We were at a restaurant the other night, ordering a glass of wine and hoping we would not get a huge glass with a tiny taste of pinot grigio at the bottom. Is it an illusion--the large glass with less or the small glass with more?
The standard glass of wine in the United States is 5 ounces (125 ml.) as shown in the photo. But what I had not considered was that a full glass (6 ounces, close to 177.4 ml.) contains a lot more alcohol.
That lack of standardized measures can give you more than a serious buzz.
An article in a
UK publication points to the dangers of using household teaspoons to dose medicines. A dose is based on a 5-milliliter teaspoon, but household teaspoons range from 2.5 to 7.3 milliliters.
Tablespoons have the same problem--the lack of standardization (contents range anywhere from 7 to 15 ml). What an impact on recipes, coffee and diets!
It's more than a problem of U.S. measures versus metric. It's that our measuring tools are not standard.
Now about that glass of wine? Was it really 5 ounces? It looked more like 4. . . .
This may explain why I seem to need two glasses of wine. As for my recipe preparation, finally, an answer!
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I'm with you on the two glasses and recipes.
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