Question: 2 cups of pasta is how many pounds?
Answer: ANSWER: When a recipe lists 2 cups of pasta, mostly likely it means dry pasta. With Free Press Test Kitchen recipes, if we want you to use cooked pasta we would list it as “2 cups cooked pasta.” If we want you to use dry pasta, usually we'd list it as 2 cups (or 8 ounces or 1 pound, whichever amount is needed) pasta.