Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
the_third@feddit.de 2 months agoCups are great,
Looking at the wide range of cups in my drawer, I’m not so sure, tbh.
Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
the_third@feddit.de 2 months agoCups are great,
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.