It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y’all convert your measurements? It’s not even a daily thing. If I’m measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I’ve never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can’t imagine I’m unique in this. When I have needed to, it’s usually converting down (I.e. 1/3 of a foot), which imperial does handle better in more cases.
Like. I don’t care if we switch, I do mostly use metric personally, it just seems like a weird point to be the most common pro-metric argument when it’s also the one I’m least convinced by due to how metric is based off of base 10 numbering, which has so many problems with it.
Edit: After reading/responding a lot in the comments, it does seem like there’s a fundamental difference in how distance is viewed in metric/imperial countries. I can’t quite put my finger on how, but it seems the difference is bigger than 1 mile = 1.6km
You wouldn’t believe how often I have to convert measurements because one big backwards country still clings to nonsensical imperial units.
And it’s not only length, it’s even worse in the kitchen where they seem to measure about everything in cups. Like “add one cup of spinach”.
I keep my own recipe binder and put everything in grams but I still use cups or quarts for liquid when it’s like half a cup or more instead of milliliters and liters mostly because it’s more intuitive for me to estimate accurately, likely due to indoctrination. I also use teaspoons and fractions of that, sometimes tablespoons but usually by weight at that amount. I use teaspoons and the fractions because my scale is fairly useless at that small of an amount, especially when I’m combining multiple seasonings into a dish to use while I’m cooking.
Anyway, yeah it takes me some time to create the recipe but I self host mealie and work from home so I’ll just work on them when I have some downtime. But yeah, recipes used to really annoy the shit out of me. I enjoy cooking so much more now that I have my own recipes, I think later this year/next year I’m going to see if I can get a custom book printed that I can give to my kids and loved ones as a Christmas gift.