Question

Hi! I need help with some Hospitality homework with converting measurements into other portions. Anyone care to help me through it? I'm a bit' stumped as to what the first step should be.

You are given the following recipe for egg noodle dough. Your supervisor asked you to use this recipe to make 20 pounds of egg noodle dough. Make the necessary adjustments to the following recipe to yield 20 pounds of egg noodle dough. Note this recipes yield is its total weight.

Egg Noodles
Bread Flour 5#
Eggs, Whole 1# 8oz
Salt 2oz
Oil, Canola 1oz
Water 1#

Answer 1

I have steps that I wrote down for the method of answering these questions, I'm just not sure what the "new" or "old" yield is. My steps written are.

1. Convert the new and old yield to oz.
2. Divide the new yield by the old yield.
3. Get the number
4. Multiple new number by all ingredients.
5. Get all new numbers
6. Add all numbers together to check the answer

Can anyone fill in the blanks for me? What am I missing out on here?

Answer 2

Best thing to do first would get them all in ounces. There are 26 pounds in one ounce.

Bread would be 5*16
Eggs (1*16) + 8
Salt 2
Oil 1
water 1*16

do the math and add all of them up and tell me what you get

Answer 3

Sure! Give me just one moment. It just occurred to me that the # meant pounds. Duh, silly me. One sec!

Answer 4

141 oz?

Answer 5

5*16=80
1*16=16 16+8=24
=2
=1
1*16=16

Answer 6

139? (◠﹏◠✿)

Answer 7

80+24=104
104+2=106
106+1=107
107+16=123

Answer 8

Which step is this? Or what is this leading from?

Answer 9

this is converting all of the ingredients into ounces, so it is 123 ounces.

Answer 10

you want to make 20 pounds so 20x16=320 thats 320 ounces, take that 320 and divide it by the original weight of ingredients and get 2.601 or 2.6. Now go back and multiply each ingredient by 2.6 and that is how much of each you need for 20 pounds of egg soup.

Answer 11

I see now, the text was confusing me. I don't learn particularly well via text but my options aren't broad at the moment so I thank you for having the patience to assist me.

Bread - 208 oz
Whole Eggs - 62.4
Salt - 5.2
Oil - 2.6
Water - 41.6

Answer 12

Or wait, it'd be each ingredient of the newer conversion?

Answer 13

I have no idea. x-x I think that may be what I'm supposed to do right there?

Answer 14

seems like you did it right. As long as they dont want it converted back to ounces and pounds, that should be you answer, in ounces.

Answer 15

Thank you! You've been very helpful.

Answer 16

Glad I could help.