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Metric Kitchen

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Description: What's cooking in the Metric Kitchen? This educational website includes a recipe gallery and a variety of culinary measurement guidance, including cookware and tool resources, temperature tips, and measurement equivalencies. Special Publication (SP) 1290, NIST Metric Recipes, was developed for both new and experienced chefs interested in building experience using a kitchen scale to measure ingredients in grams and K-12 educators that teach cooking techniques and related life skills topics in the classroom. Follow along with the companion videos. For example, the "Baking Banana Bread Using the Metric System" video uses a step-by-step process to use kitchen scale measurement techniques and gram measurements. NIST Special Publication (SP 430), Household Weights and Measures, provides approximate weight of several commodities appropriate for home cooking applications.
Teaching tips:
  • 5 to 30 minutes teaching time
  • Complete a metric recipe in class or at home as an opportunity to apply culinary math, expand measurement skills, interpret instructions, complete steps in a necessary sequence, troubleshoot, build self confidence, and enjoy the delicious results!
  • For young chefs, these activities offer an opportunity to refine fine motor skills and coordination, practice selecting appropriate cooking tools, opening containers, mixing, pouring without spilling, counting, weighing, as well as reading and interpreting a digital scale readout or oven thermometer. For advanced chefs, customizing recipes and purposeful tinkering are chances to further explore the science that underpin culinary arts
  • Measuring ingredients by mass (weight) using an appropriate kitchen scale is a best practice to improve recipe accuracy, rather than measuring ingredients by volume using fluid or dry measuring cups
  • Food temperature (degree Celsius) is key to a successful recipe. For example, too high of a temperature may cause outer edges to burn while the inside remains uncooked. A cooking thermometer is an essential kitchen measurement tool. Cooking foods to appropriate temperatures eliminates harmful bacteria that cause illness and food poisoning. Understanding your oven temperature is a baking best practice!
  • You’re going to enjoy metric cooking s’more each day, but especially during Metric Week (10 October), Weights and Measures Week (1 to 7 March), and World Metrology Day (20 May
  • 2023 theme is Measurements Supporting the Global Food System). Have fun preparing treats for your next gathering of family and friends. Become our biggest flan! What’s your all-thyme favorite NIST Metric Recipe? Share your favorite NIST Metric Kitchen resource on social media
  • Take the path of yeast resistance. Contact the Metric Program to share your feedback or ideas for a new metric recipe (TheSI@nist.gov)
Resource owner information:
  • Elizabeth Benham
  • elizabeth.benham@nist.gov
  • NIST
  • 68 - Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML)
  • 680 - Physical Measurement Laboratory Office
Resource dates:
  • Created on March 01, 2024
  • Last updated on March 14, 2024
  • Reviewed on March 14, 2024
Resource type:
  • Educational Resource: Article
Resource formats:
  • Text
  • Webpage
School subjects:
  • STEM: Biology and Life Sciences
  • STEM: Chemistry
  • STEM: Mathematics
  • STEM: Physical Science (General)
  • Other: Social Sciences
Topics:
  • Research at NIST: Metrology
  • Other: SI Units
Instructional level:
  • Middle (6-8)
Target audiences:
  • General Public
  • Educators
  • Outreach Ambassadors
  • Parents
  • Students
Language:
  • English