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muttley posted a link to this place a while ago: http://www.foodsubs.com/ Now I have been trying to work out equivalencies between fresh and frozen spinach. That site has a page http://www.foodsubs.com/Greenckg.html which says that "One pound fresh = 1 cup cooked = 5 ounces frozen". Hmm, says I, that doesn't sound quite right. So I did an experiment. I cooked 125g of fresh spinach (that was all I had) in just the water clinging to the leaves, until it was roughly of the consistency of thawed frozen spinach. Then squeezed out excess water from the cooked leaves and weighed it again - just over 100g. I compared its size with two blocks (100g) of frozen spinach, yup, looked quite similar. That is kind of rough eyeballing and quite a small sample, but usually when I am cooking a recipe of any decent size I just substitute equal weights of fresh for frozen spinach and all seems happy. Now foodsubs is saying 1lb (450g) fresh = 5oz (150g) frozen, ie 3:1 ratio. And my experiment and experience are saying 125g fresh = 100g frozen, ie 5:4 ratio. Quite a difference. Can anyone explain this please? Kake
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