Maureen Urlaub
Assistant Cook
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When a recipe calls for l.5# cubed potatoes, how many cups are needed?
Adillo - I think the OP meant 1-1/2 (aka 1.5) pounds of cubed potatoes - not one 5# bag of potatoes.
Anyway, what I do for a recipe like this - since I don't have a digital scale - is to buy a bag of potatoes containing taters of pretty much the same size. I then count the potatoes & divide by the weight of the whole bag. It's then easy to basically figure out how many potatoes make the weight I need for the recipe.
And really - how many potato recipes are there where you need a spot-on direct hit re: weight?
You were being silly, GW?
For the heck of it I googled: 1.5 lbs of potatoes = ? cups, and you know what I got?
A page saying there wasn't an answer to that question.
I thought maybe you were onto something
Do you have a digital scale? That would be the best way, but not sure how many cups that would be. Maybe 3?
Oh for God's sake - just estimate it!!!!!
If I had to go thru all the rigamarole the rest of you are imposing I'd give up cooking all together in a heartbeat. Why do you have to make this so utterly confusing & complicated?? We're talking about what amounts to 2 or 3 medium-size potatoes!!!!!!
Get a large measuring jug, one that will allow you to measure say 6 cups.
Fill with water upto the 2 cup line.
Then start putting in your cubed potato until the water comes upto the 4 cup line.
You will then have exactly 2 cups of potatoes measured.
Adjust measuring system as needed...ie you need enough water to cover all of the potatoes as any not covered in water will give a false reading.