This weights and measures thing is getting really ridiculous, and I have now officially thrown in the towel.
Get this: my wife wanted to give one of her recipes to someone here in the States, so she asked me to convert her units in grams to US cups. A quick search on the Internet pulled up a page on Gourmetsleuth.com which offered a handy conversion calculator based on the formula 1 cup = 229.92 grams.
This yielded the following results:
Get this: my wife wanted to give one of her recipes to someone here in the States, so she asked me to convert her units in grams to US cups. A quick search on the Internet pulled up a page on Gourmetsleuth.com which offered a handy conversion calculator based on the formula 1 cup = 229.92 grams.
This yielded the following results:
600g sugar = 2.6 cups
300g flour = 1.3 cups
Further down the page - luckily I looked - the site completely negated its own calculator by saying that actually the conversion factor varies depending on what you're weighing! As such, a cup can be as little as 120 grams or as much as 290!
From the examples given, a cup of granulated sugar weighs 200g and a cup of ordinary flour 125g. This means ...
600g sugar = 3 cups
From the examples given, a cup of granulated sugar weighs 200g and a cup of ordinary flour 125g. This means ...
600g sugar = 3 cups
300g flour = 2.4 cups
Compare and contrast.
Compare and contrast.
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