Need help with conversions for culinary terms

[helenegarr]

Is there a place that I could add culinary measurements to the expression builder or is there and add-in that I could download some were?

 

[edoconnell]

You can best build a CulMeasures, e.g.,module with public functions defined for each expected conversion. I assume you want to relate culinary measures to each other, e.g., teaspoons in a tablespoon, cups in a pint, etc., although you can do the same thing to convert grams to ounces, fluid ounces to cups, and like that. Sample code follows:

Public Function PintsFromCups(byval varCups as Variant) as Variant
PintsFromCups=nz(varCups)/2
End Function

Of course, you can sex this up some, using a single function and optional parameter sets, or a key word to specify the conversion set, but I think functions named like the behave make it easier to use them in real life.

 

[MichaelRed]

A common approach is to just build a table "FromUnits"; "ToUnits"; "ConvRate". Then the process becomes just a look-up and simple single expression. I know of no already built table for cooking units, but there are numerous static (print) examples for the data and the look up & conversion Function should be trivial.

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