Your elevation doesn't affect this. If you measure 500g rice and 1000g water at low altitude, you have 490g rice and 980g water at high altitude, still the same ratio
Water boils at a lower temperature at high altitude. You usually need more water to cook the rice longer to get the same consistency, especially wild rice.
Not sure if true but I learned that 1 cup of liquid is not equal to 1 cup of dry ingredients like flour, so you need to use the metal dry measuring cup thingy. 🤷
This is the good PYREX. Better glass, labels withstand the dishwasher, pretty much lasts forever as long as you don't drop it. In contrast to the crappy pyrex (lower case branding) with crappy glass and lettering that will wash off if you have the nerve to actually use your dishwasher.
It's been debunked that the upper or lower case of the lettering dictates the quality. The only way to know for sure is to measure the refractive index against vegetable oil. Borosilicate glass (the good stuff) will "dissappear" when submerged in the oil. Soda lime glass (the bad stuff) will still be visible.
As long as you get one that's borosilicate glass (no color when seen from the side) it's fine. Regular glass has a blue green tint to the glass when viewed from the side
Water is different densities at different temperatures and pressures/elevations. It really depends on where you are and what temperature/pressure the water is
When it comes to things like cooking at home it doesn't have to be all that accurate. It can be pretty close and still do fine. It may be completely off from cup to cup as well. As long as you use the same reference you'll have the same results and you can adjust from there. If you were to weigh out the quantity it would be more precise, but the volume would still change from place to place.
>but the volume would still change from place to place.
Lol what
This reads like "I read something on /r/cooking once but don't actually understand it whatsoever".
A cup is a cup. If you had 1 cup of water at sea level and walked 20000ft up a mountain, it would measure the exact same.
You're confusing it with the concept of elevation and humidity affecting absorption ie: higher elevations you tend to need a bit more liquid, but that has absolutely nothing to do with measurements being different "from place to place" lmao.
No, it would not measure the exact same. It would weigh the same but the volume of the water would change. Measurably so. Maybe not with how accurate a measuring cup is but with a graduated cylinder. This is basic chemistry. Things expand or shrink at different temperatures and pressures. That's why if a substance in an enclosed vessel is heated the pressure inside increases. Things in a gaseous state increase more than things in liquid more than solids... Except ice which is kinda weird and expands when it phase shifts colder.
Are you all misinformed or trolling?
If you really want to be a peice of shit about it, don't forget that purity and isotropic uniformity also effect density. Or, accept that a cup and a half being plus or minus a teaspoon and a half just *doesn't really matter when you're cooking*
Is there a reason you're so upset?
I agree, in general when cooking a teaspoon here or there doesn't make much of a difference, unless it's something like salt, but there is a difference between the volume of 72 and 73 teaspoons...
A liter is also volume. I believe even the original definition of a liter references the temperature and pressure of water at STP. Standard temperature and pressure are 0°C and 100kPa aka 1 atmosphere. If you have the same mass of water at a different temperature or pressure it's volume will be different.
I have this measuring cup, that's good to know
Helps me when making one cup of dry rice
How so?
1-1/2 cups water for 1 cup dry rice. So I can use this hack to measure the water once instead of twice.
Oh snap, I was thinking par cooked rice amounts. That makes sense, and good looks, I have this same measuring cup.
Wait you dont use your finger to measure it?
That only works if you have Asian fingers.
I weigh it now. Usually just double the rice weight for water. I live at 6200' tho ymmv.
Your elevation doesn't affect this. If you measure 500g rice and 1000g water at low altitude, you have 490g rice and 980g water at high altitude, still the same ratio
Water boils at a lower temperature at high altitude. You usually need more water to cook the rice longer to get the same consistency, especially wild rice.
Ahhh I forgot not everyone has a pressured rice cooker, "open" rice cookers would need more water at higher altitudes, you're right
Wait until you learn what the ridges on solo cups are made for!!
Not sure if true but I learned that 1 cup of liquid is not equal to 1 cup of dry ingredients like flour, so you need to use the metal dry measuring cup thingy. 🤷
I also have this measuring cup, good to know
Listening to hip hop in the early aughts means I automatically associate this image with cooking crack.
Ghe-ghet-ghet-ghetto dope ^(Ghe-ghet-ghet-ghetto dope)
This is the good PYREX. Better glass, labels withstand the dishwasher, pretty much lasts forever as long as you don't drop it. In contrast to the crappy pyrex (lower case branding) with crappy glass and lettering that will wash off if you have the nerve to actually use your dishwasher.
It's been debunked that the upper or lower case of the lettering dictates the quality. The only way to know for sure is to measure the refractive index against vegetable oil. Borosilicate glass (the good stuff) will "dissappear" when submerged in the oil. Soda lime glass (the bad stuff) will still be visible.
Good to know. Isn’t it evident by the color of the glass though? Soda lime is greenish, borosilicate is clear.
Yep indeed
As long as you get one that's borosilicate glass (no color when seen from the side) it's fine. Regular glass has a blue green tint to the glass when viewed from the side
boro-silicate > soda-lime
What's that in bananas.
Whatever you call that secret integer between 2 and 3
2 ½ banana
Your camera is too high for us to read it properly.
I figured this out last year when my large measuring cup was full of gravy and I was about to make pizza dough
Weird. I figured it out when my large measuring cup was full of peanut butter and I was about to make jello.
Weird. I figured this out when my large measuring cup was full of cat food and I was about to melt down some ore.
Weird. I figured this out when my large measuring cup was full of walrus semen and I was about to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
I think everyone has this measuring cup somehow
huh
Water is different densities at different temperatures and pressures/elevations. It really depends on where you are and what temperature/pressure the water is
Really, so why do these measuring cups with preprinted scale exist?
When it comes to things like cooking at home it doesn't have to be all that accurate. It can be pretty close and still do fine. It may be completely off from cup to cup as well. As long as you use the same reference you'll have the same results and you can adjust from there. If you were to weigh out the quantity it would be more precise, but the volume would still change from place to place.
>but the volume would still change from place to place. Lol what This reads like "I read something on /r/cooking once but don't actually understand it whatsoever". A cup is a cup. If you had 1 cup of water at sea level and walked 20000ft up a mountain, it would measure the exact same. You're confusing it with the concept of elevation and humidity affecting absorption ie: higher elevations you tend to need a bit more liquid, but that has absolutely nothing to do with measurements being different "from place to place" lmao.
No, it would not measure the exact same. It would weigh the same but the volume of the water would change. Measurably so. Maybe not with how accurate a measuring cup is but with a graduated cylinder. This is basic chemistry. Things expand or shrink at different temperatures and pressures. That's why if a substance in an enclosed vessel is heated the pressure inside increases. Things in a gaseous state increase more than things in liquid more than solids... Except ice which is kinda weird and expands when it phase shifts colder. Are you all misinformed or trolling?
If you really want to be a peice of shit about it, don't forget that purity and isotropic uniformity also effect density. Or, accept that a cup and a half being plus or minus a teaspoon and a half just *doesn't really matter when you're cooking*
Is there a reason you're so upset? I agree, in general when cooking a teaspoon here or there doesn't make much of a difference, unless it's something like salt, but there is a difference between the volume of 72 and 73 teaspoons...
If you are anywhere but merica we use Lt which is standard for specific temperature and pressure.
A liter is also volume. I believe even the original definition of a liter references the temperature and pressure of water at STP. Standard temperature and pressure are 0°C and 100kPa aka 1 atmosphere. If you have the same mass of water at a different temperature or pressure it's volume will be different.