![]() ![]() Many will have enclosed handles so that the cup can be hung from hooks. Liquid measuring cups have a pour spout on them, which dry ones don’t. ![]() Kasselklaus / wikimedia / 2004 / Public Domain Liquid measuring cups Popular models are made by Tala and Dr Oetker.Ĭonical measuring cup for dry ingredients. They will allow “quick and dirty” weight measurement of common dry goods such as barley, coconut, flour, lentils oats, raisins, split peas, sugar, tapioca, uncooked rice, etc. They are typically conical-shaped, with demarcations inside that approximate what the weight of something would be when measured as a volume. In countries where dry ingredients are typically measured precisely using kitchen scales, cheat measuring cups do exist. If you did manage to find some with packaging clearly labelled as one or the other, unless you knew the difference to look for you, some people may not be able to remember which was which after they got the packaging off. In truth, measuring cups are hardly ever labelled as such in the stores, perhaps because few outside of Home Economics instructor circles really know the difference. Most cooking instructors direct you to buy both. You put in the flour, shake it then eyeball it - as generations of Americans and Canadians have now done.ĭry measuring cups come in sets of 1/4/, 1/3/, ½ and 1 cup odd-size dry measuring cups are ⅔ cup, ¾ cup and 1 ½ cups. In practice, most people just use what they have as a dry measuring cup, which tends to be a liquid one. There is no official “dry cup” - there couldn’t be, as dry varies so much depending on what you are weighing: rice, macaroni and flour don’t fit into the cup in the same way, so it’s only the volume that is measured, not the actual quantity in weight. 1 cup of water from them will be 8 oz, just as in a liquid cup. Be careful, though, using metal ones to scoop up stuff like hard butter, etc: the handles tend to bend easily.ĭry measuring cups are actually technically liquid measures - they measure in volume. But if the handles are too heavy, they won’t sit level on a counter - the heavy handles just tip the flat bottoms over. Some put very long handles on them for just this purpose, so that your knuckles don’t end up dusted in flour. ![]() Good ones have the measurement both on the handle, and on the back, so that if you hang them up, you can easily see the measurement on the back for quick access.ĭry measuring cups are easy to use as scoops straight in the flour bin, etc. The idea is that you take a knife and whoosh it across the top to level it off. They have straight sides, flat narrow rims and flat bottoms. They generally look like large measuring spoon sets. Dry measuring cupsĭry measuring cups are meant to be filled right up to their rim. But they can do that, as cup is not a legally defined term. Their cup measurement doesn’t match up with any kitchen measuring cup, let alone any coffee cups or mugs that anybody actually uses to drink out of. In an attempt to control this possible disparity, recipe writers will often attempt to describe precisely how they want you to put the ingredient in the cup by using adjectives such as generous, loosely-packed, tightly-packed, scant, rounded, heaping, sifted, level, etc.Ĭoffee machine makers seem now to refer to a cup as something that must be a 100 or 125 ml (3 or 4 oz) cup. Another example is a cup of walnuts: whole, halved, chopped, and ground will all yield a different weight of walnuts. If you take a cup of flour and sift it and put it back in the cup, you will now have more than a cup of flour because the added air in the flour will have increased the volume of it. A pound of flour is always a pound of flour, whether sifted or not, but this is not so for a cup of flour. Items that are measured in American kitchens by volume using cups, such as sugar, butter and flour, are actually sold by weight. One of the difficulties in measuring with cups is that “a cup” is not a legally defined term nor is it a term of commerce. The challenges of using cups as a measurement 1 The challenges of using cups as a measurement. ![]()
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