Measuring Cups

1 Cup

"1 Cup" is equal to viii fluid ounces in US Standard Volume. Information technology is a measure used in cooking.

A Metric Loving cup is slightly different: it is 250 milliliters (which is about 8.5 fluid ounces).


 Ounces
(at eight oz per cup)		 Tablespoons
(at 16 Tbs per cup)		 milliliters
(at 250 ml per cup)
¼ cup ii oz 4 Tbs 63 ml
ane/3 loving cup Nigh 2¾ oz Well-nigh five Tbs 83 ml
½ cup iv oz 8 Tbs 125 ml
2/3 cup About 5¼ oz Most 11 Tbs 167 ml
¾ loving cup 6 oz 12 Tbs 188 ml
1 loving cup 8 oz 16 Tbs 250 ml
1 ¼ cup 10 oz twenty Tbs 313 ml
1 ½ loving cup 12 oz 24 Tbs 375 ml
1 ¾ cup 14 oz 28 Tbs 438 ml
2 cups 16 oz 32 Tbs 500 ml
4 cups 32 oz 64 Tbs 1000 ml (1 liter)
eight cups 64 oz 128 Tbs 2000 ml (ii liters)

(In italics: not exact)

Measuring Cups

measuring cup

Measuring cups are used to measure liquids, or powders like flour or carbohydrate.

As we fill up up the measuring loving cup, we need to expect at which number it is filled to.

cup 2/3

Here we accept 2/iii loving cup (two-thirds of a cup) of milk.

150ml of milk in cup

And they tin can also measure out milliliters (ml):

Here we have 150 ml.

It doesn't say "150" ... it says "50" ... but it is half-way between 100 and 200 then we can figure out it is 150 ml.

measuring cups

There are too special ones designed to hold an verbal amount, such as these 1/2 loving cup and i/4 cup measures.

4 cup jug

They can also hold more than "1 Cup" of liquid.

This measuring cup holds up to 4 cups of liquid. If the liquid goes all the way to the 3, then there are 3 cups of liquid. Between the numbers nosotros notice fractions of a loving cup.

two cups of a liquid is the aforementioned affair equally one pint.  Then this measuring cup also holds 2 pints (iv cups equals 2 pints).

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