How many cups of sugar in 5lbs?

SallyD · Feb 17, 2012

Title pretty much says it all. Thank you in advance.

Baldursson · Feb 17, 2012

Sally if you are getting ready to make sugar syrup 1 pint of water is 1 lb. make your measurements that way.

WilliamsHoneyBees · Feb 18, 2012

I second. 16 volume ounces of water weighs 16 ounces when I mix feed. Close enough!!

SallyD · Feb 17, 2012

Perfect.Thank you!

Baldursson · Feb 18, 2012

you are so welcome

larrymn · Feb 18, 2012

so 10lbs of sugar will make 1 gallon of sugar syrup? thats 1-1

Gypsi · Feb 18, 2012

I think 10 lbs should go with 5 quarts of water and it will end up making in the vicinity of 2 gallons of syrup? (help me out here you guys that have more bees.)

Mustang · Feb 18, 2012

this is how my syrup comes out.

Ski · Feb 18, 2012

I use a gallon plastic milk jug.
I pour in 5 pounds of sugar.
I fill the jug up with hot tap water.
Shake.
Top off with hot tap water.
Makes one gallon of 1:1 syrup.

I measured this out a cup at a time when I started a few years back.

Risky Beesness · Feb 18, 2012

25 lb sugar to 3 gal water. Makes about 5 gal 1:1 syrup

SunnyBee · Feb 18, 2012

I thought 1:1 was by volume. 1 gal. water to 1 gal. sugar. If not what will this way give you?

Joseph Clemens · Feb 18, 2012

Something that should be fed immediately, before it ferments.

cg3 · Feb 18, 2012

"A pint's a pound the world around."

For all practical purposes, weight and volume for sugar and water are nearly identical.

TimnEsther · Feb 18, 2012

Everybody is saying the same thing. Time to stir that syrup.

Intheswamp · Feb 18, 2012

Yelp, just take Uncle Willie's old cowboy boot, fill with sugar and dump in bucket, fill boot up with water, dump in bucket.....1:1 syrup. It's a ratio...you don't have to use imperial measurements as long as you get the ratios correct. I'm not sure how the bees will respond to the boot syrup, though.

Best wishes,
Ed

Gypsi · Feb 18, 2012

I just realized I have 5 gal jugs, one with a spout lid. :banana: I can make big amounts of syrup.

Joseph Clemens · Feb 18, 2012

Sugar has a density of about two cups and two tablespoons per pound. A pound of sugar is ~ thirty-eight tablespoons. Sixteen tablespoons fit in one cup.

How many cups of sugar in five pounds?

38 x 5 = 190

190 / 16 = 11 and 7/8 cups in five pounds of sugar.

Slow Modem · Feb 18, 2012

FYI: Water with a specific gravity of 1 weighs 8.34 pounds per gallon

cg3 · Feb 18, 2012

And that's important if you intend to make 2.000/1 syrup.

Nantom670 · Feb 18, 2012

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cg3 · Feb 18, 2012

Weight/volume makes no practical difference. Exact mix makes no practical difference. 5lb bag sugar to 5 pints water = 1/1. Don't stress.

Jim 134 · Feb 18, 2012

:applause: :applause:

BEE HAPPY Jim 134

How many cups of sugar in 5lbs?

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