A Cup

cwolfman13

High_Entropy wrote: »

12inches = 1lbs, 14lbs =1 stone, 27 stone = 16 grooberbangers, 23 grooberbangers = 4 chains = 144 yards = 72 cups = Christ Almighty man !

The decimal system is so much better, 10's 100's or 1000's

I'd like to think 'muricans would use a google conversion chart when making a new entry and enter foods by weight, where calories are easily converted, not volume, how does an orange fit into a cup and have the same calorific value as a weight of orange ?

If you peruse the forums you will see "get a food scale" and "weigh your solids" recommended often by veteran members. The thing is most Americans are accustomed to their measuring cups and spoons and many think weighing things out is actually some kind of disordered thinking.

Also, most people on MFP in general would probably opt for something like "orange - medium" rather than using cups anyway.

VeryKatie

High_Entropy wrote: »

What the hell is a "cup" ??

A cup of blueberries = how much in real measurements.

Can we ban the use of "a cup" and stick with the metric system please.

A metric cup is 250 ml... for fluids. An imperial cup is 8 fl. oz (which isn't the same an oz weight) which is closer to 240 ml. The difference is minimal. Solids occupying the same space would be "a cup".

weight is a better measurement, but that doesn't mean "a cup" isn't metric.

VeryKatie

auddii wrote: »

High_Entropy wrote: »

12inches = 1lbs, 14lbs =1 stone, 27 stone = 16 grooberbangers, 23 grooberbangers = 4 chains = 144 yards = 72 cups = Christ Almighty man !

The decimal system is so much better, 10's 100's or 1000's

I'd like to think 'muricans would use a google conversion chart when making a new entry and enter foods by weight, where calories are easily converted, not volume, how does an orange fit into a cup and have the same calorific value as a weight of orange ?

I really wish the US would get on board with the metric system. As a scientist, I'm already mostly there anyways. And yes, way more simple.

I do not understand how inches (length) can ever be converted to lb (force).

And don't get me started on lb-m. Ever heard of a slug? It's a thing. Not just a squishy slow thing.

roxymuller

use a measuring cup, like cwolfman13 shows.

seska422

roxymuller wrote: »

use a measuring cup, like cwolfman13 shows.

A cup is much less accurate with solids, especially with things like blueberries that have large spaces between the blueberries.

It's much more accurate to use a food scale to weigh all solids rather than measuring cups/spoons.

oneoddsock

jnord8729 wrote: »

But no, cup/ounce/pound/mile/yard etc all english units

We don't have cups in England. They are not a standard unit of measurement here.

jnord8729 wrote: »

@one no, the so called "American" unites are standard English units. Just the United States is the only country who still uses it. The unit system is called "SI" or "Standard Imperial" or "English" for short because it was the standard unit of measurement used by the British Empire. Most the industrialized world changed over during the late 40s and early 50s because everyone's factories got blown up during WW2. When they rebuilt, they made metric ones. We never switched because it's expensive.

But no, cup/ounce/pound/mile/yard etc all english units

Interesting. We call them imperial units in the UK - except for cups, which we don't use. The UK switched from imperial to metric over the latter decades of the 20th century, and the law changed in the mid-90s to legally oblige retailers to sell things in metric units. I'm very familiar with the other imperial units you mentioned, as are most Brits over the age of about 35, but very few people here understand what a cup is (as a unit of measurement).