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"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"
Hightest Level: 3 by JayD on Oct 08 2007 (25 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."
Hightest Level: 2 by TaradinoC on Oct 08 2007 (25 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..."
Hightest Level: 5 by NancyE on Oct 08 2007 (25 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 (25 months ago)
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"...a cup is a measure of volume, not of weight."
by RecipeNetwork.com on Oct 08 2007 (25 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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Liquids aren't all that stable either... for example, one cup of water weighs 8.32 ounces, and one cup of alcohol only weighs 6.6 ounces. The fluid ounce is a unit of volume that's not directly related to the ounce that you use to measure weight. (The volume of one ounce of water is almost one fluid ounce, but not exactly.)

I thought you were asking about the separate system of dry measurements (dry pint, dry gallon, etc.) that are used for volume, and it looks like some of the other answerers did too. And who knows what that clown with the thumbs-down was thinking. ;)
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