measuring cereal

To be on the safe side you should probably measure cereal with a scale but honestly I use a measuring cup most of the time just by habit. On your box of cereal it should say how many grams a serving size is and you can go by that (my scale will weigh in ounces and grams) but if your scale only measures ounces you could probably google "ounces to gram conversion calculator"

Food scale for sure. My scale has told me a lot about how approximate the measuring cup value really is, especially regarding cereal.

my cereal only shows the serving size in cups so i measure in cups. of course i pretty much only eat oatmeal. have i been doing this wrong all this time?!?

I use a cup also.

I look at the weight of a serving of cereal on the box and measure it out in grams on my food scale, the serving varies by cereal.

my cereal only shows the serving size in cups so i measure in cups. of course i pretty much only eat oatmeal. have i been doing this wrong all this time?!?

Mine too: serving = 1 cup, and there's a gram measurement as well, but since I don't have a food scale I just go with cups.

The way I learned, there's two types of measuring cups--ones for solid/dry ingredients (which are the scooping-type ones... sorry, can't think of a better description) and ones for liquids (which look more like pitchers than scoops). Spoons are for both dry and wet, since they're small volumes. Not sure if this clears anything up for anyone...

thats how i learned it in home-ec back in highschool

(I'm going to start off by saying I realize this is an old topic, but considering my experience this morning, I thought it might be beneficial to bring it back up.)

This morning when I went to have breakfast, I learned a rather important lesson: When measuring dry cereal, at least the flaky type for sure, it is a VERY good idea to use a scale! (And even better to use one with metric measurements as they are more precise.) First, I measured my cereal out into a dry measuring cup. (aka, the "scooping" type) Then, I placed my bowl on the scale, pushed the "tare" button to zero it back out, and dumped the cereal into the bowl. Based on weight, that "cup" of cereal was closer to 2 servings!

To be honest, that still was a good bit less than I usually eat, so I ended up just adding a little bit to make it the 2 servings and logged it as such....

We don't 'do' cups in the UK. The serving size on the box is in grams, and I have a decent scale I put my breakfast bowl on before pouring the cereal. Simple :-)

I use a food scale to measure almost everything. (Exceptions: teaspoons, tablespoons, some liquids). Measuring cups leave too much room for error. Some people may "level" the cup, while others may use "heaping" cups. My food scale can measure in ounces or grams. I usually use the grams because it's a smaller unit of measure and therefore more accurate.