My dad, a compulsive precisionist, uses measuring tape to divide a baguette in exact thirds.

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Locoelectrician on October 6th, 2021 at 00:04 UTC »

Meh, I don’t judge. I told my son to roll the hotdogs on the grill every minute or so. Looked out and he had a timer set for exactly 1 minute and kept repeating. Best hotdogs ever.

Pinacoteca on October 6th, 2021 at 00:08 UTC »

But a baguettes cross-section is not constant, so he should be calculating the exact thirds of the total volume instead. Tell him and break his dreams

Glabrous_Dipthong on October 6th, 2021 at 01:07 UTC »

Could have just looked it up in the appropriate table in his Book of Portioning Baked Goods.