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2. Why You Should Always Use a Scale When Measuring ... - AOL

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   You want to double a recipe or halve one: When you scale a recipe with volume measurements, or measuring cups, it can get tricky. "You may end up with 19 teaspoons of flour or .6 of an egg," notes ...

3. Measuring cup - Wikipedia

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   The cup will usually have a scale marked in cups and fractions of a cup, and often with fluid measure and weight of a selection of dry foodstuffs. Measuring cups may be made of plastic, glass, or metal. Transparent (or translucent) cups can be read from an external scale; metal ones only from a dipstick or scale marked on the inside.

4. Cup (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup being 250 millilitres.

5. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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   Serving sizes on nutrition labelling on food packages in Canada employ the metric cup of 250 mL, with nutrition labelling in the US using a cup of 240 mL, based on the US customary cup. [ 4 ] In the UK, teaspoons and tablespoons are formally 1 ⁄ 96 and 1 ⁄ 32 of an imperial pint (5.92 mL and 17.76 mL), respectively.

6. List of food preparation utensils - Wikipedia

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   Measuring jug, Measuring jar The Pyrex-brand traditional measuring cup (the Anchor Hocking-brand look-alike is shown, right) is available in 1 cup (8 ounce), 2 cup (16 ounce), 4 cup (32 ounce) and 8 cup (64 ounce) sizes and includes U.S. customary units in quarter, third, half and two-thirds cup increments, as well as metric units.

7. Volume - Wikipedia

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   The oldest way to roughly measure a volume of an object is using the human body, such as using hand size and pinches. However, the human body's variations make it extremely unreliable. A better way to measure volume is to use roughly consistent and durable containers found in nature, such as gourds, sheep or pig stomachs, and bladders.