So you trust your measures?

[tim]

Happened to check &, for one, our stainless cup measure is 10ml short.

[tim]

[valmarg]

Erm 10 ml short of what?

There are two sizes of cup out there (excluding the bra).  The American and Australian.  The American are the size most usually sold in the UK.  The Australian are quite a bit bigger, so if you have any of the Aussie Women's Weekly cookbooks you need to adjust in accordance with their measurements.

valmarg

[tim]

10ml short of the 250ml stamped on it!

[Hyacinth]

.......not seeing a need to go by measures? but never seen a need to go by the Book....

If you're using the same measuring cup, whatever, no probs, cos these usually measure both dry & wet.....merely a measure (!) of degree?

I'd only be concerned if I was using a different scale for a dry weight + a measuring cup for liquids.........there again, I hope I'd have the nous to see that the resultant mix was thicker/thinner than needed and adjust accordingly?

As, in fact, surely, one has to do all the time? Some rice, for instance, will absorb more liquid than others & it's up to the cook to adjust?

In an Ideal World, yep! it would be good to know that 'x' amount is precisly that.......but in cooking?......not and never been a precise science for me :D

[tim]

Indeed! But a wee bit careless of the makers?

[euronerd]

There's a generation out there that would sue. And probably win. ;D

Geoff.

[tim]

Now there's an idea!!

[Jitterbug]

Go for it Tim !!   ;D ;D ;D

[tricia]

I have four measuring jugs of different sizes. Measured with water up to the 250ml mark, two are the same, one is a tad over and one considerably under! All are "Pyrex" type jugs. So who is to say which measure is the correct one?

Tricia

[valmarg]

tricia, that was something I was wondering about.

Tim, what makes you think that the measure you used to find that the 250ml measure was 10 ml short was accurate?  After all, 10 ml is only two teaspoons.

valmarg

[tim]

I can see that printing on a jug can be a bit random, but stamping out a tin cup should be more consistent?

Answer - a clinical measure, which one hopes is spot on?

[valmarg]

Answer - a clinical measure, which one hopes is spot on?

Oh, the things you 'put' your samples in for examination?

Hope springs eternal, as they say.

valmarg

[Jeannine]

Measuring cups for baking come basically in 2 types. The US one holds 8 fluid ounces of liquid and the Australian one holds 250 ml,. the ones available in the UK can be either depending on where you get them, however, from a baking point of view it makes a neglible difference which one you use as long as you use the same one throughout the recipe as it is measure of volume not weight.

They have a similar system in Nigeria which I find fascinating. In many homes they measure by volume but the containers are called Handy Measures and are as follows.

a  mgt is a margarine tin           =1 US cup
a  mt   is a milk tin                     = 2/3 US cup
a  tpt  is a tomato paste tin      = 1/3  US cup
a  b.bottle is a beer bottle        = 2 1/4 US  cups
a  sq. bottle is a squash bottle = 3 1/8 US cups.

Recipe for using bushmeat available if needed XXX

Tim, and we think we have problems with our jugs !!

XX Jeannine

[valmarg]

No thanks Jeannine, have enough difficulty translating Imperial into the continental rubbish.

valmarg