Re: [london.food] Scales

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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:58:26PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > I use a simple old-fashioned _balance_, rather than spring-scales.

Ooh, good call.  The ability to make cake on the moon is not something
I'd considered in the past, but this is definitely a win for old
technology!

> Try charity and antique stores.  I'm sure you could pick up some metric 
> weights to replace the archaic measures.

To the editor, The Times:

Sir,

Metric is all very well for measuring the width of a hair, or throwing
rockets at Mars, but it has no place in a gentleman's kitchen.  To admit
it is to hammer a nail into the coffin of British decency.  When the
mess-wallahs suggested it as my regiment was crushing the Hun, we had
them flogged.

Harrumph!

Yours grumpily,

Brig. Alfred Sprecklethorpe MC DJ GOM etc (ret)
Tonbridge Wells

• Rev Simon Rumble 20:58 on 06 Mar 2006
  And much more accurate they are. You can do the old fashioned method of
  • James Bywater 09:22 on 07 Mar 2006
    I am in favour of the balance, mainly for the reasons stated.
  • David Cantrell 14:30 on 07 Mar 2006
    Ooh, good call. The ability to make cake on the moon is not something
    • Roger Burton West 14:35 on 07 Mar 2006
      I've used spring-scales, which work more or less - but when they start
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