"Bob (this one)" > wrote in message
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> > In article .com>,
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Hiya, would like to try some of these recipes, but I'm british and use
> >>ounces in cooking. Does anyone know the conversion? Thanx
>
> A good one <http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/volume>
>
> > There are 8 oz. to a cup.
>
> Yes, but British fluid ounces are a different size. 16 British ounces
> = 15 1/3 US ounces.
>
> > 1 oz. is roughly 30 mls.
>
> US ounce = 29 1/2 mls - close, but when scaling up, it distorts rather
> quickly.
>
> A US gallon is only .8 of an Imperial gallon.
>
> But it all comes to nothing here because most everybody but the US
> cooks by weight. Brits typically use their kitchen scales to cook with
> - much more accurate than volume measure.
The US home kitchen also cooks by weight - they just use an indirect
measure that has less steps than direct weighing. e.g., if I want to add 4
oz of butter, 2 oz nuts, 8 ozs milk, 1/5 oz salt, 7 ozs flour, and 4 oz
raisens to a recipe, I measure out the volume measure of the 4 oz of butter,
the volume measure of 2 oz of nuts, the volume measure of 8 ozs milk, etc.
rather than weigh each ingredient on a scale and check the number scale to
get the right scale reading.
The weight added for each ingredient is correct, but I do not have to
keep going back to the scale at each addition, I can just use the volume
measure which is directly related ot the weight measure. i.e., 1 cup butter
always weighs 1/2 lb,
so when it calls for a cup of butter and I put in a cup, I always put in
1/2 lb of butter.
Indirect measure.
>
> Those ounces...
>
> Any conversions from volume to weight in the kitchen can only be
> approximate.
>
> Pastorio
>