A cup of cheese

[TyneTeas]

I am making bacon cheese bread and need to add a cup of grated cheese.

How is that a measure??

Do I densely pack the cup to the extent I may as well just have carved a cylinder from the block or arrange a few meagre strands like an acrobatic formation team within the cup?

The recipe may as well have just said add an indeterminate amount

AIBU to expect a system of measurement to be more precise?

Dessert hadn't even thought about having to know the implicit density for other stuff!!

BTW I now live in the U.K. but still prefer to cook using American measures. I

I much prefer using American cup measurements, easy peasy when you're used to it.

I dislike this cup system..it seems quite imprecise to me. Apart from liquid, anything else can be packed more loosely or more densely

I use this - comes in handy!

Why don't they just say 125g !!?

Because Americans don't do metric. Not even when it really matters - see the story of the Mars Climate Orbiter!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

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Dailymaily 😛

cup is also 250 ml if that helps

Thanks for that qcumber - downloaded and saved to phone screen

Who asked about cups of different stuff weighing different amounts?? It's because the (packed) density of different ingredients is different. So 100g of icing sugar looks much bigger than 100g of flour. Therefore to get the same weight, you'd need more cups of icing sugar.

And yes, I can buy sticks of butter in our supermarket. But I prefer (the more expensive) imported European Butter to the local stick butter.

Converting between cups and g is a pest. Your better finding a recipie in the other units. But it does work. - and I still weigh butter

In RoW there are (about) 25 mil in an inch, and 300 mil are about a foot

(25.4mm)

mm = millimetre

In US, however, there are a million in an inch.

mil = millionth of an inch

Order a machine part over the phone and you may be surprised.

Yes Dixie you are duly awarded the Measuring Cup

No, PigletJohn. In RoW there are aprox 25mm in an inch. You may pronounce them similarly, but as a Brit you should never write mil for mm. That way madness lies.

OMG just clicked the link. Putting that on my future cooking list. Looks fabulous.

That recipe looks amazing. Thank you!

Thought this was going to be about something very different. Am officially a child.

Make sure you use streaky bacon, not back bacon, that will not be successful.

free. Can I call for you so we can hang out at the playground together? I too was thinking along lines that have nothing to do with cuisine...

Another Brit who loves the American cup system.

Works perfectly for cakes and bakes recipes. So much more convenient than washing the bloody scales.

Well it's out of the oven and delicious

I never write mm as mil, but I often pronounce it.

Swedish grocery packets (and cookery books) contain a conversion table so you can use either volume or weight according to preference. Very useful it is too.

Yanbu actually! I'm American and have been using cups for 40 years, a few months ago a recipe I was using said to add a cup of cheese. A cup is 8 oz so I added it - a whole block of it. Well grated cheese a cup is 4 oz... no wonder it tasted so good!

Jess, you're on! Let's get sticks and hit things!