The cup is a unit of measurement for volume, used in cooking to measure liquids (fluid measurement) and bulk foods such as granulated sugar (dry measurement). It is principally used in the United States and Liberia where it is a legally defined unit of measurement. Actual cups used in a household in any country may differ from the cup size used for recipes; standard measuring cups, often calibrated in fluid measure and weights of usual dry ingredients as well as in cups, are available.
Some countries in the Commonwealth of Nations, notably Australia and New Zealand, define a metric cup of 250 millilitres.[1] Units such as metric cups and metric feet are derived from the metric system but are not official metric units[2]
| 1 cup | = | 250 | millilitres |
| = | 162⁄3 | international tablespoons (15 ml each) | |
| = | 12.5 | Australian tablespoons (20 ml each) | |
| ≈ | 8.80 | imperial fluid ounces | |
| ≈ | 8.45 | U.S. customary fluid ounces |
A "coffee cup" is 1.5 dl or 150 millilitres or 5.07 US customary fluid ounce
nited States customary cup is defined as half a U.S. pint.
| 1 U.S. customary cup | = | 1⁄16 | U.S. customary gallon |
| = | 1⁄4 | U.S. customary quart | |
| = | 1⁄2 | U.S. customary pint | |
| = | 8 | U.S. customary fluid ounces | |
| = | 16 | U.S. customary tablespoons[nb 1] | |
| = | 48 | U.S. customary teaspoons | |
| ≡ | 236.5882365 | millilitres[nb 2] | |
| ≈ | 152⁄3 | international tablespoons | |
| ≈ | 11.75 | Australian tablespoons | |
| ≈ | 0.833 | imperial cups | |
| ≈ | 8.33 | imperial fluid ounces |
s, and is occasionally used in recipes. It is also used in the US to specify coffeemaker sizes (what can be referred to as a Tasse à café). A "12-cup" US coffeemaker makes 57.6 US customary fluid ounces of coffee, or 6.8 metric cups of coffee.
