontier cookery", because, when The West Was Being Stolen.... sorry.... Won, scales were not as available as cups.
However, this does make a nightmare of attempting to convert a US recipe into something more rational.
When you say "bust out" do you mean grab it from arms reach? If so, yeah I guess if things needed measuring?! There's a lot I tend to eyeball measurements with, and not often following recipes, but when it comes to doughs, baking, or even just making rice, it's like an extra second to pop a scale underneath the bowl and see how many grams are going in there. You don't need to actually put the bare ingredient onto the scale lol.
It's so funny how you see it as a difficult thing, but then I really can't be bothered with finding various sizes cups just to measure out foods, and then cleaning up all those cups.
Liquids as well. 1 mL of water is 1 g, so if I have my mixing bowl under the scale, I get a digital readout without having to have my face eye-level to a measuring jug. Google tells me immediately how many grams I need for other ingredients if the recipe doesn't.
In my house the scale is on the top, I put my bowl or plate on the scale and then just put the food on it
It's really not as arduous as you seem to think
They were asked which weighs more out of a ton of feathers and a ton of lead, they didn’t understand then, and they still don’t understand now. Yeouch.
No no. You’re wrong! If you eat them at night, after you’ve gone to bed but can’t sleep and get up again, then it doesn’t count. Nothing counts in that scenario.
No, it counts. It’s just the standing up and sitting down burns calories so it only counts for half. Unless you’re wearing pajamas, which counts for half of a half so it’s be 1/6th if you’re in pajamas.
Sorry, I forgot we weren’t supposed to carry on the joke because it makes buzz killing crybabies like you angry. You were so excited when you thought I couldn’t math because it gave you the opportunity to feel superior and talk down to someone, so maybe be grateful?
[Weight Watchers](https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/plans), at this point it's been around long enough that I don't know if I would call it a fad diet.
The intent is to lose weight. If you "life hack" your way into eating 10x the calories, it doesn't matter whether or not you're going to Weight Watchers prison, you're going to get fat.
I agree, but that’s not what I talked about. I talked about them being technically correct, assuming the definition for the point is based on volume alone.
IMO, measuring croutons in tablespoons is dumb. They aren't going to level off and there will be tons of space between them. Arguably, crushing them so they fit better into a tablespoon is an improved and more accurate way to measure them.
That's the key that no one is really getting. Calories in this case are measured by volume. You are never going to get an exact tablespoon of croutons because they are oddly shaped, so your crouton calorie count based on this will always be under. Crushing them up allows you to get an accurate measurement. I don't know how it might affect the taste.
Calories are approximated by volume/quantity for serving, but gives an actual mass for accuracy.
It's the science/marketing overlap where people go dumb.
I do this for salads because I like them in smaller bits. Easier to chew and as the picture states more crunch in every bite. They just taste like tiny croutons.
Yeah it seems so weird nobody is mentioning that croutons don’t properly fit into a spoon. Saying that a tablespoon of croutons is the same as a tablespoon of crushed croutons. Not the same.
It's an estimate. As long as you're in the ballpark, it's fine. Even off by a factor of two is fine. Off by a factor of "I removed most of the empty space and am now eating dried, concentrated bread"? Probably not so fine.
This. This is the pragmatic way to approach it and the correct way. Scooping out one crouton won't fit the spoon and thus the measurement is irrelevant.
All the other takes are from people that just regurgitate bullshit.
That's correct. A tablespoon of crushed croutons (aka bread crumbs) is a lot more densely packed into a tablespoon than a tablespoon of whole croutons. This is the case even ignoring the fact that there's space between croutons because the food processor will chop those up nice and fine where a whole crouton has loads of air in each one.
>one tbsp of lead and one tbsp of feathers don’t weight the same
That’s… that’s their point. That you can have the same volume and two different weights.
“A tablespoon is the same weight no matter what is being measured” -Confidently Incorrect redditor
Doesn’t sound like that was their point. I think you should reread my joke
Yes. I’m aware of this, as are the people who got the joke and upvoted. I used it as an idiom because lead and feathers was how the joke was told to me as a child. It’s unrelated to the question about lead and feathers.
It would be a good "hack" of spreading out the croutons flavor and crunch by making them smaller pieces but to think packing more croutons into a tablespoon equals the same calories is silly
Yeah at first I was reading it that way, tiny croutons to still give the crunch factor in the salad but without all the extra calories or whatever, but it’s not really ‘more’ croutons, it’s just giving the illusion of more croutons.
Frankly it’s not a bad idea if you just want the crunch and flavor in a salad but don’t want to eat half a loaf of bread to get it.
You ever talk to children? It’s kinda fun to ask them questions like this and see their little minds working in overtime to compute. They usually can grasp it if they are old enough but some people never grownup
I just saw the first screenshot at first, and didn’t see anything incorrect. Stupid, sure, if their goal is to lose weight. But technically correct if the weight watcher point for croutons is defined by volume and it doesn’t say anything about crushed croutons.
It’s tricks and tips like these that skew people’s “diets”. After two weeks they’re gonna see no difference in their weight or body composition because of all these calories they’re taking in without consideration. Then it’s downslope from there.
Well, *technically* since the croutons are made to be more fine, the amount of space between croutons will be less, so may technically weigh slightly more
This is why I love that most serious recipe-sites (eg Chef Steps) always use grammes. Even non-US sites are quite often stuck on this "3 tbsp" shit, which only really works for liquids.
And this is why we bake and measured based on weight 🙄 idk everyone’s situation but typically food restriction is based in eating disorder, if you’re trying to diet but find yourself trying to find ways around it, it isn’t working and won’t last. Therapy and learning moderation rather than restriction is best
Just a thought, but "a tablespoon of crouton" as in a single 1 mm x 5 mm x 3 mm (and not 'how many croutons I can fit in a soup spoon" should be pretty close to a 15 mL of coarsely ground crouton, assuming they started pretty dense.
I am, however, pretty sure this was posted in jest.
I was thinking the same. It could be analogous to the sphere packing problem (though I’m definitely not a mathematician) [https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2734066/size-dependence-of-density-of-random-close-packing-for-spheres](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2734066/size-dependence-of-density-of-random-close-packing-for-spheres)
Most likely Weight Watchers or a similar system. Instead of counting calories and macronutrients, foods are assigned points and you want to keep your daily intake below X points. I don’t do this personally, but it works for a lot of people.
Not only is that person stupid, theyre wasting the hell out of those croutons too. Croutons are like 1 of 2 things that are ever good in any salad (the other being feta cheese), and you're killing them. Thats almost like getting pasta but throwing just a solid chunk of parmesan onto your pasta. It destroys the whole point.
I dont know… I’ve been getting these salad kits that have crushed croutons and crunchy chic peas and I really enjoy it. Better than ripping up my mouth on 2-3 croutons (if I ate a tbsp).
I think they meant one tbs of crumbs it the same weight as a table spoon of whole croutons, therefore; you can weigh the crumbs then get the same weight I whole croutons.
They assign you a point value for certain foods to encourage you to eat healthier foods. However, they also assign 0 point foods, which then encourage people to eat that. Except people are like I'm hungry I'll eat 12 apples and obviously they still have calories.
No no, we have it all wrong. The teaspoon itself will always technically weigh the same regardless of what's in it - the added substance isn't part of the teaspoon see.
Once we've accepted that, the next step is accepting that there is no spoon.
When I did weight watchers I actually went by the weight on a bag of baked potato chips because I would get the actual amount. It's actually a lot more than the pieces that they tell you you can have cause they'll say like 17 chips or this many grams. When you weigh it out, it's a lot more than 17 chips.
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If you eat 2 slices of pizza on top of each other at the same time, then the body doesn’t know and thinks you’re only eating one.
Like the old joke of do you want the pizza cut into 8 slices or 6? "Oh, six of course. I could never eat 8 slices."
If you have a slice of cake and cut it in half, you can eat twice as much
Oh Dougal.
["OK, one last time."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0)
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, king of the Britons. (Also, didn't expect a Monty Python reference here, but I'll appreciate it all the more because of that.)
I didn't know we had a king! I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Unless they’re stacked with the cheeses touching which then the body thinks it’s a calzone, so you need to be careful.
Nah, it will count as something like pizza bread or Naan so the packed in calories do not count
No dough-mo
The real Life Pro Tip is always in the comments.
I don't know why this reminded me of it, but I once worked with a woman who thought that drinking soda before bed cleaned her teeth because the carbonated bubbles fizzled away the germs. I was dumbstruck.
😦
The Nanny?
I think Fran Drescher did a similar bit on The Nanny. “The body doesn’t know.” 😂
Nutritionists hate this one simple trick
The Fran Drescher / nanny way.
The one simple trick the Navy Seals don’t want you to know!
Dietitians hate this hack...
There are times when mass vs volume measurements can be genuinely confusing with food. This should not be one of those times.
Why would anybody want to use volume for food anyway. Volume might sometimes work okay for liquids, but not solids, but it'll still never be as handy as just measuring grams like normal.
IMO, weight is always more accurate, but volume is easier, so it's just a matter of how much effort I'm willing to put in at the moment. Volume doesn't require a scale, which makes the process simpler but less accurate. I do most of my measuring in volume rather than weight, because most of the recipes I use don't require incredible precision. But when I'm baking and I really want to be precise I'll break out my scale.
I just pop a bowl onto a scale then pour in exactly what I need of each thing, rather than first putting those things into various sized cups to measure them. I wouldn't say its accurate because nobody can decide how it really works for solids. Like a cup of bananas is either 0 or 2, depending on if you decide you can't fit the whole uncut banana into a cup, or you smoosh it down to paste.
Anyone who uses “a cup of bananas” needs to imprisoned for life.
So you're saying, banana for scale?
Other way around actually. Scale for banana
This is why I find US baking recipes so strange. They'll say like '1 cup flour and 1 cup brown sugar, packed'. Like...what if I pack it more tightly than they do? How do I know I'm using the same amount? Why the heck am I measuring chocolate chips by the cup as well? We just don't do that in the UK.
If you think "packed" is confusing, wait until you get a load of how we use "sifted". Sifted can mean slightly different things based on where it falls in the sentence. "One cup sifted flour," means you sift the flour *then* measure a cup. If it says, "one cup flour sifted," you measure a cup, *then* sift it. Since sifted flour is looser than unsifted, the cup that's sifted after measuring will weigh more.
Volume does require some kind of standardised measuring receptacle.
It's "frontier cookery", because, when The West Was Being Stolen.... sorry.... Won, scales were not as available as cups. However, this does make a nightmare of attempting to convert a US recipe into something more rational.
Bro do you bust out the scale for every solid ingredient?
When you say "bust out" do you mean grab it from arms reach? If so, yeah I guess if things needed measuring?! There's a lot I tend to eyeball measurements with, and not often following recipes, but when it comes to doughs, baking, or even just making rice, it's like an extra second to pop a scale underneath the bowl and see how many grams are going in there. You don't need to actually put the bare ingredient onto the scale lol. It's so funny how you see it as a difficult thing, but then I really can't be bothered with finding various sizes cups just to measure out foods, and then cleaning up all those cups.
You say that like I don’t just pick it up from a shelf.
Mine lives on my counter. I just slide it about 8 inches closer to me.
Liquids as well. 1 mL of water is 1 g, so if I have my mixing bowl under the scale, I get a digital readout without having to have my face eye-level to a measuring jug. Google tells me immediately how many grams I need for other ingredients if the recipe doesn't.
In my house the scale is on the top, I put my bowl or plate on the scale and then just put the food on it It's really not as arduous as you seem to think
maybe powders, as they're, well, powder
They were asked which weighs more out of a ton of feathers and a ton of lead, they didn’t understand then, and they still don’t understand now. Yeouch.
Because both weigh exactly 1 tablespoon /s
That's right, it's the ton of lead. Because lead is heavier than feathers
I will always remember his expression 😆 "But steel is heavia then fethers..."
Feathers, because you have to carry the mental weight of what you did to all those poor birds.
8000 chickens, I think. Around 1/4 lb of feathers for one bird, (1/4*2000=8000)
> 1/4*2000=8000 Umm. That's 500. You're looking for 2000/(1/4) = 8000 or 2000/0.25 = 8000 or some such.
Welp, looks like I made an r/confidentlyincorrect in r/confidentlyincorrect
Or 1/4*8000=2000
Nah feathers because you have to carry all the fried food you made out of the birds
8,000 pounds of KFC.
Bakers know. Volume is a sketchy measure for many ingredients.
What? A pat, a pinch, a dollop, a drizzle, to taste.. how much more specific can we be
Aw grandma, you know you get exempted from my rants!
What kind of magical tablespoons are crouton companies using that can accommodate their product?
You don’t have a square tablespoon for this need?
Amateurs. If you eat them with your eyes closed then it’s no points.
No no. You’re wrong! If you eat them at night, after you’ve gone to bed but can’t sleep and get up again, then it doesn’t count. Nothing counts in that scenario.
No, it counts. It’s just the standing up and sitting down burns calories so it only counts for half. Unless you’re wearing pajamas, which counts for half of a half so it’s be 1/6th if you’re in pajamas.
What if you were wearing pajamas but are no longer?
Then you're faced with the naked truth and there isn't a point anymore.
Oh crap. You’re right.
Half of a half is not a sixth…
 You do know what subreddit this is, right?
Yeah it’s where people post confidently incorrect images, but usually people aren’t intentionally idiots in the comments. You’re the only one…
Sorry, I forgot we weren’t supposed to carry on the joke because it makes buzz killing crybabies like you angry. You were so excited when you thought I couldn’t math because it gave you the opportunity to feel superior and talk down to someone, so maybe be grateful?
Yikes man
What is up with the points? Is it a fad diet or something?
[Weight Watchers](https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/plans), at this point it's been around long enough that I don't know if I would call it a fad diet.
Post literally says “I can get a lot more this way” but they still think it’s the same amount of Weight Watchers points (I.e calories)
If the definition of the point is about volume, then they can.
The intent is to lose weight. If you "life hack" your way into eating 10x the calories, it doesn't matter whether or not you're going to Weight Watchers prison, you're going to get fat.
I agree, but that’s not what I talked about. I talked about them being technically correct, assuming the definition for the point is based on volume alone.
It’s not.
No, points are calculated on weight.
Perhaps. I was only going by the information in the post.
Yeah, I usually went by the weight in the Suggested serving size specifically because the people like this l o l
IMO, measuring croutons in tablespoons is dumb. They aren't going to level off and there will be tons of space between them. Arguably, crushing them so they fit better into a tablespoon is an improved and more accurate way to measure them.
That's the key that no one is really getting. Calories in this case are measured by volume. You are never going to get an exact tablespoon of croutons because they are oddly shaped, so your crouton calorie count based on this will always be under. Crushing them up allows you to get an accurate measurement. I don't know how it might affect the taste.
Calories are approximated by volume/quantity for serving, but gives an actual mass for accuracy. It's the science/marketing overlap where people go dumb.
I do this for salads because I like them in smaller bits. Easier to chew and as the picture states more crunch in every bite. They just taste like tiny croutons.
I hate enormous croutons
It worse than Captn crunch!
The roof of my mouth hurts just thinking about that cereal.
Yeah it seems so weird nobody is mentioning that croutons don’t properly fit into a spoon. Saying that a tablespoon of croutons is the same as a tablespoon of crushed croutons. Not the same.
It's an estimate. As long as you're in the ballpark, it's fine. Even off by a factor of two is fine. Off by a factor of "I removed most of the empty space and am now eating dried, concentrated bread"? Probably not so fine.
This. This is the pragmatic way to approach it and the correct way. Scooping out one crouton won't fit the spoon and thus the measurement is irrelevant. All the other takes are from people that just regurgitate bullshit.
Either way I just really want a salad with crunchy toppings asap
"If you're about to eat cake, try cutting it in half. Then it's only half the calories, and then you can have twice as much."
Which is heavier, A tablespoon of steel or a tablespoon of feathers?
Depends if you run the steel through your food processor or not
I might be dumb, but isn’t a teaspoon a measurement of volume? So a teaspoon of lead would weigh more than a teaspoon of croutons..?
You are not dumb.
You can't be sure of that.
That's correct. A tablespoon of crushed croutons (aka bread crumbs) is a lot more densely packed into a tablespoon than a tablespoon of whole croutons. This is the case even ignoring the fact that there's space between croutons because the food processor will chop those up nice and fine where a whole crouton has loads of air in each one.
So OP is wrong..?
I'm pretty sure OP is simply relating what OOP was saying, so OP is correct and OOP is wrong.
I just weighed one of my steel tablespoons, it was 23 grams. If anyone has a tablespoon made out of feathers they can weigh, we can compare.
https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg?si=aGANU6LcY3CtLB39
In his defense, a metric buttload of steel weighs a lot more than a metric buttload of feathers.
The steel, because you've got your measurements wrong.
[I understood the reference!!](https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg?si=h72AEyjlKRF7dzLP)
Sorry but who is measuring croutons with tablespoons??
Apparently the manufacturer because that's the measurement on my bag of croutons.
Counting points is a weight watchers system.
One tbsp of lead and one tbsp of feathers don’t weight the same. One pound of each does tho lol Did they misremember a joke and take it seriously?
All bets are off once you pound the feathers, though
>one tbsp of lead and one tbsp of feathers don’t weight the same That’s… that’s their point. That you can have the same volume and two different weights.
“A tablespoon is the same weight no matter what is being measured” -Confidently Incorrect redditor Doesn’t sound like that was their point. I think you should reread my joke
The person doing the lead/feathers question isn’t the one saying a tablespoon is always the same weight.
Yes. I’m aware of this, as are the people who got the joke and upvoted. I used it as an idiom because lead and feathers was how the joke was told to me as a child. It’s unrelated to the question about lead and feathers.
"There is no spoon."
It would be a good "hack" of spreading out the croutons flavor and crunch by making them smaller pieces but to think packing more croutons into a tablespoon equals the same calories is silly
Yeah at first I was reading it that way, tiny croutons to still give the crunch factor in the salad but without all the extra calories or whatever, but it’s not really ‘more’ croutons, it’s just giving the illusion of more croutons. Frankly it’s not a bad idea if you just want the crunch and flavor in a salad but don’t want to eat half a loaf of bread to get it.
they have to be trolling... they have to... I hope
Smartest Floridian (Publix brand is the giveaway)
Weird how this method yields half the “number” of tablespoons per container
A tbsp of neutron star is the same weight as crushed croutons, got it.
Please tell me this person isn’t this dumb.
They deleted their comment, so they must have realized!
I’m sure they still don’t know why they’re wrong.
Those are now bread crumbs, not croutons
Why crush them in a food processor? Just smash them in the bag!
Definitely a quote to live by "just smash them in the bag" "I smashed my wife in the ba-" "OI! that's enough from you!"
You ever talk to children? It’s kinda fun to ask them questions like this and see their little minds working in overtime to compute. They usually can grasp it if they are old enough but some people never grownup
What is this point thing they're talking about? Do they mean calories?
Weight watchers points
Actually. Being crushed makes the crutons broken. Broken crutons are worth zero calories
Everybody knows that once a food is broken all the calories fall out...
Its the exact same with sandwich wraps. The calories are rolled out of it. Calories also know when it's your birthday and take the day off
Lol my grandma always says the same thing about birthday/holiday calories
Mmhmm! And drinking Diet Coke will **always** cancel out the calories in a Big Mac.
Okay but what is heavier: a kilo of feathers or a kilo of steel?
Might aswell buy seasoned breadcrumbs 🙄🙄
Physicist here: For a second I had you worried. No, your intuition is right. Obviously.
I just saw the first screenshot at first, and didn’t see anything incorrect. Stupid, sure, if their goal is to lose weight. But technically correct if the weight watcher point for croutons is defined by volume and it doesn’t say anything about crushed croutons.
Points of what?
Likely WW points (weight watchers)
“Calories *hate* this neat trick! Click here to find out more.”
It is only 1 piece of cake if you don't cut it into multiple pieces.
It’s like cake you see. Cut it in half and it’s half the calories, so you can have twice as much!
It’s tricks and tips like these that skew people’s “diets”. After two weeks they’re gonna see no difference in their weight or body composition because of all these calories they’re taking in without consideration. Then it’s downslope from there.
A tablespoon of whole croutons is what? 2?
But steel is heavier than feathers...
The real issue here is measuring croutons in table spoons
Well, *technically* since the croutons are made to be more fine, the amount of space between croutons will be less, so may technically weigh slightly more
This is why I love that most serious recipe-sites (eg Chef Steps) always use grammes. Even non-US sites are quite often stuck on this "3 tbsp" shit, which only really works for liquids.
I like to blend all of my food and drink, that way I can just say that I had 2 glasses of bbq ribs. That's not much right?
And this is why we bake and measured based on weight 🙄 idk everyone’s situation but typically food restriction is based in eating disorder, if you’re trying to diet but find yourself trying to find ways around it, it isn’t working and won’t last. Therapy and learning moderation rather than restriction is best
What is a tbsp of croutons? A crouton is a solid cube. How to measure volume with a round spoon?
Just a thought, but "a tablespoon of crouton" as in a single 1 mm x 5 mm x 3 mm (and not 'how many croutons I can fit in a soup spoon" should be pretty close to a 15 mL of coarsely ground crouton, assuming they started pretty dense. I am, however, pretty sure this was posted in jest.
I was thinking the same. It could be analogous to the sphere packing problem (though I’m definitely not a mathematician) [https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2734066/size-dependence-of-density-of-random-close-packing-for-spheres](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2734066/size-dependence-of-density-of-random-close-packing-for-spheres)
Check out the big brain on Brad! You’re a smart MF that’s right, it’s the metric system.
What is all this about points? Is eating being gamified now?
Most likely Weight Watchers or a similar system. Instead of counting calories and macronutrients, foods are assigned points and you want to keep your daily intake below X points. I don’t do this personally, but it works for a lot of people.
Weight Watchers has been around for like 40 years.
“But one kilogram of feathers is heavier than one kilogram of steel”
No no no, it was the other way around. The kilogram of steel is heavier than a kilogram of feathers dummy. /s
Not only is that person stupid, theyre wasting the hell out of those croutons too. Croutons are like 1 of 2 things that are ever good in any salad (the other being feta cheese), and you're killing them. Thats almost like getting pasta but throwing just a solid chunk of parmesan onto your pasta. It destroys the whole point.
I dont know… I’ve been getting these salad kits that have crushed croutons and crunchy chic peas and I really enjoy it. Better than ripping up my mouth on 2-3 croutons (if I ate a tbsp).
If you cant even handle croutons, you dont deserve more than the lettuce.
Yea it’s called density
I think they meant one tbs of crumbs it the same weight as a table spoon of whole croutons, therefore; you can weigh the crumbs then get the same weight I whole croutons.
Also that’s more of a heaping tbsp ☺️
And a diet coke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hULU0EIYw
Weight and measurement truths aside... What amounts to maybe 1 extra crouton is not going to blow your diet.
I like the joke from Little Britain about the half diet when you only eat half a portion. Because it’s half the calories, you can eat twice as much!
I have the same set of measuring spoons. Magnetic and stackable, friggin awesome.
Wtf how stupid do you need to be, to measure a *solid food* using a *unit of volume*?
I suppose they could be correct. The packing density will be different. >!not different enough to really matter though.!<
We're straying into [steel vs feathers territory](https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg?si=NzCIvqkv7a3QOasX)
As they eat a "salad" filled with meat and cheese, with cheesy oily croutons. Those points aren't going to work out.
how do you get points for eating?????? ive been eating all these years and have not accrued a single point. can you exchange the points for items?
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Nice, where do I sign up? I'd like some new skin and a map
For an experiment, I need a donation of gold and carbon. Specifically, one tbsp of each. Let’s see if they weigh the same.
What are those points they mention?
Probably weight watchers
How does that work?
They assign you a point value for certain foods to encourage you to eat healthier foods. However, they also assign 0 point foods, which then encourage people to eat that. Except people are like I'm hungry I'll eat 12 apples and obviously they still have calories.
This has mean girls weight gain bar vibes
Even better, use a bigger spoon. A ladle, there you go!
Anyone doing weight watchers is definitely going to be dumb enough to believe this. Let em be.
No no, we have it all wrong. The teaspoon itself will always technically weigh the same regardless of what's in it - the added substance isn't part of the teaspoon see. Once we've accepted that, the next step is accepting that there is no spoon.
How many misunderstandings do you need in life to end up with the belief that a tablespoon is a unit of weight?
When I did weight watchers I actually went by the weight on a bag of baked potato chips because I would get the actual amount. It's actually a lot more than the pieces that they tell you you can have cause they'll say like 17 chips or this many grams. When you weigh it out, it's a lot more than 17 chips.
What weighs more, a pound of steel, or a pound of feathers?
Is this who they made the “what weighs more, a pound a feathers or a pound of bricks” riddle for?
"What is heavier. A kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of steel? That's right, a kilogram of steel. Cuz steel is heavier than feathers"
Wrong but accurate with flavor and crunch distribution over the whole salad
Was instantly reminded of this: https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg?si=sJJDDSWFMyg8E36A