On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 12:00:34 PM UTC-5, Lenona wrote:
> I made about a gallon of spaghetti sauce last night and I'd say it tasted very good. Just the right amount of pepper, for one thing.
>
> The recipe called for 18 tomatoes. I only had cans of diced and crushed tomatoes.
>
> Here's the weird part. When I googled, it said that there are two large or three medium tomatoes per pound, which certainly sounds right. But...when I asked how many tomatoes are in a 28-oz. CAN, it said...TEN tomatoes!

Let's approach this another way. It doesn't matter how many tomatoes
are in a can.

Suppose the recipe calls for medium tomatoes (it didn't specify).
18 tomatoes would be 6 pounds. 6 pounds is 108 ounces.
108/28 is around 4.

Canned tomatoes typically contain added juice or puree, so 4 cans might
be too many (as you discovered).

Life is a story problem.

Cindy Hamilton