Dear Americans, I'm fed up with your stupid cup measurements!

My woman watches a lot of US YouTubers baking and the like. She bought herself a set of "cups" always works out fine.

I believe a "quart of milk " is a quarter of 1 pint.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Either buy a cup or treat them as ratios in volume.

1 cup can be 1 mug or 1 pint. It doesn’t really matter.
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It's not that black and white. A cup in an American recipe is a specific amount, but different from the amount of a UK cup. It's also not always that clear if a recipe using cups are American or not.
 
I just use 250ml or however much of the ingredients fits in that volume. More if I like that thing. Recipies should be inspiration, not gospel imo
 
This got me thinking whether the US have also managed to bugger up teaspoon/tablespoon measurements. A quick google later and the answer appears to be not really, very slightly under a UK tablespoon. Seems to be the Australians you have to watch out for as regards spoons.
 
Cups are fine for liquid measurements, but when a recipe says "add 1/2 cup of chopped carrots" or something similar it gets silly. Can't you just quote grams instead?!
 
Bubo said:
Quantities of rice always throw me, is it cooked or uncooked for gods sake, they never say.
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:confused:

What recipes would call for cooked rice?

Surely if the recipe requires cooked rice over uncooked rice, it would become very obvious when you look at the other ingredients or cooking method like pasta?
 
tnx said:
My woman watches a lot of US YouTubers baking and the like. She bought herself a set of "cups" always works out fine.

I believe a "quart of milk " is a quarter of 1 pint.
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It's actually around 1 litre as it's a quarter gallon. Just to confuse things more it varies depending if it is UK or US quart as, of course, the UK and US have different values for the gallon as well.
 
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