how many grams in a cup of chives?

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things people ask

• When would a recipe actually call for a cup of chives?
  Cup measurements show up in compound butters meant for a whole roast, in herb-heavy dips like a chive sour cream for a party platter, in green goddess dressing batches, and in scratch boursin or labneh rolls. A cup is also roughly what you get from one supermarket bunch once the woody ends are trimmed, so the volume often matches what you have on the board rather than a precise weighed amount.
• Should I pack the cup or leave it loose?
  Leave it loose. The 42 g figure assumes spooned-and-leveled snipped chives, which is how King Arthur's chart treats fresh herbs. Packed chives bruise on contact and bleed out the oniony juice you're trying to keep in the dish, and the cup ends up holding 70-80 g instead. If a recipe says packed, weigh it; otherwise treat the cup as a loose scoop.
• Can I swap dried chives cup-for-cup?
  No — dried chives are roughly a third of the volume and a tenth of the weight of fresh, so a cup of fresh maps to about three tablespoons of dried, not a cup. The flavor profile shifts too: dried chives lean grassy and lose the allium top note, so in a dip or compound butter where chives are the headline, stick with fresh and weigh if you want consistency across batches.

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