I'm confused!
Let's say because of an upcoming birthday and a certain wish list, I was looking for some measuring cups for cooking with both metric and imperial measurements. A common metric measurement would be millilitres (ml). But what would the corresponding imperial unit be? Cups? Or dry/fluid ounces (dry/fl. oz.)?
I was under the impression that cups are an American measurement whereas ounces are an Imperial measurement, and that Imperial measurements are/were used in Britain and Commonwealth countries, i.e. "the Empire". This Wikipedia article appears to support this: Imperial units - Wikipedia - and note that it doesn't have a single mention of "cups"!
However, I really struggle to find measuring cups with anything other than cups and ml measurements. I came across one product on a site which said: "A set of four well-made measuring cups, complete with both metric and imperial measurements for recipes across the pond." And then it has a photo of some measuring cups with ml and cups as the units!!!
HELP!!!
Let's say because of an upcoming birthday and a certain wish list, I was looking for some measuring cups for cooking with both metric and imperial measurements. A common metric measurement would be millilitres (ml). But what would the corresponding imperial unit be? Cups? Or dry/fluid ounces (dry/fl. oz.)?
I was under the impression that cups are an American measurement whereas ounces are an Imperial measurement, and that Imperial measurements are/were used in Britain and Commonwealth countries, i.e. "the Empire". This Wikipedia article appears to support this: Imperial units - Wikipedia - and note that it doesn't have a single mention of "cups"!
However, I really struggle to find measuring cups with anything other than cups and ml measurements. I came across one product on a site which said: "A set of four well-made measuring cups, complete with both metric and imperial measurements for recipes across the pond." And then it has a photo of some measuring cups with ml and cups as the units!!!
HELP!!!