I hate keeping my measuring cups on the ring they come on. You peeps that are like me, what do you do? How is your measuring cups and spoons set up in your kitchen?

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[–] 9 points 1 day ago

I converted everything to weight, and keep a digital scale on my counter. No more measuring cups or spoons in my kitchen.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    I just use Grams like any sensible person does. Works perfect.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I would love to do this. But many quality recipes from reliable chefs and cooks still use volume measures, so I must too.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    IME only US recipes do this. When I started making English-language recipes I was confused as to why so many of them used cups. I have no measuring cups. "Cups" is not a unit in most places (did you know that a cup is a different volume in different places? one reason why it was deprecated). If you are an English speaker, you can always make recipes from Brits, Aussies, Canadians, other English speakers that use grams.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I've found that a cup measure reliably gives me the correct gram weight when I scoop and sweep. Within a gram or two. (For flour and sugar, anyway)

    On top of that, most of the recipes I come across don't give the metric weights of ingredients. Meaning to accurately measure out how many grams of whatever are in x cups, I've got to go look up the weight first. It's imprecise anyway because the recipe I'm trying to convert gave a volumetric measurement and I'm trying to use mass to get the same result. That's fine for liquids that are mostly water anyway, but a problem for something like shredded cheese.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Oooh do you know your flour gram amount when you scoop and sweep? I'm terrible at flour cup consistency, to the point I have to ask my SO to scoop if the recipe isn't in grams. They do more dessert baking and seem to have the technique down.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Every time I use a measuring cup or spoon, I put it somewhere random after I clean it. Then whenever I need to measure something, I look around until my desperation matches my willingness to make due with whatever sizes I happen to have found.

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    The first thing you do is throw out the ring that they come on.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    Taken off the ring and hanging on the wall from hooks side-by-side. I've seen people hang them on the inside of a cabinet door, but I don't like how they dangle and make noise.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Mine are magnetic, it's so much easier to separate and keep sorted.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I have a smallish square tub that sits inside the top shelf, of a bottom cabinet, with all the mixing bowls and blender.

    I put all the atrachements for the kitchen aide, my dough scrappers, and my measuring cups (detached from ring) and loose extra measuring spoons in that square tub.

    it aint pretty, but no one sees it. Its very easy to access, and I dont get frustrated with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I removed the ring but keep them stacked inside each other. I can't bring myself to do the same to the spoons though

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  • Badly. The cups we had barely fit in the drawer and have to be split into two stacks or else they jam it up, so I bought a cheapo metal set on a ring that don't do this. It's not elegant and this set has fewer cups than the other. It's not a great solution so I'm hoping to read the fix some other person has found.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    This probably sounds annoying, but a scale and the metric system for dry stuff. It’s more consistent and easier.

    By comparison, metric system for liquids is not very practical and also imperial measuring cups are ubiquitous. I use a tall one from a stick blender kit so it doesn’t have a huge handle wasting space.

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  • It’s more consistent and easier.

    Not for my use cases. I just made a cup of instant coffee. I keep a teaspoon in the jar... they're cheap at WalMart and I grabbed a few once. Takes me three seconds to measure it out. Whipping out my scale and doing it that way would take about a minute,elapsed.

    And the stuff I cook.... it's a tablespoon of this, a teaspoon of this, etc etc.... maybe eight different ingredients that way. I can't imagine doing that with a scale.

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago
    [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    if it was just me, I would ditch the ring, but my partner prefers them bound and don't really care enough to make an issue of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I just estimate the amounts by "gut feeling". A pinch or a handful are the only measuring tools I own. /s

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    I got a set of measuring cups and spoons that stick together with magnets. Both stacked in the utensil drawer.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    Command hooks on the inside or outside of the cabinet door

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    I nest them and put them in a drawer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 minutes ago

    We hang them on the wall. I made a couple of decorative planks with brass "shoulder hooks". The hooks are L-shaped.

    Yes we have two sets of measuring cups.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Spoons are in my silverware drawer, one set is still with ring, the other several sets are not. If I'm baking, or making something else that uses a lot of different sizes, I'll use the ring.

    My cheese spoons are also on a ring, because I don't need 1/32tsp often.

    Dry Measuring Cups are in a cabinet, taking about 1/3 of a shelf. We have a lot and love our odd size kit that comes with 2/3c, 3/4c , 1.5c and a few others.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Aren't they stackable?

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