Cool Whip volume to weight conversion

The same # of ounces of dog food, pencils or sponges - this is a simple conversion problem.

Something which weighs one ounce does not necessarily occupy one ounce of volume. Of course, the reverse it true as well.

Ah true - and there's a lotta air in Cool Whip.

But it's good air . . . very decadent, tasty air . . .

It looks like about 8oz in 2 cups.

2 cups = .47 litres

That means about 17 oz in a litre.

There are fractionally more than 33.8 ounces in a liter.

Not of Cool Whip there ain't!!



On the flip side, cool whip left out won't take up less volume
http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/horrifying-12-day-cool-whip-experiment/

If you are speaking of ounces as a meaure of volume, there are 33.8+ ounces in a liter, no matter in what the liter consists. Are you perhaps confusing ounces as a measure of weight with ounces as a measure of volume?

Conversion of liter to ounces. Note that Imperial ounces are slightly smaller than U.S. Standard ounces, and there are a few more of them in a liter.

That's an apples to apples comparison of a measure of volume to a measure of volume.

Cool whip isn't a fluid.

It isn't a food stuff either.

There are about 17 ounces of Cool Whip in a cubic liter.

Surely 'cubic' is redundant, since a litre is a measure of volume? (= one thousand cubic centimetres)

You seem to be willfully obtuse. An ounce can be a measure of volume or a measure of weight. It doesn't matter if a substance is liquid, solid or even a gas, it can be measured for it's volume.

You've got a problem here, but it's not my problem. Bye . . .

A fluid ounce is a measure of volume.

I don't recall ever seeing solid ounces as a measure of volume. I also can't seem to find any reference to solid ounces being volume measures on the internet.

I really should know better . . . but, when you buy sand or gravel at a lumber yard or a home improvement store, they are sold by the cubic yard. Do you consider sand or gravel to be liquids?

So let's examine your foolishness since you began posting here:



A cup is eight ounces, so it cannot be that eight ounces is two cups. Also, you write "about 17 oz in a litre," which seems to suggest that you're talking about measures of volume (a cup is a measure of volume, not of weight). There are 33.8+ ounces in a liter, not 17. If you meant weight rather than volume, tell me which weighs more, a liter of water or a liter of oil-based paint? In fact, a liter in the old metric system is defined as the volume occupied by one thousand grams of water.

Furthermore, the OP is asking for a volume to weight conversion. Therefore, you cannot use a cup for an approximation of that conversion, as a cup is a measure of volume, not of weight.

Come on, Parados, this ain't rocket science.

Since we are talking about Cool Whip...
(And I was replying to the original post)



If you have ever bothered to go to a grocery store you would know that an 8 oz container of Cool Whip does NOT contain a cup of Cool Whip. It contains 2 cups.

The title reverses the weight to volume from the question asked in the original post.



and my response





I am curious how many ounces you think are in a cubic yard? I think you got fluid ounces on your mind and failed to understand I was converting volume to weight as the OP requested.

Fine, you finally showed your work. So, if you are talking about ounces of weight, it is inappropriate to say that seventeen ounces equals one liter. One liter of what? One liter of water (the basis for a liter in the metric system is the volume occupied by one thousand grams of water--one thousand grams equals fractionally more than 35 ounces) does not weigh the same as, for the example i used, one liter of oil-based paint.

You cannot compare a measure of weight to a measure of volume without specifying the material in that volume. But you were off and running saying that seventeen ounces equals one liter--i.e., that a specified measure of weight equals a measure of volume. Don't blame me for your confusion. Furthermore, as measures of volume, there are more than four cups in a liter, so your story is still bullshit.

I only blame you for your own confusion.

I'm not the one who is confused here, Bubba. You're the one who thinks that two cups equals one liter. You really need to get out more.

I only think 17 oz of Cool Whip equal one liter and that is the specific question I answered.

They are sold by the tonne (1000 kg) where I come from.