Making a salad tonight and have to swing by the grocery store or farm stand in a hurry? Well, if you’re looking to pick up a pound of tomatoes without relying on a scale, here’s how to do it.
Educate Your Eye: 1 Pound of Tomatoes
One pound of tomatoes equates to three tomatoes roughly the size of a baseball. Each tomato should fit comfortably in the palm of your hand. When you’re sizing up the weight of fruits and vegetables by sight, it’s helpful to buy all the same size, so look for three tomatoes that fit this description and you’ll have about one pound.
Educate Your Eye
Our eyes are one of our greatest, most useful tools in the kitchen. They can help us size up everything from the weight of vegetables to the doneness of meat. Educate Your Eye is a series on Kitchn that teaches you what you need to know to use your eyes for smarter cooking both inside and outside the kitchen.
Florida tomatoes are packed in 10, 20 and 25-pound boxes, but the 25-pound box is by far the most common size ordered in foodservice. The quantity of tomatoes found in a box will vary depending on the size of the tomatoes.
A beef tomato (British English) or beefsteak tomato (American English) is a large tomato. Grown on the plant Solanum lycopersicum, it is one of the largest varieties of cultivated tomatoes, regularly at 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter with some weighing 450 g (1 lb) or more.
My recipe calls for 4 cups of chopped Roma tomatoes; how many individual tomatoes should I buy? In my experience, depending on the size of the tomato, Romas usually yield between half a cup and a cup. I would buy 6-8 for some wiggle room.
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