## serving sizes ]U.S.literature # quart,小碗

  • —- volume-based serving sizes
  • 1 cup = a women’s fist = 8 fl oz ( ≅ 240 ml) = 16 tablespoons
    • eg my guacamole packet is exactly 8 oz
    • comparable to small bowl in Chinese tradition 小碗.
  • 1 teaspoon (5 ml) — Your fingertip.
  • 1 tablespoon (15 ml or half a fluid oz) — Three fingertips, or your thumb, minus the meaty part
  • — now the standard conversions for volumes
  • 1 fluid oz = 30 ml #actually 29.6
  • 16 fluid oz = 1 pint = small ice cream packet
  • 1 quart = 2 pint
  • — now the standard conversions for mass
  • 1 oz = 28 gram #actually 28.3