Thursday, September 13, 2012

600 Aubergines

Those recipe online features that recompute ingredient amounts? You may want to be alert about those.

3 chilies, 6 cloves garlic, 2 stalks lemongrass... check, check, check.

600 aubergines, quartered lengthwise, then halved? These people really like eggplant. And not very spicy eggplant.

This is why estimating is a useful mathematical skill.

1 comment:

  1. Did someone strike the "0" button once or twice more than necessary?

    Or was some other error at work there?

    Since all the other ingredients (you quote) are in countable-on-the-fingers amounts, I would suspect that the same should be true of the aubergines.

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