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[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 25 points 1 week ago (29 children)

What is a cup? What is a cup for liquid? What is a cup for flour?

Ffs.

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Cups are ~235ml regardless of wet or dry. They are one of the sane-er measurements

You may be confusing your frustration with the ounce, which may refer to:

  • avoirdupois ounce, used for mass in most cases
  • Troy ounce, used for mass when referring to precious metals
  • the imperial fluid ounce, used for volume sometimes
  • the us customary fluid ounce, used for volume sometimes
  • the us food labelling ounce, used for volume like the customary fluid ounce, but rounded to a nice number of milliliters
[–] superkret@feddit.org 26 points 1 week ago (18 children)

In metric, dry ingredients are measured by weight, so how much a cup is changes for each ingredient.

Never really reflected on it, but plenty of swedish recipes measure things like flour in deciliters (sometimes with gram equivalents with things like bread). Don't know if it's us being silly, or if it's common elsewhere...

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