As the title says, it’s mildly infuriating seeing someone say " cook this at 210° " and stuff like that, we are in a international context!! Do i have to put those cookies in the flames of hell or just around the boiling point of water?!
Edit: the cookie thing was just an example and i throw a random number lol
Don’t even get me started on the yanks thinking cups is an acceptable measurement of both weight and volume.
And how big are we talking? Espresso cup or sports direct mug, because there’s a massive difference.
I’m not from the US and don’t use it, but a cup there is an actual measurement (for liquid - it’s not used to measure weight). 8 fluid ounces or about 240ml. The metric alternative of a US cup is 250ml
We don’t measure weights in cups, but we do measure some ingredients (like flour) by volume, so it’s not uncommon here to see a recipe that calls for 1 cup of flour instead of 120g
However, we do use “ounce” to mean both 1/8 of a cup in volume and 1/16 of a pound in weight…
Well that’s simply because there’s are 2 cups in a pint. So an ounce is 1/16 pint or 1/16 pound.
Never heard someone say mind your cups and pints, they’d have to be a hobbit. (Mind your p’s & q’s)
Usually they mean the imperial unit “cup” i fucking hate imperial…also, it’s annoying in this case because you have to guess that it’s the imperial unit and not a random cup
Nobody has ever read cooking instruction and thought “they mean for me to measure this with a mug from my cabinet” lol
Yeah if only there weren’t a dozen different international definitions of cup ranging from 100ml to 250ml
I like how you just pulled that sentence out of context from the description for ONE country and ignored the dozen other countries with different measurements.
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You literally pulled up a cherry picked list of where there are discrepancies. You’re allowed to and im not?
Also, would you look at that: almost all of them have converged to US customary or 250mL, which is within the tolerance for error.
The entire point of this thread from the comment you replied to, is that ‘cup’ is an inexact unit of measurement that varies. My list is providing examples, I’m not seeing the issue here.
You were misrepresenting the statement as if it applied globally when in actuality it was meant for ONE country. That’s just bad faith discussion.
Except for Latin America, the UK, most of Asia, parts of Europe, etc. 🙄
No, but they’ve probably thought “what fucking size cup do these twats mean and why can’t they just put an actual measurement”.
I’ll take your word for it. All of my measuring tools have cups on one side and mL on the other. Git gud scrub
Often, people look to the internet to learn things. Given that circu.stance, they may not have that foundational knowledge. So how are those scrubs supposed to git gud?
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To add insult to injury, a US cup is 236.6 millilitres, while a UK (imperial) cup is 170.48 millilitres. Not even close. There’s a whole lot of other measurements called “cup” too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
I wanna kms at this point
What size cup is that?
30F (USA) i think