They would specify if it were cooked rice, so if it doesn't say it will be meaning uncooked.
Dear Americans, I'm fed up with your stupid cup measurements!
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Only rice?
I mean, everything on the ingredients list could be talking about a cooked version. But it probably isn't
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One likes a good old cupping.
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Agreed, I hate the use of 'cups' for measuring ingredients! Such an absolute pain in the bum.
Also, while we're at it, I really wish people who list recipes but feel the need to give you their life story on the same page would bugger off. I wanna know how to make a cake, not read how you found yourself in a retreat and this was your dads aunts mums dogs recipe - just give me a picture and a recipe
Also, while we're at it, I really wish people who list recipes but feel the need to give you their life story on the same page would bugger off. I wanna know how to make a cake, not read how you found yourself in a retreat and this was your dads aunts mums dogs recipe - just give me a picture and a recipe
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Yes annoying, however we just bought some cup measures.
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"One cup of shredded cheese" always winds me up. For a start, it's grated not shredded and what sort of idiot measures cheese in cups?
Why does it wind you up? What’s wrong with measuring shredded cheese in cups?
Is this the inferiority complex of the failed British Empire coming out via baking?
But who is going to weigh out exact quantities of vegetables like that? What are you going to do with a quarter of onion left over because you reached the 125grams of chopped onion?
The whole idea of using cups is to get ball park ratios. this actually works much better for things like vegetables n standard cooking vs baking where exact quantities become more important. Still, it is nice to whip out a quick cake using just a cup rather than digging around for some scales with the battery dead.
Even when you try to be exact using scales the problem arises when you have things like 3 large eggs yet you have medium eggs in the fridge. Most recipes don't specific a weight of egg to use and eggs always vary in size. If you are going to accept inexact measurements then using a cup is far easier.
at least the US is consistent with the use of imperial measurements, unlike the complete cluster **** the UK has.
When in Gods name will the UK change over to KPH. Or what is the preparedness of fuel economy in the UK; MPG yet you are buying liters of fuel?
Its grated cheese, and how fine is your grating ?
Do i force the cheese into whatever shape the cup is or can i just grate 100g of cheese onto a scale and get exactly what i want instead of a stupid cup.
I think i have issues, it makes me cross
The whole pint is it doesn't actually matter. The cup quantity used in these recipes is to give you an idea of what you should be approximating.
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All I can say is that at the tech end of the food manufacturing world we measure everything by weight.
Liquids, powders, resins etc. Everything is by weight as its easier and more precise.
Luckily the robot pouring systems are not american, instead of measuring fractions of a gram I can imagine an american recipe "a short squirt"
Liquids, powders, resins etc. Everything is by weight as its easier and more precise.
Luckily the robot pouring systems are not american, instead of measuring fractions of a gram I can imagine an american recipe "a short squirt"
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But a US gallon is not the same as an imperial gallon which adds more to the confusion
Thanks Flibster, could come in handy.