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how many ounces in a cup for coffee?

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the coffee maker says it holds 10 cups, the coffee can says to use 1 tablespoon of coffee for every 6 oz of water.

so how many fluid ounces is 10 cups so that one uses the recommended 1 tablespoon per 6 oz of water? a cup, according to MacResource.com, is 5 oz. so 1 tablespoon of coffee for every cup?

that’s a lot of coffee grounds…

for more mysteries of coffee and cups…. especially about why you put in 10 cups of water and get less out….

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,410733,410806

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Where I come from, a ‘cup’ is 8 ounces by volume.

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That’s how the term is defined in cooking. That would be 80 ounces total, or 13 tablespoons and a pinch.

But I don’t drink coffee. I don’t know how the coffee maker manufacturer or the coffee vendor define cup, but I’d bet they’re not defining it the same way. Yet another reason to switch to the metric system.

Nah

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If you switch to the metric system, you’ll have some stupid neighbouring country using ancient imperial measurements still and almost everything has to be converted before you can compare it. 😉

I resemble that remark

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don’t blame me. I was only a child in the 1970s when there was a half-hearted attempt to convert the US to metric.

LOL it’s so common

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If the entire world decided to write left handed, the US would insist on US citizens using the right.

Most US companies won’t even adopt the Robertson screw! They think that Phillips screws, being American design are superior, however even the most rudimentary testing proves otherwise.

A star strips with great ease (it’s just two slots that are opposed, resulting the weakest screw besides the slotted screw. A Robertson (square) is all but impossible to strip when using a screwdriver that fits.

Just gotta be different because if you comply with anyone else, you are giving in, accepting weakness, becoming commies, recognizing someones superior design etc. Can’t have that, America is better at EVERYTHING after all! 😉

Here’s what American set designers say when faced with using Robertson screws:
[i]”hm, and they aren’t more likely to strip than phillips heads?[/i] Uh, HELLO! You are a carpenter and don’t know about Robertson screws?

[i]These would have made set building in theatre much more fun.

Do these hold onto the screws even better than a magnetic bit in a drill gun does?[/i]

Duh, yes. JNow how about a magnetic Robertson bit? OMG IT’S AMAZING WHAT THEY CAN DO THESE DAYS! 😀

Just the thought that people who work with wood screws for a living wouldn’t know that Robertson’s are 100X better is amazing!

[i]”One of the most popular new designs of the screwdriver was made by Canadian P.L. Robertson, who inadvertently invented the screwdriver when he patented the first socket-headed screw in 1907.[/i]

[i]”Meanwhile, Henry F. Phillips patented his own invention, an improved version of a deep socket with a cruciform, today known as the Phillips Screw.[/i]

What a dork! It’s like man inventing the wheel and another guy inventing the cube to compete with it?!

One day, arrogance and that sense of superiority that many Americans still seem to wear on their sleeve will pass, but not any day soon.

And our grapes are sour too.

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Feel better now?

Never felt bad to begin with

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I know what side of the tracks I’m on.

A standard mug is 10 ounces, but it holds only 8

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It holds 8 comfortably, not 10, unless you fill it to the very brim.

it’s similar to hot dogs packaged in 8 and hot dog buns

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packaged in 10.

Metric system gets rid of all the ambiguous measurments that seems to complicated to figure it out.

coffee makers hold cups of water but to make coffee you measure the grounds per ounce of water…. then there’s the mystery of missing water. you put in 10 cups of water and invariably you get only 8 cups of coffee.

There’s a reason for that though

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If you buy 10 hot dog buns, you are lucky to find 8 that will be in shape and not be squashed, torn, gibbled or falling apart. 🙂

In case nobody’s noticed, coffee machines heat the water and create a lot of steam. The coffee filter also soaks up water like a thin paper towel. The coffee grounds themselves also soak up and retain water. That wet filter, soggy grounds, steam and condensation is your extra water.

Another mystery of the universe solved.

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Now if only I could figure out why people go well below the speed limit when passing the police, as if they earn extra good-behavior points for going more slowly.

Even better when they jam on the brakes, causing you to spill your beer and/or coffee, depending on the time of day.

Has one of them yesterday

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Tall Killkenny cans don’t hold so well in the cup holders, so as I was pulling into the track some idiot slammed on his brakes as he’d seen a SECURITY GUARD! I found myself trying to suck premium quality beer off the dash (wouldn’t want to waste such a fine brew).

One time a woman in the car behind me

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made the unfortunate choice of putting the tray of McDonald’s soft drinks on top of the dashboard of her car when exiting the drive through.

As another car ‘came out of nowhere’ I had to brake suddenly, and she was not quite paying attention, such that there was this tsunami of soda that appeared to wash over the inside of her windshield.

Oh to have one of those ‘dash cams’….

Now THAT is funny

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My Dad spilled a cup of coffee down the dash, then a bit later I was guilty of some hot chocolate. Smelled like mocha coming from the vents until we got rid of the car 😀

I’ve seen one like that, absolutely hilarious!

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When ABS was new, I was driving a brand new Dynasty in busy traffic. I had to hit the brakes hard and came to a stop instantly. I looked in the rear view and saw a VERY PO’d guy picking coffee covered fries off his dash. He was mopping up and throwing soggy napkins around while swearing to himself, it was truly a magic moment and the day I learned how good brand new ABS can be. 😀

Eating and drinking while driving didn’t work so well for him.

cmiller

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Another one we did as punk kids when people PO’d us was to pour fish fertilizer in the air vents by the wiper blades. It get’s sucked into the system and no amount of cleaning, scouring or scrubbing will even get it out.
Get used to it or get a new car.

as the merovigian in Matrix Reloaded said cause and effect

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going fast by a police on the highway causes the police to give you a ticket, costing you money and assuring his full pay, full benefits retirement at age 50.

the guy in front of you jams on the brakes in hopes you hit him, assuring his retirement from insurance payout….

You missed the guy who hits the guy in front

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If you claim the car had changed lanes and cut you off, he will often be found at fault, thus you can collect a sizable sum by dragging injury claims through court for four years and retire yourself. 4 years dragging it out should equal $300K +

It’s been done SO many times it’s not funny, no wonder premiums are a farce.

There’s a term for that, it’s called ‘swoop and squat’

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Often people do that on purpose for trucks.

Once I was a jury foreman for a case where a woman had done just that, and was demanding something like $250K for her non-injuries, despite admitting that she cut in front of the truck and braked. We gleefully awarded her exactly no money.

In fact she won less than the trucking company had offered to settle it in the first place.

People often think the rear end rule is black and white

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Just because someone hit YOU it doesn’t mean it was their fault. When my brother was still doing accident law, he started out doing personal injury cases years ago, I sat in on quite a few cases where the person was almost in tears saying, “Yeah but HE hit ME! It’s automatically HIS fault!” Uh, wrong.

If you drive like a douche, it’s often gonna be your fault despite the simplistic, unwritten rules.

My insurance experience

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I was driving along, almost home, big city park on one side, police station on the other. The light ahead had just gone from yellow to red, and I was slowing down rapidly, probably about 20 kms/12 mph.

Then BANG! I woke up with a bit of e headache and someone tapping on my passenger window. My van didn’t have airbags(1990 model). I groggily got out to hear the apologies of the woman who had rear ended me. She apologized profusely and explained that she had been watching something in the park, and hadn’t seen the red.

But in hitting me, she then pushed me into the car in front of me, which like me had the brakes on to stop for the light.

To her credit thhe woman who hit me was very upfront with the police officer.

So you’d think the insurance would pay off immediately. Wrong. The adjuster told me I would have to take partial responsibility for hitting the car in front of me. I asked how so, since I would have stopped in time, had I not been knocked into lack of consciousness, which led to my foot sliding off the brake pedal.

They did try to argue the point, at which point I suggested that I’d be more than happy to go before a judge on the matter and see what he thinks. The adjustor rethought his position, and in the end handed my file to a senior adjustor who agreed with me and paid out the file, even adjusting the payout higher when I pointed out that my value should be higher because I had replaced the engine a few months prior.

If I hadn’t been so stubborn, I think they would have ramrodded it through.

That one’s a classic James

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Multiple collisions happen the exact same way on a daily basis. The guy in front blames the guy behind and so on and so on. When that happened to my mum in a tunnel, a 5-tonne couldn’t stop and there was a 4 car collision the same way as your happened.

She had to take partial blame but my brother instantly filed a suit against the driver behind her (the truck that started the whole thing). I twas obviously open and shut but the company that owned the truck decided to pay our of court, a settlement which included the costs of her insurance increases for the 4 years until she was at a 43% safe driving discount again also, plus a new car (hers was written off) injury claim etc. Insurance doesn’t do f-all, but a private suit often results in much better rewards, especially if the insurance company imparts blame on you and financially screws you.

Really?

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In Southern Ontario, we try to drive the same speed as the police, unless they are driving with the lights flashing. Usually they cruise at 120 kph, 20 over(about 13 miles per hour).

I’ve seen lots of people pass the police doing faster than that. Since the new 50 kph racing charge, a lot of police won’t bother with a minor speeding offense, they’d rather wait and catch a big fish.

that’s Canada in the US, police are now ticketing.. heck

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don’t go to live in Minnesota, and get into debt. the judges there issue a bench warrant for your arrest is you don’t show up in small claims court, then set bail at the amount of debt you owe.

Debter prisons were outlawed a century ago, but in Minnesota, if you get into credit card debt, the attorneys will file a lawsuit, the judge will issue a bench warrant for arrest, and set bail at the amount you owe, plus you’ll pay court costs and attorny fees.

Forced payment of a debt, through arrest.

Wow

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Mind you that’s just one more to add to a long list of reasons I wouldn’t move to or work in the US again. I won’t even work for US companies in Canada, then again I refuse to work for any company based in the province of Quebec either, just the legal ironing out before you can sign a contract makes it not worthwhile (Quebec has a whole set of laws that apply only to Quebec resident, so all the company legal paperwork is void, inapplicable or needs revision if you work outside of Quebec). The problem is, companies there don’t recognize it and won’t go to the added expense of hiring an attorney to fix paperwork for out of province employees, just as many US companies don’t up here either.

They think THEIR laws, whether Quebec or US, actually apply to others, but only Quebec and the US allow companies to apply such restrictions and demands on employees.

our new laws

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If you are 40kmh over the posted speed limit they can impound your car. They lowered the DUI laws too, well it’s still .08 but if you are .05 they can impound you now. Which is stupid because you haven’t broken a law at that point and are under the maximum level where you would be guilty of a crime.

There’s a legal riot going on over it right now, as they impound your car for 3 days, a week by the time paper work is cleared and the car is released. However you don’t get an opportunity to stand in court before you are penalized for a crime, making the police judge and jury. It isn’t uncommon for DUI’s to be easily beaten, even if the driver was actually legally over the limit. However in this case, you have no recourse to recover the costs of impound and penalty, loss of work, etc.

A screwed up law that has raised a lot of legal hackles!

Similar to our law

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Its been out for a couple of years now – 50 kms over means 1 week impound immediately without trial, and facing street racing charges. It has been challenged in a few courts, and one of those cases may make it to the supreme court.

http://www.driving.ca/Second+judge+rules+Ontario+street+racing+unconstitutional/2264257/story.html

I can see that though

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There’s a difference between a traffic law and a criminal offense. A traffic law can be imposed on the spot. If you are found to be drunk, they CHARGE you with a crime but you still get your day in court before the charges become a criminal record.

In the case of speeding, not so. You are guilty but can appeal it within the allotted time frame.

The new DUI law means that if you are in a WARNING zone (0.05), truly a DUI is still 0.08, you are charged with a crime and your vehicle is impounded at your cost, but you haven’t even seen a judge?! However, 0.05 is not even over the LEGAL limit to even charge you with impaired driving.

Many lawyers very busy these days, as are the cope road blocks are everywhere.

the problem then is that they start publishing stats to show how many drivers have been arrested at 0.05 and it LOOKS as if the new law is worthwhile.

If they focused the same attention all the time on catching people 0.08 or over, the stats wouldn’t be much different. But because there are fewer roadblocks and they are not looking to make a case for it, the 0.08 offenses barely get noticed by public watching the media.

If they actually put more effort into stopping DUI’s over 0.08 it would probe just as effective.

Politics, no wonder I hate them so.

P.S. Our excessive speeding for impound is now 40kmh over posted limit. My niece just lost her car for a week, was doing the posted limit on a bridge after 10PM but it was still technically a construction zone, even though construction was well beyond done for the day.

Did you check?

In reply to how many ounces in a cup for coffee?

Fill the coffee maker to the 10 cup mark.
Empty it into a measure, iteratively as needed, depending on the size of the measure.

Be sure to remove detachables before attempting to pour it though.

supposed to be a funny like hot dogs and hot dog buns

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like why would hot dogs come in packages of 8 and hot dog buns in packages of 10?

why would those who make coffee for consumers put on the can use 1 tablespoon for every 6 ounces of water when coffee makers have the carafe measured by cups?

just another thing to confuse us consumers..

why do staypuff marshmellows not stay puffed when put over a campfire?

Other way around, by the way.

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Ten hot dogs, eight buns; not ten buns and eight hot dogs. Getting the facts right also negates Oz’s theory regarding mangled buns.

Most brands of hot dogs are available in packs of eight now, and have been for years. Only the cheapest still come ten to a pack, and they aren’t fit to eat anyway. If you must buy those, just cut the extra two in half and stuff them in at the end of the bun beside an intact one. Or just slip them under the table to the dog or toddler.

Same issue

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When grilling dogs, one burns, one break, one his the ground, the dog wants one (no bun) junior wants one, no bun etc.

So by the time 4 dogs and two buns are screwed, you have an even match again.

I buy smokies anyway.

Brats and sauerkraut

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with beer.

A little late but

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Oktoberfest (intentional German spelling) sausages made by Mennonite butchers, with a good German mustard. I get them at a local farmers market.

The medieval market days in Turku…

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It’s a spectacle…
In fact, it’s a handicrafts exhibition on the streets of the old town centre near the medieval cathedral, but with added spectacles. Scores of amateur actors from all over come there to dress up in hemp and leathers and paint scars and scabs on their skin and act out medieval escapades of various kinds, with an added scripted drama, new one each year.
So anyway, there’s a german guy there. Been keeping a sausage-stand there for years. Hand-made sausages with just meat and herbs, grilled on the spot, served in a thick leaf of cabbage. A whole meal right there, very good. Very authentic feeling.
Will probably all be even bigger next year, when Turku is european culture capital.

Nope

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British, sauerkraut? Nothing personal but it’s just not something I grew up with, having parents who were children during the war. 😉

Though its popular around here

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It isn’t with me. Can’t get past the smell.

And some of my neighbours growing up loved it, despite having fought for the allies.

I grew up just about 40 miles from Kitchener Waterloo. Kitchener was Berlin until WWI started. They still have the biggest Oktoberfest outside of Germany.

The farmers market I go to has a lot of Mennonites – like the Amish.

So people where I grew up, of all ethnicities, learned to like it, and made it for themselves. I’m not picky but, its one thing I won’t eat. I prefer some good mustard instead.

Upper Midwest and that’s Germans, Belgins, Polish

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mostly the German farmers…. Bratwurst and Sauerkraut was a staple….

Ethnic distributions

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In my home town, they created an annual event modelled after Toronto’s Caravan event – the different ethnic community centres/clubs all host a kind of open house to show off their culture, sell food and drink and have entertainment.

In my hometown, there were rivalries amongst these groups, so they would not get together and have one pavillion per ethnicity. So we had 2 German, 2 Polish, 2 Ukranian halls. There was only one English pavillion, and there was no English centre, so it was held in a school.

I had a great time at these things growing up, even though legally I wasn’t of age to drink. I also got a bad case of food poisoning once…..

Around here, cole slaw is popular

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on hot dogs, about the only variety of sausage that shows up in a bun. Slaw is also put on barbequed pork sandwiches.

I’ve had slaw on a sausage

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Not really my thing, I prefer it on the side.

Now feast your eyes on this:
http://www.thestar.com/living/food/article/888351–pork-parfaits-rule-the-royal

Pulled Pork Parfaits…..big hit at the Royal. Makes me regret I didn’t go this year. That and I wanted to sleep in. Go figure my cousin wins a Grand Reserve champion (the Royal is considered the Canadian championship).

James, fair food

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in the US is required by long-standing cultural expectations to be fried. Fried potatoes, fried corn dogs, fried mushrooms, fried donuts, fried candy bars, fried cheese, fried butter, fried beer …

I’m not making any of those up.

The Royal Winter Fair

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is not your average fair…..

It is held indoors. It is very much focussed on agriculture. Its a big horse competition for the money crowd, a big cattle competition for the farmers. No rides, no concerts, no cotton candy.

The Canadian National Exhibition (the Ex) which is a traditional summer fair did have fried butter this year, I think people look at US trends and try stuff.

the key to lifes question why do hot dogs come in packs of 10

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and buns in packs of 8?

If anyone is a fan of Bulletproof Monk, at the end the mystery is solved!!

lol

I like your solution though…. lol

The real question

In reply to the key to lifes question why do hot dogs come in packs of 10

is why you’re bothering with buns when you can slide that hot dog into three or four Krispy Kremes.

Double-Ks: they’re not just for hamburger any more.

hot dogs and Krispy Cremes? can’t picture it

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that’s like hot dogs and cheese cake…

Great Answer – No one recognized it due to the all the noise

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I’ve done that and found that it varies from 6 to 8 fluid oz (in the USA) depending upon the manufacturer.

Personally, my preference is that my “cuppa” of strong coffee be in the range of 12 – 16 oz (approximately .33 to .5 liter if I remember the conversions correctly)

I don’t know how this discussion got off on the “tube steak” tangent (noise)….

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In reply to how many ounces in a cup for coffee?

Minimum. 😀

Two !

In reply to how many ounces in a cup for coffee?

Whiskey, vodka or brandy in that order…

:p

I like the cut of your jib.

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A dash of Bailey’s for cream, maybe, on occasion.

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