The taco bar calculator works out meat mass, monterey cheese and cheddar cheese from beans, beef, c cheese, chicken, cream, guacamole, hamburger, lettuce, m cheese, olives, onions, number of people, pepper, pork, refried beans, rice, salsa, sauce, shell, shrimp, tomatoes and tortilla. Enter what you have and the relationship is applied straight away, so you get the answer without working through the algebra yourself.
What Is the Taco Bar Calculator?
The taco bar calculator sorts out the arithmetic of beans, beef, c cheese, chicken, cream, guacamole, hamburger, lettuce, m cheese, olives, onions, number of people, pepper, pork, refried beans, rice, salsa, sauce, shell, shrimp, tomatoes and tortilla so that you can concentrate on the cooking rather than the maths.
It gives you meat mass, monterey cheese and cheddar cheese, which is usually the number you actually need to measure out before you start.
How to Use the Taco Bar
Fill in what you have and read off meat mass, monterey cheese and cheddar cheese. If you are scaling a recipe up or down, work out the multiplier first and then multiply every quantity by it, including the ones that are not in this calculator.
Weigh rather than scoop wherever the recipe allows it. Volume measurements drift with how tightly an ingredient is packed, and that is where most recipe inconsistencies start.
Getting Consistent Results
Kitchen temperature, ingredient temperature and how long you mix all change the outcome. The calculator handles the quantities; the technique is still down to you.
If a result looks unfamiliar, check your units before you change the quantities. A factor of a hundred or a thousand is the usual culprit.
A Worked Example
Working through an example, with beans set to 10, beef set to 5, c cheese set to 2, the calculator returns pico de gallo of 1,000, and beans of 1,000, and refried beans of 200. Substitute your own figures and the same steps produce the same kind of answer.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do I need to work out meat mass?
Enter beans, beef, c cheese, chicken, cream, guacamole, hamburger, lettuce, m cheese, olives, onions, number of people, pepper, pork, refried beans, rice, salsa, sauce, shell, shrimp, tomatoes and tortilla. The calculator then works through the relationship and reports meat mass, monterey cheese and cheddar cheese.
What does the taco bar actually calculate?
It takes beans, beef, c cheese, chicken, cream, guacamole, hamburger, lettuce, m cheese, olives, onions, number of people, pepper, pork, refried beans, rice, salsa, sauce, shell, shrimp, tomatoes and tortilla and converts them into meat mass, monterey cheese and cheddar cheese using the standard relationship for this problem. Each step is applied in turn, so every output is traceable back to the numbers you typed in.
How should I enter beans?
Use the value you actually have, in the unit shown next to the field. Enter every value in the same unit system. The calculator assumes the figures you supply are consistent, so it cannot correct a mistake that happens before the calculation starts.
Why does a small change in one value move the answer so much?
That happens when an output depends on a ratio, because dividing by a small number magnifies any change in it. Check the units first, then check whether the value you entered is in the range the relationship was designed for.
Is the answer exact?
It is as exact as the formula and the inputs allow. The method itself is the standard one for this problem, so the only sources of error are the figures you enter and the precision you ask for.