A scientist at Warwick University, England,
has come up with a recipe for the perfect curry, not in terms of its
ingredients or method of cooking, but determined by the rules of mathematics.
Apparently the ancient Greeks had the right
idea, although their connection with curry is one that would not strike many
people. However, they did know all about proportions and devised what is known
as the “golden ratio”. When applied to curry eating this means that you should
load your fork with exactly the same quantities of meat (or vegetables), sauce
and rice. This, says the scientist, one Dr Mark Hadley of the university’s
Department of Physics, produces not only the tastiest mouthful but it looks good
too.
Dr Hadley goes further by stipulating
exactly how the perfect curry should be arranged on the plate. The circle of
rice, for example, must be 61% wider than the mound of curry placed on top.
If you use a plate that is 27 centimetres
in diameter, the bed of rice must be 22.5 centimetres wide and no more than
five millimetres thick. The mound of curry must be 14 centimetres in diameter
and 2.4 centimetres thick at its highest point.
So now you know! Next time you serve a
curry, make sure that you use a ruler as one of your cooking utensils. Your
curry won’t be perfect unless you do!
Incidentally, isn’t it good to know that
our university research departments aren’t wasting their time with anything
trivial?
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