Topic: What does the "?" in front of ingredients mean?

[deeboi]

Hi I've only been a memeber of the site for about 5 days now and I keep seeing a ? in front of ingredients, what exactly does it mean?

For instance I'm going to make a batch of Curry Base by onion.(the member lol)
it says "? pint oil"
What would this mean?

I've also seen it used in other recipes, ie. ?tsp , ?tbsp , ?dessert spoon.
I'd appreciate any help on this to help me understand a little bit more.

cheerz, deeboi.

[onion]

Hi I've only been a memeber of the site for about 5 days now and I keep seeing a ? in front of ingredients, what exactly does it mean?

For instance I'm going to make a batch of Curry Base by onion.(the member lol)
it says "? pint oil"
What would this mean?

I've also seen it used in other recipes, ie. ?tsp , ?tbsp , ?dessert spoon.
I'd appreciate any help on this to help me understand a little bit more.

cheerz, deeboi.

Hi deeboi

It looks like it cannot recognise half, as in one and a half tsp,tbs,pint etc.

Onion

[deeboi]

ah! half now I see lol.
I normally write a half on the computer like this 1/2.

Thanks alot onion for the rapid reply and also clearing that up for me.

cheers m8, deeboi ;D

[George]

I normally write a half on the computer like this 1/2.

I always try and write half as 0.5.  I suggests it's 10 times clearer than 1/2 which can mean 'one or two' and just looks 'messy' to me. I know that few people will use 0.5 and 0.25 here, but I wish they would. Any recipe which I copy into my word doc gets a search replace to remove, e.g. 1/4 and insert 0.25

Regards
George

[Cory Ander]

Hi guys,

The recent format change appears to not recognise any (i.e. not only 1/2) fractions (certainly if the recipe is copied and pasted from Word).....please can you sort this out Stew?  If not, let us know and I, for one, will edit my recipes on here!

George!  Pleeeeeeeease!  Nothing wrong with fractions!   Next you'll be wanting us to stop using miles per hour and pounds and ounces!   

Regards,

[deeboi]

lol george I suppose your correct about the use of 1/2 tsp.
In cooking terms it would look like 1 to 2 tsp I never thought of it that way to begin with.

George!  Pleeeeeeeease!  Nothing wrong with fractions!   Next you'll be wanting us to stop using miles per hour and pounds and ounces!   

lol cory. ;D ;D ;D

[Yousef]

Sorry team cant rectify this issue, Ill try to amend the recipe, CA if you can do yours that would help.

Once again sorry, thats the joy of forums and upgrading

S

[Cory Ander]

.....I suggests it's 10 times clearer than 1/2...

......I suggest its only about 81/4 to 91/2 times clearer!  ;D

I'll edit my recipes Stew 

PS:  it's also inverted commas and apostrophes that have been lost 

[Cory Ander]

It seems that apostrophes, inverted commas, and ANY fractions, copied and pasted from Word, come out as a ?

' apostrophe comes out as ? ?
"" inverted commas come out as ? ?
1/4 a quarter comes out as ? ?
1/2 a half comes out as ? ?
3/4 three quarters comes out as ? ?

It seems that these formating errors (in recipes, etc) will have to be edited manually (by the author?).....unless Stew can think of another way?

[Yousef]

Guys,

I think i may have a fix for this, it is a missing component of the langauge files that the site uses.
I will try to get this fixed.

Stew