On 6/24/2018 3:43 AM, mike wilson wrote:
On 24 June 2018 at 08:30 Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote:
Extra bonus: I have no idea what a fluid ounce is, and not enough capacity left
in my head to hold that information.
My measuring cups and my old cookbooks (american cookbooks) have marks
for both as I noted earlier 8 oz = 1 cup when mesuring liquids... and
all the liquids
sold in cartons or bottles here have to say how many ounces are
inside.. the distinction of fluid ounces vs just plain old ounces is
that a pound of something is 32 ounces
by weight. but as you say...
Bob said..
"The great benefit of cup (and spoon) measures for cooking is that you
can easily picture them, and don't have to fanny around; if the recipe
says 125cc sugar and 200ml of honey you don't know whether they're both
one tsp, or a tbsp or what, so you have to measure them, but 2 cups of
flour and a tsp of salt is easy. "
Mike said..
Indeed, the proportions for any recipe will be the same, whether you use
Imperial or US cups and suchlike. But if you use volume measurements for
things that should be measured by mass (i.e. you put in 8 fl oz instead
of 8 oz) things will likely go awry. If I was feeling anything other
than bone idle at the moment, I would go and weigh half a pint of flour
and then sugar just to see what the difference is.
Right - doesn't matter in cooking what you call it as long as you get
the proportions right... This all started with the 4 cups of coffee for
health..
and I figured if it were a scientific study they would be using
measuring cups rther than what ever size the mfgs of chinaware use to
define a cup a mug a demi tasse.
Where cup measurements fail are when mfgs tell us that 1 cup of some dry
food is the equivalent to a certain amount of something by weight on a
package... because
the size of the particles of one kind of dry stuff to another is not
taken into account. This became important to me feeding Ashley.. the
true weight in grams is more
accurate than the cup - and I'm sure in producing the food, the grams
are the key measurment for how many calories a "serving" contains.
this is rather a fun discussion :-)
ann
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