American cup measurements?

moneysaverangel

Hi

I use this site for converting oz to cups, cups to oz, US to UK, oz to g.

It might be helpful to you.

http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cookingconversions.asp?Action=find

Regards
MSA.

mary43

Sorry -this is nothing to do with cooking but I need some help converting 1.5 litres into small mugs (I'm on a restricted fluid intake for medical reasons and this is the amount I'm allowed to drink)
I'm a bit of a 'plank' when it comes to measurements and OH has worked it out from our measuring jug to be around 6 small mugs a day.
Looking at various conversion tables on the net it all seemed to vary and I need to get it as exact as possible.
Many thanks

thriftlady_2

mary43 wrote: »

Sorry -this is nothing to do with cooking but I need some help converting 1.5 litres into small mugs (I'm on a restricted fluid intake for medical reasons and this is the amount I'm allowed to drink)
I'm a bit of a 'plank' when it comes to measurements and OH has worked it out from our measuring jug to be around 6 small mugs a day.
Looking at various conversion tables on the net it all seemed to vary and I need to get it as exact as possible.
Many thanks

I may be being a bit thick but can't you simply pour a mugful of water into your measuring jug and see how it much it measures, then divide 1500ml by whatever your mug holds?

mary43

thriftlady - I'm rubbish with all this litres and ml stuff......OH poured 6 cups out and it came to roughly 1.5 litres but then I checked on the net and got totally mind boggled..............I'll have a go anyway. Thanks

thriftlady_2

Mary, I've just filled a standard mug with water to within about 1 cm of the rim. The amount of water is 250 ml, therefore your OH is right -6 mugfuls = 1.5 litres.

mary43

thriftlady - oh thankyou so much. Our measurements on the jugs are a bit faded and we need new ones and when I checked on the net I got so confused about it all...............least now I know I'm drinking the right amount.:T

zippychick

thriftlady wrote: »

Mary, I've just filled a standard mug with water to within about 1 cm of the rim. The amount of water is 250 ml, therefore your OH is right -6 mugfuls = 1.5 litres.

totally correct. I have a tea for one set so the cup is smaller but not quite a child cup size, and it works (until i got a set of cup measures for £3 or something on ebay, priceless! And theres tea spoon and all the smaller ones. I would never use a teaspoon or tablespoon to measure now, such a difference so worth investing on if you have a couple pounds

Something like this or these are the ones i bought

mirry

Hi everyone , I have been looking online for recipes today and notise that alot of the recipes in the us state 2 cups of flour , 1 cup of sugar ???

SO does anyone know what measurement a cup is ?

Pink.

Hi mirry,

There is an existing thread with lots of information about using cups in recipes so I've added your question to it to keep the replies together.

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ness_w

I have a cookie recipe in cups which is fine except that measuring the butter is a real faff and they seemed to turn out greasy which makes me think I packed the butter too firmly into the measure. Does anyone know how much a cup of butter would weigh?