Why is 1 cup in Australia equal to 1+1/4 cups in America and Britain.?!
Answers: The conversion chart at the back of an Australian Women's Weekly Cookbook states that 3/4 cup Australian is equal to 1 cup American. Is there a simple explanation for the difference? I always thought 1 cup equalled 1 cup everywhere!
The cup is a unit of measurement for volume, used in cooking to measure bulk foods, such as chopped vegetables (dry measurement), and liquids (fluid measurement). It is in common use in many countries, especially those that were part of the British Empire, including the United States and most members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and nations that were influenced by them, such as Japan. The cup is not commonly used in the United Kingdom.
Recipes in cookbooks naturally use the local customary units; but, because the cups used in the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States differ by only ? (0.5) fluid ounce, the respective measures are close enough for cooking.
Australia, Canada, New Zealand: one cup is 1/4 litre (250 mL), equivalent to approximately 8.8 Imperial, or 8.5 U.S., fluid ounces.
Japan: one cup is 1/5 litre (200 mL). A traditional Japanese cup (gō) is 180 mL; 10 Japanese cups together make one shou, the traditional flask size, 1.8 litres. Sake is typically sold by both the cup (180 mL) and flask (1.8 litre) sizes. The cup size used for measuring rice is the traditional size of 180 mL. (For example, a 10-cup rice cooker has a capacity of 1.8 litre or 1 shou.)
United States (current legal definition, such as for nutrition labeling): one cup is 240 mL, as defined in U.S. law (21 CFR 101.9 (b) (5) (viii)).
United States (customary definition): one cup is 0.5 U.S. pints, or 8.0 U.S. fluid ounces, equivalent to approximately 237 millilitres or 8.3 Imperial fluid ounces.
Cup sizes in recipes do not necessarily define serving sizes for beverages. For example, a cup of brewed coffee in the U.S. is traditionally only 6 U.S. fluid ounces (180 mL).
because a pound is worth more than a us dollar.........just kidding ask the queen
Well obviously they must have bigger appitites :D
The measurement in Australia is metric. The volume in a "CUP" is different to Imperial measurement.
i believe that's because Australia uses metric, America does not.
It's a typo