"How many ounces in a cup dry measure"

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I looked every for this not one web site had it . Any one know?


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"Same same... nearly"
 by JayD on Oct 08 2007 (28 months ago)
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My wife and I have this arguement every time she cooks.  She uses a dry measure measuring cup to measure out liquids and I tell her she isn't getting an accurate measure.  Things all seem to come out okay though.  Really if you fill a dry cup to the top and pour it into a liquid measuring cup you will find they are the same volume.  The difference is that dry things (like flour) are packed and so the measure is usually shallow and wide and designed to have the excess "cut" off the top with a knife.  Liquid measure you measure from the bottom of the surface tension dip and you can't get that if you are filling a dry measure... you actually end up putting a little less liquid in than what is called for. 

 

Anyway... you are mixing liquid measure (ounces) with dry measure as well.  There is 8 ounces in a cup (liquid measure).  Ounces is also a measure of weight... there is 16 ounces in a pound.  Don't mix the two.  The actual weight (by ounces) of what you are measuring differs by substance--a cup of lead weight more than a cup of styrofoam for example)
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"There is no cup in dry measure."
 by TaradinoC on Oct 08 2007 (28 months ago)
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According to Wikipedia and this page, there is no cup in dry measure. Recipes use liquid measure units even for dry ingredients like sugar, and the smallest unit of dry measure is the pint (pint, quart, gallon, peck, bushel).

The relation between the dry pint, quart, and gallon is the same as the relation between the same liquid units. So if there were a dry cup, I suppose it'd be half of a dry pint, and be made up of 8 dry fluid ounces, which would each be about 16% larger than the regular fluid ounce (i.e. 1 dry cup would be around 9.3 regular fluid ounces). But those units don't exist.
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"In a dry measure cup are..."
 by NancyE on Oct 08 2007 (28 months ago)
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8 ounces, same as for a liquid measure.
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"As a standard measure of capacity, the answer would be.......eight ounces (whether liquid or dry)."
 by newbie4730147 on Oct 08 2007 (28 months ago)
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"...a cup is a measure of volume, not of weight."
 by RecipeNetwork.com on Oct 08 2007 (28 months ago)
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The weight will differ depending on the substance. For example, a cup of rice weighs less than a cup of flour. Furthermore, you really cant equate the two as a cup is a measure of volume, not of weight.
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I think you are asking what does a dry cup weigh? That is the true difference in a dry measure and a liquid measure. But if your recipe does not ask for grams of food and only ask for cups or ounces you can use either the dry or the liquid measure, it will be the same result. Try using a dry measurement cup and filling it with a liquid and then pouring that measurement into a liquid measure cup. It will be the same. But a cup of brown sugar will not weigh the same as a cup of flour.
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