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Tipp City, Ohio

Wife bought some cheap plastic measuring cups for the kids to use in the bath tub. My son noticed that four one cups(when completely full) only measured 3-1/2cups in the another container. Even though they were made from the same chinese company.

So how do I know for sure that my measuring spoons/cups are accurate? Anyone know of a place that has accurate measurments?

Tom

4/11/2005 9:47:03 PM

Cologne / Germany

Go to a kitchen store, they should have the right equipment. I also have some used kitchen stuff to measure ferts etc. in the garden.

And - don´t buy chinese :)

4/12/2005 4:16:06 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

OK My thinking is that the 3 1/2 Cups is in a liquid measuring cup?

4/12/2005 9:20:45 AM

Somers, CT

Yes, there is a difference between dry and liquid measuring cups. There is also a difference in American made and Chinese made. To see chinese quality at its best pick up the new version of The Game of Life and see what you have to do when the spinner flies off.

4/12/2005 11:02:22 AM

Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

Chinese are smaller people. . .
They make smaller recipes

4/12/2005 11:37:18 AM

Northern Cambria, Pa.

The trouble is that the US and I think Borneo are about the last 2 places on earth that still use the English system of measurement. Everyone else uses the Metric system which is sooooo much easier.

4/12/2005 12:23:19 PM

Utah

yup mettic is great the problem is that it would only take somewhere around a few trillion dollars and more than 100 years for all the English system using companies to covert all their tooling to metric tooling.
can you image a company like Boeing having to buy all new equipement to make airplanes ? and they'd have to keep the old stuff around in case they needed them to make spare parts for the older airplace that are still in service. we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars for that company alone.
... hummm how about GM and the other auto companies, GE, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc... every single company that uses English tools and equipment... yea the metric system is nice ... but it ain't going to happen.

4/12/2005 2:20:58 PM

Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

. . .and who's gonna convert grandma's recipes over to metric?

4/12/2005 3:40:22 PM

Cologne / Germany

Dito on the metric system, but then 4 cups is 1 litre, though the chinese stuff will still tell you it´s 0.75 LOL

4/12/2005 4:46:25 PM

Tipp City, Ohio

So how do I know that the teaspoon I use is actually a teaspoon? Or a tablespoon is actually a tablespoon? I can convert metric to Engish easy enough, but I need to know if what I am using is correct. I do not want to make a higher concentration than needed.

My coffee pot says that it is a four cup pot but I seem to be able to only get one out of it. Go figure that one out.

4/12/2005 8:43:59 PM

Utah

Tom,
I think Floh had the right answer... go to a kitchen wares store, for the most part they have good to high quality, accurate stuff.

4/13/2005 8:39:33 AM

Sioux Falls, SD [email protected]

i may be interested in a chinese-made bathroom scale. . . .

4/13/2005 12:08:43 PM

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With the modern professional low dose pesticides we carry today, I use medical syringes of the sort given away by pharmacies for use in dosing infant & young children's liquid medications. Here are some useful conversions for converting low dose liquid chemicals to single gallon mixing situations:

29.57353 cc = 1 fluid ounce
6 teaspoons = 1 fluid ounce
5 cc = 1 teaspoon
2 tablespoons = 1 ounce
1 tablespoon = 15 cc

Also remember that 1 acre = 43,560 square feet

So as a for instance; if we chose to use Warrior Z for Cucumber Beetle, the label calls for 2.56 - 3.84 oz per acre in no less than 2 gallons of water by air or 10 gallons of water by ground. Since 40 gallons per acre is more our speed we therefor may choose to use 1 gallon of water per 1000 square feet of patch.

So if we split the difference on the rate chart, we're needing to use 3 oz (90 cc) per acre divided by 43.56 or .0688705 ounces or 2 cc per gallon per 1000 sq ft.

This business of trying to measure Warrior with a teaspoon for a backyard patch is rediculous & should be stopped. There is no way to use kitchen utensils to accurately measure modern agriculture chemicals.

4/13/2005 9:49:22 PM