One quart of dried navy beans typically weighs about 1.5 to 2 pounds. The exact weight can vary slightly depending on the specific type and brand of beans, but this range is a good estimate for dried navy beans.
A quart of green butter beans typically weighs around 1 to 1.5 pounds. The exact weight can vary slightly depending on how tightly the beans are packed and their moisture content. Generally, for fresh or frozen beans, this range is a good estimate.
To serve pinto beans as a side dish for 400 people, you typically need about 1/4 to 1/3 cup of cooked beans per person. This translates to approximately 1/8 to 1/6 cup of dried beans per person, which is about 50-67 pounds of dried pinto beans in total, considering that dried beans roughly triple in weight when cooked. Therefore, you should plan for around 60 pounds of dried pinto beans to adequately feed 400 people as a side dish.
it wound depend on what type of beans they are ...
A quart of water weighs approximately 2.086 pounds.
There are approx 860 beans.
A typical can of beans contains about 1.5 to 2 cups of dried beans, which is roughly equivalent to 10 to 12 ounces.
There are 16 ounces in a pound. If 16 dried beans weigh 1 ounce, then to find out how many beans weigh 1 pound, you would multiply the number of beans in an ounce by the number of ounces in a pound: 16 beans/ounce × 16 ounces = 256 beans. Therefore, 256 dried beans weigh 1 pound.
About 125 pounds of beans
By raw, I'm assuming you mean dried beans. Since beans about double, you'll get about 2 pounds of cooked beans from 1 pound of dry. A normal serving of vegetables is 1/2 cup but if you want to be generous plan for 1 cup. That means you'll need to end up with 325 cups or 20 pounds of beans. So start with 10 pounds of dry beans.
Five pounds four persons per pound for regular serving.
To determine how many pounds of pinto beans you need to serve 75 people, you first need to calculate the serving size per person. A typical serving of cooked pinto beans is about 1/2 cup. With 75 people, you would need approximately 37.5 cups of cooked beans. One pound of dried pinto beans yields about 6 cups when cooked, so you would need roughly 6.25 pounds of dried pinto beans to serve 75 people.
Approx 460 beans.