On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:41:57 +0000, in ,
Alan Gerber wrote:
Well, espresso is served in those tiny little "cups", right? That's
probably what they meant.

OK, this got me a bit curious, so I did a bit of measuring... My normal
coffee "cup" is basically cylinder shaped with approximately a 2-7/8"
inside diameter and a 3-7/8" height... Leaving about 3/4" from being full
so that I have room to add sugar and cream to it in addition to not
spilling it while walking, I get 10 oz of coffee in it... The little wimpy
"cup" that Grace uses turns out to give exactly 8 oz with the same basic
space left at the top... Of course, if I'm seriously caffeine deprived, I
have mugs that are considerably larger... They'll probably take the entire
expresso pot and have quite a bit of room left over...

I've got a four-cup coffee pot that makes two mugs of coffee. It's
theoretically four six-ounce cups, but it's actually closer to five
ounces each. I tried pouring water in from a measuring cup instead of
using the pot one time, and it went all over the counter.

Been there, done that... These damn companies need to learn that if they
are going to use the word "cup", it means 8 oz... These little 2-3 oz
espresso containers are not "cups"...