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5 or 6 ounces to a coffee cup
instead of eight to a normal liquid measue.
Add imperial and canadian gallons into the mix and it is a lot easier not to measure.
Or fill your mug just half way, and have a little bit left over.
It's coffee. weak or strong it still tastes like coffee.
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[quote GGD][quote graylocks]yes, in the modern age a cup is not a cup. i've seen 6 and 5 ounces called a cup when it comes to coffee. don't understand why or where this malpractice first occurred.
Seems like a good cause for a class action law suit. If lawyers could get Seagate to cave because 1,000,000,000 bytes is not a gigabyte in some peoples minds, it seems like a slam dunk to when a cup is not 8oz.
LOL!! That's hilarious!
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[quote billb]5 or 6 ounces to a coffee cup
instead of eight to a normal liquid measue.
Add imperial and canadian gallons into the mix and it is a lot easier not to measure.
Or fill your mug just half way, and have a little bit left over.
It's coffee. weak or strong it still tastes like coffee.
Not measuring is also my standard approach to food prep. The fact that it comes out a bit different every time is a feature, not a bug. And the times it's a total washout . . . still worth it.
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I recently saw a 4 cup coffee maker that made me do a double take. The picture on the box showed the carafe full to the 4 cup mark, but the coffee "mug", not cup on the picture was also full of coffee, so did they get 5 cups out that 4 cupper?
I guess growing up with George Carlin makes you look at words and sayings a little differently than some others.
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I did my Ph.D. thesis explaining where the missing water goes. In a nutshell...
- absorbtion by the coffee grounds and filter, plus adhesion in the filter basket
- evaporation (you're boiling water, right?)
- Mr. Coffee coffee makers suck and sometimes a significant amount of water dribbles down the side of the coffee maker wall near the pot, never making into the pot (unknown whether that water has passed through the brewing basket first)
Note: I don't have a Ph.D. Perhaps my choice of thesis subject is to blame.
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[quote AllGold]I did my Ph.D. thesis explaining where the missing water goes. In a nutshell...
- absorbtion by the coffee grounds and filter, plus adhesion in the filter basket
- evaporation (you're boiling water, right?)
- Mr. Coffee coffee makers suck and sometimes a significant amount of water dribbles down the side of the coffee maker wall near the pot, never making into the pot (unknown whether that water has passed through the brewing basket first)
Note: I don't have a Ph.D. Perhaps my choice of thesis subject is to blame.
I was hoping the question about the missing water was in jest . . .
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I thought adding smilies was too obvious.
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[quote AllGold]I thought adding smilies was too obvious.
Hey, this is the Internet. You can never be too obvious. (
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What is so difficult? There's a big difference in a "cup" as a container and a "cup" as a measure of volume. A measuring "cup" is 8 ounces and only 8 ounces - never 4 or 6.
A "cup", meaning a container to hold liquid or powder can be anything from a one ounce espresso cup to a 16 oz coffee mug. It's pretty clear that the coffee maker manufacturers are referring to the latter. Is this something that should take 19 posts to discuss? OMG! what a colossal waste of bandwidth.
