A cup is eight ounces. I understand that Americans may have an obsession with coffee. And fancy coffees at that, with Starbucks, Peet’s, and Dutch Bros being everywhere. And I am going to go out on a limb and say most people (those that drink coffee) drink more than a cup – 8 ounces – of coffee. I know most of my mugs are way larger than that. I say I have two cups of coffee a day, but that is my mugs. I have two mugs a day so I actually have between 2 1/2 and 3 cups – 8 ounces – of coffee a day. My question lies with coffee making instructions. I requested yummy/fancy coffee for Christmas. Coffee is expensive and so we tend to buy affordable coffee and not fancy coffee. So I received some coffee for Christmas and all of the instructions are based on 6 ounces of water.
For each 6 ounces of water use a tablespoon and a half of coffee. Why is it six ounces? Again, a CUP is 8 ounces and many people have oversized mugs so a six ounces “cup” isn’t even a thing. Now I bet most of you aren’t even bothered by this, but I just don’t understand the “cup” as 6 ounces. What is up with that?
While these things don’t keep me up at night they do tend to annoy me when I go to make coffee. What about you? Do you drink coffee? Do you drink more than 8 ounces of coffee?
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