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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Half Hour)
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.
Question:
What would be a rule of thumb measurement wise for a small, medium or a large onion?
— Mary Margevicius
Answer:
For a medium onion, I would typically say about a half a cup, um, for a small and a medium cup being about a cup and maybe a large being a cup and a half. Um, you know, that's probably my, you know, interpretation of that and it's probably a little hard that I'd go on each one of those. But those would be the measurements I would go off of. It's a half a cup for a small, uh, one cup for, um, just a regular onion and about a cup and a half for a larger onion. Now of course, onions can get smaller and larger than those proportions, but that's typically on base if you're writing a recipe, um, about the proportions that you would look at.
