Hi all…
I have a recipe that calls for a seven-pound pumpkin. The pumpkin was picked from my garden, and I don’t have a kitchen scale sitting around. :rolleyes: Does anyone have any idea how many cups of cut-up pumpkin would equal a pound? A cup of cooked (squashed-down) pumpkin is one pound, but this pumpkin won’t be pureed/mashed in the way that it would be for pumpkin pie, just cut up. Nobody seems to have the answer for this one… but there are so many geniuses here… 
Get on your bathroom scale with the pumpkin and again without. Subtract. That’s the weight of the pumpkin. I do not know how many cups one pumpkin cut up becomes, though.
What are you making with the pumpkin?
I would get two smaller “sugar pie” pumpkins as they generally have better flavor and are less stringy than the larger pumpkins.
The recipe calling for a 7-lb pumpkin is tough because density is an issue in pumpkin weight. This is strictly a WAG on my part, but I think you would get 5 cups of cut-up flesh from a 7-lb pumpkin.
Then you also run into production issues, here in CT it was a sodding wet summer, and all the damned pumpkins we have cooked so far have been watery and tasteless, to the point where we are just buying canned pumpkin now. [lazy, it is generally a different type of squash and sometimes squash mixed with sweet potato. I am too lazy to do it myself. Bleargh.:(]
Hope the pumpkins you can get are better than our local ones. 
Clearly a question to be posted in our food section, Cafe Society. Moved from GQ.
samclem, Moderator
Sorry to hear it aruvqan. If you have to go for canned pumpkin, I recommend getting Farmer’s Market brand. It’s just pumpkin and it tastes like it.