What does a medium parsnip weigh?

[prasantrin]

Living in Japan, I find it difficult to use recipes that call for "5 medium parsnips" or "5 large apples" or "1 squash". What's medium in Japan is not necessarily medium elsewhere, so I often find that when I use what I think is the right size, I get either much more or much less than I should have.

Does anyone know of a chart that gives average weights for produce? For example, it's easy to find that in the US, a large egg is about 52 grams (that's a medium egg in Japan, by the way). How about a medium carrot?

Also helpful, is a chart that says, for example, 1 medium apple, grated=1 cup. I'm sure it must exist out there, but my googling skills seem to be failing me in this area.

[Steven Blaski]

Living in Japan, I find it difficult to use recipes that call for "5 medium parsnips" or "5 large apples" or "1 squash".  What's medium in Japan is not necessarily medium elsewhere, so I often find that when I use what I think is the right size, I get either much more or much less than I should have. 

Does anyone know of a chart that gives average weights for produce?  For example, it's easy to find that in the US, a large egg is about 52 grams (that's a medium egg in Japan, by the way).  How about a medium carrot? 

Also helpful, is a chart that says, for example, 1 medium apple, grated=1 cup.  I'm sure it must exist out there, but my googling skills seem to be failing me in this area.

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Here's a chart that contains a lot of information:

Ingredients Equivalents

[prasantrin]

Here's a chart that contains a lot of information:

Ingredients Equivalents

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Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for! You're my favourite Steven Blaski in the world!

[rooftop1000]

I have been looking for the flour/sugar part of that since my school papers disapeared a decade ago

tracey

[Steven Blaski]

Here's a chart that contains a lot of information:

Ingredients Equivalents

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Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for! You're my favourite Steven Blaski in the world!

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You're very welcome!

[fifi]

Brilliant! I have been looking for that my whole life. (Well . . . maybe not the whole thing.)

That kind of thing drives me nuts. We get enough variation even when you aren't crossing borders. I am not perfect in writing my recipes but I have taken to trying to convert that "medium" onion to a quantity measurement when I can. I mean, I know what the onion quantity should look like so I am trying to discipline myself to go ahead and measure it so the user of the recipe will know.

Prasantrin . . . Your large eggs must be whoppers.