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ScarlettP · Unread postby **ScarlettP** » 20 Nov 2007, 01:56

Ok... here's a problem for you. I've got a new recipe that calls for an 8 oz bar of chocolate to be melted. I bought a 3.5 lb bag of chips. Now, I don't know how much of the chips to use to make 8 oz.

By volume, 8 oz of liquid = one cup - but that's not going to work.

3.5 lbs by weight = 56 oz.

When I measured the bag of chips, it was roughly 10 cups full. Therefore, one cup = 5.6 oz.

How many cups, or what fraction thereof, is 8 oz?

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 20 Nov 2007, 02:10

jsut weigh out 8 oz of chips .... same by weight as the chocolate bar, then melt away

ScarlettP · Unread postby **ScarlettP** » 20 Nov 2007, 02:12

I don't own a kitchen scale. Might have to go BUY one! No one on my other forum seems to be able to figure out the answer either.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 20 Nov 2007, 02:26

I already gave it to you Letty, but I can't weigh it for you as well

Ceres · Unread postby **Ceres** » 20 Nov 2007, 02:44

56 / 8 = 7

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 20 Nov 2007, 02:51

so just create 7 equal piles?

Ceres · Unread postby **Ceres** » 20 Nov 2007, 02:59

Her 3.5 lbs chocolate chips will make seven 8 oz. melted chocolates but the thing that confuses me is when she weighs the bag of chips it totaled 10 cups. If she had done that by just filling up the cup with chips then that's it. Solid chocolates will make more cups than liquid chocolates.

That's just my thought I could be wrong.

Omega_Destroyer · Unread postby **Omega_Destroyer** » 20 Nov 2007, 03:28

Ugh. Feels like it was a really long day today and tomorrow is shaping up to be another.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 20 Nov 2007, 03:56

go to bed earlier and sleep it away .... your externship started?

Omega_Destroyer · Unread postby **Omega_Destroyer** » 20 Nov 2007, 04:35

It starts January 2nd.

As to what's keeping me busy now, I chalk it up to proposals, oral arguments, and finals.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 20 Nov 2007, 04:36

cool, that's my last day of work here

Chai26 · Unread postby **Chai26** » 20 Nov 2007, 11:42

you have been talking about leaving work for a long time already stefan and i thought you will be sad if you don't have your current job.

Ceres · Unread postby **Ceres** » 20 Nov 2007, 11:50

Hey Chai, where have you been?

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 20 Nov 2007, 12:57

What can I say, best of luck stefan.

Chai26 · Unread postby **Chai26** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:03

i return from exile in the amazon hunting vampire moths, beastly things.

Ceres · Unread postby **Ceres** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:17

Really? I thought you were busy with some computer games?

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:21

There may be a game about that

Chai26 · Unread postby **Chai26** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:26

hunting vampire moths are no joke, and making a game about it might send elvin into a coma after seeing the brutality of the moths!

ScarlettP · Unread postby **ScarlettP** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:28

My best buddy has a kitchen scale. I'll go over to his house, weigh out 8 oz of stinking chips and then pour them into a glass measuring cup so I can see! I'm not good at doing 7 equal parts.

I could just multiply the recipe by 7 and use the whole bag... but this calls for 1/4 cup of heavy cream per recipe. That would be 7/4's or 1 3/4 cups. Hell! That might just be the way to go!

Elvin · Unread postby **Elvin** » 20 Nov 2007, 13:32

I don't know the brutality of moths but I doubt it can match the terror of the pickles! Just see how scared this girl is!

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