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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / May 2004Cool trick : a nickel is about 5 grams
My food scale got way out of wack. Instead of buying a weight to calibrate it I googled and found out that a nickel is supposed to way about 5 grams. I got a few nickels together and used that to reset my scale. Not super accurate, but it saved me some cash, got my scale back to being reasonably close to being true, and I get to play Mr. Science in this post. Sheesh, I could have had 10 grams more past if I did this before lunch :) I was amazed at how little 2oz of dried pasta ( 1 serving ) is. People really are out of touch with portions regarding pasta. Steve > My food scale got way out of wack. > > Instead of buying a weight to calibrate it I googled and found out that > a nickel is supposed to way about 5 grams. The Japanese 1 yen coin is pure aluminum, is 2cm in diameter, and exactly 1g. Now *that's* scientific! On 5/10/04 12:57 PM, in article dd5de929.0405091957.61f4bccf@posting.google.com, "Heywood Mogroot" <imouttahere@mac.com> wrote: >> My food scale got way out of wack. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The Japanese 1 yen coin is pure aluminum, is 2cm in diameter, and > exactly 1g. Now *that's* scientific! I didn't realize that. And I live in Tokyo! :) doug >>My food scale got way out of wack. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The Japanese 1 yen coin is pure aluminum, is 2cm in diameter, and > exactly 1g. Now *that's* scientific! LOL Agreed, but I am not likely to have a few of them laying around my apartment the next time I need to calibrate my food scale :) Steve On 5/10/04 8:00 PM, in article 409f60c4$0$3033$61fed72c@news.rcn.com, >>> My food scale got way out of wack. >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > LOL Agreed, but I am not likely to have a few of them laying around my > apartment the next time I need to calibrate my food scale :) Hey - if anybody wants real, genuine one yen coins, straight from Japan, I'd be glad to send them to you. Just a nickel a piece! :) doug@Tokyo Perhaps a scratch took some atoms off the coin, then its less than 1 gram. Perhaps only 1 in 100 yens are *exactly* 1 gram, there must be some variation in weight due to manufacturing techniques. This can be calculated approximately by statistics. Also a Yen has variable weight according to where you are holding it. If you are on a mountain it weighs less, if you are in space it weighs NOTHING. Now THAT is scientific! kenny > > My food scale got way out of wack. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The Japanese 1 yen coin is pure aluminum, is 2cm in diameter, and > exactly 1g. Now *that's* scientific! > My food scale got way out of wack. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > being reasonably close to being true, and I get to play Mr. Science in > this post. They are as close to 5 grams as can be easily achieved. They were the first metrification program in the US back when the Liberty nickels came out. The Jeffersons have been in use since 1938, and the Indian head / buffalo nickels were minted for a few decades before that, and the Liberties for a few decades before that. So it has been a LONG time that US five cent pieces were metric. If only the rest of the country could follow the nickel's example but here we are a century later and signs still list speed limits in MPH ... Nickels are probably more accurate at 5 grams than the typical food scale's 5 gram setting. You'd have to go to milled calibrated weights to do better. Or scale from a chemistry lab. |
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