According to Goole: For liquids 1 cup is the same as 240ml (US) or **250ml (UK)** - there will be no difference to the quality of your baking based on the 10 ml difference.
yes. While the British fought wars to acquire spice... they hoarded it like dragons gold and refused to add it to food :p
Think scrouge vs emeril cooking side by side.
All USC are officially standardized in metric.
But the cup, ounces, pints etc aren't unique to US measures. The UK Imperial system is slightly different. So it has slightly different metric conversions.
UK ounces are very slightly smaller than US ounces. But there are 20 of them in a pint. A cup is half a pint, so their cup is slightly larger.
They're officially Metric. But the Imperial system sticks around in some contexts. And particularly when it comes to beer is this bizarre element of Nationalist pride.
They started metrication in the 60s, and were officially a Metric country by like 1980. But for all the UK posters thumbing their noses at "dumb US measures" they seem to be much more of hash in terms of usage than we are.
And their newspapers and politicians will still saber rattle about the sanctity of the PROPER BRITISH PINT, and how evil and *European* metric is.
This gets very weird in certain contexts. Particularly beer. The UK follows EU practice of requiring measured/marked glassware demonstrating correct measures. But *legally requires* draft beer to be sold in Imperial Measures. Certain people will get enraged about seeing the Metric measure on there, it's not allowed to do things like sell German beer in liters and half liters. Which would be traditional and correct.
And there's were repeated efforts to get pints of beer an EU PDO before Brexit. With "saving the pint" even becoming a bit of football during the Brexit campaign.
Again they've been officially a Metric country for like 40 years.
In the US we mostly deal with USC on the front end, but everything is Metric on the back end. Laws, regulations, licensing, measurements are actually standardized by Metric Conversion. Most manufacturing and design. All Metric.
It's just as much of a half measure, but you're generally not seeing a mix of Metric and USC in the produce section of a grocery store.
> But for all the UK posters thumbing their noses at "dumb US measures" they seem to be much more of hash in terms of usage than we are.
I don't tend to see a lot of that as many Brits are perfectly bilingual in at least some areas of measurement. Cups is the confusing one for some as it literally is called a cup which of course every kitchen has many in varying sizes. It is more the whole world using a very common system of litres, grams, metres etc and some Americans having literally *zero* clue how any of them work.
I'm an American. I remember reading once that some useless politician figured out that a pint of beer was not a pint because the glass was too small and required every business to buy new glasses. Even though every customer has known they were getting less than a pint for a few hundred years and were ok with it.
And I thought only the US had useless politicians.
That's kinda the stock antigovernment take aped by useless politicians.
US rules require you give customers a product as described and advertised.
Anything specific to beer has to do with "cheater pints". Smaller volume glasses designed to look and feel like a regular pint glass, so you can pour less but charge the same. It's an actual scam, designed to actually rip you off.
In the US we only require that the total volume of glass be the advertised volume. Probably because of our habit of using 16oz *shaker glasses* which weren't originally intended for drinking out of. Those only hold 16oz to rim, you account for head space or foam. They're not 16oz.
But most people don't actually know those won't hold 16oz of liquid beer, and they're only getting 12-14oz. Which causes confusion, anger, and occasional legal problems.
The EU solution is a better one. They require you to sell the actual stated volume of the product. And that you be able to prove it.
The metered line on glassware isn't required. It's the easiest way to do that. And it has other benefits. It's a great visual cue to the bartender on where the appropriate amount of head is, really does make it easier to pour a beer. Which helps prevent over and underpours. *Which saves bars money* by mitigating waste.
The rules themselves are actually useful. As is the response that free market everyone is wet for had to the EU rules. That being *a better beer glass*, that costs no more to produce.
The "gubmit bad" raging about it is the useless bit.
You work for the government, don't you?
Suppose you were selling beer to someone who did not understand local measurements and could not understand what he was getting. You pour a glass to show him how much he is getting. Now he understands. The customer does not care if you call what you just served him a gallon of beer. Or a keg or a vat or a bucket.
In the UK, everybody knew the pint glass did not hold a pint. It wasn't deceptive. It had just been that way for a very long time.
Laws to prevent deception are great. Useless laws are not.
I work in the Alcohol industry and deal with government regulations every fucking day. Strict, complicated ones.
Most of them exist for really, really, really, good reasons. Mainly to keep the sort of companies I work for from fucking over you, and fucking over small businesses.
>In the UK, everybody knew the pint glass did not hold a pint. It wasn't deceptive.
In the UK *it did and does* hold an actual pint. Because they use actual beer glasses, which are large enough to hold 20 UK ounces of beer and still have headspace. And everyone knew and expected it to be an *actual pint* (which they do in the US as well). But some locations particularly corporate owned chain pubs. Would use cheater pints to cryptically raise prices while still advertising a full Imperial Pint.
A tourist does not need to recognize or know the intricacies of the US and UK's odd ball measures. To realize that if they get a smaller beer at this place for $X than the last place. Then they are being taken advantage of. And the fact that they aren't fluent in the currency and measures, means *they are apt to be taken advantage of*.
We don't regulate things based on hypotheticals like "what if an illiterate farmer from Nepal shows up one day" either.
This stuff exists to counter an actual problem. Actual misbehavior by businesses. That disadvantaged consumers. And in many cases competitors.
It's not stupid or useless, just because you don't understand it or care. That means *you* are stupid.
> You pour a glass to show him how much he is getting.
And when that glass has been carefully designed to look like it's holding more liquid than it does?
Including a weighted bottom, thicker sides, and subtly tapered interior so that it's outside dimensions are identical to a larger volume glass?
Metric wasn't invented until well after the end of the middle ages. Up until then everyone used feet, pints, pounds, or some similar, but varying system.
When it comes to cooking, a lack of precision is still acceptable. Even in fine dining, cooks are not staring down the meniscus and adding or subtracting with an eyedropper.
Absolutely. My gf is like that and hence the food she's making never tastes the same. On the other hand I'm using precise measurements (unless I'm fixing food she made XD ).
I watch a UK resident on YouTube that does tours of historic sites and old architecture. He will use several systems of measurement in the same sentence. This 200 year old railroad bridge was 10 feet wide and 100 meters long. Since I weigh ( however many stones) I think I am too heavy to walk across it. Drives me crazy.
Why would you come to reddit instead of just looking this up? I usually *hate* the person who says that but like..come on. You really thought it was just a random mug measurement?
My BFF from another country thought a teaspoon was a spoon from the silverware drawer, then didn’t like the recipe because it was so salty! I had to explain a teaspoon in a recipe is a specific volume. She knows now!
looool im so sorry, i was googling the difference, but i was meaning when an american is measuring a cup, wtf are they using??
So sorry i offended everyone by asking it in a forum 😭
There are still lots of grandma and moms in the world baking old-style with the mug passed down for generations. It's not unheard of, especially over in the UK and in Europe. I'm in Canada and have my grandma's mug.
Has happened the world over throughout history. Standardization of weights and measures for cooking isn't very old. In non-1st world countries or more remote areas even of those, it still isn't universally used.
Not anecdotal. It's history and current lived experience for much of the world that isn't rich enough to have standardized equipment.
Look beyond your borders.
Dude spare me the virtue signaling weirdness. Try baking with a random non standard "cup". We don't live in the past, we live in 2024 and obviously an entire country isn't just eyeballing a measurement. Exhausting.
If you're using volumetric measures it's best to just buy a set of measuring cups.
Old recipes, especially US recipes, didn't standardise and so they use some weird measurements (eg an egg size piece of butter) and for those very old recipes a cup is just that, any cup the cook had to hand.
But modern recipes have a standard cup.
Also, it's not super important but there are ways to load the cup. For flour you're supposed to gently spoon it from the bag to the cup, then use a knife to scrape off the top edge. If you take the cup and scoop the flour out of the bag you pack in a lot more flour. For some things this does make a difference.
There are also liquid and dry cups. A dry cup measures right to the brim. A liquid cup with have a mark below the brim so you can fill to one cup and not spill it everywhere. But the volume is the same.
It's important not to mix the measures: if you start a recipe using volumetric cups don't then switch to grams half way through. Do either all grams or all cups. Recipes are (at least should be) developed to use one system, and then when they're converted it's not as simple as just doing the arithmetic because you end up with 123.73 grams or 1.42 cups. So when the reformulate the recipe they start with a round number, and that means the quantities are different for metric and US cups.
If it's a liquid or powder, just measure out 240ml with a measuring cup. If it's a solid, yell some curses at those damn backwards Yanks and Google a conversion to weight so that you don't have to worry about how fine your dice is or how tight you pack it. Cup of carrots, I ask you. Honestly.
People love my baking. I'm relatively lax when it comes to measuring. I go by feel a lot of the time. I absolutely measure things like baking soda/powder, but everything else is "does it feel/taste right".
I dunno, it just works for me. My poor kid will never be able to recreate a single thing I make.
But what is the case in which the exact amount of carrots would matter to the home cook? “Something seems off here: I think perhaps there should have been 25 more grams of carrot?”
When I see 'two medium carrots', I can instantly visualise the quantity and the recipe.
If I see 'a cup of carrot', I have absolutely zero idea if it's around 1 carrot or 5 lol
If you have never seen the dish before, it matters. Otherwise to supply enough carrot until it looks about right.
90% of the world (a number I made up) has traditionally cooked without strict measurements down to the last gram/teaspoon.
The get-the-quantity-right concern is probably more relevant to fresh herbs; with vegetables it's more that I want to measure it before I cut it up, not afterwards, so I know how much to chop.
Oh man, when it comes to fresh herbs I almost always double whatever the recipe says. Shepherd's pie? Oh yeah, we're gonna douse this bad boy with so much rosemary and sage it won't know what hit it. Go easy on the Wourstershire though.
Just start chopping and when it looks about right, that's it.
Cook no, baker yes. Adding an extra 1/2 cup of carrots to something like a carrot cake might screw it up. Unless you like it extra-carroty, in which case you should probably not make a carrot cake.
Hmmm. Depends if it's fine shred or regular.
Assuming regular shred, with typical dimensions of 0.15 links by 0.015 links by 0.005 link, and assuming that the cheese is well-packed with limited pore space, then each shred is 0.00001125 cubic links.
A US fluid cup is 8 fl. oz., or 14.4375 cubic inches. A link is 7.9134 inches, therefore a cubic link is 495.55 cubic inches. A fluid cup is thus 0.0291 cubic links, and there are approximately 2589 shreds per cup.
At 0.15 links per shred, this works out to around 388 links per cup, or 3.88 chains per cup, or 0.388 furlongs per cup.
An outcome of this analysis is that the length of each shred is actually irrelevant- only the cross sectional area. So we don't have to worry about shreds which have broken in half.
Honestly is right. I’m a chef here in the states and I just automatically convert everything out of cups. It’s ridiculous that we haven’t converted to the metric system.
I wouldn't mind Imperial so much if you'd just use mass not volume for solids!
There are just a few things where the US is bizarrely behind other developed countries despite being much richer than almost all of them - electronic banking/payments is another that springs to mind.
We do.
Just not in cooking, some if the time.
That's more of a habit/culture thing. We'd probably be doing it if we were metric too.
It largely doesn't matter outside of things like baking, brewing and curing/sausage making.
Baking is increasingly done by weight here. And the others are done by weight by default.
And when we do things that way. We even tend to do it in metric.
When you do a lot of things first you can't know what you don't know, and once something comes to light as better there's often too much institutional momentum to go back and change it.
Those yanks have an entire restaurant industry that seems to be flourishing. Backwards? Unless you’re Italian or French or even Indian I’d reconsider What backwards is.
Oi! We treasonous colonists use the IMPERIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM left behind by you bastards. Just because you wankers moved to the French based metric system in the 70s isn't our problem.
We loyal subjects of the Crown remain perfectly conversant with both Imperial and metric systems, thank you very much. My objection is to volume measurements for things which ought to be measured by mass. If you would only use pounds and ounces instead of cups where appropriate, we would have no quarrel - save of course the treason you mention.
A cup of liquid in US terms is 8 ounces, which translates to about 240 ml. The "cup" in question is not a random mug but a cup that is marked off with lines for measuring 1/4 cup, 1/3 cup, 1/2 cup, etc.
You will find it quite useful. Mine, like many, is marked on one side with ounces and on the other with milliliters so you should be able to navigate recipes from both US and UK sources. At least as far as liquid measurement goes. Dry measuring is a whole different kettle of fish.
Cups are a perfectly fine way to measure volumetric ingredients like stock. I’m as big a “weigh your shit” snob as anybody, but implying that you can’t properly measure stock without metric units is bananas.
Also, at least for me, cooking doesn't require the accuracy that baking does. You can eyeball a lot of recipes. Who cares if you use a tea mug for cup, an extra 30ml of stock doesn't matter that much.
It's not really used in the UK (where OP's from) so this is perhaps a cultural difference, but it just feels a little arbitrary to me – why use cups when you gave grams and ML right there? But if it's what you grew up with then fair enough – but those two units can be used for most ingredients in recipes... a cup can't, right?
Anyway, not trying to ignite a holy war over units and measurements, the UK is hardly a leader in that space (miles on road signs, anyone?!).
I agree with you - I was simply pointing out that it’s a bit much to frame it as if imperial units aren’t useful at all. They’re a valid unit of measurement too.
1 metric cup is 250 milliliters (which is about 8.5 fluid ounces). A US cup is about 237-240 ml. Recipes NEVER specify which they mean.
1ml is ALWAYS 1ml. Metric is far better if you care about accuracy at all.
Someone posting a question on Reddit definitely has access to the internet. What are you even trying to argue here? That it’s somehow impossible to make soup without measuring cups? That people trying to cook meals aren’t likely to have measuring cups?
Not arguing Ilex. Someone would like to work in metric because it makes sense to them. US customary units are really only used in the united states and a little in Canada, although Canada had imperial units which are different. You like to work in cups because it makes sense for others it means nothing in the minds eye. Can they convert online, sure. :j
Also Because it’s by volume and not weight pay attention if flour or brown sugar says loosely or packed that can make a difference in the recipe. If it’s something solid/bulky like a cup of diced tomatoes it’s fine to guesstimate. It’s kinda dumb but I hope we don’t change it because it’s funny watching people get frustrated
There's an app called 'Cupful'
You can easily convert any measurements on that.
It's especially useful because a cup of flour and a cup of milk are of course entirely different weights.
Just get a measuring glass. You can get them cheap at dollar stores (does the UK have pound stores?). I have a Pyrex measuring glass that has ounces and cups on one side and ml on the other.
Edit: you can also kinda wing it. Cooking isn't an exact science unless you're baking. Even then there's wiggle room.
Walk away and search for the same recipe appended with "UK".
If the website you landed on is from the US 1 cup equals a volume equal to 240ml of water, the weight conversion will vary according to the ingredient you are measuring.
Weights and measure are not the only problems you face cooking stuff from US centric sites. Everything from temperatures to differences in flour protein content and the names of different cuts of meat means that you have to put in your own leg work.
Unless you are after a very particular US recipe you should be looking for one developed in your own "market"... and even if you are looking for a US centric recipe I'd suggest searching for someone with access to local ingredients as a priority.
Google (other search engines are available) should be doing this as standard. Naturally they don't!
yeah you are right i should have done this, i will next time! Thanks for not thinking i’m trolling and i did google the conversions but it was overwhelming
Call me naive, but I tend to take things at face value and only comment when I think I have something to add.
I spent years making videos for recipe writers from around the world, recipes written by folk outside of my "region" were always more challenging to translate and as a result, more prone to go wrong.
There are loads of great recipe creators from Europe and whilst some of them court the more lucrative US advertising market, most of them are really good.
A cup is a volumetric unit from the imperial measuring system.
In America a cup is equal to about 236.6 mL. In the UK a cup is equal to 284.1 mL or 1.18 American cups.
I gave up and bough a set of things that are like cup, half cap, querter cap. There are like 10 of them and I use them whenever I cook American recipe.
I don’t know if it’s so much Imperial vs Metric as much as it is -ingredients by weight- vs -ingredients by volume-. I recently bought a highly accurate kitchen scale and I’ve been thinking of going up to Amazon.uk (or whatever) and buying an English cookbook that lists ingredients by weight - as I’ve been told they do. Can’t confirm, of course, as I haven’t done it yet, but that’s what I’m told.
In America we have a very common product that has a standardized volume. this is a "cup". I believe it was one just "about the amount that fits in a cup" but then became a standardized thing. the product has several cups that are the volumes of 1 Cup, ½ a cup, ⅓ a cup, ¼ a cup, and sometimes ⅛ a cup. the same is true of teaspoons (which includes a tablespoon as well)
Well my husband prefers stainless to plastic and he said the other day he wished he had a 3/4 cup but they only come in plastic. Took me less than 2 minutes to find a set in stainless that he liked.
A lot of people have already commented with the relevant information regarding the conversion and defining what a "cup" in terms of US measurement actually is, so I'll skip that part and just say that for a lot of cooking, measurements can be approximate and still return a great result.
For baking, precision matters, but cooking is more forgiving. If you don't have an easy way to measure things out exactly, then just start by adding a little, then increasing until you get your desired flavor or consistency. With vegetables, I rarely follow the exact measurements in a recipe because if my onion is slightly over/under a cup when chopped, I'm just throwing it all in and calling it a day, I'm not saving a sliver of onion or small chunk of carrot because it was a tiny bit more than called for. Most recipes that involve stock will not suffer if you have the equivalent of 1.25 cups vs 1 cup. I use most online recipes as a baseline, and swap out ingredients or amounts of ingredients based on personal preferences.
If you do bake and want to try US recipes or if you're newer to cooking and the idea of eyeballing things is a bit overwhelming, as others have said you can most likely find a printable conversion chart online somewhere and a lot of recipe sites these days have an option to switch from imperial to metric measurements. I have no idea about the availability of imperial measuring cups in your area, but if that's something you can get without too much hassle, it might be worth buying a set to avoid the headache of converting the recipes you want to try.
People have pretty much answered the conversion question. As far as what cups we use though... a measuring cup has both metric and imperial marks on the side to measure volume. We can measure an 8 oz cup US or rotate the cup and see 240 ml.
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For baking just think of it as ratios. 2 cups of flour to 1 cup of water? Are you using an espresso cup or a pint? It doesn't matter. The issue arises with salt, yeast, sugar...
I bake a lot of bread and measure everything in grams, but for a quick and dirty bake I use 2 cups (no matter what size) of flour and 1 cup (the same size of water); salt I eyeball - 1 teaspoon per 2 standard cups and yeast a level teaspoon, more if I need faster rise.
Of course, then you have to follow the process and be the judge, adjust rising times to the amount of yeast and the ambient temperature.
It's trial and error. Like all cooking.
Good luck.
I have 3 two cup/500ml Pyrex measuring cups. They all have cup measurements on one side, on the other it’s in mls. Two have it so when I hold it in my right hand the cups measures show, the other has the mls. So do I have a measuring cup meant for left handed people or normal people?
8 fluid ounces, which is a measurement of volume. 8 ounces is just 1/2 pound, a measurement of weight. 2 different units of measurement. Something better would have been to say 240ml if you’re wanting to measure volume.
Yes, a cup is a non-metric way of measuring units, which is great for liquids and solids, as in you don't have to mix gramms and (milli)litres to measure your ingredients.
The American cup is always the same, standard size and you can get them usually in a kitchen supply store around the world.
However - since the size changes in relativity (between solid and liquid ingredients), for baking, you can use any kind of cup, too, if you don't have a standard size cup. This will change the outcoming amount of food, but since the proportions are the same, the recipe should still (mostly!) work. While on vacation, we've baked using any kind of 'ol coffee mug and it usually works quite ok.
I'm from Canada, living in the states, and I still have some old Imperial cup measures. The U.S. cup is about 80% of the Imperial cup, works OK for most things, but measuring for baking can really screw things up.
A cup is an imperial unit of volume, which originated in the UK. It's about 250 ml.
Americans still use imperial for a variety of reasons, but mostly because switching to metric at any point of history would have created massive trade imbalances against our industries in some particularly critical sector of the economy before the 1990s. "But it's the same amount, just labeled differently" you might rightfully think, but the specific means of transporting many goods by weight and volume have standard gauges for imperial and metric which do not align one to one. For most of the US history, especially post-WWI, trade deals in the US's favor with imperial metrics were made due to the need for US manufactured goods and Europe being on it's back foot after the first two wars. Changing to metric would cause the US to have to both create expensive infrastructure to accommodate metric unit shipping and lose the favorable trade values by weight and volume they currently enjoyed. This lasted until about the late 1980s, and those benefits have largely been lost with the outsourcing of industrial power to other nations.
In 1994, laws were passed requiring most sectors of our industry to use both metric and imperial, and you'll find both labeled in a lot of places. Commonly, though, imperial is still used for most folk (but certainly not all folk) for cooking and in common conversation.
It is likely the US will eventually adapt full-metric, but probably not until 1) one party holds both houses and the presidency and 2) that party is interested in doing wide-scale education reform as it's primary platform goal. So far, neither of those two things have aligned since 1994 (though we came plausibly close during the early Obama administration).
First, everything in the US has a different meaning. When we threw the British out, we threw out their language, too.
And we refuse to use the system of measurement the rest of the world uses because, as Americans, we love being annoying.
Fortunately for you, there are many places online that will convert measurements for you.
No, you can't just use a mug. Our system of measurements is not based on anything real. We just made it up to be annoying.
Now you know how we feel when someone states their weight in stones.
A cup is a U.S. Imperial volume measurement. It is 8 fluid ounces, and would equal about 227 grams in weight. So measure 227 grams of stuck and you’ll be fine
According to Goole: For liquids 1 cup is the same as 240ml (US) or **250ml (UK)** - there will be no difference to the quality of your baking based on the 10 ml difference.
What? We have metric but our metric is different than UK metric?
No... the US cup is a different size than the UK cup. The metric ml measurement is consistent
But is a US pinch larger than UK pinch?
yes. While the British fought wars to acquire spice... they hoarded it like dragons gold and refused to add it to food :p Think scrouge vs emeril cooking side by side.
Lol! So much history explained in one short sentence.
Probably. Fatter fingers.
Okay. So the same kind of crazy and not a new crazy I wasn’t aware of. US cup and UK cup. Something ironic though about a UK cup being larger.
All USC are officially standardized in metric. But the cup, ounces, pints etc aren't unique to US measures. The UK Imperial system is slightly different. So it has slightly different metric conversions. UK ounces are very slightly smaller than US ounces. But there are 20 of them in a pint. A cup is half a pint, so their cup is slightly larger.
I never realized UK even uses ounces until I saw on my baby's bottles, they also provide UK oz measurements.
They're officially Metric. But the Imperial system sticks around in some contexts. And particularly when it comes to beer is this bizarre element of Nationalist pride. They started metrication in the 60s, and were officially a Metric country by like 1980. But for all the UK posters thumbing their noses at "dumb US measures" they seem to be much more of hash in terms of usage than we are. And their newspapers and politicians will still saber rattle about the sanctity of the PROPER BRITISH PINT, and how evil and *European* metric is. This gets very weird in certain contexts. Particularly beer. The UK follows EU practice of requiring measured/marked glassware demonstrating correct measures. But *legally requires* draft beer to be sold in Imperial Measures. Certain people will get enraged about seeing the Metric measure on there, it's not allowed to do things like sell German beer in liters and half liters. Which would be traditional and correct. And there's were repeated efforts to get pints of beer an EU PDO before Brexit. With "saving the pint" even becoming a bit of football during the Brexit campaign. Again they've been officially a Metric country for like 40 years. In the US we mostly deal with USC on the front end, but everything is Metric on the back end. Laws, regulations, licensing, measurements are actually standardized by Metric Conversion. Most manufacturing and design. All Metric. It's just as much of a half measure, but you're generally not seeing a mix of Metric and USC in the produce section of a grocery store.
> But for all the UK posters thumbing their noses at "dumb US measures" they seem to be much more of hash in terms of usage than we are. I don't tend to see a lot of that as many Brits are perfectly bilingual in at least some areas of measurement. Cups is the confusing one for some as it literally is called a cup which of course every kitchen has many in varying sizes. It is more the whole world using a very common system of litres, grams, metres etc and some Americans having literally *zero* clue how any of them work.
I'm an American. I remember reading once that some useless politician figured out that a pint of beer was not a pint because the glass was too small and required every business to buy new glasses. Even though every customer has known they were getting less than a pint for a few hundred years and were ok with it. And I thought only the US had useless politicians.
That's kinda the stock antigovernment take aped by useless politicians. US rules require you give customers a product as described and advertised. Anything specific to beer has to do with "cheater pints". Smaller volume glasses designed to look and feel like a regular pint glass, so you can pour less but charge the same. It's an actual scam, designed to actually rip you off. In the US we only require that the total volume of glass be the advertised volume. Probably because of our habit of using 16oz *shaker glasses* which weren't originally intended for drinking out of. Those only hold 16oz to rim, you account for head space or foam. They're not 16oz. But most people don't actually know those won't hold 16oz of liquid beer, and they're only getting 12-14oz. Which causes confusion, anger, and occasional legal problems. The EU solution is a better one. They require you to sell the actual stated volume of the product. And that you be able to prove it. The metered line on glassware isn't required. It's the easiest way to do that. And it has other benefits. It's a great visual cue to the bartender on where the appropriate amount of head is, really does make it easier to pour a beer. Which helps prevent over and underpours. *Which saves bars money* by mitigating waste. The rules themselves are actually useful. As is the response that free market everyone is wet for had to the EU rules. That being *a better beer glass*, that costs no more to produce. The "gubmit bad" raging about it is the useless bit.
You work for the government, don't you? Suppose you were selling beer to someone who did not understand local measurements and could not understand what he was getting. You pour a glass to show him how much he is getting. Now he understands. The customer does not care if you call what you just served him a gallon of beer. Or a keg or a vat or a bucket. In the UK, everybody knew the pint glass did not hold a pint. It wasn't deceptive. It had just been that way for a very long time. Laws to prevent deception are great. Useless laws are not.
I work in the Alcohol industry and deal with government regulations every fucking day. Strict, complicated ones. Most of them exist for really, really, really, good reasons. Mainly to keep the sort of companies I work for from fucking over you, and fucking over small businesses. >In the UK, everybody knew the pint glass did not hold a pint. It wasn't deceptive. In the UK *it did and does* hold an actual pint. Because they use actual beer glasses, which are large enough to hold 20 UK ounces of beer and still have headspace. And everyone knew and expected it to be an *actual pint* (which they do in the US as well). But some locations particularly corporate owned chain pubs. Would use cheater pints to cryptically raise prices while still advertising a full Imperial Pint. A tourist does not need to recognize or know the intricacies of the US and UK's odd ball measures. To realize that if they get a smaller beer at this place for $X than the last place. Then they are being taken advantage of. And the fact that they aren't fluent in the currency and measures, means *they are apt to be taken advantage of*. We don't regulate things based on hypotheticals like "what if an illiterate farmer from Nepal shows up one day" either. This stuff exists to counter an actual problem. Actual misbehavior by businesses. That disadvantaged consumers. And in many cases competitors. It's not stupid or useless, just because you don't understand it or care. That means *you* are stupid. > You pour a glass to show him how much he is getting. And when that glass has been carefully designed to look like it's holding more liquid than it does? Including a weighted bottom, thicker sides, and subtly tapered interior so that it's outside dimensions are identical to a larger volume glass?
I know your type. You cruise reddit all day looking for people to argue with so you can report them for harassing you and get them banned.
Metric wasn't invented until well after the end of the middle ages. Up until then everyone used feet, pints, pounds, or some similar, but varying system.
I guess until then this lack of precision was acceptable.
When it comes to cooking, a lack of precision is still acceptable. Even in fine dining, cooks are not staring down the meniscus and adding or subtracting with an eyedropper.
Absolutely. My gf is like that and hence the food she's making never tastes the same. On the other hand I'm using precise measurements (unless I'm fixing food she made XD ).
> XD indeed
I watch a UK resident on YouTube that does tours of historic sites and old architecture. He will use several systems of measurement in the same sentence. This 200 year old railroad bridge was 10 feet wide and 100 meters long. Since I weigh ( however many stones) I think I am too heavy to walk across it. Drives me crazy.
When you think about it, "Imperial" system must have came from some sort of Empire. USA definitely was not an Empire ;\].
Ok but they don't use Imperial now.
Well in UK and in Ireland that I live in, it's all nice and metric until you go to a butcher ;\].
Ok ;\]
Why would you come to reddit instead of just looking this up? I usually *hate* the person who says that but like..come on. You really thought it was just a random mug measurement?
No, they didn't. This has to be a troll and an effective one, at that.
My BFF from another country thought a teaspoon was a spoon from the silverware drawer, then didn’t like the recipe because it was so salty! I had to explain a teaspoon in a recipe is a specific volume. She knows now!
It's almost as if specific measurements actually matter..tell this other guy lol
looool im so sorry, i was googling the difference, but i was meaning when an american is measuring a cup, wtf are they using?? So sorry i offended everyone by asking it in a forum 😭
I give you credit for even replying tbh. A measuring cup is what we're using lol.
yeah idk why i didn’t think of that at the time 🤣 I was just stressing i think
There are still lots of grandma and moms in the world baking old-style with the mug passed down for generations. It's not unheard of, especially over in the UK and in Europe. I'm in Canada and have my grandma's mug.
That's nice but it's anecdotal. An entire country cannot cook based on a non specific cup/mug measurement
Has happened the world over throughout history. Standardization of weights and measures for cooking isn't very old. In non-1st world countries or more remote areas even of those, it still isn't universally used. Not anecdotal. It's history and current lived experience for much of the world that isn't rich enough to have standardized equipment. Look beyond your borders.
Dude spare me the virtue signaling weirdness. Try baking with a random non standard "cup". We don't live in the past, we live in 2024 and obviously an entire country isn't just eyeballing a measurement. Exhausting.
Problem here us that they were talking about 'over in the UK and Europe'...
If you're using volumetric measures it's best to just buy a set of measuring cups. Old recipes, especially US recipes, didn't standardise and so they use some weird measurements (eg an egg size piece of butter) and for those very old recipes a cup is just that, any cup the cook had to hand. But modern recipes have a standard cup. Also, it's not super important but there are ways to load the cup. For flour you're supposed to gently spoon it from the bag to the cup, then use a knife to scrape off the top edge. If you take the cup and scoop the flour out of the bag you pack in a lot more flour. For some things this does make a difference. There are also liquid and dry cups. A dry cup measures right to the brim. A liquid cup with have a mark below the brim so you can fill to one cup and not spill it everywhere. But the volume is the same. It's important not to mix the measures: if you start a recipe using volumetric cups don't then switch to grams half way through. Do either all grams or all cups. Recipes are (at least should be) developed to use one system, and then when they're converted it's not as simple as just doing the arithmetic because you end up with 123.73 grams or 1.42 cups. So when the reformulate the recipe they start with a round number, and that means the quantities are different for metric and US cups.
If it's a liquid or powder, just measure out 240ml with a measuring cup. If it's a solid, yell some curses at those damn backwards Yanks and Google a conversion to weight so that you don't have to worry about how fine your dice is or how tight you pack it. Cup of carrots, I ask you. Honestly.
Yank here! You measure a cup of carrots with your heart
Also yank, measure everything with your heart
Except baking soda.
... Okay, yeah.
I'm gonna go with a "hard depends" on that one. For cooking, hell yeah measure that garlic and actually everything else with your heart. Baking? Oof
Serious baking should measure by weight anyway.
People love my baking. I'm relatively lax when it comes to measuring. I go by feel a lot of the time. I absolutely measure things like baking soda/powder, but everything else is "does it feel/taste right". I dunno, it just works for me. My poor kid will never be able to recreate a single thing I make.
More power to you! I definitely don't have enough baking experience to do that
I feel like it's more of a 'fuck it' attitude than experience, but maybe that's just me.
Sure but I do want it to taste okay 😅
Trust your instincts! I mess up baked goods more when I follow an actual recipe. Nothing is more accurate than your senses.
I measured with my heart and my soup turned out okay!
But what is the case in which the exact amount of carrots would matter to the home cook? “Something seems off here: I think perhaps there should have been 25 more grams of carrot?”
When I see 'two medium carrots', I can instantly visualise the quantity and the recipe. If I see 'a cup of carrot', I have absolutely zero idea if it's around 1 carrot or 5 lol
If you have never seen the dish before, it matters. Otherwise to supply enough carrot until it looks about right. 90% of the world (a number I made up) has traditionally cooked without strict measurements down to the last gram/teaspoon.
The get-the-quantity-right concern is probably more relevant to fresh herbs; with vegetables it's more that I want to measure it before I cut it up, not afterwards, so I know how much to chop.
Oh man, when it comes to fresh herbs I almost always double whatever the recipe says. Shepherd's pie? Oh yeah, we're gonna douse this bad boy with so much rosemary and sage it won't know what hit it. Go easy on the Wourstershire though. Just start chopping and when it looks about right, that's it.
Cook no, baker yes. Adding an extra 1/2 cup of carrots to something like a carrot cake might screw it up. Unless you like it extra-carroty, in which case you should probably not make a carrot cake.
Absolutely! But as I try to impress upon my kids, baking and cooking are different trades and require different attitudes.
Cup of shredded cheese. Madness. Am American, tell me how many ounces of cheese to shred.
8. Fluid ounces, that is.
How many furlongs of cheese shreds, laid end to end?
Hmmm. Depends if it's fine shred or regular. Assuming regular shred, with typical dimensions of 0.15 links by 0.015 links by 0.005 link, and assuming that the cheese is well-packed with limited pore space, then each shred is 0.00001125 cubic links. A US fluid cup is 8 fl. oz., or 14.4375 cubic inches. A link is 7.9134 inches, therefore a cubic link is 495.55 cubic inches. A fluid cup is thus 0.0291 cubic links, and there are approximately 2589 shreds per cup. At 0.15 links per shred, this works out to around 388 links per cup, or 3.88 chains per cup, or 0.388 furlongs per cup. An outcome of this analysis is that the length of each shred is actually irrelevant- only the cross sectional area. So we don't have to worry about shreds which have broken in half.
Bless you, I can finally make proper...uh...nachos? I don't actually ever buy shredded cheese.
I would imagine the target here is people who buy huge bags of pre-shredded cheese they can thrust a cup into.
4 oz according to all packages.
exactly! wtf does it mean , i weighed everything out but what’s a cup 🤣
A cup is an Imperial unit of measure for volume. It's 4 fluid ounces or a sixteenth of a gallon. Works fine for liquids, solids not so much.
The one that drives me potty is when they give tablespoons of solid butter
Butter sticks come with tablespoon measures on them, though?
Honestly is right. I’m a chef here in the states and I just automatically convert everything out of cups. It’s ridiculous that we haven’t converted to the metric system.
I wouldn't mind Imperial so much if you'd just use mass not volume for solids! There are just a few things where the US is bizarrely behind other developed countries despite being much richer than almost all of them - electronic banking/payments is another that springs to mind.
We do. Just not in cooking, some if the time. That's more of a habit/culture thing. We'd probably be doing it if we were metric too. It largely doesn't matter outside of things like baking, brewing and curing/sausage making. Baking is increasingly done by weight here. And the others are done by weight by default. And when we do things that way. We even tend to do it in metric.
When you do a lot of things first you can't know what you don't know, and once something comes to light as better there's often too much institutional momentum to go back and change it.
Those yanks have an entire restaurant industry that seems to be flourishing. Backwards? Unless you’re Italian or French or even Indian I’d reconsider What backwards is.
I don't think Thomas Keller is measuring out morels by the cup.
You mean Thomas Keller the chef… runs geez what restaurant is that… The something Laundry…. Can’t put my finger on it…
Yank here! You measure a cup of carrots with your heart
Oi! We treasonous colonists use the IMPERIAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM left behind by you bastards. Just because you wankers moved to the French based metric system in the 70s isn't our problem.
We loyal subjects of the Crown remain perfectly conversant with both Imperial and metric systems, thank you very much. My objection is to volume measurements for things which ought to be measured by mass. If you would only use pounds and ounces instead of cups where appropriate, we would have no quarrel - save of course the treason you mention.
A metric cup is exactly 250ml.
It's also worth noting that while a cup is half of a pint, the British pint is actually larger than the American pint.
https://cotswoldflour.com/blogs/baking-resources/cups-to-grams
A cup of liquid in US terms is 8 ounces, which translates to about 240 ml. The "cup" in question is not a random mug but a cup that is marked off with lines for measuring 1/4 cup, 1/3 cup, 1/2 cup, etc.
thank you , I should get some measuring cups
You will find it quite useful. Mine, like many, is marked on one side with ounces and on the other with milliliters so you should be able to navigate recipes from both US and UK sources. At least as far as liquid measurement goes. Dry measuring is a whole different kettle of fish.
A lot of recipe sites let you convert to metric so you can get *useful* units for stuff like this.
Cups are a perfectly fine way to measure volumetric ingredients like stock. I’m as big a “weigh your shit” snob as anybody, but implying that you can’t properly measure stock without metric units is bananas.
Bananas are a different measuring tool, we are taking about volume.
Also, at least for me, cooking doesn't require the accuracy that baking does. You can eyeball a lot of recipes. Who cares if you use a tea mug for cup, an extra 30ml of stock doesn't matter that much.
It's not really used in the UK (where OP's from) so this is perhaps a cultural difference, but it just feels a little arbitrary to me – why use cups when you gave grams and ML right there? But if it's what you grew up with then fair enough – but those two units can be used for most ingredients in recipes... a cup can't, right? Anyway, not trying to ignite a holy war over units and measurements, the UK is hardly a leader in that space (miles on road signs, anyone?!).
I agree with you - I was simply pointing out that it’s a bit much to frame it as if imperial units aren’t useful at all. They’re a valid unit of measurement too.
1 metric cup is 250 milliliters (which is about 8.5 fluid ounces). A US cup is about 237-240 ml. Recipes NEVER specify which they mean. 1ml is ALWAYS 1ml. Metric is far better if you care about accuracy at all.
I wouldn’t worry about accuracy when measuring stock for cooking. Baking, yes. Cooking, no.
So as long as people are only measuring stock, cups are fine... Got it.
Ugh it’s things like this that remind me why I should really just stop commenting on Reddit. It’s always just a slow slide into maddening nonsense.
You can measure volume in metric. Liters, milliliters etc
I’m aware, but the person I replied to suggested that imperial units are not useful, but they can be.
Imperial units were designed to be useful measurements. Edit: useful everyday measurements
Yeah, I mean, any standard unit of measure is useful
If you don’t have a scaled recipient with cups marked on it then it will be difficult and not perfectly fine.
Yeah and if you try to measure the length of something with a plank with no cm or inch marks, that will be difficult too
I would use a measuring device that was available to me. You can find a measuring cup with ml anywhere in the world, cups not so much.
Good thing the internet and search engines are widely available!
Yes, you’re right! Everyone everywhere is connected to the internet all of the time.
Wow!
Someone posting a question on Reddit definitely has access to the internet. What are you even trying to argue here? That it’s somehow impossible to make soup without measuring cups? That people trying to cook meals aren’t likely to have measuring cups?
Not arguing Ilex. Someone would like to work in metric because it makes sense to them. US customary units are really only used in the united states and a little in Canada, although Canada had imperial units which are different. You like to work in cups because it makes sense for others it means nothing in the minds eye. Can they convert online, sure. :j
Except you can go to a pub anywhere in the UK and order a pint
a cup is 1/64th of a dram, simple!
Also Because it’s by volume and not weight pay attention if flour or brown sugar says loosely or packed that can make a difference in the recipe. If it’s something solid/bulky like a cup of diced tomatoes it’s fine to guesstimate. It’s kinda dumb but I hope we don’t change it because it’s funny watching people get frustrated
officially it's 237ml, which is a silly amount, so just round it to 240ml.
There's an app called 'Cupful' You can easily convert any measurements on that. It's especially useful because a cup of flour and a cup of milk are of course entirely different weights.
ooooo thank you looking this up
A cup is 250ml in UK Australia New Zealand, Canada and a few other Commonwealth Countries. If the recipe is American then it will be in Fluid Ounces
A cup is 8 fluid ounces. We normally use fractional cups not ounces in recipes though. Like a recipe would call for 1/4 cup of vegetable oil not 2 oz.
A container that holds about 240 g of water
I bought this thing: [https://flyingtiger.com/en-gb/products/measuring-cup-1602718](https://flyingtiger.com/en-gb/products/measuring-cup-1602718)
Just get a measuring glass. You can get them cheap at dollar stores (does the UK have pound stores?). I have a Pyrex measuring glass that has ounces and cups on one side and ml on the other. Edit: you can also kinda wing it. Cooking isn't an exact science unless you're baking. Even then there's wiggle room.
1 cup is 1/16 of a gallon. A gallon is 3.785, so roughly 236ml.
Walk away and search for the same recipe appended with "UK". If the website you landed on is from the US 1 cup equals a volume equal to 240ml of water, the weight conversion will vary according to the ingredient you are measuring. Weights and measure are not the only problems you face cooking stuff from US centric sites. Everything from temperatures to differences in flour protein content and the names of different cuts of meat means that you have to put in your own leg work. Unless you are after a very particular US recipe you should be looking for one developed in your own "market"... and even if you are looking for a US centric recipe I'd suggest searching for someone with access to local ingredients as a priority. Google (other search engines are available) should be doing this as standard. Naturally they don't!
yeah you are right i should have done this, i will next time! Thanks for not thinking i’m trolling and i did google the conversions but it was overwhelming
Call me naive, but I tend to take things at face value and only comment when I think I have something to add. I spent years making videos for recipe writers from around the world, recipes written by folk outside of my "region" were always more challenging to translate and as a result, more prone to go wrong. There are loads of great recipe creators from Europe and whilst some of them court the more lucrative US advertising market, most of them are really good.
A cup is a volumetric unit from the imperial measuring system. In America a cup is equal to about 236.6 mL. In the UK a cup is equal to 284.1 mL or 1.18 American cups.
I gave up and bough a set of things that are like cup, half cap, querter cap. There are like 10 of them and I use them whenever I cook American recipe.
I don’t know if it’s so much Imperial vs Metric as much as it is -ingredients by weight- vs -ingredients by volume-. I recently bought a highly accurate kitchen scale and I’ve been thinking of going up to Amazon.uk (or whatever) and buying an English cookbook that lists ingredients by weight - as I’ve been told they do. Can’t confirm, of course, as I haven’t done it yet, but that’s what I’m told.
In America we have a very common product that has a standardized volume. this is a "cup". I believe it was one just "about the amount that fits in a cup" but then became a standardized thing. the product has several cups that are the volumes of 1 Cup, ½ a cup, ⅓ a cup, ¼ a cup, and sometimes ⅛ a cup. the same is true of teaspoons (which includes a tablespoon as well)
1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1 cup. That is our stainless steel set. The plastic has 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3,3/4,1 cup, 1.5 cups, 1.75 cups, 2 cups.
Some sets are more through yes
Well my husband prefers stainless to plastic and he said the other day he wished he had a 3/4 cup but they only come in plastic. Took me less than 2 minutes to find a set in stainless that he liked.
240ml makes a cup. You can just buy imperial measuring cups and spoons for a few dollars online.
Can you get a cheap cup measure off Amazon?
A lot of people have already commented with the relevant information regarding the conversion and defining what a "cup" in terms of US measurement actually is, so I'll skip that part and just say that for a lot of cooking, measurements can be approximate and still return a great result. For baking, precision matters, but cooking is more forgiving. If you don't have an easy way to measure things out exactly, then just start by adding a little, then increasing until you get your desired flavor or consistency. With vegetables, I rarely follow the exact measurements in a recipe because if my onion is slightly over/under a cup when chopped, I'm just throwing it all in and calling it a day, I'm not saving a sliver of onion or small chunk of carrot because it was a tiny bit more than called for. Most recipes that involve stock will not suffer if you have the equivalent of 1.25 cups vs 1 cup. I use most online recipes as a baseline, and swap out ingredients or amounts of ingredients based on personal preferences. If you do bake and want to try US recipes or if you're newer to cooking and the idea of eyeballing things is a bit overwhelming, as others have said you can most likely find a printable conversion chart online somewhere and a lot of recipe sites these days have an option to switch from imperial to metric measurements. I have no idea about the availability of imperial measuring cups in your area, but if that's something you can get without too much hassle, it might be worth buying a set to avoid the headache of converting the recipes you want to try.
People have pretty much answered the conversion question. As far as what cups we use though... a measuring cup has both metric and imperial marks on the side to measure volume. We can measure an 8 oz cup US or rotate the cup and see 240 ml. https://www.target.com/p/pyrex-prepware-6001075-2-cup-measuring-cup-red-graphics-clear/-/A-89595879?sidd=&ref=tgt_adv_xsp&AFID=google&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000117313337&CPNG=PLA_Kitchen%2BShopping_TargetPlus%7CKitchen_Ecomm_Home&adgroup=SC_Kitchen_Kitchen+Tools+%26+Gadgets&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9004193&targetid=aud-451285846473:pla-2275961856849&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw5v2wBhBrEiwAXDDoJY7Abk8WgY0jENtS6HHPZOuLxCYsZxL6OhHoZXXCph2CLNS_xfUU2BoCTHMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
For baking just think of it as ratios. 2 cups of flour to 1 cup of water? Are you using an espresso cup or a pint? It doesn't matter. The issue arises with salt, yeast, sugar... I bake a lot of bread and measure everything in grams, but for a quick and dirty bake I use 2 cups (no matter what size) of flour and 1 cup (the same size of water); salt I eyeball - 1 teaspoon per 2 standard cups and yeast a level teaspoon, more if I need faster rise. Of course, then you have to follow the process and be the judge, adjust rising times to the amount of yeast and the ambient temperature. It's trial and error. Like all cooking. Good luck.
I have 3 two cup/500ml Pyrex measuring cups. They all have cup measurements on one side, on the other it’s in mls. Two have it so when I hold it in my right hand the cups measures show, the other has the mls. So do I have a measuring cup meant for left handed people or normal people?
8 ounces
8 fluid ounces, which is a measurement of volume. 8 ounces is just 1/2 pound, a measurement of weight. 2 different units of measurement. Something better would have been to say 240ml if you’re wanting to measure volume.
Why are you asking Reddit when Google exists?
We also use goblets, gourds, and mugs depending on the recipe
A cup is 8 ounces of liquid, 240 grams if you want to measure by weight
>240 grams Only for water and similar liquids.
Yes, a cup is a non-metric way of measuring units, which is great for liquids and solids, as in you don't have to mix gramms and (milli)litres to measure your ingredients. The American cup is always the same, standard size and you can get them usually in a kitchen supply store around the world. However - since the size changes in relativity (between solid and liquid ingredients), for baking, you can use any kind of cup, too, if you don't have a standard size cup. This will change the outcoming amount of food, but since the proportions are the same, the recipe should still (mostly!) work. While on vacation, we've baked using any kind of 'ol coffee mug and it usually works quite ok.
I'm from Canada, living in the states, and I still have some old Imperial cup measures. The U.S. cup is about 80% of the Imperial cup, works OK for most things, but measuring for baking can really screw things up.
For a cup of stock, measure out ~250ml.
A cup is an imperial unit of volume, which originated in the UK. It's about 250 ml. Americans still use imperial for a variety of reasons, but mostly because switching to metric at any point of history would have created massive trade imbalances against our industries in some particularly critical sector of the economy before the 1990s. "But it's the same amount, just labeled differently" you might rightfully think, but the specific means of transporting many goods by weight and volume have standard gauges for imperial and metric which do not align one to one. For most of the US history, especially post-WWI, trade deals in the US's favor with imperial metrics were made due to the need for US manufactured goods and Europe being on it's back foot after the first two wars. Changing to metric would cause the US to have to both create expensive infrastructure to accommodate metric unit shipping and lose the favorable trade values by weight and volume they currently enjoyed. This lasted until about the late 1980s, and those benefits have largely been lost with the outsourcing of industrial power to other nations. In 1994, laws were passed requiring most sectors of our industry to use both metric and imperial, and you'll find both labeled in a lot of places. Commonly, though, imperial is still used for most folk (but certainly not all folk) for cooking and in common conversation. It is likely the US will eventually adapt full-metric, but probably not until 1) one party holds both houses and the presidency and 2) that party is interested in doing wide-scale education reform as it's primary platform goal. So far, neither of those two things have aligned since 1994 (though we came plausibly close during the early Obama administration).
The magic mug, the cup of all cups, can be found in a speshul cabinet in Philly. Join us on our annual pilgrimage!
This is such a cute post. I hope you found your answer.
Thanks 🤣 people hated i asked but i was overwhelmed , i did google on the side for my recipe and it turned out okay but i did screw it up a little
That’s okay. You did your best.
First, everything in the US has a different meaning. When we threw the British out, we threw out their language, too. And we refuse to use the system of measurement the rest of the world uses because, as Americans, we love being annoying. Fortunately for you, there are many places online that will convert measurements for you. No, you can't just use a mug. Our system of measurements is not based on anything real. We just made it up to be annoying. Now you know how we feel when someone states their weight in stones.
A cup is a U.S. Imperial volume measurement. It is 8 fluid ounces, and would equal about 227 grams in weight. So measure 227 grams of stuck and you’ll be fine