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Standard Can Sizes

Source of Recipe

A little of every where.


Recipe Introduction

The tin can size was based on the volume it could contain and the weight of that volume of water. Water weighs a little more than 8 pounds per gallon.

List of Ingredients

Can Sizes and Equivalents

Many recipes specify a can size rather than a volume amount. This chart will also come in handy to determine how much to buy.


Recipe

Can Sizes Weight Volume

8 ounces- 8 ounces- 1 cup
Picnic- 11 to 12 oz.- 1-1/4 cups
12 ounces vacuum- 12 oz.- 1-1/2 cups
#1- 11 oz.- 1-1/3 cup
#1 tall- 16 oz.- 2 cups
#1 square- 16 oz.- 2 cups
#2- 1 pound 4 oz / 20 oz.- 2-1/2 cups
#2-1/2- 1 lb. 13 oz. / 28 oz- 3-1/2 cups
#2-1/2 square- 31 oz.- scant 4 cups
#3- 33 oz.- 4 cups
#3 squat- 2-3/4 cups
#5- 59 oz.- 7 cups
#10- 109 oz.- 13 cups
#211 can- 12 oz.- 1 1/2 cups
#300- 14 to 16 oz.(15 oz.)- 1-3/4 cups
#303- 16 to 17 oz.- 2 cups
Baby food jar- 3-1/2 to 8 oz- Depends on size
Condensed milk- 15 ounces- 1-1/3 cups
Evaporated milk- 6 ounces- 2/3 cup
Evaporated milk 14-1/2 ounces- 1-2/3 cups
Frzn juice concentrate- 6 ounces- 3/4 cup