to say I want "10 minutes" or "5 minutes" of cake???

[BooBearBoo]

DH looked at me like I was mental. We ALWAYS used to say this when I was growing up as it gives the cake server a very good idea of what size slice you would like i.e. a "10 minute" slice would be like 10 minutes on a clock so 2/3 of a quarter.

Anyone else say this??? Or did my dad just invent it???!!

PS - how many minutes do you usually have?

And you don't need it for square things or tray bakes, just 8 pieces left, that's easy to and does not need confused.

im taking advantage of being pregnant at the mo with the yummy cake eating and yum yums and donuts but will have to cut it out once DS is born :(

I always say I want 72 degrees of cake . Make the cutter do their maths!

It's an interesting way of doing it but definitely not unreasonable, though 5 minutes would be hard to cut and miserly. In our (admittedly extremely geeky) household, we tend to ask in radians ("pi by 6 of pie please").

We used to use radians too :) Though it could be a bit confusing as pi and pie sound the same, but pie = 2*pi. Also my mum never learned much maths

...so had no idea what anyone was talking about

Oh that's such a sensible idea. I get so pissed off when people say 'oh just a small piece please' and then look horrified when you give them 10 minutes. To me, that is a small piece, unless you've got one of those hulking great 18 inch gateau jobbies.

I always give my cake slice demands in angles, to three decimal places.

Example:

"I would like 278.736 degrees of cake, please."

I've never heard of the time angle - you're odd. YABU!

My late MIL used to ask for a 'wee dod' of cake, then she'd have another wee dod and another - so all in all about 25 mins!

I've never heard it before for decribing an amount of cake, but it's not rocket science to work it out is it? I think I'm going to start using it though!

we have fat pieces and skinny pieces.... although my niece asks for the "top part please"

from a purely maths point of view, you should be worried he doesn't take you literally.

there are 360 degrees in a circle, and 60 seconds to each degree.
that means if you want 10minutes of cake, then you want a portion that is 1/2160 of a circle!
that's just a very silly, tiny piece of cake.
and almost impossible to measure in the kitchen.

Sounds really odd thing for an adult to say imo.

I just slice cake & dish it out!

Anyone fussy can cut their own piece!

YANBU. I like cake in minutes.

My thoughts were similar to nicklebabe's. Am loving the geeky family radian cake measure, though

nickelbabe I am so pleased someone else brought the maths bit up before I embarrassed myself by trying and getting it wrong. I was frantically trying to think back to how minutes and seconds related to degrees.

Excellent thread.

Am quite aghast about how many of you have 10 minutes + of cake though. And seriously, I am a gluttonous porker. But I never have more than 5 minutes of cake. Dh has 7 minutes if he's really hungry.

I always ask for a door stop slice of a cake.