Don't get it

clarocky
clarocky Posts: 16 Member
edited November 11 in Recipes
I found a recipe that I want to do it is slow cooker turkey chili. one example I have is:

what is 0.25cups of chicken broth?

Then this one

10.00 oz of mild diced tomato?

There are a lot of recipes out there are like that for the chicken broth shouldn't it say 2.5 cups? For someone who hasn't cooked may think ok 25 cups of chicken broth. To me I know that is a lot of broth just for 5 servings.

or is it american measurements in cooking as I looked it up and it sure doesn't look right. because normally it is in oz

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  • JennieT7161
    JennieT7161 Posts: 20 Member
    I read this as a 1/4 c of chicken broth and a 10 oz can of diced tomatoes.
    I think the decimals have something to do with calculating the nutrition but I could be wrong.
  • isa474
    isa474 Posts: 47 Member
    Yes Jennie is right 1/4 cup and 10 Oz can
  • clarocky
    clarocky Posts: 16 Member
    but it doesn't say 1/4 c of chicken broth it says 2.5 cups
  • lots2live4
    lots2live4 Posts: 107 Member
    edited January 2015
    0.25 cups does mean the same as 1/4 cup. It's like if you had 100% or 1.0 or 1 cup then you divide it by 4 it would equal 25% or 0.25 or 1/4 cup. Oh and these are american measurements.

    Did you type it wrong and it wasn't actually 0.25 cups then? Because 2.5 and 0.25 are way different.

    Oh another thing is that the 0.25 cup could be per serving. So if there are 8 servings of the chili then you would times the 0.25 by 8, which would be 2.0 or 2 cups of chicken broth total in the recipe.
  • clarocky
    clarocky Posts: 16 Member
    it says 0.25 cups. its ok not a big deal i found it in different sight
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,219 Member
    clarocky wrote: »
    it says 0.25 cups. its ok not a big deal i found it in different sight

    0.25 = 1/4. It's represented as a decimal, rather than a fraction.
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