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Steel-cut oats
A kind of oatmeal · also called Irish oatmeal, pinhead oats, coarse oatmeal
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Whole oat groats chopped into dense, pinhead-sized pieces that pack much tighter into a cup than rolled oats.
Steel-cut oats have a bulk density of about 47 pounds per cubic foot (0.75 grams per milliliter), making them substantially denser than rolled oats. Because the oat groats are chopped into small bits rather than steamed and rolled flat, they settle with very little empty space between them. A one-pound (454-gram) bag takes up about 2.6 US cups (605 milliliters) of space. This compact structure makes a dry cup of steel-cut oats almost twice as heavy as the same volume of rolled oat flakes.
From Wikipedia
Steel-cut oats (US), also called pinhead oats, coarse oatmeal (UK), or Irish oatmeal, are groats of whole oats which have been chopped into two or three pinhead-sized pieces. The pieces can then be sold, or processed further to make rolled oat flakes, of smaller size than flakes of whole groats.
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- How much does a cup of steel-cut oats weigh?
- One US cup of steel-cut oats weighs about 6.2 ounces (177 grams). This is roughly equal to the weight of a standard hockey puck.
One cup weighs
6.26 oz (177 g)
- One tablespoon
- 0.391 oz (11.1 g)
- One teaspoon
- 0.13 oz (3.7 g)
- Density
- 0.75 g/mL
Quick answer
One US cup of steel-cut oats weighs about 6.2 ounces (177 grams). This is roughly equal to the weight of a standard hockey puck.
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