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When you're doing some grocery shopping or other daily tasks, you'll come across the term gallon frequently. The word comes from the Latin word for liquid measure, gallehus. This unit was replaced by metric units years ago, but it is still used today! The most common way to refer to a gallon is as "US gallons". These are referred to as "drum" gallons because they were made out of drums that have been hollowed out and extended. A very similar system was adopted by the British during the Industrial Revolution. They called their version "Imperial gallons", which are no longer…

The term “two-cup rule” refers to what people refer to as the standard way to measure coffee in America. This method assumes that each cup of brewed espresso or French press style coffee contains two cups of liquid! This seems like an odd assumption, but it makes sense when you think about it. After all, how much water do most people use to make a normal sized glass of tea? Two cups sounds right! However, this two-cup theory was never officially defined until very recently. Up until the 1980s, there were no definitive numbers for how many ounces of liquid…

When you drink alcohol, how much you consume can make a difference with how drunk you get and if you are still able to perform your duties after drinking is an important factor in keeping safe. If you know what amount of alcohol someone has consumed, you can make informed decisions about whether it’s appropriate to carry out tasks like driving or working that person should not be doing because they may hurt themselves or others. There is some variation when it comes to the definition of a shot but we will use the standard definition which is two tablespoons…

There is some controversy surrounding how many mg of sodium are in one “8-gram” serving size of any food product. Some say that an 8-ounce (or 8 grams) glass of water has only 250mg of salt, while others claim it contains far more! The reason this matters is because most foods have at least 400–500 mg of sodium per 1,000 ml (that’s about 2½ tablespoons), and people tend to eat several servings per day. By today's standards, that’s quite a lot of salt. For someone who is sensitive to or suffers from high blood pressure, these numbers can add up…

We’ve talked about water before, but how much water you drink is one of the biggest factors in your health. The average person needs 8 glasses of water per day to keep their body hydrated. That sounds like a lot, but most people are drinking far less than that! According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), nearly half of all adults over age 18 do not ingest enough fluid to meet their daily nutritional requirements.1 By now, most people know that we need several cups of liquid every day to stay healthy. Unfortunately, many people don’t seem to be…

Recent studies have suggested that honey can be both water and alcohol dependent, depending upon how you use it. Some people claim that by applying some of its gel-like components to your skin, it will help keep you hydrated! Many individuals believe that consuming honey before bedtime helps promote sleep, so we’ll talk about the potential benefits of drinking honey right before sleeping in this article. But before we get into those, let's take a look at the claims made about honey being wet. Claim #1: The thickness of honey is related to how humid the air is where it…

There are many ways to prepare okra when it is time to cook it. Some recipes call for roasting, boiling or simmering it down in liquid. What makes a difference in how your okra cooks depends on what kind of water you use it in. The type of water used while preparing the okra will determine if and/or how gummy the pods get. The best way to wash fresh okra is to soak them in plain water first and then drain off the water. This removes any dirt or salt that may have been absorbed along with the starch from…

A club steak is not actually a steak at all! It’s made of lower quality meat that has been cut into a thinner piece with thicker pieces of meat next to it. The thicker pieces are what gives it its name — they resemble a “club” shape when sliced horizontally. A club steak can be tough or very tender, depending on how much fat it contains and whether you grill or broil it. When cooking a club steak, make sure to cook it long enough so that it gets cooked all the way through and it doesn’t dry out too…

We are going to do something different today. Instead of talking about how many ounces there is in an eight-ounce bottle, we are going to find out how much water you have! We will be doing this by figuring out how many inches into a cup your dry hand weighs. Then, we will measure your dry wrist with a precise tool and add that number to how many inches into a glass your wet hands weigh. This equation will be used to calculate how many gallons of water you have! It may seem complicated, but it’s pretty straightforward once you…

Now that we have our cups defined, let’s talk about how many of each type there are in five gallons! The easiest way to do this is by thinking back to your elementary school math. You know what integer numbers are? That’s just whole number examples like 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on. And then you have fractional or decimal numbers which are things like 0.5, 0.75, and so on. So, an integer/whole part of a ratio is called a numerator and it is simply one more than the denominator. For example, if the denominator was three, the numerator…