Measuring Rice!?

When measuring prepared rice, do you measure with dry or liquid measuring cups? I feel so rediculous asking this, but I've heard from someone its the dry and someone else that you measure with the liquid. Anyone out there who can set me straight? =)

By weight -)

 

I can't imagine why you would use liquid cups. Dry if you don't want to use a scale. 

thats the thing, I would use a scale if I had one, but it met its tragic fate a few nights ago when it fell out of the cupboard.

Thanks for your reply though, helps a lot=)

Ahhh. I see where you might be confused. Don't feel ridiculous.

A cup is a cup. The reason why there are liquid measuring cups and dry measuring cups are because they help us be more accurate in measuring. For instance lets say you wanted one cup of water. You'd fill your liquid measuring cup to the 1 cup mark, set it on a flat surface to see if it lined up, and then voila you'd have a cup. If you measured the water with a dry measuring cup you'd have to fill it right up to the brim and chances are it would slosh out on the sides and you wouldn't end up with a precise cup. With rice I would definitly use a dry measuring cup to be sure that you didn't go over the cup mark. I hope this makes sense.

Given the water content of cooked rice and all the air pockets between the grains of rice I doubt there would be much of a difference between using a liquid measuring cup vs a dry ingredient measuring cup, Being the "tweaker" I am when it comes to cooking, I tend to use a dry measuring cup for everything and "tweak" the liquid/dry ingredients if they aren't quite right.