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means A graduated container, marked in cups, ounces, or milliliters, used to portion out precise amounts of liquid or dry ingredients while cooking or baking.
from A plain compound of two old workhorse words. "Measure" comes through Old French "mesure" from Latin "mensura" (a measuring), tied to the verb "metiri," to measure — a distant cousin of words like "meter" and "dimension." "Cup" descends from Old English "cuppe," borrowed from Late Latin "cuppa," a drinking vessel. Stick them together and you get exactly what it says: a cup made for measuring rather than drinking, a kitchen tool whose name hides no mystery at all.
- liquid vs dry
- Different cups exist because they measure differently
- meniscus rule
- Read liquid at eye level, not from above
- ancient roots
- Standardized cooking measures date back millennia
- packed vs loose
- Brown sugar packs; flour should never be
- metric snub
- A US cup ignores the rest of Earth
pyrex measuring cup — glass measuring cups produced by pyrex since 1915, most common kitchen standard
oxo angled measuring cup — plastic measuring cup with angled interior graduations, widely used design innovation