I've have recipes for cakes and the measures are all in cups....
What's the equivalent weight?
2006-08-02 07:23:31 · 7 answers · asked by Hedgehog 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
There are exactly eight ounces (of volume) in a cup (of volume).
US recipes typically use measures of volume -- ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons -- for both wet AND dry ingredients.
UK recipes typically use measures of weight -- grams, kilograms -- for dry ingredients and measures of volume -- milliliter, deciliter, liter -- for wet ingredients.
Our poor Canadian neighbors are no doubt, as usual, stuck in the middle, probably forced to use UK recipes but only able to buy products in US measurements. And I don't know how the Aussies handle it, but I can guess it'll be done with great humor and the results will be delicious. (I'm willing to believe, purely for the sake of argument mind you, that somewhere in the world there is an Australian that I dislike... but I haven't found one yet.)
If you are using a US-based cake recipe, all the measurements can be assumed to be in volume, with the following equivalencies:
1 ounce = 3 tablespoons = 29.5ml
8 ounces = 1 cup = 236.5 ml
2 cups = 1 pint = 473 ml
2 pints = 1 quart = 946ml
4 quarts = 1 gallon = 3.784 liters
If you're making a cake recipe that calls for a gallon of anything, invite me! :-)
Weight isn't immediately convertible from volume, because as several people have already answered, the weight of different kitchen substances varies. Confusing matters is the use of the same word -- ounce -- for use as weight AND volume in US recipes. And of course, just to make matters difficult, butter is sold by the pound (454 g) but measured by the stick (1/4 pound, 113.5 g).
This is why it's important to know the source of your recipe and use the appropriate measure for the recipe in question.
2006-08-02 08:22:57 · answer #1 · answered by Scott F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are 8 fluid ounces in a 1 cup measure.
2006-08-02 15:03:52 · answer #2 · answered by Kare♥Bear 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
8 fluid ounces, with dry ingredients some are heavier than others. You need to use the cup measure.
2006-08-02 16:23:17 · answer #3 · answered by Ask the Chef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot compare weight and volume. 1 cup of flour does not weigh the same as 1 cup of water.
Which weighs more... a ton of feathers or a ton of brick? They are the same, a ton!
2006-08-02 14:28:26 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fluid ounces? There are 8oz in a cup. But different foods bear different weights...
2006-08-02 14:34:44 · answer #5 · answered by Madelia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4oz is the equivalent to a cup thats what my food tech teacher taught me or you can buy measuring cups in your local bakeware store
2006-08-02 14:33:49 · answer #6 · answered by Kelly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4 i think...
2006-08-02 14:28:26 · answer #7 · answered by amy w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋