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One cup per serving

Riccardo91

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Italian
Dear English forum,

I'm struggling to grasp the meaning of the following sentence, taken from a movie. A girl is moving to her friends' home, and she's being showed the house.

Blender is over here. It comes one cup per serving. So, you can just put your slurry in there and whack it in the machine when it's done!

What does "one cup per serving" mean? Is this related to the following sentence (the "so" seems to suggests this)? The last sentence should mean "put your slurry (=ingredients) in the blender, and when it's ready you can start to whack it in the machine", but I don't see the connection.

Thank you!
The machine makes 1 cup, i.e. 8 oz, i.e. 236.6 ml servings (portions).
There are probably markers on the blender somewhere - perhaps on the container in which the ingredients are placed for blending - indicating one serving, two servings and so on. The person showing the other one around is telling her that each "serving" indicated in this way is one cup, or 236.6 ml. (While this is the metric equivalent of one cup, I doubt the markings are so precise, or can be hit so exactly, as to justify this precision. I'd say "around 240 ml" or even "a bit under a quarter of a liter.")
(While this is the metric equivalent of one cup, I doubt the markings are so precise, or can be hit so exactly, as to justify this precision. I'd say "around 240 ml" or even "a bit under a quarter of a liter.")
If I'd said 235 or 236, someone would have posted "It's 236.59!" There's no way to win around here.
This "cup" business is particularly American, where "a cup" has a fixed volume. The rest of the world has discovered the metric system.

Other English speakers would nevertheless understand that a cup of whatever (soup? liquidized meal? sauce? smoothy?....) is one serving, i.e. enough for one person.
Thank you so much! I reason with the metric system myself, and it was hard for me to get it!
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