How To Measure Properly

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    I'm sure most of us know all the above but I was measuring flour wrong. I've cooked most of my life but only really learning to cook more than just the basics since my wife has been unable to cook as much.
     
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    She is fun to watch anyway!
     
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    I have been measuring flour wrong, too. :eek:
     
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    Why would anyone measure anything?
     
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    Oh dear lord, that's 4 minutes I'll never get back...


    Why do Americans, call a measuring jug a ''Cup'?...It's clearly a pouring or measuring jug, so why do you call it a cup??..I've always wondered this...

    CUP
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    JUG 5010762010648_Jug_1L.jpg
     
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    @Holly Saunders Au contraire, m'dear. This is a jug:

    jug.jpg
    or this:

    jug 1.jpg

    And this is a measuring cup.

    cup.jpg
     
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    oooh so Wrong...lol...

    THIS is a measuring cup.... c5d06bb4-ffb7-456a-8f36-6ccea2e80c36._SL300__.jpg :D
     
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    Love the controversy....
     
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    Americans are confused by milliliters and deciliters, too. Some of the chemicals I use have recommendations in ounces, some in teaspoons and tablespoons, and some in milliliters. The toughest ones I convert are from "spoons" to milliliters, so I have taken an old baby food jar and marked the conversions on the outside, so I can use it whatever the units are, similar to what was indicated in the video. Sometimes the markings on the glass cups will eventually wear off, and these can be re-marked as well.

    Oh, and there is another Americanism for "jugs" as well....
     
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    yep you see @Don Alaska , we're still struggling with metric as well even after all these years. Most of my age group still think in pounds and ounces...and Fahrenheit instead of Celsius but the younger generation don't know the former at all..


    Yep the second meaning of ''jugs'' in the USA is also the same euphemism here , used for breasts...
     
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    This is a door ajar.

    door-ajar.jpg
     
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    I'm right in everything...I'm NEVER wrong... :p
     
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