American cups and spoons

[Macey78]

Can anyone reccommend american measurement cups and spoons or is there a site I can easily translate the recipe to UK conversion. May be something I could print off and put on the fridge?
Many Thanks

There are sites I've found but to be honest cups and spoons for measuring can be bought in tesco and I love them! So simple to use.

The problem with conversions is that they're not always accurate.

cups and spoons it is. Thank you

It depends if the cup and spoons you buy from tesco are metric or not. The ones I bought in the UK are always metric. So a cup is 250ml and a teaspoon is 5ml.

A US cup is half a US pint, so it's 8 fl oz. This is about 235ml. Note that a US pint is smaller than a UK pint so don't use your pint glasses to measure. A US teaspoon is 1/6 fl oz, which is about 4.9ml. This is close enough to not matter.

If you are following a baking recipe, then the difference in say 3 cups of flour can absolutely ruin it.

HTH.

I have cups and spoons from Lakeland - they are in American measures but the metric measures are also written on them so they are useful for lots of recipes

Robert Dyas has some nice ones.....very brightly coloured

I love American recipes with cups and spoons. It just seems so much easier.
Muffins take seconds to prep.
You can buy them from th e pound shop too.

I hate measuring with cups. Especially multiple cups of flour. (NZ recipes are in cups too). I much prefer using an electric scale. You tip everything into the same bowl, zeroing in between ingredients. I've even marked my NZ baking book with measurements of standard ingredients. Like a cup of flour is 135g.

The way I was taught to bake is that you can't tap the cup, and you need to use a knife to flatten the top. This is very difficult to do in a normal 1kg bag of flour. By the way, we are taught to have to pack in the brown sugar, but not anything else.

An American cup = 8 oz.

I don't think you can't say for everything that a cup = 8oz. 8oz of flour can be a totally different volume quantity to 8oz mini marshmallows for example.

I'm only going on what my American friend told me!

I think valium meant 8 fluid oz. In which case you can apply it to flour, marshmallows etc. Though butter has me stumped :)

HuevosRancheros you use a spoon for soft butter, pack into the cup, and flatten with the back of a knife.

Though most sensible recipe will specify 10 tbsp, instead of say a 1 cup of butter.

No, I just meant normal oz - butter I just squash down into the cup. I use cups for everything and do loads of baking - all comes out fine!

The difference between an American Cup and a Euro Cup is so small that it makes no difference. If all your ingredients are measured in the same cup you should have no problem. The only areas you may have a problem are with butter and eggs. If your recipe calls for a 'stick' of butter, they mean 4oz (or 110gm). If an American recipe calls for Large eggs, use UK Medium eggs. A UK Large egg is called a "Very" or "Extra Large" egg by our transatlantic cousins.

Don't use cups for flour. American cooks who know what they are talking about use weight for flour not volume. Other than that, use cups, as they are awesome.

I find cups annoying and have to spend time converting individual ingredients into grams. cups, sticks, oz all seems so ad-hoc to me.

smittenkitchen.com/cooking-conversions/

Thank you for all the reply's shall use the conversion chart which looks great and buy some cups also as back up