Measuring At Bulk Barn

I was wondering if anyone knew how much the scoop (the big ones) at bulk barn equaled to, in cups. I need to do a recipe, and need between 2 and 3 cups of everything. It'd be really helpful if the scoop equaled 1.5 or 2 cups.. but one can only wish, eh? :lol:

I need to know by tomorrow morning... :)

I think one of the scoops is 2 cups. I can't remember for sure. Just ask when you go in to be sure.

Just bring a measuring cup with you to bulk barn. People do this all the time, they don't mind and this way you can purchase only what you need.

You can also check out the weight of the dry goods you'll need and just weigh the product on the scales to make sure you've got enough. This is what I do when I know I need just a bit of something :)

I have a little chart that sits inside my cupboard (don't remember where I got it), but here's a similar guide online
http://allrecipes.com/howto/cup-to-gram-conversions/

What are you baking?

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Originally Posted by hollyquaiscer

Just bring a measuring cup with you to bulk barn. People do this all the time, they don't mind and this way you can purchase only what you need.

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Great idea I can't believe I never thought of that -- I get home sometimes and have either way to much of an ingredient or way too little!

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Originally Posted by glowworm2k

You can also check out the weight of the dry goods you'll need and just weigh the product on the scales to make sure you've got enough. This is what I do when I know I need just a bit of something :)

I have a little chart that sits inside my cupboard (don't remember where I got it), but here's a similar guide online
http://allrecipes.com/howto/cup-to-gram-conversions/

What are you baking?

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Homemade bits and bites. We ended up getting the stuff at Giant Tiger, because we also needed bread and tomatoes, which we couldn't (sadly) but at Bulk Barn.
Imagine if they sold fruit and vegis? :shock:

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Originally Posted by hollyquaiscer

Just bring a measuring cup with you to bulk barn. People do this all the time, they don't mind and this way you can purchase only what you need.

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I told my Mom I would do that, but she said they didn't like it, for sanitary purposes.
(Yet the hands of people snacking are totally safe, though)
Oh well :lol:

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I wish we had a bulk food store in our small town.

i often refer to it as the fecal barn...everyone with their dirty hands picking stuff out of containers...blech

I guess we're lucky here...I've never witnessed anyone using their hands or sneaking snacks out of the bins. And there are enough staff around that I don't think they could be sneayk about it. And it's immaculately clean there.

As for using a measuring cup...

THANK YOU for clearing that up by saying you put a bag into it first!
Our grandson has a peanut allergy and the thought that someone may measure peanuts before anything
else nearly set me catatonic for a minute there!! Good idea, btw! :)...with the bag!

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I have a couple measuring charts i have bookmarked too that i refer to quite often. They are:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking...surements.html

and

http://www.calculateme.com/index.htm

I never put my cup into a bin, thats just not right. I take the scoop and fill my cup up with that, the cup of coarse in over my bag, when the bits start falling out of my cup and into my bag, I know I have the sufficient amount. I can't purchase anything for myself there due to my celiac disease, but I often get things for my family.

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Originally Posted by lecale

Yeah I think the Bulk Barn is pretty rigorous about hygiene but I did see a man in his 50's in Zehrs digging through the jelly beans for a certain colour with his bare hands. I mean he was really in there digging with both hands lol!!! Bulk Barn would have thrown him to the curb.

Bulk Barn has signs up to say don't exchange the scoops between the bins because of allergens. So geez never put your measuring cup in the bins. Always use a bag "condom" lol.

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Bag condom, love it! :lol:

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Originally Posted by scbpooh

I have a couple measuring charts i have bookmarked too that i refer to quite often. They are:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking...surements.html

and

http://www.calculateme.com/index.htm

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Thank yoou! :)

Um this does sound like a BRILLIANT idea, but I wouldn't suggest anyone do that and here is why. As someone with SEVERE food allergies there is a risk for cross contamination. Sure I would hope that someone would bring a CLEAN measuring cup with them but the next person to use the same bin could be allergic to an ingredient that was used in the detergent the last person used to wash their cup with.

Also, if someone made peanut butter cookies and doesn't wash their dishes properly and decides to take their measuring cup to Bulk Barn and stick it in the bin with chocolate chips it could be very dangerous for the next person. Just something to keep in mind.

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Originally Posted by hollyquaiscer

Just bring a measuring cup with you to bulk barn. People do this all the time, they don't mind and this way you can purchase only what you need.

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Hi, Tara!!
Hon, I think that's why they suggested, and do use, one of those plastic bags BB has, and they slip that into the cup, so that whatever they're measuring only touches the bag, and never comes in direct contact with anyone's cup.
I don't know how that would work with ingredients such as peanut butter and other liquids, but I imagine that most people are talking about dry ingredients...
But yes, the repercussions of using a cup and dipping directly into a bin can be fatal.