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You can use Solo cup measurements for more than beer, wine, and liquor. The post Here’s What the Lines on a Solo Cup Are Actually For appeared first on Reader's Digest.
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Apart from serving as drinking vessels, cups can be used as an alternative to bowls as a receptacle, especially, for soup. Recipes have been published for cooking various dishes in cups in the microwave. [40] Although mainly used for drinking, cups can also be used to store solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). [41]
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.
Superheating can occur when an undisturbed container of water is heated in a microwave oven. At the time the container is removed, the lack of nucleation sites prevents boiling, leaving the surface calm. However, once the water is disturbed, some of it violently flashes to steam, potentially spraying boiling water out of the container. [6]
The Internet was blown away by this TikToker’s plastic party cup hack. According to TikToker Lindsay Roggenbuck (@lindsayroggenbuck), the lines on party cups can serve as marks for measuring ...
However, plastic cups can be easier to recycle than paper cups. Paper is an absorbent material and often needs to be paired with a water-resistant material to prevent the liquid in the cup from being absorbed by the paper. Wax or PE (plastic) are the most common materials used to line paper cups. Paper cups lined with wax cannot be recycled.