Amount of ingredients?

Hi all! Not real new to brewing, but new to the forums. Just want to say thanks for all the info.
I noticed when viewing some recipes, especially on the cloud, people will list ingredient amounts
as "items", ie: Orange peel - 3.65 items.
Can anyone tell me what they might mean?

When they added the ingredient into Beersmith they didn't choose the unit.

beerbro01 said:

I noticed when viewing some recipes, especially on the cloud, people will list ingredient amounts
as "items", ie: Orange peel - 3.65 items.
Can anyone tell me what they might mean?

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In the Misc items database, one of the units available is Items. This is supposed to mean things like Whirlfloc Tablets and other "items" that are pre measured as a recipe dose, without having to be reweighed or otherwise measured.

In your example, it could be 3.65 premeasured packs of dried orange peel from a homebrew supplier. Whether that "item" is one gram or one pound is anyone's guess. That's just where you'll have to use your brewing experience to judge.

Thanks guys!
That's what I thought. I already figured out how much I want to use, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.