Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups?

• the_third@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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