Posts Tagged ‘cooking’

Group Cooking

Drew chef duty for a dozen hungry hikers? Planning meals for a group isn’t quite as simple as tripling the ramen supply. Ellie Mulder, kitchen manager at Yamnuska Guide Service in Canmore, British Columbia, has prepared trail meals for hundreds of hikers and mountaineers with the help of a restaurant computer program and a decade’s [...]

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Ten Winter Cooking Tips

You can enjoy the outdoors as much as you can in the winter as you can in the summer, as long as you are prepared for the winter weather. As well as having a good time, it is very important to stay warm and safe in the cold weather as well. Hydration and nutrition are [...]

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Cooking Measurements

Looking through the recipes on this blog and others, you may have come across measurements and not understood them. Here is a list for you of cooking measurement abbreviations and equivalents to help you understand! Enjoy!

 

Cooking Measurement Abbreviations

Abbreviation
Measurement

tsp
teaspoon

Tbsp
tablespoon

fl
fluid

oz
ounce

pkg
package

c
cup

pt
pint

qt
quart

gal
gallon

lb
pound

sm
small

lg
large

Cooking Measurement Equivalents

Measurement
Equivalents

tsp
Tbsp
fl oz
cup
pint
quart
gallon

tsp
1
1/3
1/6
1/48

Tbsp
3
1
1/2
1/16
1/32

oz
6
2
1
1/8
1/16

cup
48
16
8
1
1/2
1/4
1/16

pint
96
32
16
2
1
1/2
1/8

quart
192
64
32
4
2
1
1/4

gallon
768
256
128
16
8
4
1

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Wilderness Dining

It’s hard to find places to buy quality backpacking items, and if you do, if seems like it never carries the one item you want. When it comes to outdoor cooking, Wilderness Dining is one of the best places to buy supplies.

After exploring their online store, you can agree with what their home page testifies: [...]

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