Test Your Knowledge!

[mudbug]

A measurement quiz. I only got half of them right since I don't apply these measurements very often. How many can you get right?
http://www.ucook.com/news2.cfm?item_no=1036

Well, I guess it's back to school. I did terrible.

[cape chef]

Aced it!!
cc

[momoreg]

I got the last one wrong. I said cake flour. Iguess you could make it heavier, if you packed it in, right?

Great quiz.

I got the first 3 and the last 3.

I've never even heard of a gill. Im pretty sure it wont come up anytime soon.

eeyore

[shroomgirl]

didn't get the last or the drops...????? is that public knowledge and who would ever sit and measure that out and why....
sour grapes.

I took the quiz, good thing I'm going back to class, I did great on the metric questions, but the other questions must have been european measurements or something.

Metric questions? I didn't see any. If you mean questions about converting cups to pounds, well, the pound isn't a metric unit.

Gills, pecks, etc. are old British/American measuring units.

[Nick.Shu]

doesnt make much sense, given that the quiz wont work for me.

[Isa]

Since we are on the topic of measurement could someone please tell me how many cups there are in a quart?

[mudbug]

2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart


Cooking Measures and Conversion Calculator http://www.globalgourmet.com/cgi-bin...lc.hts+usequiv

[mudbug]

2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart


Cooking Measures and Conversion Calculator http://www.globalgourmet.com/cgi-bin...lc.hts+usequiv

[Isa]

Thanks Cchui!


Amazing how fast you forget things like that when you don't use it. I am so use to the metric system I can't recall much if the imperial system.

Nana, I meant the ones like how many teaspoons in a tablespoon and how many table spoons in a cup and I'm pretty sure there were a couple of other ones on the quiz.

Yes - well, that's not metric, is it, since cups aren't standard metric units and teaspoons and tablespoons aren't either, even though we often use them for convenience. Most metric people haven't the faintest idea how many tablespoons are in a cup, etc - at least, this is a question I get asked a lot.

That might partly be because around here, at least, a cup can mean anything from an Imperial cup (284 ml) to an Australian cup (250 ml), an American measuring cup (237 ml) or just about any old cup you happen to have. I know when using my great-aunts recipes that when she says "1 cup", she means a particular cracked blue coffee cup that happened to hold about 180 ml. It simply isn't a standard measuring unit. So we much prefer to use actual metric measurements instead and I discourage the use of "cups" as much as I can in the cookbooks I write and edit and in the magazines I write for. I would use cups if I were writing for Americans, but that's a different story.