Measuring cups (circumlunar.space), 12/06/2019
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Hey,  global  gopher  crowd,  do  you  folks  do  the  whole
measuring  cup[1]   thing?  I  have  this   perception  that
Europeans weigh every ingredient they're going to cook with.
I have no notion of how  others outside of Europe and the US
might do things, but I am curious.

We have several sets of measuring cups. One of those sets is
different from  all the  others, in  their shape.  They look
something like this:


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For  the visually  impaired, I  apologize for  wrecking your
screen readers: these cups are angled  in the front so as to
appear like a scoop rather than  just a cup. They're made of
clear plastic,  and  there are  screen-printed  lines on the 
front/angled side.

I hate these measuring cups.

First  of  all, they're  too  large  to  fit into  our  bulk
food  containers (well,  the ones  that we  pour the  larger
containers into, the small ones  we keep in the kitchen), so
you have  to get *another*  cup out to fill  these measuring
cups. Second,  it's difficult  visually to make  sure you're
holding it level when filling it with liquid. The shapes and
angles are  such that  you don't  have reliable  visual cues
that you  get from a  normal circular cup shape.  You pretty
much *have* to set it down on a level surface.

Thankfully,  they're junk.  I  believe  Pampered Chef  makes
them. The screen printing is  fading (the screen printing on
our  decade+  old  Pyrex  is fine!),  and  soon  they'll  be
unusable, except  as a scoop that  is in fact too  large for
the only containers we'd want to scoop from.

And that  concludes this  useless post.  Still, I'd  love to
know if everyone uses measuring cups or not-  I'm not really
sure why it matters, but I am curious.

[1] gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/0/Measuring cup