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You need a kitchen slide rule

A Kitchen Slide Rule Kitchen work is all about proportions: sometimes the recipe is for four servings but you need six; maybe the recipe calls for 80 g of butter but you only have 57 g, so you have to adjust the other ingredients to match. We could use an electronic calculator to figure out the rescaled amounts, but a slide rule makes it so much easier.

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