Timeline for Is it okay to measure flour by weight by converting from volume?
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 13:23 | comment | added | jscs | It's not intentional, and it's not a question of different units, it's simple imprecision in manufacture. | |
| Jan 29, 2018 at 11:37 | comment | added | Voo | @tchrist From a quick check on amazon.com I found measurement cups using both legal and customary units as well as metric. And that was only on the handful that actually listed the weight, most were silent on the topic. And that's only the US, for extra fun just add Canadian cups to the mix. Ah imperial so much easier than SI units. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 8:38 | comment | added | Dawood ibn Kareem | Except for the countries where the metric system is used, of course, and "1 cup" is likely to mean 250 cubic centimetres. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 1:15 | comment | added | tchrist | I have never in my life heard of the idea that a measuring cup varies in size from model to model! That's why they have demarcations in ounces. Recipes that specify volume in cups always mean a measure that can exactly hold 8 fluid ounces. | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 21:33 | comment | added | Dan Henderson | Except, perhaps, for a cup of water, at a specified temperature and pressure... | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 17:53 | comment | added | Catija | I can not emphasize your last point enough... I use several websites that quote measurements both in cups and in ounces/grams and even they often disagree on what the equivalents are. One may say 4 oz and the other 4.5 oz per cup... there's no "standard" weight for a "cup" of anything. For example, King Arthur lists 4.25 oz = 1 cup and The Kitchn says 4.5 while Cook's Illustrated says 5 oz! | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 16:35 | history | edited | jscs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2018 at 14:02 | history | answered | jscs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |