So I have a question regarding all this American/English way of calculating things and then the metric system which I’m used to.
Seems like 1 cup is the way most people in here measure most things when it comes to food… so it’s kinda nice to know what it is exactly.
All the time I see people here at T-Nation saying that you need 1 cup of broccoli, 1 cup of turkey meat etc. But what is 1 cup in grams? I found a conversion which says it’s 225g which then again is also ½ a pint (dry) which again is equal to 8oz. Is that true?
I’m confused, the metric system seems so much easier in general, hehe.
yeh one cup is roughly 250ml, what you could do is what i did and just buy a set of cup measurers online makes things a lot easier. you can get em here
Usually, liquids or easily flowable solids, like grains, can be measured by volume. Most other solids like vegetables, fruits, and meat are more accurately measured by weight (or mass).
Regarding the metric system, I’m like weird. I measure my fruits and vegetables in grams and my meat and nuts in ounces.
Any time I come across a unit I can’t convert (all of them), I Google it. Any time someone posts their lifts in kg, highlight, right click, Search Google. I do have to type “to lbs”, but its easy to do.