The actual weight of different types of produce
You have surely come across recipes that would call for either 1/2 cup of sliced green onions or one cup of chopped green onions. It’s not always very clear how many green onions will fit in a cup. This is why as we’ve already done in the past, we took it upon ourselves to do …
How much Sliced Green Onions, With or Without Tops, are in a Bunch? Read More »
There are a few different recipes calling for the usage of butternut squash but a lot of people have a really hard time figuring out how much squash to purchase, especially if they are newbies. For example, some recipes of soup will call for mashed squash, while others will require either two cups of cooked …
How Many Cups, Cubes or Pureed Sauce in a Butternut Squash? Read More »
Most recipes you will stumble upon will either can for blackberries in ounces (so by weight) or in cups (so by volume), but what do these actually mean in the end? How many blackberries will you actually find in a pound or a cup? As we did for so many products before, we took it …
You might have stumbled upon recipes that call for a bunch of cilantro, but a lot of people don’t know how much cilantro will fit in a bunch. And truth be told, for someone that isn’t an experienced chef, this information might be hard to find. The term “bunch” means different sizes depending on the …
How Much is a Bunch of Cilantro, Chopped or Packed? Read More »
A lot of people have a really hard time figuring out how much cheese they’d need for a recipe or another. They find it really hard to understand how much cheese to buy when the recipe calls for either a cup of cubbed cheese or a cup of shredded cheese. In the end, it will …
How Much Shredded or Cubed Cheese is in a Pound? Read More »
It happens very often for people to start working around a complicated recipe and end up at some point not knowing how much of an ingredient or another to purchase. In the case of blueberries, you’ll have some recipes calling for a certain weight, say for example 5 ounces, and other recipes that would require …
You’ve probably had recipes that called for the use of cabbage and ended up asking yourself how many cabbage heads are in a cup or how many cups you’ll get from a certain quantity of cabbage. We took it on us to make things easier for you when cooking, so we did the experiments that …
Did you ever wonder how many eggs do you actually need when a recipe will call for just one cup of egg whites for example? How many eggs can you actually fit in a cup of egg whites? This is just one question about eggs that we tackle in this article. You can usually use …
It happened to all of us: To find a new recipe but not know how much or how many of each ingredient you should buy from the store and use. Some recipes will call for “the kernels from two ears of corn” while others will require you to use “1 cup of corn kernels”. This …
You might have stumbled upon recipes that talk about “half a cup of sliced celery” or one whole cup of chopped celery”, but many celery stalks would you need to actually fill a cup? To help you understand how much celery you will actually have to buy, we did some experiments and found the exact …
How much Chopped or Sliced Celery in a Celery Stalk? Read More »
