chefs and writers of recipe books will advise you to use the nesting measuring cups for dry ingredients and the glass all-in-one cup for liquid measurements because they believe that accuracy is important. They treat their kitchens like chemistry labs. That way, if you do too, your version of their recipe will duplicate theirs and will be successful. There is an accuracy difference between the two cups. Most home cooks simply don't care that much. Some of us measure more accurately than others, and some of us don't measure at all. I often just throw in a little of this and a little of that until it seems right for that particular day. A beginning cook can learn much from measuring things out until he or she is comfortable with the kitchen and wants to experiment for themselves. Some never get that comfortable, others are from the beginning. That's all there is to it, so do whatever is most comfortable to you. There are very few recipes that must be measured exactly in order to work. Those I leave for the professionals and buy them ready to eat.
Pamela Fairchild <pamelafairch...@comcast.net> -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of Karen Delzer via Cookinginthedark Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 1:14 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Karen Delzer <catwa...@verizon.net> Subject: Re: [CnD] measuring cups Well, I don't understand what the issue is. Are they saying that all our cups are off? Are they saying that, if you want to measure one thing , you add a little more? What is the issue here? Karen At 10:11 AM 8/18/2020, you wrote: >Yes, it does sound like a tempest in a teacup. Except that it's a >little upsetting to me to find I have ben measuring inaccurately all my life. >Usually it does not matter. But this would explain why I sometimes >find my measuring to be a little on the dry side. Most of the time, it >doesn't matter or I can compensate. But something better would be nice. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On >Behalf Of Karen Delzer via Cookinginthedark >Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 11:49 AM >To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org >Cc: Karen Delzer <catwa...@verizon.net> >Subject: Re: [CnD] measuring cups > >Hey, guys, what is the fuss about dry measure and wet measure? I'm >coming late to this party and thinking it sounds like a tempest in a tea cup. > >Karen >At 08:51 AM 8/18/2020, you wrote: > >Despite all the stuff in the mainstream press about not using dry > >measuring cups for liquids, that is the easiest way to measure > >liquids >nonvisually. > >I've never seen a liquid measure with markings on the inside, so you > >could measure using a clean fingertip or some other marker on the > >inside of the cup. > > > >But I haven't tested these cups against the other dry measuring cups > >I have that don't have pour spouts. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On > >Behalf Of Gary Metzler via Cookinginthedark > >Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 4:04 AM > >To: Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > >Cc: Gary Metzler <gmtra...@comcast.net> > >Subject: [CnD] measuring cups > > > >Hi All, > > > > > > > >I have a set of the braille measuring cups from bmm. > > > > > > > >Regards, Gary KN4OXCan they be used for both wet and dry measuring? > >Thanks for any help. > > > >Sendto: gmtra...@comcast.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Cookinginthedark mailing list > >Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > >http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Cookinginthedark mailing list > >Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > >http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > >_______________________________________________ >Cookinginthedark mailing list >Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org >http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > >_______________________________________________ >Cookinginthedark mailing list >Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org >http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
