Measurements
 

Hi

can someone advise me what the USA measurement of 1cup is equal to in ounces or even kilogrammes?

I live in Ireland and we don't use cups. I have several very big coffee mugs I could use but I reckon the USA cup is a lot smaller!!!

thanks
Clodagh

hi clodagh,

Welcome aboard! Congrats on the lbs lost so far, that's great :thup:

There are two sites that I've found with useful conversion charts:

• RealFood 4 RealPeople is great, also includes substitutions
  
• AllRecipes.com also has a complete conversion chart, and link to substitutions.

Both of these sites includes conversions to and from USA, UK and Australian measures.

hope this helps,

Doreen

Measurements confusion
 

Thanks for that Doreen.

However I am still confused. According to that conversion table, 1cup of flour = 225 grams, acup of sugar = 225 grams, 1 cup of butter = 110 grams. 1 cup of cake flour = 95 grams!!!!

Here in Ireland if a recipe asks for the same amounts of flour sugar and butter, I simply weight each on a scales.

How can 1 cup of one thing be a different weight from one cup of something else?!

I am so confused!
thanks Clodagh

I'm pretty sure that one cup of different foods weigh different amounts, because there are 2 different measures involved.

A cup can be thought of more like a displacement measure, i.e. it is a measurement of a pre-defined "space" amount. I cup of four, butter, sugar, take up the same amount of "space"

But some things are more dense than others, so they weigh more, hence flour being lighter in grams than sugar.

I've tended to switch over to calculating my food amounts all in grams, weighing everything, than figuring out the nutritional values from the number of grams. It really helps that the nutrion counter here at this site offers values in both 100 gram units, and cups, teaspoons, etc.

For example...how much does a cup of apple weigh. Well. it depends on how small you cut the pieces and how tightly you stuff them into a measuring cup. So, for a better measure, weight the apple pieces. I had half an apple this weekend. It weighed 83 grams. The other half weighed 86 grams ( I didn't cut it right down the middle, and it wasn't perfectly round.

Hope this helps...