Product Description

Easy lessons and exercises for mastering culinary math skills

Revised and Expanded Edition!

Used by culinary professionals and students around the country, this book presents proven step-by-step methods for understanding foodservice math and using it appropriately in the kitchen. Authored by former instructors at The Culinary Institute of America, it is filled with examples and sample problems that connect math skills to real-world situations. this edition has been expanded with new material on topics such as inventory, yield percentage, and statistics. It also includes more practice problems in each chapter to help readers develop and practice their problem-solving skills.

Well organized and easy to use, Culinary Math reviews basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; presents the units of measure used in most professional kitchens in the United States; and offers simple methods for converting weight and volume measures.

It also shows how to:

• Calculate yield percent
• Determine costs, edible portion costs, recipe costs, and beverage costs
• Find out the amount of a product needed for a particular use
• Carry out conversions for purchasing and food costing
• Change recipe yields
• Understand and use kitchen ratios
• Convert U.S. measures to metric units and vice versa

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #366112 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-07
• Released on: 2008-12-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Back Cover
Used by culinary professionals and students around the country, this book presents proven step-by-step methods for understanding foodservice math and using it appropriately in the kitchen. Written by former instructors at The Culinary Institute of America, it is filled with examples and sample problems that connect math skills to real-world situations.

This edition has been expanded with new material on topics such as inventory, yield percent, and statistics. It also includes revised practice problems in each chapter to help develop and exercise problem-solving skills.

Well organized and easy to use, Culinary Math reviews basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; goes over calculations with percents; presents the units of measure used in most professional kitchens in the United States; and offers simple methods for converting weight and volume measures.

Culinary Math also shows how to:

• Calculate yield percent

• Determine costs, edible portion costs, recipe costs, and beverage costs

• Find out the amount of a product needed for a particular use

• Change recipe yields

• Carry out conversions for purchasing and food costing

• Understand and use kitchen ratios

• Convert U.S. measures to metric units and vice versa

Easy Lessons and Exercises for Mastering Culinary Math Skills

Revised and Expanded Edition

About the Author
JULIA HILL taught cost control and culinary math at The Culinary Institute of America for fifteen years. Prior to her teaching position at the CIA, she was a public accountant and restaurant manager.
LINDA BLOCKER taught middle and high school mathematics for ten years before joining the faculty of The Culinary Institute of America. During her three years at the CIA, she taught culinary math. She has also been involved in her family’s gourmet food business, Meredith Mountain Farms, since 1984.

Customer Reviews

Must buy culinary students
I'm a culinary student and found this book very helpful for converting units into metric units. It helped me with my baking class because it showed how to convert measurements properly and with great accuracy. I also used the following to study for the National Servsafe Test which is also on amazon.com:
Study Guide for the National Servsafe Exam: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (ISBN: 0971999678). It showed me the type of questions asked on the exam. In addition, was quite helpful for my sanitation class. Get both books if you're in culinary school.

Great for pros and home chefs
This book clears up the math questions for all levels of preparing foods. From the diference in dry measure to liquid measure to getting the quantities right for the number of guests you are feeding. Bravo!!

Finally...
This is what I've been waiting for. For those of us who aren't too good with numbers and measurements (foodservice math), this is a god-send. It's got great information and it makes the whole subject of "culinary math" reasonable and understandable.