Does any one know how many cups to an ounce?

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and

use

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ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

Try here:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

8 ounces = 1 cup.

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

One cup = 8 fluid ounces. One pound = 16 dry ounces. HTH...

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

You can buy measuring cups in supermarkets or kitchen shop

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

There are fluid ounces (volume) and there are dry (avoirdupois weight)
ounces.

Fresh water converts easily between volume and weight -

Other things do not convert easily - and unless you like having a
food-covered calculator in your recipe stores:

since you are British, it is probably a lot easier long run to pop over
to Harrads (sic) and get a set of US-measure measuring cups and spoons for
less than the cost of the ride there.
Or check a local cooking shoppe.
Or order a set on the internet.

more:

1) Replicating cooking recipes is supposedly most reliable when done by
weight. Use of the common cup and spoon measures indirectly delivers the
proper weight of the ingredient.

2) Fresh water, used as the standard so the old labs and merchants could set
up their measures at a common point, converts easily between volume and
weight -

1 measured cup water = 8 fluid ounces = avoir. 8 ounces.
( similar to using water in old metric common point: 1cc=1ml=1g )

Note: I do not think the Imperial gallon at 10 lbs a gallon was originally
part of the system and follows these rules, however. I believe it is akin to
the bakers dozen, devised so the provider of goods could not be hanged for
shorting a customer by mistake, back when brit leaders were on a death
penalty craze.

3) You may have heard the memory tool "pint's a pound the world around" .
For water:
1 measured cup water = 8 fluid ounces = avoir. 8 ounces =16 tablespoons.
And there are 16 cups and 8 pints and about 8 lbs of water per gallon.
It is octal-based ( i.e., "on multiples of just fingers, because the
thumbs are busy holding the food" someone said)

4) Most other things do not convert easily , because their volume per weight
varies. A cup of flour or a cup of shortening does not weigh 8 ounces.
Some people's baked goods and souffles, however, well exceed 8 ounces a
cup.

and BTW, don't eat baked goods that exceed 1 kg per cup.

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and

use

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ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

You might find this interesting as well:
http://home.t-online.de/home/vsack/rfc_faq0.html

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

There are 8 oz. to a cup.

1 oz. is roughly 30 mls.

Kat

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Actually its more like how many ounces to a cup. 1 cup = 8 oz. 16 oz
= 1 pound. Hope this helps

Actually its more like how many ounces to a cup. 1 cup = 8 oz. 16 oz
= 1 pound. Hope this helps

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Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

A good one <http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/volume>

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There are 8 oz. to a cup.

Yes, but British fluid ounces are a different size. 16 British ounces
= 15 1/3 US ounces.

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1 oz. is roughly 30 mls.

US ounce = 29 1/2 mls - close, but when scaling up, it distorts rather
quickly.

A US gallon is only .8 of an Imperial gallon.

But it all comes to nothing here because most everybody but the US
cooks by weight. Brits typically use their kitchen scales to cook with
- much more accurate than volume measure.

Those ounces...

Any conversions from volume to weight in the kitchen can only be
approximate.

Pastorio

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Bob (this one) said:

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

A good one <http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/volume>

Quoted message said:

There are 8 oz. to a cup.

Yes, but British fluid ounces are a different size. 16 British ounces
= 15 1/3 US ounces.

Quoted message said:

1 oz. is roughly 30 mls.

US ounce = 29 1/2 mls - close, but when scaling up, it distorts rather
quickly.

A US gallon is only .8 of an Imperial gallon.

But it all comes to nothing here because most everybody but the US
cooks by weight. Brits typically use their kitchen scales to cook with
- much more accurate than volume measure.

Those ounces...

Any conversions from volume to weight in the kitchen can only be
approximate.

Pastorio

Exactly... :-)

And unless I am baking (which is rare since I live low carb), I rarely
ever measure _anything_ when I am cookng..... <G>

It's far more fun to make it up as I go along!

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Bob (this one) said:

Dry ounces are
still volume measure

Hi Bob,

You offer that as if it were some widely accepted fact, but
I think it is far more ambiguous.

If someone told me to add eight ounces of flour to
something, I would weigh it (as would many other people.)

I certainly would not deny that some would pull out a
half-cup measure, but I think that is hardly as likely as
you seem to believe.

All the best,
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Kenneth said:

half-cup measure

Ooops... should have been "cup measure"

'Sorry,

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Dry ounces are
still volume measure, like fluid ounces.

Does anyone know how it happened that "ounces" refers to either weight or
volume, depending on usage? Is there some nexis between the two? All I
can imagine is that one fluid ounce of water at STP weighs one ounce. Is
that it?

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acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Kenneth said:

Bob (this one) said:

Dry ounces are
still volume measure

Hi Bob,

You offer that as if it were some widely accepted fact, but
I think it is far more ambiguous.

If someone told me to add eight ounces of flour to
something, I would weigh it (as would many other people.)

I certainly would not deny that some would pull out a
half-cup measure, but I think that is hardly as likely as
you seem to believe.

All the best,

If it said 8 oz., I'd weigh it.
If it said 1/2 cup, I'd use a measuring cup.

--
K.

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Excellent post. Thanks.

It clarified lots and lots of stuff that I had been wondering about for a
long time.

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Quoted message said:

Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx

Quoted message said:

There are fluid ounces (volume) and there are dry (avoirdupois weight)
ounces.

Quoted message said:

Fresh water converts easily between volume and weight -

Quoted message said:

Other things do not convert easily - and unless you like having a
food-covered calculator in your recipe stores:

Quoted message said:

since you are British, it is probably a lot easier long run to pop over
to Harrads (sic) and get a set of US-measure measuring cups and spoons for
less than the cost of the ride there.
Or check a local cooking shoppe.
Or order a set on the internet.

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more:

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1) Replicating cooking recipes is supposedly most reliable when done by
weight. Use of the common cup and spoon measures indirectly delivers the
proper weight of the ingredient.

Quoted message said:

2) Fresh water, used as the standard so the old labs and merchants could set
up their measures at a common point, converts easily between volume and
weight -

Quoted message said:

1 measured cup water = 8 fluid ounces = avoir. 8 ounces.
( similar to using water in old metric common point: 1cc=1ml=1g )

Quoted message said:

Note: I do not think the Imperial gallon at 10 lbs a gallon was originally
part of the system and follows these rules, however. I believe it is akin to
the bakers dozen, devised so the provider of goods could not be hanged for
shorting a customer by mistake, back when brit leaders were on a death
penalty craze.

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3) You may have heard the memory tool "pint's a pound the world around" .
For water:
1 measured cup water = 8 fluid ounces = avoir. 8 ounces =16 tablespoons.
And there are 16 cups and 8 pints and about 8 lbs of water per gallon.
It is octal-based ( i.e., "on multiples of just fingers, because the
thumbs are busy holding the food" someone said)

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4) Most other things do not convert easily , because their volume per weight
varies. A cup of flour or a cup of shortening does not weigh 8 ounces.
Some people's baked goods and souffles, however, well exceed 8 ounces a
cup.

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and BTW, don't eat baked goods that exceed 1 kg per cup.

--
In the councils of government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
-- Dwight David Eisenhower

-- said:

3) You may have heard the memory tool "pint's a pound the world around" .
For water:
1 measured cup water = 8 fluid ounces = avoir. 8 ounces =16 tablespoons.
And there are 16 cups and 8 pints and about 8 lbs of water per gallon.

The British do not have this rhyme. The British equivalent
is "A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter".

1 imperial pint weighs 20 oz.
1 imperial gallon (8 pints) weighs 10 lbs.

Noises Off

Katra said:

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Kenneth said:

Bob (this one) said:

Dry ounces are
still volume measure

Hi Bob,

You offer that as if it were some widely accepted fact, but
I think it is far more ambiguous.

If someone told me to add eight ounces of flour to
something, I would weigh it (as would many other people.)

I certainly would not deny that some would pull out a
half-cup measure, but I think that is hardly as likely as
you seem to believe.

All the best,

If it said 8 oz., I'd weigh it.
If it said 1/2 cup, I'd use a measuring cup.

Hi Katra,

That is exactly my point... I think most people would do
what you describe.

All the best,

--
Kenneth

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Does anyone know how it happened that "ounces" refers to either

weight or

Quoted message said:

volume, depending on usage? Is there some nexis between the two? All

I

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can imagine is that one fluid ounce of water at STP weighs one ounce.

Is

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that it?

That's it. Works for water with those two meanings of ounce.

An ounce of gold, that's a Troy ounce so an ounce of gold
does *not* weigh the same as an ounce of water. What a mess.

Generally if it says ounce to me it's volume. American
cooking goes by volume most of the time so unless I am
positive its weight I expect it to be volume. No way
would I ever weight something in ounces unless it was
hard. Even the slightest ability to flow and it gets
measured by volume for me.