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Ingredient Conversions aren't even wrong. They make zero sense.
Seeing "Ingredient Conversions", I was quite interested in this app. Most of the ingredients in my recipes I specify in grams (for precision and ease of measurement), so the possibility of having conversions at hand was worth investigating. Unfortunately, the app fails completely. The term for such an abject failure is "not even wrong" -- it's not that the conversions are incorrect, but rather, "My hovercraft is full of eels." The ingredient conversions portion of the app lets you convert from an ingredient to... a *density*? For example, if you have 1 honey, that's 1.44 grams per cubic centimeter, but if you have *10* honey, that's 14.4 grams per cubic centimeter (more dense than *lead*). I believe I speak for *anyone* who has even been in the same room as a science book when I say, "WHAT?" One "Egg yolks" is 0.04 PSI, but it only takes 2000 egg yolks to pump up my bike tires to about 80 PSI. The ingredient conversions are not simply unusable, they're complete gobbledygook. As for the rest, the units available for conversions are pretty much the entire contents of the "Appendix U: Units" section of some obscure tome. Temperature conversion allows you to go from, say, Kelvins to degrees Reaumur? Knowing how many gills (US) 17 hectoliters measures is *so* worthwhile. The weight conversions are great for cooking, as I use centigrams (first on the list) virtually every day... or not. (For the record, one centigram of table salt is about 1/1000th of a teaspoon!) Of course, when you're making a long ton of pasta, it's got you covered there, too. Basically, where the app very clumsily works, it throws the figurative kitchen sink at you, including every obscure and useless (in the kitchen) unit in the encyclopedia. It's a veritable kitchen junk drawer, except even that strange jar-opening-corkscrew-lid-lifter gadget or that ancient basting brush could *theoretically* be useful at some point. If it ended there, it would simply be a poorly designed and lackadaisically implemented app, but the utterly baffling "ingredient conversions" section seals the deal. The app, sadly, is dead before arrival.
November 2012 · Software · verified purchase
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