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Thursday, August 22, 2024

How to meaure ⅚ cup of oil, part IV

My, it's amazing how a topic I wrote about twenty years ago has been popular over the past few years. I just received an email from Jason Arencibia about an even easier method of measuring out ⅚ cup of oil:

From
Jason Arencibia <XXXXX­XXXXX­XXXXX­XX>
To
sean@conman.org
Subject
How to measure ⅚ cup of oil, super easy with 2 measuring cups.
Date
Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:23:53 -0700

½ cup + ⅓ cup = ⅚ cup 0.83333333333 of a cup.

https://boston.conman.org/2024/05/11.1

And in all the years I've looked over recipes that use Imperial measurements, not one has ever used a sixth cup, or any multiple of a sixth cup. It just doesn't exist in the Imperial system!

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