1 cup is only a TENNISBALLL size/!?!?!?!?................................... PORTION control
OMGOSH thats so tinny!!!!!!!!
my parents FORCE me to eat 2-4 TENNISBALLS of RICE for DINNER....... no leftovers allowed for those poor farmers worked allday for us........
i want to start measuring allll my food..... this is SHOCKING... a TENNISBALL?!!?
is a liquid measuringcup's 1cup = 1 cup of the regular ones? cause i only haev a liquid one.......
A volume cup is the same for liquids or solids. It's only when you go from weight measures to volume measure that they don't always match up.
i think with rice it's actually different; because i was pissed about this too, i cooked EXACTLY four servings of rice one time and split it into four portions. they filled up an average sized bowl, larger than a tennis ball. i think it's because rice can be packed more tightly into a measuring cup.
i could be wrong, i guess... but i'm basing this off of the fact that i made EXACTLY four servings of rice (using very accurate measurements, both with the raw rice and the water) and the result being four pretty large servings.
Original Post by gi-jane:
What's going on that your parents FORCE you to eat things? .....
its just dinner.... its concidered rude to not finish all your rice....
its concidered rude to eat too slowly/ quickly compared to others
havent your parents ever tell you to FINISH YOUR PLATE....
and apparently, overweight is "healthy" for myparents.... b/c i'll all go to my "height"..... .... ..... ..... never gona happen.. just geneticly not possible but they keep dreaming -__-.
anyways, my liquid 1cup seems much bigger than a tennisball..... um.... could a 1cup liquid be BIGGER than 1cup solid cup??
i think liqluid cups are bigger than solid.....
Original Post by hamhamhamham:
Original Post by gi-jane:
What's going on that your parents FORCE you to eat things? .....its just dinner.... its concidered rude to not finish all your rice....
its concidered rude to eat too slowly/ quickly compared to others
havent your parents ever tell you to FINISH YOUR PLATE....and apparently, overweight is "healthy" for myparents.... b/c i'll all go to my "height"..... .... ..... ..... never gona happen.. just geneticly not possible but they keep dreaming -__-.
anyways, my liquid 1cup seems much bigger than a tennisball..... um.... could a 1cup liquid be BIGGER than 1cup solid cup??
i think liqluid cups are bigger than solid.....
Try this experiment at home. Fill up the solid cup with water and carefully pour it (without spilling) into the liquid cup. Check which line it goes to. Record your results. Double check.
Original Post by durgy:
Original Post by hamhamhamham:
Original Post by gi-jane:
What's going on that your parents FORCE you to eat things? .....its just dinner.... its concidered rude to not finish all your rice....
its concidered rude to eat too slowly/ quickly compared to others
havent your parents ever tell you to FINISH YOUR PLATE....and apparently, overweight is "healthy" for myparents.... b/c i'll all go to my "height"..... .... ..... ..... never gona happen.. just geneticly not possible but they keep dreaming -__-.
anyways, my liquid 1cup seems much bigger than a tennisball..... um.... could a 1cup liquid be BIGGER than 1cup solid cup??
i think liqluid cups are bigger than solid.....
Try this experiment at home. Fill up the solid cup with water and carefully pour it (without spilling) into the liquid cup. Check which line it goes to. Record your results. Double check.
i did..
i swear, the liquid measuring 1cup looks HUGE..........
wayyy bigger than my tennisball
wayyy bigger than my first
i remember seeing a 1cup dry measuring cup, and it was TINY in comparison....
would someone show me ..... a picture?.....
my "experiment":
i filled the 1cup liquid into rice bowl.
woww it filled the rice bowl to top.
my ricebowl must be 1cup then.
i put in tennis ball *(1cup/ 1first)
tennisball covers like half of the bowl
what gives
Well CC tells me the one cup of (cooked) rice (white, long grain) is 205 calories and 1 cup weighs 158g. Now when you see one cup full it is quite a lot. I tend to just weigh out that amount.
Please note that with rice there is a difference between 1 cup of uncooked rice and cooked rice as it expands when cooked.
A standard US cup can contain 236ml of liquid (or 8 fl. oz). I use the metric cup measurement which can contain 250ml, which seems to be the size used here in the UK. I just use an ordinary mug to measure stuff out.
Try this online convertor to check between various measurements.
The thing to note that when a cup size is given the weight will vary due to the contents. Since I know what it is on CC for rice, I just weigh the amount out. If you have a scale used for weighing ingredients then use that to work out how much your bowl of rice weighs and then you can get an accurate figure and you will know how many calories a bowl of rice contains.
Original Post by garnet18:
i think with rice it's actually different; because i was pissed about this too, i cooked EXACTLY four servings of rice one time and split it into four portions. they filled up an average sized bowl, larger than a tennis ball. i think it's because rice can be packed more tightly into a measuring cup.
i could be wrong, i guess... but i'm basing this off of the fact that i made EXACTLY four servings of rice (using very accurate measurements, both with the raw rice and the water) and the result being four pretty large servings.
A cup of dry rice is different from a cup of cooked rice because rice absorbs water when it's cooked and gets bigger. Cooking 4 cups of dry rice will give you a lot more than 4 cups of cooked rice. My boyfriend and I have rice a lot, and he puts about 1.5 cups of dry rice into our rice cooker. The result is about 4 cups of cooked rice. Pay attention to the difference; serving sizes are typically for post-cooking amounts, not pre-cooking amounts, and food will usually change size when you cook it - rice and pasta will get bigger, meat will tend to get smaller, etc. And yes, a cup is about the size of a tennis ball; that's about right.
And if you're trying to measure your calories, you *ought* to start measuring your food, or at least get a good idea of what a cup of something looks like on your plate or in your bowl.
Ball up your fist. Unless you're very small or not fully grown, your fist is bigger than a cup. Mine, for example, is about a cup and a half, although my hand is pretty big. But try stuffing your fist into a measuring cup to get a rough idea of what its volume is, and then you can use that as a rough measure for your food.
It's where I look when I need a handle on what a proper portion is of anything.
By the way, if you are using the measuring cup that came along with a rice cooker, it is definitely not 8 ounces, most of the Asian rice cups are 5-6 ounces. Check on the bottom, it may say how many mL it holds. 180 mL = 6 ounces.
idk, that wasn't helpful at all. but yeah, all my liquid measuring cups & regular ones even out the same.
and a cup of dry will make a lot more than 1 cup prepared. i just looked at the nutrition facts of a couple boxes of rice (the lazy instant kinds that already give you the rice with a seasoning packet) and it states that 1/3 cup dry = 1 cup prepared.
Original Post by sashabee:
a cup is a cup. Dry measuring cups are just made so that you can fill them up and level them off with a knife, liquid measuring cups let you fill it to a line so you don't spill.
Incorrect.
While a cup is a cup, when measuring food you need to go by weight, not volume.
A 'serving' of oatmeal may claim to be 1/2 cup, but the actual serving is 30 grams. You can fit anywhere from 20-50 grams in a solid measuring cup, so while you 'think' you are getting one serving, you could be getting less or more.
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