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by dheera 1994 days ago
First time user. Failed on me.

    You have: 25 C
    You want: K
    conformability error
        25 A s
        1 K

    You have: 1 cup flour
    Unknown unit 'flour'
I think I'll stick with Google.
1 comments

Well, flour isn't a unit...
It's relevant information if you're converting to mass, which was probably the intention. Google will return the correct result for "mass 1 cup flour", by comparison.
There is no correct way to turn "1 cup flour" into a mass. For one thing, you can fit more into the same volume by compressing. But more importantly, the material is ambiguous. There are many different kinds of flour with varying physical properties.
Neither is cup...