Cookie Monster!!!!!!
Never mind pi or the square root of two: the most critical number in the world is the ratio of chocolate chips to cookie in a chocolate chip cookie. It is extremely important to have enough chips – and frankly you need batter too, to add that buttery contrast. Otherwise, you might as well just buy a kilogram sack of chips from Bin Inn, stick your head in, and wolf it down like a farm animal.
But if you’re a chocolate lover, you want to err on the side of too many chips – and that’s a very mathematical task
But if you’re a chocolate lover, you want to err on the side of too many chips – and that’s a very mathematical task
Questions
Wee ones (counting on fingers): If you eat 3 cookies, and each one has 5 chocolate chips in it (nowhere nearly enough), how many chips do you eat?
Little kids: If your bowl of batter has 100 chips, and it makes 10 cookies, how many chips in each cookie? Bonus: If these are the flat, thin kind of cookie that you can chuck like a frisbee, and you throw 3 of them across the kitchen, how many chips go airborne?
Big kids: If the recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of chips, and there are 42 chips per cup, how many chips do you need to dump in? Bonus: If when no one’s looking you secretly triple the chips, how many chips are there now?
Little kids: If your bowl of batter has 100 chips, and it makes 10 cookies, how many chips in each cookie? Bonus: If these are the flat, thin kind of cookie that you can chuck like a frisbee, and you throw 3 of them across the kitchen, how many chips go airborne?
Big kids: If the recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of chips, and there are 42 chips per cup, how many chips do you need to dump in? Bonus: If when no one’s looking you secretly triple the chips, how many chips are there now?
Answers:
Wee ones: 15 chocolaty chips.
Little kids: 10 chips per cookie. Bonus: 30 chips in flight.
Big kids: 63 chips. Bonus: 189 chips – and that sounds just about right.
Little kids: 10 chips per cookie. Bonus: 30 chips in flight.
Big kids: 63 chips. Bonus: 189 chips – and that sounds just about right.