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Not yet solid, but there are ideas. For example, define units config in a way like that: "1l | 1000 ml | ...". The first value will be a preferred one and everything else will be converted. What do you think?

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Might be the only viable way, as conversion factors are ingredient specific (e.g. Milk/Flour, Cups vs Liter/Grams)

The language parser has the information to know what ingredient the unit is for though, so you could build a database of those conversions.

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