Boiling Water (was: Re: sca-cooks Re: intro)

Jeffrey Miller jeffm at genghis.com
Thu Apr 10 07:29:33 PDT 1997


Mark Schuldenfrei wrote:
> 
> cook per dish.  (As a rule.)  Food prep times increase: and the time to boil
> water and heat pans goes up dramatically.  (Cube-square law: volume goes up
> with the cube of the radius, but surface area goes up with the square, so
> heating takes longer.)
> 

Hmmm..  If it's quicker to boil 2 3-gallon pots of water than one
6-gallon, is it faster to cook 2 3-gallon pots of soup than one
6-gallon? (Presupposing fire space)

 =8^)

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