Well honey, if you're cooking up a storm for 50 hungry folks, you'll need about 8-10 pounds of dried pinto beans to make sure everyone gets their fill. So grab those beans, soak 'em overnight, and get ready to serve up a delicious feast that'll have everyone coming back for seconds!
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.
About 125 pounds of beans
Assuming a serving size of 1/2 cup cooked pinto beans per person, a pound of dry pinto beans yields about 6 cups of cooked beans. Therefore, 2 pounds of dry pinto beans would yield approximately 12 cups of cooked beans. With each person consuming about 1/2 cup, 2 pounds of dry pinto beans could feed around 24 people.
Each pound bag of dry pinto beans contains about 12 (½ cup) servings after cooking. Eight pounds of pinto beans will therefore serve 96 people.
Well honey, 5 pounds of dry pinto beans will feed roughly 25-30 people as a side dish, depending on how hungry they are and what else is on the menu. Just make sure to soak and cook those beans properly, unless you want your guests to experience a musical symphony later on.
On average, a pound of dry pinto beans can yield about 6-8 servings when cooked. To feed 150 people, you would need approximately 19-25 pounds of dry pinto beans. This calculation is based on each person receiving a serving size of cooked beans.
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.
six pounds of dry beans
2000 pounds of anything, including beans, is a US ton (short ton).
To determine the amount of pinto beans needed for 100 people, we must consider the typical serving size and the weight of a pound of pinto beans. A standard serving size of cooked pinto beans is around 1/2 cup, and a pound of dried pinto beans yields about 6 cups when cooked. Therefore, for 100 people, assuming each person consumes one serving, you would need approximately 17 pounds of dried pinto beans (100 servings ÷ 6 cups per pound).
Approximately 7.5 pounds
Five pounds four persons per pound for regular serving.