Cups!

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"!

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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    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

  • mumblemagic
    mumblemagic Posts: 1,090 Member
    Make sure even if the recipe calls for "cups" you weigh in grams anyway.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    I thought a cup was 250g?
  • JHamilton6
    JHamilton6 Posts: 34 Member
    edited February 2017
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    How many cups in "a lot"? Coffee cups or cocoa cups?
  • mumblemagic
    mumblemagic Posts: 1,090 Member
    edited February 2017
    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
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    it doesn't matter to me. I like A through DD.... i'm more about proportion
  • Gimsteinn
    Gimsteinn Posts: 7,678 Member
    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
    sssup Posts: 21 Member
    Good God what are they teaching you kids in school... gcj8opipc2s8.png
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    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
    Derf_Smeggle Posts: 610 Member
    edited 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
    subcounter Posts: 2,382 Member
    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.
  • nolan44219
    nolan44219 Posts: 1,221 Member
    ^^ this was helpful. Spent some time reading it and looking at the drawings
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    @Jimb376
    So whatever I can fit into my bra will count for a cup measurement from now on. I got it. :D;)
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    I thought a cup was 250g?

    well a cup on anything I drink says 240ml,but my measuring cups all say 235ml. so go figure lol