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I don’t understand your question. If you prefer to work in pounds and ounces, soapcalc gives you those units too.
 
Under Item #2 on SoapCalc you choose whatever measure you want to make the batch, i.e., pounds, ounces, or grams. After you calculate the results are shown in pounds, ounces, and grams. Here's an example where I plugged in 2 pounds of coconut oil. The results show how much that is equal to in ounces and grams.
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HTH (Hope That Helps) :)
 
I always remember when I was a little girl and we used to buy a pound of butter. Years later it became 500g of butter. When I lived in the United States, butter was sold as four 'sticks' sliced longways down the pound - thus four sticks equals a pound of butter (and approx 500g). A quarter of a pound is therefore 125g ( and equivalent to one 'stick').
I don't know why I am telling you all of this - except to say that this knowledge is quite helpful now that I'm soapmaking and y'all refer to 'PPO' coz I know that's 500g.
But don't get me started on those ounces - geez, they do my head in! So many odd, quirky numbers. Is it something like 14 ounces to a pound? Or is it 17? In either case, working out quarters and halves start to get very confusing.
 
I always remember when I was a little girl and we used to buy a pound of butter. Years later it became 500g of butter. When I lived in the United States, butter was sold as four 'sticks' sliced longways down the pound - thus four sticks equals a pound of butter (and approx 500g). A quarter of a pound is therefore 125g ( and equivalent to one 'stick').
I don't know why I am telling you all of this - except to say that this knowledge is quite helpful now that I'm soapmaking and y'all refer to 'PPO' coz I know that's 500g.
But don't get me started on those ounces - geez, they do my head in! So many odd, quirky numbers. Is it something like 14 ounces to a pound? Or is it 17? In either case, working out quarters and halves start to get very confusing.
16 oz to a pound, 8 oz to a cup... 2 cups in a pound, 4 tbsp to a quarter pound..... I'll stop now. ;)
 
Under Item #2 on SoapCalc you choose whatever measure you want to make the batch, i.e., pounds, ounces, or grams. After you calculate the results are shown in pounds, ounces, and grams. Here's an example where I plugged in 2 pounds of coconut oil. The results show how much that is equal to in ounces and grams.
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HTH (Hope That Helps) :)

So if someone says they add x teaspoons of TD PPO, they are just referring to the amount in the total pounds box? If so, then that's pretty easy.
 
16 oz to a pound, 8 oz to a cup... 2 cups in a pound, 4 tbsp to a quarter pound..... I'll stop now. ;)

This is accurate only with water at room temperature. For any other material, this relationship does not work. As an example, 16 fluid ounces of fat weighs roughly 0.92 pound.
 
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16 oz to a pound, 8 oz to a cup... 2 cups in a pound, 4 tbsp to a quarter pound..... I'll stop now. ;)
Yeah but how big is your cup? And does it runneth over? :hairpulling:
AND, how heavy was the item you put in the cup - even though volumes of different items can be the same, doesn't mean that they will be the same weight. A cup of feathers is going to weigh differently than a cup of bricks.
 
I always remember when I was a little girl and we used to buy a pound of butter. Years later it became 500g of butter. When I lived in the United States, butter was sold as four 'sticks' sliced longways down the pound - thus four sticks equals a pound of butter (and approx 500g). A quarter of a pound is therefore 125g ( and equivalent to one 'stick').
I don't know why I am telling you all of this - except to say that this knowledge is quite helpful now that I'm soapmaking and y'all refer to 'PPO' coz I know that's 500g.
But don't get me started on those ounces - geez, they do my head in! So many odd, quirky numbers. Is it something like 14 ounces to a pound? Or is it 17? In either case, working out quarters and halves start to get very confusing.
16 ounces to a pound. 4 oz. Per quarter (stick). All depends on what you grew up with.
 
I do realize that. I'm also a home baker and most of my (some very old) recipes are by volume, not weight.
I'm an eyeball baker - 'about a cup' could mean anywhere from half a cup to 1.5 cups depending on how I think the consistency of the cake batter should look.

Apologies John - off topic :oops:
 
When I lived in the United States, butter was sold as four 'sticks' sliced longways down the pound

A bit off topic here, but this struck me because several years back our local grocery store was having a massive sale on some really fancy [expensive] 'European' style butter. So cheap, that I bought all that they had because you can freeze butter. Anyhoo...my daughter opens a stick of the fancy butter and notes that it fits in the butter dish and that you can put the lid on it without getting butter all over it and it got me thinking. I grew up with those long skinny sticks of butter, but somewhere along the line they changed into short, fat stick of butter. But the butter dishes didn't change...they are still made for the long skinny sticks.
 
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