To estimate how many cups of chili are in the pot based on the portioning of all the ingredients you've listed, we first need to add up the volume of each ingredient.
Here are the volumes of the ingredients you've specified:
- Dark red kidney beans: 4 cups
- Tomato sauce: 1 3/4 cups (which is 1.75 cups)
- 100% tomato juice: 6 cups (since 48 fl oz = 6 cups)
- Petite diced peeled tomatoes: 4 cups
- Chili kidney beans in mild chili sauce: 4 cups
- Tomato paste: Approximately 1.375 cups (since 11 tbsp = 11/16 = 0.6875 cups, so 1.375 cups if we add that to the rest)
- Cooked seasoned ground beef: The weight of ground beef doesn't directly translate to volume, but it is generally about 2 cups for 1.5 lbs of cooked ground beef (this can vary, but we can use that estimate).
- Creamy peanut butter: Approximately 0.0625 cups (since 1 tbsp = 1/16 cup).
- Elbows pasta: The weight of 249g of elbows pasta is approximately 2.5 cups, as dried pasta roughly doubles in volume when cooked.
Now, let's sum these volumes:
- Dark red kidney beans: 4 cups
- Tomato sauce: 1.75 cups
- 100% tomato juice: 6 cups
- Petite diced peeled tomatoes: 4 cups
- Chili kidney beans: 4 cups
- Tomato paste: 1.375 cups
- Cooked seasoned ground beef: 2 cups (estimate)
- Creamy peanut butter: 0.0625 cups
- Elbows: 2.5 cups
Now we can add these values together:
\[ 4 + 1.75 + 6 + 4 + 4 + 1.375 + 2 + 0.0625 + 2.5 \approx 25.6875 \text{ cups} \]
So, when you estimate the total number of cups in the pot based on all the ingredients, it would be roughly 25.7 cups of chili.