random - 1 lb of ground beef without a scale?

[mabjustmab]

I picked up a large package of ground beef from costco a while ago and portioned it out and froze it. now I have a recipe that calls for 1 pound.

how do I figure out a pound of ground beef without a scale? what does one pound look like?

ya, completely random.

Comments

[shekb.livejournal.com]

Don't suppose you remember how much beef was in the package to begin with...

[mabjustmab.livejournal.com]

naw, that would be too easy.
I just portioned them in clumps that fit into the bags I had.

[shekb.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're fucked!

[mabjustmab.livejournal.com]

by ground beef? naw, I think there is some way to tell by volume.

1 lb of ground beef is about the size of ________ .

I just need to fill in the blank.

[shekb.livejournal.com]

"A small package of beef in the grocery store." Those are all about a pound.

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

suggestion: walk into a grocery store with your complete chunk of ground beef, use their grocery scale to see how much the whole thing weighs and go home to do the math.

[mabjustmab.livejournal.com]

hehe. :-) I love that image. might be good for a movie.

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

it works best if you are wearing a bathrobe and smoking a cigarette while you are doing it.

[mabjustmab.livejournal.com]

and curlers.

:-)


hell.

ya.


grab your camera....let's do this!

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

i was actually really tempted to go to the steampunk dimension travellers visit the museum thing the other week with a camera and a rough storyline, just to see if the participants would be interested in posing for a comic.

i really need to stop coming up with random ideas. i really need to finish some of the stuff i've got on my plate right now.

[jaaron.livejournal.com]

Well according to the interwebs, ground beef has a density around 950 kg/m^3 which is = 59.3065625 lbs/ft^3 means that 1 pound of beef is roughly 1/59 cubic feet or a little more than 2 cups

[mabjustmab.livejournal.com]

yea! perfect! thank you.

*jou shmart guy

[mankoeponymous.livejournal.com]

Or...do ya have a pound of something else handy to compare it to?

Oh, and here's this:

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm

...and your pound of beef is about 1200 calories.

[mabjustmab.livejournal.com]

heh, good idea.

and um, I don't plan to eat the whole pound at the same time. it's part of the recipe. ;-)

so, um, in the week it will take to eat it.....

[mankoeponymous.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it wasn't meant as a "good god you're not really gonna EAT that are you?" but just, y'know, I think that's a really cool visual page.

[tiggermistyv.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you've solved your pound of beef problem by now, but for future reference...

If you have a regular scale that you use to weigh yourself on, weigh yourself holding an empty bowl. Make note of the weight (remember that at least 30 lbs are the bowl, I'm sure). Weigh yourself holding the same bowl with some of the meat in it. Add and remove meat until you're about a pound heavier.

And in the future, when you buy bulk ground meat, freeze it in packages about a pound each (since most recipes call for 1 or 2 lbs of meat). Don't you remember having to do this for mom whenever it was grocery day? I sure do. She would buy the best ground beef and some of the cheapest, then do 1/2 lb of each in a ziploc to freeze. I remember asking her how I was supposed to know how much a pound is and she said "Misty, just estimate it. It doesn't have to be perfect.". I'm such a geek. :-)

[mabjustmab.livejournal.com]

I thought about the scale thing,but I don't have one at all.

and I usually portion my meat like that. (I remember doing it as a kid). but I the last time i packed them I had to rush. I think I packaged them in 1/2 lb increments. not sure. cannot remember. and no scale to check. thus the problem.

[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

Too late, I'm sure, but:
Make a patty that looks about like a quarter pounder patty.
Repeat four times.
Most recipes calling for a pound of beef won't be ruined by a few ounces one way or the other.