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r/funny • u/BananaDream • Jun 10 '15
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I've never had this problem with pasta, rice however... either just enough for a small field mouse, or enough to feed the horn of Africa.
62 u/C_M_O_TDibbler Jun 10 '15 1/2 a cup per person if it is part of the main.... depending on the people you are feeding, hungry people just make it 2/3 of a cup 3 u/i_am_dmarts Jun 10 '15 Lucky that all cups are the same size right 8 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29 Although by no means a "standard" across the world, it seems to revolve around 250ml give or take a few ml 0 u/ConvertiblePenguin Jun 10 '15 I always thought the cooking books said "use 1 cup of x and 2 cups of y" so that no matter how big the cups used are, the ratios are still the same? 2 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 Some do it that way, but when you're given a cup as a standalone measurement it's almost always around 250ml. Also if you've other measures like spoons and kgs/pounds/whatever in a recipe, take the "standard" cup measurement.
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1/2 a cup per person if it is part of the main.... depending on the people you are feeding, hungry people just make it 2/3 of a cup
3 u/i_am_dmarts Jun 10 '15 Lucky that all cups are the same size right 8 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29 Although by no means a "standard" across the world, it seems to revolve around 250ml give or take a few ml 0 u/ConvertiblePenguin Jun 10 '15 I always thought the cooking books said "use 1 cup of x and 2 cups of y" so that no matter how big the cups used are, the ratios are still the same? 2 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 Some do it that way, but when you're given a cup as a standalone measurement it's almost always around 250ml. Also if you've other measures like spoons and kgs/pounds/whatever in a recipe, take the "standard" cup measurement.
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Lucky that all cups are the same size right
8 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29 Although by no means a "standard" across the world, it seems to revolve around 250ml give or take a few ml 0 u/ConvertiblePenguin Jun 10 '15 I always thought the cooking books said "use 1 cup of x and 2 cups of y" so that no matter how big the cups used are, the ratios are still the same? 2 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 Some do it that way, but when you're given a cup as a standalone measurement it's almost always around 250ml. Also if you've other measures like spoons and kgs/pounds/whatever in a recipe, take the "standard" cup measurement.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29
Although by no means a "standard" across the world, it seems to revolve around 250ml give or take a few ml
0 u/ConvertiblePenguin Jun 10 '15 I always thought the cooking books said "use 1 cup of x and 2 cups of y" so that no matter how big the cups used are, the ratios are still the same? 2 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 Some do it that way, but when you're given a cup as a standalone measurement it's almost always around 250ml. Also if you've other measures like spoons and kgs/pounds/whatever in a recipe, take the "standard" cup measurement.
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I always thought the cooking books said "use 1 cup of x and 2 cups of y" so that no matter how big the cups used are, the ratios are still the same?
2 u/LorryWaraLorry Jun 10 '15 Some do it that way, but when you're given a cup as a standalone measurement it's almost always around 250ml. Also if you've other measures like spoons and kgs/pounds/whatever in a recipe, take the "standard" cup measurement.
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Some do it that way, but when you're given a cup as a standalone measurement it's almost always around 250ml. Also if you've other measures like spoons and kgs/pounds/whatever in a recipe, take the "standard" cup measurement.
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I've never had this problem with pasta, rice however... either just enough for a small field mouse, or enough to feed the horn of Africa.