Cups!

garethhuwjones · February 2017

I want to use home made recipes when I'm entering my meals, but in most cases the quantities refer to cups - do what, I mean how big is your cup, my cup for tea is big, for coffee it's small & don't start me on cocoa! So how do I translate cups to weight? Love the app, except the "cups"!

Timshel_ · February 2017

You can Google cup to ounces for whatever you are adding.

And lots of these charts online.

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart.html

km8907 · February 2017

pudgy1977 · February 2017

mumblemagic · February 2017

Make sure even if the recipe calls for "cups" you weigh in grams anyway.

TavistockToad · February 2017

I thought a cup was 250g?

JHamilton6 · February 2017

pudgy1977 wrote: »

How many cups in "a lot"? Coffee cups or cocoa cups?

mumblemagic · February 2017

TavistockToad wrote: »

I thought a cup was 250g?

1 cup is only 250g for something that weighs 250g per cup. For denser materials, 1 cup will weigh more. For less dense materials (e.g. icing sugar) it will weigh less.

wolverine66 · February 2017

it doesn't matter to me. I like A through DD.... i'm more about proportion

Gimsteinn · February 2017

I'm an A cup... and I have no problem with it.
Scan your food, that way you'll get the grams or at least I do.

sssup · February 2017

Good God what are they teaching you kids in school...

yarwell · February 2017

garethhuwjones wrote: »

I want to use home made recipes when I'm entering my meals, but in most cases the quantities refer to cups

A cup is a volume measure typically about 240 ml depending where you are (16 tablespoons) you can usually buy a set of 1 cup, 3/4, 2/3, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 etc for ease of use. They seem popular in the US as a measuring unit.

Derf_Smeggle · February 2017

Important distinction. You can convert cups to *fluid* ounces, which is a volume to volume measurement. 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces.

Nice for milk, broth, etc.

You cannot convert cups (a volume) to regular ounces, which is a measurement of weight.
1 cup is not equal to 8 ounces.

The "cups" measurement of volume is particularly bad for tracking calories of solid foods.

This is where a food scale comes in extremely handy. If a recipe calls for 1-1/2 cups of rice (dry) for instance, it is more accurate to weigh the rice (dry).

It can be a little bit of a pain to start with, but I try to find gram measurements for foods I'm using in recipes.

subcounter · February 2017

garethhuwjones wrote: »

I want to use home made recipes when I'm entering my meals, but in most cases the quantities refer to cups - do what, I mean how big is your cup, my cup for tea is big, for coffee it's small & don't start me on cocoa! So how do I translate cups to weight? Love the app, except the "cups"!

Hi Gareth,

You can check this chart for conversions, and "cup" sizes. US cup is 240 ml, which would equate to 240 grams of water.
It is not really accurate for non-liquids though, so you should definitely buy a kitchen scale, and add your stuff in grams. MFP food database have grams as well, so you can simply search, say "butter grams", and it will show up.