Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
Zess@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cups are great, the real annoyances are pints, quarts and gallons. Really no reason to use any of those when you can just state it in cups. Then we threw in fluid ounces for that extra layer of confusion and conversion.
the_third@feddit.de 2 months ago
Looking at the wide range of cups in my drawer, I’m not so sure, tbh.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
We don’t … literally use random cups lmao.
the_third@feddit.de 2 months ago
Oh, okay. It sounded like that because the unit is called cups and I could imagine someone pouring sugar and the like into a cup and then into the bowl.
I just with things while baking and recipes here usually show ingredients in gram and mililiters, but the cup thing sounded reasonable because cups are available everywhere, scales maybe aren’t.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I think that is the historical reason for cups. I saw another commenter post that a measuring cup is approximately the volume of a teacup, and those do tend to be about the same size.