[KarlInOhio]

Off by 1000. People should be very careful when dealing with calories. There are two types commonly used. One is the physics calorie which is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water 1 degree C. The dietary Calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water 1 degree C, or 1000 times larger. This is why European packages often list kilocalories to make it clear which is being used.

One BTU is the heat required to raise one pound of water by one degree F, or about one quarter of a dietary Calorie. (about half the water by about half the temperature change)

Also there are slight changes based on what you use as the base temperature because water does not require exactly the same heat to change by one degree at different temperatures.

[BwanaNdege]

Right!

Sorry, that’s what I started with, but for some reason I switched to the Calorie value, rather than the calorie one.

The good news is I no longer need to starve myself until Buck Rogers shows up (”in the 25th Century”) to get back to my “fighting weight”.