Tuesday, November 4, 2008

This Pot or that Pot



When cooking and baking it is always important to have the right size pan. A pan that is too big will cook too quickly, and a pan that is too small will either not cook the food evenly or the ingredients won't fit.
  • For our tomato sauce we need a 3 quart pot, but our pots are not labeled! The equation for volume of a cylinder is V = πr2h, with r being the radius of the pot, and h being the height of the pot. To convert to quarts, multiply volume by 0.0011.
Pot 1: r= 5 cm, h= 8 cm
Pot 2: r= 9 cm, h= 11 cm
  • Which pot should we use, and why?

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