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
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.