How much is in "a can"?
Posted by yabbitgirl on Jan 26, 2010 · Member since Apr 2006 · 14266 posts
Excuse my ignorance, but how much is "a can of chickpeas" in cups? I usually boil my own. Or buy them cooked in jars that hold a good 3 cups.
I want to try Ungreen's Chickpea Scramble but I have no idea how big her can was.
Wish people would say "2 cups" or whatever...then foreigners would know.
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1 can is 15 ozs, so 2 cups would be 16 ozs. A little under 2 cups. 2 cups would be fine.
The standard substitution in 1 3/4 cups - so "a little under 2 cups" is a good estimate. I usually round off to 2 cups for beans when I use homemade.
That's one of the problems for Vegwebbers who don't live in the continental US...so many of your products simply don't exist in the rest of the world. Or if they do they cost too much to be practical (aside from the whole carbon footprint thing, as well). Some of the older recipes are more "branded."
In the US the can sizes used to be "numbered" so a "number 10 can" was one standard size. I think the smaller the number the larger the can--but I'm not sure. Even that would help.
THAT. I remember giving someone a copy of The Joy of Cooking to put in a library and she kept it. I wanted to share with the community, because it was the edition that told you how to do things! Granted, I doubt anyone pits cherries using an old pen nib these days (how many people know what a "pen nib" is, let alone have an old one hanging around the house to pit cherries with?) but there was a lot of good info.
What got me was, she told me she had kept it, like I'd think that was fine. She was the librarian. I always wondered if she used the book-buying funds for her own expenses.
I live in the continental US and have the same problem, so don't feel bad. Things come in so many sizes. I actually looked up this very question today to sub dry beans for canned ones.
I personally dislike branded recipes, because I live in a very rural area and can't find a lot of those ingredients unless I want to dry 2 to 3 hours away. I don't mind them so much here, but I have purchased some cookbooks that I can use due to lack of ingredients. I'm not much on processed foods anyways though. If I wanted to use a bunch of meat/dairy analogs, I would just use a regular cookbook and not go out of my way to order vegan ones.