Hello
Guest

Sponsored Links


« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2]  All   

Topic: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??  (Read 2523 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2116

  • Stupid bed!
  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Jul 2005
  • Location: London, England
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2006, 10:21:23 PM »
Quote from: jklm725 on January 30, 2006, 10:18:21 PM
whoa you are hardcore paula!!



No, just seriously math challenged and have no confidence in my ability to do conversions!  :-[
Logged
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age
               - Victor Hugo-
***********************************************
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family
.......in another city.
              -George Burns-
***********************************************
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling
through street grates.
               - Dave Barry -

  • *
  • Posts: 3233

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Aug 2005
  • Location: London
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2006, 10:22:33 PM »
well no worries about the other pyrex stuff... loads to choose from!
Logged

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2116

  • Stupid bed!
  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Jul 2005
  • Location: London, England
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2006, 10:28:46 PM »
Quote from: jklm725 on January 30, 2006, 10:22:33 PM
well no worries about the other pyrex stuff... loads to choose from!

Good 'cause that stuff weighs a ton!
Logged
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age
               - Victor Hugo-
***********************************************
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family
.......in another city.
              -George Burns-
***********************************************
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling
through street grates.
               - Dave Barry -

  • *
  • Posts: 3233

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Aug 2005
  • Location: London
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2006, 10:30:24 PM »
yes! it adds up FAST in any weight measurement!  ;)
Logged

  • *
  • Posts: 636

  • Liked: 1
  • Joined: Jan 2006
  • Location: England
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2006, 01:47:50 AM »
i didn't even know there was a difference.  thanks for posting this guys!!  i bought a measuring cup set at IKEA when i first got here....and the 1 cup actually looks smaller than my US 1 cup.  I'm assuming that IKEA was selling the UK 1 cup....hmm...i'm confused....  oh well....i guess that's what i get for buying the cheap stuff.
Logged

Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2006, 07:17:27 AM »
Quote from: msbojangles on January 30, 2006, 02:21:29 PM

A US cup is 237 ml ( 8oz.) and a UK cup is 284 ml (10oz.) I bought the measuring cup here but assumed it was in UK measures for some reason?..DH said my cup is actually French??

My 1-cup measuring cup is 250ml !!  ???
Logged

  • *
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 6859

  • Liked: 1
  • Joined: Apr 2003
  • Location: Down yonder in the holler, VA
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2006, 01:21:34 PM »
Quote from: Q-G on September 25, 2006, 07:17:27 AM
My 1-cup measuring cup is 250ml !!  ???

Both my UK and US cups are the the same.. but it's the pints that are different. 

To be honest I use US measuing spoons for UK recipes and really have not had a problem.  Then again my way of cooking is hardly scientific and I tend to use weights for baking. 

I have even converted some US measurement recipes for bread into metric weight so I don't have to faff about with getting more things dirty.  I just plop it on my scale and zero it out as needed.

One bowl makes by DH happy!

Logged
The wiring in our brain is not static, not irrevocably fixed.  Our brains are adaptable. -Mattieu Ricard

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. -Benjamin Franklin

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. -D.Day

  • *
  • *
  • Posts: 2492

  • Then things got just plain Silly!
  • Liked: 1
  • Joined: Jan 2005
  • Location: Great Yarmouth, England
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2006, 05:37:14 AM »
Hmm interesting I never even thought of this! Just one more excuse why my chocolate chip cookies were all wrong whenever I tried to make them there!  ;) ;D
Logged
All dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

I can't change the direction of the wind, I can however adjust my sails to always make it to my destination.

  • *
  • Posts: 58

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Jun 2005
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2006, 07:23:50 AM »
Quote from: Q-G on September 25, 2006, 07:17:27 AM
My 1-cup measuring cup is 250ml !!  ???

That's a metric cup. 
Logged

  • *
  • Banned
  • Posts: 6640

  • Big black panther stalking through the jungle!
  • Liked: 3
  • Joined: Feb 2005
  • Location: Norfolk, England
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2006, 08:58:49 AM »
Quote from: paula1219 on January 30, 2006, 10:28:46 PM
Good 'cause that stuff weighs a ton!

Would that be an Imperial (long) ton or a U.S. (short) ton?   ;D
Logged
From
Bar
To car
To
Gates ajar
Burma Shave
1941
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dreaming of one who truly is La plus belle pour aller danser.

  • *
  • Posts: 1526

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Oct 2005
  • Location: New York
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2006, 09:45:05 AM »
The measuring cups I have seen here are American but maybe I just haven't paid enough attention.  I have a set of American Pyrex measuring cups but no UK ones.  I don't know where I can get UK measuring stuff, anyone?

June
Logged

  • *
  • Posts: 1512

  • Conservative for the moral good of mankind
  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Mar 2006
  • Location: Essex
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2006, 10:24:10 AM »
Actually this would make since because I knew that a UK gallon was a little bit bigger than a U.S. gallon so if you broke it down as far as cups this would all make sense now!   [smiley=freak.gif]
Logged
"Be completely humble and patient, bearing with one another in love"  Ephesians 4:2

"All that is necessary for evil to win the world is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke


  • *
  • Posts: 4125

  • azroomie & james
  • Liked: 2
  • Joined: Sep 2004
  • Location: Playa Del Rey, CA
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2006, 11:34:59 AM »
Quote from: JuneHawk on September 26, 2006, 09:45:05 AM
  I have a set of American Pyrex measuring cups but no UK ones.  I don't know where I can get UK measuring stuff, anyone?


I ahvr seen  glass  measuriong cups   at grocery stores  such as Co  op..  but maybe Tesco as  well.. with the baking stuff.  I have an old beat up one my MIL  gave me, but I tend  to use  American  recipes  anyway, so it's ok..
Logged
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Lindquist

  • *
  • Banned
  • Posts: 6640

  • Big black panther stalking through the jungle!
  • Liked: 3
  • Joined: Feb 2005
  • Location: Norfolk, England
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #28 on: September 26, 2006, 12:36:31 PM »
Quote from: whisper on September 26, 2006, 10:24:10 AM
Actually this would make since because I knew that a UK gallon was a little bit bigger than a U.S. gallon so if you broke it down as far as cups this would all make sense now!   [smiley=freak.gif]

In times past there were actually many different units of measurement known as a gallon, depending upon what was being measured.   One of these was the "wine gallon" of 231 cu. in., also known as the "Queen Anne" gallon.    This is the measurement which is still the standard U.S. liquid gallon today.

The British Imperial gallon (approx. 277 cu. in.) was defined by statute in the 1820s in an attempt to eliminate the confusion caused by all the different standards in use.  It is just slightly smaller than the "ale gallon" which was in use at that time.


Logged
From
Bar
To car
To
Gates ajar
Burma Shave
1941
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dreaming of one who truly is La plus belle pour aller danser.

  • *
  • Posts: 1526

  • Liked: 0
  • Joined: Oct 2005
  • Location: New York
Re: Measurements - you mean all this time I have been using the wrong stuff??
« Reply #29 on: September 26, 2006, 01:47:41 PM »
All these different measurents with the same names is very confusing.  This always reminds me of the billion issue.  In Cuba and lots of other countries, including the UK I believe, one billion is one million millions but in the US one billion is one thousand millions   [smiley=bomb.gif]

June
Logged

Pages: 1 [2]  All   
« previous next »

Sponsored Links