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[Red Liquorice]

Just a little sojourn from the "my dad's harder than your dad" discussion, I actually have a question for Americans: Is the cup measurement in cooking an actual standard measurement, or does it mean use any cup you have, regardless of it's size? (Thus if you use the same cup all through the recipe, the quantities will still work?)

Whenever I look for conversion measurements of American recipes the conversion charts can vary wildly, so I always try to find a British measurement version of the same recipe.

 

[Baller. PhD]

Just a little sojourn from the "my dad's harder than your dad" discussion, I actually have a question for Americans: Is the cup measurement in cooking an actual standard measurement, or does it mean use any cup you have, regardless of it's size? (Thus if you use the same cup all through the recipe, the quantities will still work?)

A cup is 8 ounces. It's a standard measurement:

My favorite thing about brits is when they comment about "American accents." Right... we're the ones with accents. =P

 

[Red Liquorice]

A cup is 8 ounces. Standard.

It is? Thanks, that is so much simpler.

A lot of conversion charts give different weight measurements depending on what is being weighed, even down to different weights for flour, sugar, liquid ingredients etc.

 

[Switch Back 9]

You know what blew my mind?
Reading books by British authors, where the characters would go "err" instead of "uhh" or "umm".
HOWEVER! With the accent it still actually sounds like they're saying "uhh"!

I had been reading it as "err" (with an NA hard R) my whole life and had never heard anyone ever say it like that until I put two and two together.

 

[mullet2000]

Kettles? Mocrowave? Pshh.

If i'm boiling water I usually do it with a pot on the stove. Where's your Gods now?

 

[frankie_baby]

Kettles? Mocrowave? Pshh.

If i'm boiling water I usually do it with a pot on the stove. Where's your Gods now?

got a lot of free time have you?

 

[Switch Back 9]

Kettles? Mocrowave? Pshh.

If i'm boiling water I usually do it with a pot on the stove. Where's your Gods now?

Pussy. I hold a thimble over a candle, one a time until I have enough for tea.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

Blood sausage is awesome.

 

[-Horizon-]

whereas to the uk a regular kettle would be an electric one and most people haven't seen a cooker top one in decades

Mindblown

Another two points for #teamUK:

USA high school pride
Sweet 16

The United States of America is so... exotic.

Sweet 16? I just had a regular birthday. The only thing sweet was the cake.

 

[mullet2000]

got a lot of free time have you?

If you use hot water it only takes a minute or two.

It's mostly because I only boil water to cook, I don't drink tea or coffee, so it usually just makes sense to do it that way.

 

[frankie_baby]

A cup is 8 ounces. It's a standard measurement:




My favorite thing about brits is when they comment about "American accents." Right... we're the ones with accents. =P

the jug pic you posted reminded me of something, american pyrex jugs aren't really made out of pyrex any more

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Another two points for #teamUK:

USA high school pride
Sweet 16

The United States of America is so... exotic.

More movie & TV bs that is actually extremely rare in real actual American life. College pride is way more a thing.

 

[demon]

got a lot of free time have you?

Three minutes is a lot of time?

 

[frankie_baby]

If you use hot water it only takes a minute or two.

It's mostly because I only boil water to cook, I don't drink tea or coffee, so it usually just makes sense to do it that way.

drink water out of the hot tap??? ewww

 

[Nesotenso]

More movie & TV bs that is actually extremely rare in real actual American life. College pride is way more a thing.

and there is nothing wrong with it.

 

[Baller. PhD]

"cooker top"

lol

 

[frankie_baby]

Three minutes is a lot of time?

for something that could be done in 30 seconds, yes

 

[Switch Back 9]

and there is nothing wrong with it.

I find school pride in general incredibly lame. Whooo home team and sweaters and shit, it's ridiculous.

 

[mullet2000]

drink water out of the hot tap??? ewww

No, I boil it. In a pot.

 

[frankie_baby]

"cooker top"

lol

i could have said hob, but might have confused you guys

 

[Recon]

I find school pride in general incredibly lame. Whooo home team and sweaters and shit, it's ridiculous.

It's mostly in good fun. Don't be so serious about trivial things others enjoy.

 

[Wiseblade]

Like any true Brit, the idea of boiling water in a microwave repulses me to my core. calling the US a civilised country almost feels like a stretch now.

 

[painey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdGIJFVRZpE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Kitsunebaby]

Just a little sojourn from the "my dad's harder than your dad" discussion, I actually have a question for Americans: Is the cup measurement in cooking an actual standard measurement, or does it mean use any cup you have, regardless of it's size? (Thus if you use the same cup all through the recipe, the quantities will still work?)

Whenever I look for conversion measurements of American recipes the conversion charts can vary wildly, so I always try to find a British measurement version of the same recipe.

A cup is 8 ounces volume. We cook by volume more than weight here in the US.



Also, very few people in my highschool had any sort of "school spirit" and only rich girls had sweet sixteens.

 

[frankie_baby]

No, I boil it. In a pot.

still ewww

 

[ElectricBlue187]

I find school pride in general incredibly lame. Whooo home team and sweaters and shit, it's ridiculous.

In college it's just an excuse to hang out with your friends on the weekends and drink alcohol and have fun

 

[demon]

for something that could be done in 30 seconds, yes

Good things come to those who wait.

 

[Switch Back 9]

It's mostly in good fun. Don't be so serious about trivial things others enjoy.

Oh I'm not being finger wagging stern when I say I find it lame, more of a *shrug* that seems silly to me but whatever kinda way.

My orientation day at College WAS awful in regards to me being brutally hungover and having ten million people screaming and waving shit around though.

 

[Baller. PhD]

still ewww

Why? There's only one real use for boiled water anyway:

 

[EleventhDoctor]

Like any true Brit, the idea of boiling water in a microwave repulses me to my core. calling the US a civilised country almost feels like a stretch now.

Say hi to your Princes to me.

 

[andycapps]

I find school pride in general incredibly lame. Whooo home team and sweaters and shit, it's ridiculous.

If you're not into sports, sure. But football is awesome.

 

[ZZMitch]

Another two points for #teamUK:

USA high school pride
Sweet 16

The United States of America is so... exotic.

What's wrong with high school pride?

 

[Switch Back 9]

If you're not into sports, sure. But football is awesome.

Another thing about your country I find incredibly bizarre and a little scary is the amount of time and money poured into high-school football and the pedestal talented players are put on. Especially considering the state of literacy and test scores in some of those states where football is god.

 

[Wiseblade]

Say hi to your Princes to me.

You mean those figureheads who lure tourism money by the bucketload into my city? Will do.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Another thing about your country I find incredibly bizarre and a little scary is the amount of time and money poured into high-school football and the pedestal talented players are put on.

British kids aren't more popular for being skilled at sports? Sort of removes the entire point really.

 

[DJ_Lae]

As a Canadian I've never heard of anyone who boiled water in the microwave - I've never thought to do it myself, though I have heard of superheating.

A cup is 8 ounces. It's a standard measurement:

What annoys me the most here is that a lot of recipes cheat and use '1 cup' and '250ml' interchangeably. An actual 8oz cup is only slightly less than 240ml so most of the time you won't really notice (depending on what you're cooking), but it's still misleading.

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

The closest thing to high school pride here in Minnesota is just cheering for your old high school in the state hockey tournament. Beyond that, nobody really cares.

EDIT: The only time I've ever heard of putting water in a microwave or done it myself is when I have to mold a mouth guard or sometimes make hot chocolate. Otherwise it's always in a pot on the stove.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

Another thing about your country I find incredibly bizarre and a little scary is the amount of time and money poured into high-school football and the pedestal talented players are put on. Especially considering the state of literacy and test scores in some of those states where football is god.

Believe you me, as an American this stuff always perplexed me too. This stuff, along with class rings are in their own little circle of weirdness. I think it has to do with American competitiveness, and our "Us vs. Them" mentality that exists in all aspects of our life from our media to politics and to this thread, you wierdos.

 

[Switch Back 9]

British kids aren't more popular for being skilled at sports? Sort of removes the entire point really.

I didn't necessarily mean the jocks being more popular, I meant more the entire town being obsessed with and rallying around a local high-school football team beating another local high-school football team and the everyone in the town going fucking crazy.

The closest thing to high school pride here in Minnesota is just cheering for your old high school in the state hockey tournament. Beyond that, nobody really cares.

Minnesota sounds so much like Canada the more I hear about it.

 

[Monkeylord]

You mean *snickers*

Marathon, I think you'll find.

 

[zethren]

What I've learned from this thread:

People eat cookies called "digestives".

What a gross name for a cookie. Sounds like something you'd take if your stomach was bothering you.

 

[Baller. PhD]

I didn't necessarily mean the jocks being more popular, I meant more the entire town being obsessed with and rallying around a local high-school football team beating another local high-school football team and the entire town going fucking crazy.

Yeah, that's not a thing (and I'm from Texas). Maybe out in some rural-ass redneck areas, but that's like 0.01% of the population. There's nothing else going on out there, lol. Normal people are only interested in high school athletes in the context of college recruitment.

 

[Switch Back 9]

What I've learned from this thread:

People eat cookies called "digestives".

What a gross name for a cookie. Sounds like something you'd take if your stomach was bothering you.

Yeah but the ones with chocolate on the top are fucking amaaazzzinnngg. I could smash a whole box no problem.

Yeah, that's not a thing (and I'm from Texas). Maybe out in some rural-ass redneck areas, but that's like 0.01% of the population. People are only interested in high school athletes in the context of college recruitment.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07...this-60-million-high-school-football-stadium/

Spending 60 MILLION dollars on a football stadium for a high-school is absolutely insane any way you look at it. This is in Texas btw.

 

[StealthGoblin]

Yeah, that's not a thing (and I'm from Texas). Maybe out in some country hillbilly areas, but that's like 0.01% of the population. People are only interested in high school athletes in the context of college recruitment.

We don't even have that sort of interest over here. Most people don't care where any of our sporting prospects go. Most of our biggest sports stars from our biggest sport (football) don't go to University.

They are picked up from a young age (9ish) and forced to train like mad.

 

[EleventhDoctor]

I didn't necessarily mean the jocks being more popular, I meant more the entire town being obsessed with and rallying around a local high-school football team beating another local high-school football team and the everyone in the town going fucking crazy.



Minnesota sounds so much like Canada the more I hear about it.

I think you've been influenced by too many movies/TV shows. The reason the book about Friday Night Lights was popular was because that scenario is so rare, that the rest of America found it fascinating.

 

[andycapps]

Another thing about your country I find incredibly bizarre and a little scary is the amount of time and money poured into high-school football and the pedestal talented players are put on. Especially considering the state of literacy and test scores in some of those states where football is god.

For most big colleges, they're being kept afloat by sports revenues. For highschools, I don't know how big of a money maker it is, but if you're a top football highschool, families move so that their kids can go there and have an opportunity of getting a football or basketball scholarship at a good university.

I get what you're saying, and the academic types at universities tend to dislike the sports side, but like I said.. The sports side is oftentimes keeping them in a job.

The closest thing to high school pride here in Minnesota is just cheering for your old high school in the state hockey tournament. Beyond that, nobody really cares.

That's why the majority of the country doesn't really consider you the US haha. Anywhere hockey is the predominant sport is just southern Canada. Plus, the accents are indistinguishable from Canadians.

 

[zethren]

Yeah but the ones with chocolate on the top are fucking amaaazzzinnngg. I could smash a whole box no problem.

Oh I'm sure they taste great. The name just threw me back a bit.

 

[BertramCooper]

We call it black pudding, so the Americans are the one using the queasy naming in that case.

I love how everything is a pudding in the UK. It's a culinary catch-all.

Black pudding/blood sausage is indeed delicious. And speaking of puddings, haggis is even better, which is obvious because Scotland is better than England.

 

[DBT85]

Yeah, I'm British and I'm still wondering who the fuck still uses a hot water bottle. I think my grandparents used them after the war when their house didn't have all four walls.

My wife, every month for 2 days.

The way people from the UK pronounce "vitamins" is the most hilarious thing. Ever.

It's v-eye-tamin, good sir!

Vit-a-min dear fellow. Vit-a-min.

WTF is a kettle?

It never occurred to me that someone wouldn't know what a kettle was.

A cup is 8 ounces. It's a standard measurement:

My favorite thing about brits is when they comment about "American accents." Right... we're the ones with accents. =P

Yeah I imagine that fost people that think they can understand English will struggle when they talk to someone from places like Liverpool or Glasgow or some parts of Ireland.

You know what blew my mind?
Reading books by British authors, where the characters would go "err" instead of "uhh" or "umm".
HOWEVER! With the accent it still actually sounds like they're saying "uhh"!

I had been reading it as "err" (with an NA hard R) my whole life and had never heard anyone ever say it like that until I put two and two together.

lol

 

[Red Liquorice]

Marathon, I think you'll find.

Opal Fruits!

What I've learned from this thread:

People eat cookies called "digestives".

What a gross name for a cookie. Sounds like something you'd take if your stomach was bothering you.

Digestives are biscuits not cookies! They are often compared to graham crackers.