You've given me an idea!
Perhaps I will write to Nestle and suggest a holiday promotion - chips come with a handy 3/4 measuring cup. They could count me in for several bags.
There's always good old Tupperware. They have a 3/4 cup measure. Do you know anyone who sells it? Also, you can buy it over the net.
Tupperware
I went to a garage sale at a retirement center today and found an ancient pair of Tupperware measuring cups (in "avacado", no less) that not only has a 3/4 cup, it has a 2/3 cup!
5 cents!!
SCORE!!!
I prefer metric. Much easier to deal with.
RATS, so to speak. Had we been talking about those dinky little things they call coffee cups, I would have agreed in a heartbeat. I order a cup of coffee, I want the full 8oz - minimum.
Yep, metric is the only way to go, at least if you have metric recipes to go with the metric measures.
ehBeth wrote:I prefer metric. Much easier to deal with.
Metric cooking is wrong on SO many levels...
RH
**Finally an issue I can sink my teeth into**
Swimpy wrote:I want one, too!
Sounds like there are a few of us!
Recipes are just ways of trying to orchestrate what happens, and chemically, that is not as obvious as it might seem. Much to be said for listening to the old, by now very old, bread mamas, in a given region.
I don't care if any amount given is metric or not. They are all quantities.
I was just teasin the nice Canajun lady, I so rarely measure...
I need a new recipe, Oh-so... :wink:
RH
I rarely use measuring cups.
I know how much a cup is, tablespoon, teaspoon, etc without having to coloring within the lines.
same here, chai. I use the eyeball version of measuring.
My goal in cooking (besides something that tastes good) is to dirty as few things as possible.
Wally, on the other hand, can fill the entire dishwasher making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I'm off to whip up some Beef Wellington, I'll need a plastic fork, and a paper towel.
A paper towel . . . tear that in half . . . there's no need to waste that . . .
I'm a clean as she cooks person, for sanity reasons.
My ex was a terrific cook. Kitchen in morass. Which left me with the morass, but he did clean after my doings.
However people work it out...
Not a complaint -- I might have wished he pursued his cooking smarts.
Setanta wrote:A paper towel . . . tear that in half . . . there's no need to waste that . . .
I'm way ahead of ya....I buy Bounty Select-a-Size.
Dim Sum anyone?
I deep fry in a dixie cup with hot oil, and I'm using a coffee filter as a strainer.
boomer, I was just thinking of you and this thread tonight while I was measuring out 3/4 cup of raisins in my 3/4 cup measure for a batch of oatmeal cinnamon chip cookies. (All but one cookie will be leaving the house. They're for my nephew's 18th birthday.)
I'm glad you found a set, even if they are avocado...
SHHHHH...
I heard avacado was this years black...
RH
It took you a year and a half to get your measuring cups, boomer?
You're taking frugality to new highs, or perhaps new lows.
