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  • zhvah18
    zhvah18 Posts: 158 Member
    I love rice, but I have come to the conclusion that there are so many variables (type of rice, how long it was cooked, how fluffed up or not the rice is) that the best I can do is a very good estimation. Besides, that's all this really is, estimations.
  • Melo1966
    Melo1966 Posts: 881 Member
    Wow some really unhelpful comments here!

    As a Brit, I also have no idea what this mystical measurement of "1 cup" is, so I just try to find an entry of the kind of rice I'm using that is in grams, so many entries just say "1 cup", which could/does mean anything you want it to!

    There will be entries for rice in grams, but make sure you use the "uncooked" entries if you're weighing per-cooking (I figured out I'd been massively underestimating the calories in my portions of rice by entering the uncooked weight in to an entry that was calories for cooked rice...oops!)

    You don't have measuring cups in the UK. How do you measure things for baking like flour and sugar???:huh:

    Erm..we use a scale of course

    I don't think everyone owns a scale, very few Americans do. I just bought my first one this year at 46.
    But to have to weigh flour and sugar and not just scoop it out with a measuing cup, I feel sorry for you.
    When I travel I will have to remember to pack a set of measuring cups and spoons.
  • elka67
    elka67 Posts: 268 Member
    Wow some really unhelpful comments here!

    As a Brit, I also have no idea what this mystical measurement of "1 cup" is, so I just try to find an entry of the kind of rice I'm using that is in grams, so many entries just say "1 cup", which could/does mean anything you want it to!

    There will be entries for rice in grams, but make sure you use the "uncooked" entries if you're weighing per-cooking (I figured out I'd been massively underestimating the calories in my portions of rice by entering the uncooked weight in to an entry that was calories for cooked rice...oops!)

    You don't have measuring cups in the UK. How do you measure things for baking like flour and sugar???:huh:

    Erm..we use a scale of course

    I don't think everyone owns a scale, very few Americans do. I just bought my first one this year at 46.
    But to have to weigh flour and sugar and not just scoop it out with a measuing cup, I feel sorry for you.
    When I travel I will have to remember to pack a set of measuring cups and spoons.

    Well just as everyone in the US who cooks will have the cups set, so everyone everywhere else (who cooks) will own a scale.

    Actually it can be easier than messing around with and washing out fiddly cups but guess it's whatever you are used to. I chuck it into the bowl one by one zeroing the scale in between and then mix, so only 1 item to clean out.

    I now own both so I can cook from US foodsites but find lbs/oz easier to multiply/divide if I want to cook say a quarter of the recipe and not a meal for 8 say. Plus I don't get how you measure out a cup of broccoli for example? Weighing is more accurate.

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