"Do you know what average means?"
Now that's being just plain
mean.
O'Reilly, the publisher famous for its long line of computer books with drawings of animals on the cover, also published
Cooking for Geeks, an exercise in food science.
One of the recipes in the book is "A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie". They test cooked the recipes, but when they got 30 to 40 recipes for chocolate chip cookies there was no way they were going to make 30 to 40 batches. All the recipes had the same ingredients, just different amounts, so they averaged out all the amounts to arrive at a
mean chocolate chip cookie:
Preheat oven to 354.17°F / 178.98°C.
2.04 cups (245g) flour
0.79 teaspoons (3.81g) salt
0.79 teaspoons (3.63g) baking soda
6.44 tablespoons (87.9g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
2.1896 tablespoons (29.9g) unsalted butter, cold
4.2504 tablespoons (58g) unsalted butter, melted
0.84 cups (169g) light brown sugar
0.10 cups (20g) dark brown sugar
0.54 cups (109g) white sugar
1.33 (46g) eggs
0.33 (8g) egg yolk
1.46 teaspoons (6.08g) vanilla extract
0.17 tablespoons (2.51g) water
0.25 tablespoons (3.84g) milk
1.53 cups (257g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
Cover and chill dough in the refrigerator for 25 minutes.
Cook for 13.04 minutes.