Gold makes for an awful standard due to thermal expansion, but I feel this is more a historical artefact than an actual standard.
Right? Didn’t they define the kilogram, make identical copies of the standard, sent them to different countries, then after years, reunited them and found they all diverged in mass?
And now they have made a perfect silicon sphere with the same mass as the standard kilogram, then counted all the atoms. So now we know the exact mass in silicon atoms of a kilo.
Let’s just define tagliatelle in light nanoseconds and be done with it.
Since 2019, the kg is just defined in terms of the Plank constant and some math with the resonant frequency of cesium as well as the speed of light. There was too much variability in anything physical so they decided to just fix some constants at whatever value they were close to.
It’s part of the attempt to more accurately define Avogadro’s number and the kilo.
https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/kilogram-silicon-spheres-and-international-avogadro-project
They counted the atoms?
Didn’t they just took the mol mass and calculated it? (Not sure if mol mass is the right term… School chemistry is a long time ago…)
And I don’t see how we even should be able to count them.
Would be really interested, if it happened that way, how they did it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagliatelle
Tagliatelle (Italian: [taʎʎaˈtɛlle] ⓘ; from the Italian word tagliare, meaning ‘to cut’) are a traditional type of pasta from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Marche. Individual pieces of tagliatelle are long, flat ribbons that are similar in shape to fettuccine and are traditionally about 6 mm (1⁄4 in) wide.[1] Tagliatelle can be served with a variety of sauces, though the classic is a meat sauce or Bolognese sauce.
Is that the skin you unlock if you made 1 million tagliatelle?
Ah. Good. Now we can calculate the optimal amount of ketchup to pour over them. I also like them uncooked on pineapple pizza. Yummy.
The first part of this made me think you’re making a joke about being tasteless, then you said the pineapple pizza part and given that pineapple on pizza is just plain wrong, you might be serious
Of course they are serious. Ketchup is the best pasta sauce hands down.
It can even be used as a replacement for tomato sauce on pizza, just so damn multifunctional.
But I agree, pineapple on pizza is wrong, that is why I prefer kiwi and banana on there instead. The taste is incredible!
pineapple on pizza is just plain wrong
I’m sorry you grew up uncultured :(
This reminds me of this video that shows how Italian food is a recent invention https://youtu.be/iZZfwyKa0Lc
A lot of “traditional” national foods are like that, especially if you consider pre-columbian food traditions. If you just limit it to chocolate, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, potatoes, and beans, none of which were used or available in Europe until after importation, you see that it gets murky pretty quickly. Funny how we associate potatoes with Ireland, tomatoes with Italy, and chocolate with Switzerland when they’re actually all indigenous American foods.
What are some actual European foods that people ate hundreds of years before that?
From what I can find, there was a lot of barley, wheat, rye. Meat and fish. Peas, cabbage, apples, pears, grapes, honey, legumes, herbs, cheese.
Recipes turn out to be a lot of bread with cheese, meat or stews, with wine or beer. And also things like pancakes and other baked goods.
