The large carrot used in the recipe was equivalent to 2 cups, when chopped.
If your carrots are are bigger or smaller adjust number of carrots to give 2 cups.
Not all carrots are the same, one person’s large carrot may be another’s medium or huge. The size of the carrot itself isn’t important, the 2 cups the important part.
Rare_Following_8279
It just means a little more carrot than onion, and the same amount of celery. Make a mirepoix. It doesn’t really matter unless you go way off in one direction
AddyTurbo
I think it means one large carrot. I would ignore the part about equaling 2 cups.
skeevy-stevie
Crazy responses so far lol
One carrot, two cups, that’s a big ass carrot.
StinkyEttin
Someone is shopping at their Asian market where a carrot is a foot long and half an ass wide.
roastedbroccoli7
I have carrots from the Asian market that are ~1/2 pound each. Absolute units
throwaway3113151
I would consider that a “jumbo” carrot.
AtuinTurtle
Some carrots are really big.
Amdiz
Well if you “chop” the carrot in baton strips it could equal two cups.
Examinator2
It doesn’t matter. Add as much carrot as you like.
thedonnabee
That’s what I lovingly call a “horse carrot”
SheogorathTheSane
Interesting, I buy those big bags of carrots at Costco and 1 can be 2 cups easily. They are big
BigJack1212
Google tells me a large carrot weighs about 72 grams.
Google also tells me 2 cups of carrots’ equal to 300g.
Damn, those must be some XXXXL carrots.
BlackHorseTuxedo
This is why, when cook from a recipe, or document my own, I weigh everything in grams. If I like a recipe enough to try it, I make a digital copy of it and do all the conversions along the way. This lets me accurately reproduce the next time and anything I didn’t like in the original, I’ll document the improvements.
In fact some normally volume measurements are way easier when converted to grams. If I have a few ingredients going into a bowl, I place the empty bowl on the scale, press tare and measure the first ingredient. Press tare again and add the 2nd ingredient and so on. So much more accurate and way cleaner prep.
kitchen scale – metric metric metric 100%
ghidfg
it says chopped large. larger pieces of carrot take up more volume than finely diced. so yeah I would just go with a large carrot cut into big pieces and ignore the cup measurement.
knuF
Do you carrot all?
Atom_Baums86
The amount of carrot doesn’t really matter
Galoptious
I’m not sure I’ve made one Serious Eats recipe with produce that didn’t state a ridiculously low amount of veggies to get the yield they want. I think the biggest differential I’ve had was 6-8 times more.
It would be about that much right? This is just sure thing throw more or less in, cook out water, add more acid, make what you like!
strcrssd
Serious eats really needs to standardize their recipes on volume for liquids and mass (g, mg) for solids. They claim to be serious, but don’t provide reproducible recipes sometimes.
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The large carrot used in the recipe was equivalent to 2 cups, when chopped.
If your carrots are are bigger or smaller adjust number of carrots to give 2 cups.
Not all carrots are the same, one person’s large carrot may be another’s medium or huge. The size of the carrot itself isn’t important, the 2 cups the important part.
It just means a little more carrot than onion, and the same amount of celery. Make a mirepoix. It doesn’t really matter unless you go way off in one direction
I think it means one large carrot. I would ignore the part about equaling 2 cups.
Crazy responses so far lol
One carrot, two cups, that’s a big ass carrot.
Someone is shopping at their Asian market where a carrot is a foot long and half an ass wide.
I have carrots from the Asian market that are ~1/2 pound each. Absolute units
I would consider that a “jumbo” carrot.
Some carrots are really big.
Well if you “chop” the carrot in baton strips it could equal two cups.
It doesn’t matter. Add as much carrot as you like.
That’s what I lovingly call a “horse carrot”
Interesting, I buy those big bags of carrots at Costco and 1 can be 2 cups easily. They are big
Google tells me a large carrot weighs about 72 grams.
Google also tells me 2 cups of carrots’ equal to 300g.
Damn, those must be some XXXXL carrots.
This is why, when cook from a recipe, or document my own, I weigh everything in grams. If I like a recipe enough to try it, I make a digital copy of it and do all the conversions along the way. This lets me accurately reproduce the next time and anything I didn’t like in the original, I’ll document the improvements.
In fact some normally volume measurements are way easier when converted to grams. If I have a few ingredients going into a bowl, I place the empty bowl on the scale, press tare and measure the first ingredient. Press tare again and add the 2nd ingredient and so on. So much more accurate and way cleaner prep.
kitchen scale – metric metric metric 100%
it says chopped large. larger pieces of carrot take up more volume than finely diced. so yeah I would just go with a large carrot cut into big pieces and ignore the cup measurement.
Do you carrot all?
The amount of carrot doesn’t really matter
I’m not sure I’ve made one Serious Eats recipe with produce that didn’t state a ridiculously low amount of veggies to get the yield they want. I think the biggest differential I’ve had was 6-8 times more.
https://imgur.com/a/lYKvs3a
I present a 2 cup carrot. 🍌 for scale.
It would be about that much right? This is just sure thing throw more or less in, cook out water, add more acid, make what you like!
Serious eats really needs to standardize their recipes on volume for liquids and mass (g, mg) for solids. They claim to be serious, but don’t provide reproducible recipes sometimes.