[Sca-cooks] Ratio
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sat Jun 25 11:52:40 PDT 2005
On Jun 25, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Pat wrote:
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>>> kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:
>>> The average person’s stomach holds roughly 32oz. of food.
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> Isn't that volume ounces rather than weight? Don't the authors
> mean about a quart rather than about two pounds? I know that for
> most foods you can use the old rule of thumb that " a pint's a
> pound" pretty successfully, so I guess it doesn't really matter.
I think so. Between chewing, beverages, and digestive fluids of
various kinds, I'd say, yes, what ends up in your stomach is probably
pretty similar in density to water, and therefore, a pint is
substantially close to a pound.
Adamantius
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