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		dubadub on Oct 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language Not yet solid, but there are ideas. For example, define units config in a way like that: "1l \| 1000 ml \| ...". The first value will be a preferred one and everything else will be converted. What do you think?

pintxo on Oct 26, 2021 [–]

Might be the only viable way, as conversion factors are ingredient specific (e.g. Milk/Flour, Cups vs Liter/Grams)

rkangel on Oct 26, 2021 | [–]

The language parser has the information to know what ingredient the unit is for though, so you could build a database of those conversions.

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