The recipe you’re following calls for 1 cup of all-purpose flour. Does it really matter how you measure it or which measuring cup you grab out of your kitchen cabinet? Actually, yes. And the vegetable ...

The key to successfully baking a cake is measuring all the ingredients accurately. Precise measurement is a crucial part of baking to ensure that the cake doesn't come out too dry or in a bad shape.

Every home baker worth their salt probably knows liquid measuring cups and dry measuring cups are not the same, but not everyone has the same depth of experience. What's more, even those with ...

Not many of us mere mortals can wing it with a recipe—adding a fistful of herbs here or a splash of red wine vinegar there—without the dish ending up an epic fail. Most of the time you need to add ...

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Which liquid measuring cup is best? Bakers and cooks alike know that the success of most recipes rises and falls with accurate measurements. Bread won’t bake if the liquid measurement is off, and the ...

When I hear “measuring cups,” one question comes to mind: wet or dry? Early on in my baking life, I used dry measuring cups for everything — and I regularly had to clean up kitchen-oil spills after ...

TEST KITCHEN: These tools are made to handle the specific properties of liquid or dry ingredients By DANIELLE CENTONI Q: What's the difference between liquid measuring cups and dry measuring cups? Do ...

I cook a lot, which means I use measuring cups a lot (well, I suppose that doesn't necessarily follow, but as I like to say I'm not a chef, I'm a really excellent line cook). Sometimes I need to cut a ...

We spoke to the pros about when to use a dry versus a liquid measuring cup. Every home baker worth their salt probably knows ...