I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same amount(s) as one of the actual plastic baking measuring cups that go inside each other like Russian dolls lol

I thought they were different somehow (something something imperial metric yadda yadda yaddda)

Your turn to come clean Lemmings!

**EDIT: to clarify, I mean volumetrically for measuring liquids

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    US cups are weird. I was having trouble with cups I bought where I live overseas which are 250ml and slightly bigger. No difference in some recipes, definite one Lin others. If you are ONLY using those cups, it should be fine as all things are still proportional. But, if using other measures, things can get off.

    Additional fun: a Canadian cup used to differ from both US and UK but eventually came to match the UK size

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      9 months ago

      There is no such measurement as “a cup” in Britain, we’ve got a few weird old ones but they don’t have quite such misleading names!

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        9 months ago

        I’m basing this on my recollection of a “glen and friends” cooking video. It may be that they were talking about an older time, so my fault if that’s the case.

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          9 months ago

          No worries, old cookbooks are a bit of a wild ride so there could well be cups and all sorts of madness being used!

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            9 months ago

            If you’re into that, the above channel is great; he has an old recipies series and goes into the history and compares and contrasts many sources and is really into the history. Cheers!