Some people insist that they are horrible in math no matter how hard they try. The truth, however, is that many people, especially those that enjoy cooking, are great in math because they use it everyday without even realizing it.
1) Most cooks like to buy the ingredients themselves, and that is the first step of using math. When selecting the items to be used, they have to figure out how much of each to get according to the recipe they're using.
2) If they're working on a budget, they have to figure out if the amount of money they would like to spend would be enough to buy all necessary items.
3) Once all the above is taking care of, they then have to modify the ingredients according to how many people they're going to serve, and that usually involves FRACTIONS!!
4) To use the utensils in the kitchen, lots of conversions are involved. For example, how big is a cup? How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon? How many tablespoon in a 1/4 cup? How many cups are in a gallon? etc.
5) If they're tight on time or would like to serve the food as soon as it's done, they have to figure out how long the cooking process is going to take and inform their guests.
6) They have to figure out what temperature to set the stove on, if they're preparing something that requires using the stove, and they have to know how to convert between celsius and fehrenheit.
So next time you meet a cook, appreciate how much math they know!
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