Jim made a good point and a bad point - an eight of a litre is a little small, probably a quarter of litre would be better (as in Australia & South Africa).
-----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of cont...@metricpioneer.com Sent: 05 August 2013 19:21 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53137] Re: Measuring Cup Jim makes a good point. I think Mark was probably thinking that NIST should redefine a cup as an eighth of a liter. David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 ----- Message from j...@metricmethods.com --------- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:01:18 -0500 From: James Frysinger <j...@metricmethods.com> Reply-To: j...@metricmethods.com Subject: [USMA:53135] Re: Measuring Cup To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > The liter is defined by the CGPM, not by NIST. > > Jim > > On 2013-08-05 12:34, Henschel Mark wrote: >> I think we should ask NIST to redefine a litre as eight cups. Each >> one would be slightly bigger than 30 mL, but the math to increase >> recipe sizes would be a lot easier. >> >> Mark >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Natalia Permiakova <np...@yahoo.com> >> Date: Sunday, August 4, 2013 12:01 am >> Subject: [USMA:53131] Re: Measuring Cup >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> >> >> >> Eight 240 mL cups should not be equal to two liters. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android >> >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> > * >> > From: >> > * >> > Kilopascal <kilopas...@cox.net>; >> > >> > * >> > To: >> > * >> > U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu>; >> > >> > * >> > Subject: >> > * >> > Measuring Cup >> > >> > * >> > Sent: >> > * >> > Sun, Aug 4, 2013 4:36:16 AM >> > >> >> > Everyone needs to know, especially if you prepare food with >> > measuring cups, that if you use the USC side, that each USC >> ounce is >> > precisely 30 mL and the 8 ounce marking on the cup means 240 mL and >> not 236 and >> > some decimal dust millilitres. >> >> >> > If you do conversions from ounces to millilitres in recipes, do not >> > use 28 g or 29.5 mL. Use both 30 g and 30 mL as >> the cup >> > manufacturers are using the FDA and not the NIST definitions for >> > cup dimensions. >> >> > http://lynnescountrykitchen.net/glossary/utensils/measurecup.html >> >> >> > A cup-shaped kitchen utensil, >> > varying in size from 1/4 to 5 cup measures that are used to hold >> specific >> > amounts of both dry and liquid ingredients. Traditional small dry >> measuring cup >> > sizes are used for dry measures of 1/8, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1, and 2-cup >> sizes in >> > U.S. measures or 30 ml, 60 ml, 80 ml, 120 ml, and 240 ml in metric. >> The liquid >> > measuring cups can range in sizes that measure from 1 teaspoon or 5 >> milliliters >> > to 8 cups or 2 liters. The smallest cup measures 1 to 6 teaspoons >> > in >> U.S. >> > measures or 5 to 30 milliliters (ml) in metric. >> >> >> > Other links with the same 240 mL = 8 ounce >> > relationship: >> >> http://www.etsy.com/listing/57178175/25-mixing-measuring-cups-for-epo >> xy-resin >> >> >> http://www.lighthouseproductionsinc.com/disposable-measuring-cup-grad >> uated-8-ounce-240-cc/ >> ----- End message from j...@metricmethods.com -----
