Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 12, 2023

…he’s out of line, but he’s right.

Strangely, some European cook books DO measure eggs by weight. Though I doubt they sell ’em that way.

Eggsactly!!

Depends on the size of the eggs.

https://www.reference.com/science-technology/many-eggs-make-pound-7b04ab09fa9638d8

Maybe it’s a carton of liquid eggs. Those would be sold by weight.

Also, about $2.49

Whether sold by the pound or by the dozen, you’d probably have to spend $3.99 because, in most places, you have to buy the whole “unit” (dozen or pound).

Add about $.40 for tax.

Ok, could you now please ask the question in normal metric measures? Who calculates in ounces?Oo

Egg Beaters

Eggs are sold in dozens. Eggs have a certain density. You can use density and individual egg volume x 12 to get the price per pound, or you can say “thank you teacher for doing half of the problem for me”.

Is “if” too short of a word to be noticed in the frenzy of reading a question? Or does it just get ignored as the first one?

If an average chicken egg weighs 60 grams, how many pounds does the average egg carton weigh?

$3.12, rounded up from 3.11875

$2.49 for 10 oz.

Her eggs are expensive: a dozen XL weighs approx 1.7 lb which would be $6.76 a dozen.

I don’t know Soufflé, but my girlfriend is busy making me, my wife, and herself a Quiche with cheese, onion, bacon, and I don’t know what else.

$3.99 / 16 = 0.249375 * 10 = $0.25 (rounded to the penny)

Too many years of math problems, I now solve them compulsively. Same thing with eating everything on my plate.

At some point, eggs were measured by the pound: “pound cake” was so named because the recipe consisted of a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs.

I’m really hungry so “my souffle” will be bigger than the typical “a souffle.” So – $3.99.

Eggs are sold by the Kilo in Mexico

European cooks have a hard time with American recipes that call for a “stick” of butter.

Ten ounces, or indeed a pound, may or may not equal a whole number of eggs. Do you weigh before or after removing the eggs from their shells? Clearly that math problem was devised by a person lacking relevant experience. Caulfield for President!

https://www.peteandgerrys.com/blog/egg-size-guide# By weight

“You most certainly do get hints in the real world.” I love that.

I know! I know! $2.49! (Hooray for me!!)

But Doug K and Caulfield both have a good point, though as I remember from a little time spend in Europe, where housewives shopped pretty much every day (at least once), the habit was to buy enough eggs for a planned recipe, “enough” being defined as “as many as you’ll need plus one”, just in case.

I get 2.50$. Round up the price to 4.00. A pound is 16 oz. 10 oz over 16 oz = 5/8. 8 divides into 4.00 to .50 an eigth. 5 × .50= 2.50.

If I did the math right, it comes to 7.5 eggs. An interesting logistics problem dividing one gooey raw egg in half. Unless I can just choose to use either the yolk or the white part?

Reminds me of a strip where she was asking the cost to drive from A to B which were X miles apart and band gas cost .29 cents per gallon.

A chef might use them by weight. When I worked in a kitchen, we would crack 4 flats at a time (a total of 10 dozen eggs) and then measure them out by liquid volume; which would allow for the ounces, but not the pounds. I do not know how they were purchased though

You’ll be spending whatever the cost of a dozen eggs is, since they don’t sell by the ounce.

3.99/16*10=2.50$

This is a great example of why the System Internationale/Metric System is better. The comments about the practicality of the problem are also spot on. It reminds me of a physics problem involving a train approaching the station at 9/10 the speed of light.

I remember when eggs were 3.99 a dozen. Barely

I’m with Caulfield - he needs some more parameters before he can answer. If the eggs are sold by the pound, then he’s going to need to know how many you’re allowed to buy at a time. I mean, is the correct answer just “$3.99” since they’re sold by the pound, not by the each or by the dozen? Or does Caulfield have to know what size egg we’re talking about here? The most common size is large, which happens to weigh a smidge over two ounces, assuming we have to pay for the shell as well. (This gets more complicated if we’re asking whether this is whole eggs or liquid eggs; a recipe that asks for eggs by weight is WEIRD and I’d be suspicious it was looking for liquid eggs, not whole eggs. And then Caulfield is restricted to whatever size the cartons come in.) In our world, you can get those by a the half-dozen, which would weigh twelve ounces. If Caulfield has been taught algebra, he could figure out what that would cost by calculating the ounce cost. Or does this world let you buy them bulk, where you can precisely as many as you want, so he can buy the five eggs? Again, assuming these are large eggs, so I think Caulfield can absolutely stall his teacher until lunchtime on this problem. :)

They sell eggs (without the shells) by the pound in the real world, too.

$3.99. And then I’d get a better recipe with decent measures. But the $3.99 eggs should be enough.

When I was young I learned a rhyme that: A pint’s a pound, the world around. In other words, they are both 16 ounces. Recognizing that one is weight and one is volume, so they are not really equivalent. That was before metric was as universal as it is today. I’m sure my mother learned the rhyme in the 1930s.