The most “delicious” art is cooking. And it consists of two main points - accuracy and inspiration. Moreover, accuracy is the most important at the initial stage. Agree, only an experienced person can cook “by eye”, performing a certain operation many times. For a beginner, a cook needs a recipe book indicating the exact amount of ingredients needed. Here various devices come to the rescue, the most important of which is a measuring cup.
Measuring cup is designed specifically for measuring the amount of food required for cooking. It is always present in the kitchen of every housewife, measuring out milliliters and grams of various liquids and bulk products. Measuring cups are very diverse in appearance, material of manufacture and graduation. This can be a large jug up to 1.5-2 liters in volume or a small beaker for 20-50 ml. It all depends on why and where this utensil is used.
The material from which the measuring cup is made is very important. Now it is mainly plastic. There are also glass, metal and ceramic products.
The main thing when choosing a material is ease of use (a clear and clearly distinguishable graduation), durability (suddenly slip out of your hands?) And the ability to withstand high and low temperatures (when measuring a hot product or putting it in a freezer). For a serious cook who is accustomed to working quickly and accurately, the property of a glass "go to hand" is important.
A wide variety of types of measuring dishes differ in the way they are used. For liquids, a measuring cup with a clear graduation in milliliters is usually used. Its optimal size is 250-500 ml. Often, on the opposite side of the dishes, the units of measure of loose substances are applied - grams, milligrams. Such a glass is universal. With it, you will measure the required amount of both liquid and bulk product, and it will remain the only necessary measured capacity in your kitchen.
In the preparation of various cocktails using a measuring cup with two containers of different volumes (20 and 40 g), fastened together by bottoms. It is called a “jigger” and is an important tool in the work of a bartender.
Recently, our housewives are more and more like the tradition of measuring the volume of various products with cups ("cup") that came from abroad. This measure is also present in recipes of various European and American cuisines, so advanced chefs must have in their arsenal a set of measuring cups of various sizes. The volume of a standard American cup is 240 ml, European - 10 ml more. The set is most often made up of one standard cup and three smaller ones - 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 cups.
Measuring glasses for every taste are widely and varied in the domestic market. First of all, these are dishes from Russian manufacturers (Polimerbyt and others), products from China, as well as Italy (Regent Inox), Turkey (Ucsan) and the Netherlands (Rosti Mepal).
Precision or inspiration? Which of them to put in the first place, everyone decides for himself. It is important to comply with the measure in this proportion. Therefore, a measuring cup is useful in any case, whatever the choice.