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[Willow]

I've been looking for a set of American cup measures so I could easily try out some American recipes but I discovered that some cup measures are british measures and slightly different but also noticed that no one seems to state whether which their set is. I've even tried emailing some manufacturers but haven't had an answer.

 

So does anyone have some measures they know are definitely American they could recommend ?

[Blackrocksrock]

Not sure of that one but beware that the cup measures are dry ones and for wet measures like milk its a different measure as I found out in america in March visiting my friends - thats where I must go wrong!. They use a jug to measure the cups of liquid!

[sjp]

I was told by someone that does a lot of baking that as long as the measures are the same ie you only use British or American and not a mix of the 2 then it should still be OK as it's the preportions of the measure not the weight that matters which is why American recipies use cups and not weights all households had a cup of some sort but not a set of scales

[laurmurf]

Here's the conversion that Delia uses (i've got sets of American cups and measuring spoons but don't use them as I prefer converting american recipes into grams)

 

http://www.deliaonline.com/conversion-tables.html

[Willow]

I was told by someone that does a lot of baking that as long as the measures are the same ie you only use British or American and not a mix of the 2 then it should still be OK as it's the preportions of the measure not the weight that matters

 

The only problem is the butter is measured in sticks not cups

 

Maybe I should forget about the cups and just convert

[Saronne]

A stick of butter is approximately 4 oz or 125 gms (there about). Sticks of butter tend to be sold in boxes of four.

Hope that helps!

[Willow]

The only problem is the butter is measured in sticks not cups

I meant in the sense that although in one way as long as you use the same cup it shouldn't matter what size the cup is when other ingredients are absolute measures like the sticks of butter you may end up with the wrong proportions of butter to other ingredients.

 

Maybe I'm over thinking this and I should just buy some cup measures

[Sue_F]

I really like mine... Don't know where them from though sorry...