Why We Even Care About Cups and Ounces I’ll be real with you. The first time I tried baking cookies alone, I thought a “cup” was literally just…a mug from the cupboard.Yeah, my chocolate chip cookies turned out more like hockey pucks. Nobody ate them, not even the dog. That’s when I started wondering: how many oz in cup actually makes sense? And why do recipes all over the world keep mixing cups, ounces, spoons, and random “pinches” like we’re…