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The recipe you’re following calls for 1 cup of all-purpose flour. Does it really matter how you measure it or which measuring cup you grab out of your kitchen cabinet? Actually, yes. And the vegetable ...

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When I hear “measuring cups,” one question comes to mind: wet or dry? Early on in my baking life, I used dry measuring cups for everything — and I regularly had to clean up kitchen-oil spills after ...

We spoke to the pros about when to use a dry versus a liquid measuring cup. Every home baker worth their salt probably knows liquid measuring cups and dry measuring cups are not the same, but not ...

Which liquid measuring cup is best? Bakers and cooks alike know that the success of most recipes rises and falls with accurate measurements. Bread won’t bake if the liquid measurement is off, and the ...

Not many of us mere mortals can wing it with a recipe—adding a fistful of herbs here or a splash of red wine vinegar there—without the dish ending up an epic fail. Most of the time you need to add ...

Yes, you really need different types of cups for measuring dry and liquid ingredients. While dry ingredients need to be scooped into a cup and leveled off at the top, liquids level themselves. Liquid ...