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3 Pounds Of Apples Equals How Many Cups

Your apple tree pie recipe calls for "3 pounds apples, peeled, cored and sliced."

Just what if you take a bagful of apples, the result of your apple tree-picking expedition to the orchard, and desire to prepare the equivalent of "iii pounds apples, peeled, cored and sliced" – without a scale?

Or the apple well-baked recipe says, "vi cups chopped apples." You're on your mode to the store – how many apples practice you lot demand to buy to end up with 6 chopped cups?

How do yous translate the book or weight of whole apples to that of prepared apples ahead of time – before you really peel, core, chop or slice, and mensurate?

Here's how –

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Spoiler alert – if yous don't find research and math interesting, and want "just the facts, ma'am" - scroll to the bottom line at the terminate of this post.

You lose about 30% of an apple, past weight, when you peel and cadre it. This will vary somewhat, of class, depending on apple variety and juiciness; this isn't exact science. Merely information technology'south a place to start.

A cup of chopped/sliced apples (again, this will vary slightly with apple tree multifariousness/freshness and size of dice/slice) weighs virtually three 1/2 ounces.

Notice I say About 3 ane/2 ounces; plainly, the way you slice them, as well as the flavour (winter-storage apples weigh less than fresh apples) volition make a difference. Don't stress if your cup of apples weighs 3 ounces, or 4 ounces, OK?

Allow's outset with a pound of apples. They lose nearly a 3rd of their weight once they're prepared. (My fellow test baker and trained chef, Susan Reid, points out that if I were a chef, I'd say that the "yield %" of apples is nearly 65%. Thanks, Susan!) And so that original pound of apples becomes a generous x ounces of peeled, cored, chopped/sliced apples. Since a loving cup of prepared apples weighs virtually three 1/2 ounces, 1 pound of whole apples translates to about 3 cups of prepared apples.

OK, now let'southward get-go with a recipe calling for eight cups sliced apples. A pound of apples will yield 3 cups; so for 8 cups prepared apples, you'll need about ii 2/3 pounds whole apples (make information technology 2 iii/4 pounds, if y'all're at the supermarket weighing).

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I tried this math with different sizes of apples; large apples yield slightly more prepared apples per pound than modest apples.

Which makes sense – the size of the apple core or skin doesn't modify much from pocket-size apple to large apple; so large apples yield slightly more "usable parts."

1 more than thing. Does a cup of sliced apples weigh the same as a loving cup of chopped apples?

Depends on the size of the piece/size of the dice... but yep, basically they counterbalance the same.

Bottom line: if yous remember zippo else, stash this in your retention banking concern – a pound of whole apples will yield about 3 cups prepared apples.

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Starting at that place, you tin do the easy math to figure out only how many apples y'all need for that bluish ribbon apple pie!

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