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Reviews for Metric Cooking

Metric Cooking by Falk Hüffner

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  • by Firefox user 13955716, 7 months ago
    Perfect for cooking as a Brit - thanks so much!
  • by MissChris, a year ago
    It works just fine for converting US measurements to metric, but I need the opposite. Someone please work on that for us.
  • by Nibinaear, 4 years ago
    Does not convert inches to cms.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    In general, it does convert inches to cm, although it might fail in some context or on some websites. If you tell me the page where you see it not working, I'll check whether I can fix it.
  • by Chon, 4 years ago
  • by Tom, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15222707, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13970150, 7 years ago
    Not just an excellent simple converter, but will attempt volume-to-weight conversion, e.g. 1 cup of sugar -> 200 g sugar. Love it!
  • by Firefox user 13892456, 7 years ago
    Does what it claims to do, what more can one ask for?
  • by PeaceByJesus.net, 8 years ago
    Great idea, but what we need is an extension that will convert metric units into standard US sizes. The ones that used to do so no longer work on current Firefox builds.
  • by Pelagius, 8 years ago
    I don't need to go to weight conversion websites anymore! (http://www.kingarthurflour.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart.html is a good one, by the way.)

    All of the weights I need are right there on the page, this is wonderful. It does not take 20 seconds to run on my machine, more like one or two seconds like the developer reported.
  • by Francijn, 8 years ago
    This Add-on really changes the text of the recipe, by adding metric measurements between square brackets. It will take some time (like 20 secs?) but then it will even take into account the mass density. I checked some of the conversions, and saw no mistakes. Awesome!

    *Edit: I cannot add an answer to your question, Falk Hüffner, so I add it here.

    I randomly tried the add-on here:
    http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/minnys-chocolate-pie
    Today I tried again, and it took me 26 seconds.

    My computer: a Toshiba Satellite L350D laptop
    Operating system: Linux, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
    Browser: Mozilla Firefox 48.0

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thanks for the review! It's not really supposed to take 20 seconds, maybe one at most, can you tell me what kind of computer you use and which page you tried?

    *Edit: Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this problem, on my machine it takes less than half a second on this page. My best guess is that Firefox's regexp library doesn't work well on your CPU (this add-on is fairly demanding on regexp performance). Not sure what to do about this, sorry :-(