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?

[osd]

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.

[superjobeespecs]

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 :(

[Butterbur]

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

[MadderHat]

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").

[Ephiny]

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

[Ephiny]

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

[Cattleprod]

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.

[fgaaagh]

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!

[KurriKurri]

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!

[redexpat]

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!

[Goodynuff]

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

[nickelbabe]

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.

[diddl]

Sounds really odd thing for an adult to say imo.

I just slice cake & dish it out!

Anyone fussy can cut their own piece!

[CocoPopsAddict]

YANBU. I like cake in minutes.

[Notanexcitingname]

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

[OpusProSerenus]

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.

[allhailtheaubergine]

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.

[MrSpoc]

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