On 8 Mag, 20:55, Alan Holbrook > wrote:
> I live alone, but I enjoy cooking and I'm inspired by a lot of the recipes
> and techniques I see in the NG and in all the other foodie sources around
> the web. *The problem is, so many of the recipes that looks interesting
> make enough to feed the entire 82nd Airborne Division, with leftovers for
> Seal Team Six. *I'd like to scale down some of these recipes for 1 or 2
> people. *But how? *I mean, I'm relatively civilized and have enough grasp
> of basic arithmetic to scale the amounts of ingredients. *But there's more
> to it than that. *Cooking container sizes? *Cooking times and temperatures?
>
> Any tips or advice from the gurus out there?

I think you could and should beguin to use a balance! It's simplier
than cup when you have to divideDDDDDDDD
For time cookings you have only to know that small things cook in less
time: a little loaf of bread could be ready in 10 minutes instead of
one hour.
cheers
Pandora