[Sca-cooks] Ratio

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

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