How to meaure ⅚ cup of oil, part IV

My, it's amazing how a topic I wrote about twenty years ago [1] has been popular over the past few [2] years [3]. I just received an email from Jason Arencibia about an even easier method of measuring out ⅚ cup of oil:

From: Jason Arencibia
To: sean@conman.org
Subject: How to measure ⅚ cup of oil, super easy with 2 measuring cups.
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:23:53 -0700
> ½ cup + ⅓ cup = ⅚ cup 0.83333333333 of a cup.
https://boston.conman.org/2024/05/11.1 [4]

And in all the years I've looked over recipes that use Imperial measurements, not one has ever used a sixth cup, or any multiple of a sixth cup. It just doesn't exist in the Imperial system!

[1] /boston/2004/01/21.1

[2] /boston/2019/02/20.1

[3] /boston/2024/05/11.1

[4] /boston/2024/05/11.1

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