What is the equivalent weight of a cup of ingredient?!
What is the equivalent weight of a cup of ingredient?
Hi,
I have been reading many cookbooks and most of them list recipes in terms of the number of cups of ingredients. To me, it is pretty confusing, because the mass of the ingredient is not stated.
What is exactly the weight of a cup of ingredients? What is the quantity of a cup?
Thanks!
1 week ago
ok, a cup measures volume instead of weight. But what is the volume of a full cup?
Answers:
1 week ago
ok, a cup measures volume instead of weight. But what is the volume of a full cup?
1.00000 Cups (US) = 236.51854 Cubic Centimeters
1.00000 Cups (US) = 7.99765 Fluid Ounces (US)
(but I'm sure you don't need to be that precise!) :-)
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it depends on the ingredient, think about the old riddle
"which weighs more, a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?"
they weigh the same, but there would be more cups of feathers than bricks
Think of it this way,a cup of gold would weigh more than a cup of marshmallows,so when a recipe calls for a cup of anything,hopefully the recipe has been tried and the amount in the cup reguardless of the weight would be correct for the recipe.
There is no equivalent weight. A cup measures volume, not weight. You can have a cup a lead which might weigh 7 kg or a cup of foam that weighs 5 grams.
You need to become familiar with two terms - weight and volume. A cup full of dirt rocks couldn't possibly weigh the same as a cup full of feathers. A good book to buy would be "The book of yields". The most professional cookbooks on the market will only give you an ingredient's weight. This is the most accurate way to measure food. If you are really interested in learning how to cook, learn the difference between the two terms, buy a digital kitchen scale to weigh ingredients when necessary, and don't buy those crappy 5.99 cookbooks the bookstores try to push.
A "cup" of liquid is 8 oz.
All above are quite right, but most of the times in recepies it equals 250-300 grams.