Years ago I bought some measuring cups and I made sure they had both units. My 
cup also say:

1/4 cup    60 ml
1/3 cup    80 ml
1/2 cup    125 ml
1 cup      250 ml

Until today I did not realize that those cups had an error in the metric units. 
The "1 cup" cup also has 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 cup markings on the side, but no ml 
markings. I wish all of those cups had accurate ml markings, however nearly all 
of the recipes I own are exclusively in US Customary Units. The directions on 
food packages (such as bags of flour) are also in US Customary Units.

Quoting "John S. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I would not buy a measuring product that has a >5% systematic error by
> design.  
> A U.S. cup is about 236.6 ml.
> 
> John
> 
> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 04:52, Carter, Baron wrote:
> > My wife bought kitchen measuring cups here in Austin the other day. 
> > They're labelled:
> >
> > *   1/8 cup    30 ml
> > *   1/4 cup    60 ml
> > *   1/3 cup    80 ml
> > *   1/2 cup    125 ml
> > *   1 cup       250 ml
> >
> > Brand name was Trudeau.
> >
> > Baron Carter
> 
> 


Gavin Young
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