How many quarts/pints/cups in a gallon

[cave76]

This would be a handy graphic/pic for new(er) cooks to print out and put on fridge door.

http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/kitchen/2008_06_10-GallonsQuartsPintsCupsConversion.jpg

 

[PrincessFiona60]

That is quite clever, thanks!

 

[cave76]

Glad you liked it, PF---- Full disclosure---- my daughter sent that to me. We both share a love and some aptitude for graphic design.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Well, I'm going to print it out. That's one of the things my brains threw out while I was in nursing school.

 

[cave76]

Well, I'm going to print it out. That's one of the things my brains threw out while I was in nursing school.

Oh oh---- I didn't mean to imply that my daughter drew that----- just that she has an attraction to 'things graphic'. She found it on the Internet, of course.

No copyright issues for her, please.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I didn't think anything of the kind, just appreciation for the graphic.

 

[Oldvine]

I like it too and will print it for me and a couple kids that ask those kinds of questions often.
Thanks!!!

 

[taxlady]

I can remember those, but sometimes get confused by how many ounces or tablespoons in a cup.

 

[Cooking Goddess]

Two-for-one taxy. Two tablespoons for every ounce.

Himself needed one of those graphics today cave. Before I left to grocery shop I asked him to move the last of the milk in the gallon to a pint bottle. He said "I bet there isn't much more than a cup here" and proceeds to pour it into my one-cupper (measuring cup #1). Just before it overflows he stops, pulls out the 2-cup one (measuring cup #2) and pours cup #1 into cup #2 and then empties the rest of the bottle...to the 14 oz mark. Kinda like my "just under a pint" eyeball measure. If it had been only a cup it wouldn't have made a difference since the smallest glass bottle we have is a pint size.

To get it into the bottle he had to move that 14 oz to a cup (measuring cup #3) with a narrower pour spout since the other two he used are more for pouring measured liquid into a mixing bowl. Lucky him he had all three cups washed by the time I got home.

Oh, should those last two paragraphs have gone in the "petty vents" thread?

 

[taxlady]

CG, I know there are two tablespoons in a liquid ounce. I just sometimes forget if it's 16 tablespoons or or 16 ounces in a cup or is it 32...

I have used twice as much butter as I should have in a recipe because of that. It was not a mistake that ruined the food.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

8 ounces in a cup, 16 tablespoons in a cup.

 

[taxlady]

8 ounces in a cup, 16 tablespoons in a cup.

What, does everyone think I can't look at the cup and see that? It's just something that I sometimes forget (or think I'm remembering it and I'm not) and a graphic in the kitchen would be handy. And Stirling could look at it too.

 

[Andy M.]

For a cup, I add a teaspoon of sugar and enough cream to make the coffee a medium brown.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

What, does everyone think I can't look at the cup and see that? It's just something that I sometimes forget (or think I'm remembering it and I'm not) and a graphic in the kitchen would be handy. And Stirling could look at it too.

Sorry, I thought I was helping when you said "I just sometimes forget if it's 16 tablespoons or or 16 ounces in a cup or is it 32..." with giving you the correct numbers...

I'll go back to my magazine.

 

[taxlady]

That's one of the reasons I like metric measurements.

 

[Cooking Goddess]

What, does everyone think I can't look at the cup and see that? It's just something that I sometimes forget (or think I'm remembering it and I'm not) and a graphic in the kitchen would be handy. And Stirling could look at it too.

Oh, well then, sorry. You know that thing how you forget what a measure conversion or something is for a cup? Yeah, that's how my brain works with explaining things...

 

[taxlady]

Sorry CG and PF for being snarky. I know you guys were just trying to be helpful.

 

[Cooking Goddess]

You weren't snarky. I was just being obtuse.

 

[Cheryl J]

Thank you for sharing, cave. That's pretty clever! Printing it out.

 

[pacanis]

I've got a conversion placard I keep on the inside of a cupboard door. That graphic though would be nice (for those of you who decorate your kitchens) hanging on the wall. Maybe as a needlepoint or something. It would make a nice conversation piece.