Guides

• Cooking Measurement Conversions: Cups, Ounces, and Millilitres

  Cooking conversions trip people up because cups and fluid ounces differ between the US and UK. Learn the exact millilitre values, a conversion table, and why flour should be weighed.

• How to Convert kg to lb by Hand (With the Exact Formula)

  Learn how to convert kilograms to pounds by hand: why the factor is 2.20462, a quick mental shortcut, and worked examples with exact arithmetic you can check yourself.

• Metric vs Imperial: A Short History of Two Measurement Systems

  Where the metric and imperial systems came from, how they diverged, and which countries use which system today, including the mixed usage of the UK, US, Liberia, and Myanmar.

• Temperature Conversion Formulas: Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin

  The exact formulas for converting Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin, with step by step worked examples, the minus 40 equal point, body temperature, and common oven settings.