Cooking may seem easy. After all, your mom does it all the time, several times in a day. But try stirring the sauce in the pan and frying the meat and you will soon find out that there is more to cooking than meets the eye.
Cooking is actually quite hard not because it is an arduous task but because it is an exact science. This means that you cannot just put any ingredients you want in any amount. In order to arrive at the taste that you want for you dish, you need the exact amount of ingredients, from the number of veggies that you include to the number of times you load the salt. A little more than what you should be putting can be disastrous to the taste palate. This is especially true with flavorings like salt, sugar, and other spices.
This is why measuring the ingredients is an important part of the cooking process. Without knowing how to measure the ingredients right, you cannot make a perfectly tasting dish, unless of course you have that natural gift and instinct for cooking that you can just put anything you want and still arrive at an unusually flavorful dish.
Measuring cups are there to help any novice in cooking. And of course, there are the...