Converting Measurements and Recipes

Converting cups to ounces, gallons to pounds, or teaspoons to grams are all examples of converting ____ measurements.

• within volume or weight
• between volume and weight
• within customary or metric system
• between customary or metric system

The cancelling method works for any measurement conversion within the same measurement system as long as the appropriate ____ factor is known.

• Unit
• sizing
• scaling
• conversion

____ equivalents can be used to calculate how many ounces of frozen peas there are in 10 cups of frozen peas

• Volume-to-weight
• Weight-to-count
• Count-to-volume
• Volume-to-density

Quantity is the amount of food or beverage item that is served to an individual person.

• True
• False

Professional cooks with experience rely more on the appearance or feel of an item than on cooking time

• True
• False

_____ is the process of eliminating matching units in the numerators and denominators of fractions in a conversion calculation.

• Converting
• Scaling
• Cancelling
• Reducing

A scaling factor is the number that each ingredient amount in the recipe is multiplied by when the recipe yield is changed

• True
• False

When doubling the yield of a recipe, all of the ingredient amounts are simply ____.

• divided by 2
• multiplied by 2
• increased by 2 pounds
• decreased by 2 pounds

Two ingredients of the same volume may not weigh the same due to differences in ____.

• color
• taste
• density
• texture

In general, it is most _____ to measure ingredients using the largest appropriate unit of measure.

• efficient
• difficult
• time consuming
• none of the above