Accurate recipe measurement translations

Just how big is a knob of butter, and is an imperial knob greater than a metric one, Help. I hate innacuracy in recipes

Is this some kind of post colonialist thread?

Seriously, I personally hate it when sites don't have a metric/USA measures switch on them. One of them is epicurious, although I can't really get out of that site since 90% of my cooking is based on it...

It's neither metric nor imperial as it is a relative volume and depends entirely on the block of butter it came from - the definition of a knob of butter is an isosceles right-angled tetrahedron whose adjacent edge is equal to half the height of the originating block of butter:

...how big is a knob???

;-))

You are probaly viewing a free recipe posted on some web site.
You'll get what you pay for.

Her a YOUR link, just for you:
http://www.convert-me.com/en/

Don't you hate inaccurate postings?

Actually, I think you will find the book I have been using, has been around and best seller for a good while longer than the internet, Dont you hate innacurate asumptions. It is the pedant in me coming out. I hate phrases like a handful of herbs (whos hand, Mine, My Partners, My Childs. There is a mighty swing in the potential quantity.

Very bad example. If a recipe said "18.75 grams of fresh rosemary", then what sort of rosemary? There is a mighty swing in the intensity of flavour between a plant growing in the garrigue of provence, to one raised in a greenhouse in Unterschleissheim. Stalks or leaves? Do thyme flowers count as thyme?

Cups and measuring spoons and that sort of exact bullshit is for women who "bake", or people with Michelin stars to worry about, who have to get exact consistency every time.
What if a recipe said, fry 2 parboiled, sliced potatoes in a "knob" of butter? How big your knob is depends on the size of your spuds.

If that post was directed at me, you can leave the grudge back where it belongs in that other thread.

I simply think having to copy paste all the ingredients in another site is a waste of time, and already have plans to make a general way around it.