The flour in your recipe will be most accurately and easily measured in a dry measuring cup. Liquid measuring cups are designed to accurately measure (drumroll please!)–liquid ingredients!

Yes, you really need different types of cups for measuring dry and liquid ingredients. While dry ingredients need to be scooped into a cup and leveled off at the top, liquids level themselves.

In terms of precision, cooking is a spectrum. There are instances where eyeballing is sufficient—like deglazing the pan with roughly half a cup of wine—and there are instances where accurate ...

I talk a lot about how measuring cups stack in this piece, with good reason. Measuring cups come in sets, so they must be stacked for storage. However, I quickly learned during my tests that not ...

Packing dry ingredients into a wet measuring cup means you’re likely measuring ... at counter-level to check for the meniscus of your liquid ingredients. Instead, you can read the measurement ...

learning to scoop and level my dry ingredients with the dry cups, and using liquid measuring cups for oils and other wet ingredients, which greatly reduced my tragic spills. Take it from a recipe ...

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 ...

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 ...