US Cups to Jiggers (cup to jigger)
1 US cup equals 5.333333333 jiggers (rounded).
How to convert US cups to jiggers
To convert US cups to jiggers, multiply the number of US cups by 5.333333333. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply jiggers by 0.1875.
jiggers = US cups × 5.333333333
Example: 10 US cups = 53.33333333 jiggers.
Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.
About these units
US Cup (cup)
One sixteenth of a US gallon, 236.588 mL (8 US fluid ounces). The standard US recipe cup.
Cups began as household drinking vessels, not scientific units, which is why they remain the messiest measures in the kitchen. The US customary cup was defined by slicing up the gallon: half a pint, or eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 milliliters. Unlike the larger units, nobody ever fixed it to a physical vessel, so it exists only as a fraction of the gallon.
The customary cup is not the only American cup. For nutrition labels, US regulation defines a cup as exactly 240 milliliters, a rounder figure that sits slightly above the customary size. Packaged foods therefore list a serving in the legal cup while a measuring cup from the hardware store follows the customary definition. The gap is 3.4 milliliters, which hardly matters for soup but can matter in baking. Cup measures also hide the weight of dry ingredients, since a cup of sifted flour and a cup of packed flour differ substantially, which is why much of the world prefers grams.
1 US cup = 0.2365882365 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Cup (unit); NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures
Jigger (jigger)
1.5 US fluid ounces (44.36 mL). A bar measure for spirits; sizes vary.
As a bartending term, jigger appeared in the United States in the early nineteenth century for a small measure of spirits or wine. A double-ended stainless steel jigger was patented in 1893 by Cornelius Dungan of Chicago. Wikipedia reports that before Prohibition an American jigger was about 2 US fluid ounces, or 59 mL, and that since the late twentieth century it has usually meant 1.5 US fluid ounces, about 44 mL.
Sizes differ by country and by habit. Wikipedia gives single measures of 30 to 44 mL in the United States, 30 mL in Australia, and 25 or 35 mL in the United Kingdom. No official single-shot size exists in the United States except in Utah, where a shot is legally 1.5 US fluid ounces. The figure used here is that modern American 1.5 US fluid ounces, 44.36 mL. A jigger is not part of SI or any national measures law, and NIST lists no jigger.
1 jigger = 0.04436029434 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Jigger (bartending); NIST SP 811 Appendix B.8
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