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new units of measure #54

Open ockham opened 11 years ago

ockham commented 11 years ago

Converted from SourceForge issue 3151627, submitted by SourceForge user xcorvis on 2011-01-05 03:57:00 UTC.

The dash is a widely accepted unit of measure in cocktails and other cooking. For conversions, most resources call it roughly 1/8 tsp. Likewise "pinch" is 1/16th, and "smidgen" is 1/32nd.

Right now I need to enter "1 dash Angostura bitters". The unit field stays empty and the ingredient becomes "dash Angostura bitters". I'd rather not use the 1/8th measure since this would imply a level of exactness where it is not needed.

ockham commented 11 years ago

Submitted by SourceForge user xcorvis on 2011-01-05 22:18:55 UTC.

Thanks, that's a good workaround. I didn't even realize it was possible.

It would still be nice to have them formally added to the ingredient parser.

ockham commented 11 years ago

Submitted by SourceForge user thomas_hinkle on 2011-01-05 10:58:39 UTC.

You can manually change the unit to dash and then Gourmet will learn that "dash" is a unit (my instance of Gourmet already recognizes "dash" because I've used it in past recipes). Just click on the fields in the ingredient-editor display and you can edit them when they are not recognized properly by Gourmet's automatic ingredient parsing.