• BakerBagel
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    2 天前

    Butter comes in sticks that are 1/2 cup. So half a stick is 1/4 a cup

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      2 天前

      True, but that’s just replacing a cup with a length, and rules out using an existing tub.

      Why not use weight, which is easy to measure and tolerant of different forms/shapes?

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        2 天前

        Butter in a tub usually isn’t pure butter as they add oil to it to make it spreadable when cold.

        Recipes that call for butter are normally designed for true/pure butter and may not cook or bake properly if spreadable stuff is used. (there is however Amish rolled butter that’s sold in big ‘loaves’ where measuring can be annoying)

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          1 天前

          This sounds like a catch-22 problem.

          Maybe scales could be improvised, with a stick, some cups, and awkward-shaped chunks of chicken in one of the cups.

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            21 小时前

            Or, we just use volumetric measurements, despite the slight variations they introduce when you cram pack flour into a cup instead of gently scooping the sifted. It’s a kitchen, not a laboratory or a factory.

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              20 小时前

              My first example was “a cup of frozen chicken strips”.

              I know I can make a guess how much they mean, but I could easily be off by a factor of 2.

              It really wouldn’t be hard to have the weight listed.

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                18 小时前

                You’re cooking dinner, not crystal meth.

                “Frozen chicken strips” doesn’t mean what you think it means. “Frozen chicken strips” are “whatever neutral solid you want to use to carry the flavor of everything else in this dish to your mouth”.

                “1 cup” of them is “However much of that solid you feel like eating with this meal”, plus any remaining that would be less than a full portion if saved for the next meal.

                Forget the scale; if you’re dirtying a dish for a cup of chicken, you don’t belong in the kitchen! The proper tool for measuring a cup of frozen chicken is your dominant hand, curled into a fist around them.