Charts for any wall
Some sheets are for a pupil or for a player. These are not. They are the ones a household reaches for regardless of what anyone is studying: a brew ratio, a size conversion, a status code, the phase of the Moon.
It is the widest set in the catalogue and the least uniform, and that is deliberate. What the sheets share is a kind of question rather than a subject — something you half know, need exactly, and would rather not unlock a phone to find.
They end up in kitchens, hallways and home offices: wherever the question tends to get asked out loud.
POST-FERMENTED TEAS
six teas changed by microbes rather than oxygen
ESPRESSO
the nine requirements of a certified Italian espresso, with their tolerances
MATCHA DRINKS
six proportions · grams, millilitres, degrees
MATCHA GRADES
ceremonial, premium, culinary — what is behind the words
PUERH AGEING
sheng and shu · what the years do and when to drink
MINIMUM MATURATION
how long each spirit must sit in the barrel before it may bear its name — fifteen legal minimums on one scale
SPIRIT HOMELANDS
where the law lets Scotch, bourbon, cognac and tequila be made — seven spirits, three scales of place: a country, a part of one, a drawn zone
SPIRIT RAW MATERIALS
what the law lets whisky, rum, brandy and tequila be distilled from — ten spirits, seven raw materials, two regulations
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
TEA PLANT CULTIVARS
assamica against sinensis · leaves at one scale · six cultivars
GREEN TEA
six leaves · water, time, number of steepings
OOLONG
from 15 to 80 % oxidation · leaf shape · seven steepings
SIX KINDS OF TEA
one plant · the oxidation scale · seven processing steps
YELLOW TEA
yellowing under a cover · the step no other tea has
THE ISO 3591 GLASS
the only wine glass with dimensions instead of adjectives
WINE TEMPERATURE
neither from the fridge nor from the room — not one of them
BABY-LED WEANING
cutting fruit and vegetables so a baby can feed itself: the shape, the size limit and what is never served
THE BOILED EGG
soft, medium and hard: the minutes on the timer — and the degrees at which the white and the yolk set
THE HAMBURGER
the ratios of the mince and the five steps that decide the result
CAST IRON SKILLET
seasoning in 6 steps and everyday care — after the official Lodge instructions
COOKING SALTS
table, kosher, sea and flake: the sodium in the very same spoon — per the makers’ labels, drawn to true scale
SUGAR IN FRUIT
grams of natural sugar per 100 g of fresh fruit — and how much water sits beside it
HERBS AND SPICES
what pairs with what, how much to use and what swaps for what — per extension publications MF3539 (Kansas State) and FN198 (NDSU)
CULINARY KNIFE CUTS
julienne, brunoise, bâtonnet and the family of dice — the Culinary Institute of America dimensions, drawn to true scale
SAFE MEAT TEMPERATURES
USDA minimums inside the cut: three numbers for all meat, the rest time, and an oven plan
NEAPOLITAN PIZZA DOUGH
four ingredients in the proportions written into an EU regulation
POUND CAKE
four equal weights — a recipe whose name is its ratio
PROTEIN IN FOODS
grams per 100 g · animal and plant · and the state each one was weighed in
THE SCOVILLE SCALE
chilli heat from the bell pepper to Pepper X: four peppers drawn to true scale, and the ladder of varieties
SOURDOUGH BREAD
the timeline, hydration and grams — per King Arthur Baking’s Naturally Leavened Sourdough Bread
TABLE SERVICE
which side each thing arrives from, in what order the table is served, and what the hand may touch
THE BRAILLE ALPHABET
63 characters of the cell in seven lines — 26 letters, the digits, the punctuation and 8 prefixes
ENGLISH PUNCTUATION
twelve marks and the three strokes: a name, a job and one working example for each
LANGUAGE FAMILIES
who is related to whom — on the numerals three and two in twenty-seven languages
BARBELL MATHS
the IWF colour code and the plate count: from target weight to each side of the bar, no calculator
BENFORD’S LAW
the first digit of a number: why a one turns up more than six times as often as a nine, and in which sets that is true
THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX
how many people it takes for two of them to share a birthday — and the same count for codes and fingerprints
THE COLLATZ CONJECTURE
halve the even, triple the odd and add one: the road of 27, the record holders and a problem nobody has solved
THE DOOMSDAY RULE
the weekday of any date in the Gregorian calendar, worked out in the head in three steps
LEAP YEARS
one rule, a cycle of four hundred years and the ninety-seven extra days in it
THE RULE OF 72
the time it takes steady growth to double: the division you can do in your head, how far it misses and why the divisor is what it is
AUDIO CONNECTORS
analog, digital, and speaker wiring · pinouts and balanced signals
AUDIO CARRIERS
seven carriers over a century at one scale, and what each one brought first
BIT DEPTH
how many steps the level is cut into, what a bit adds, and why floating point is not the next row
DECIBEL SCALES
what stands at zero on each of them, and why −10 and +4 are not fourteen apart
DI, REAMP AND PREAMP
three boxes on one ruler of levels — where each one leads from and to
EQUAL TEMPERAMENT
how many cents each interval misses the pure one by, and why exactly that much
TONEWOODS
density, hardness, export · what is measured kept apart from what is taste