Cook with precision using these top picks. Did you know there are different measuring cups for liquid and dry ingredients? If you didn’t, and you’ve also been wondering why some of your recipes, ...

Not many of us mere mortals can wing it with a recipe—adding a fistful of herbs here or a splash of red wine vinegar there—without the dish ending up an epic fail. Most of the time you need to add ...

Plastic: Clear-plastic measuring cups are lightweight, compact and unlikely to break. They can also have detailed measuring marks printed on them to measure more precisely, and are manufactured in ...

Baking is basically edible chemistry, which makes precise measuring super important. To make sure you’re armed with the most accurate measuring cups around, Cook’s Illustrated tested a whole bunch to ...

Before I elaborate on why I swear by these Pyrex liquid measuring cups, let me clarify why you need them in the first place. You might be thinking to yourself, The dry measuring cups I already own can ...

Cookbook author Adeena Sussman recently joined The Washington Post Food section staff to answer questions about all things edible. Here are edited excerpts from that chat. Q: Joy the Baker has ...

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, and the ...