Originally bringing total pan volume into it confused me, a baking pan has an upper limit to how much brownie you can bake per cycle in it, but by the time you are anywhere near that limit you are probably already better off using a second pan.
The example brownies from the picture are nowhere near that limit, so if there was a moderate but significant decrease in the volume of the pan in the change to the squares It doesn’t seem like it should be a problem even on a per cycle basis. Even so, the cost of doing an additional cycle of baking is not that high anyways.
The main factor in how much volume of brownie you make will be the amount of brownie batter you make. Non-euclidean space isn’t required to bake an additional 25% or so of brownies by volume in that pan, and so your reply seemed snide, and I responded kurtly.
anytimesoon@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I think they’re trying to say that the amount of brownie is dictated by the amount of batter you have, and you can use one tray as many times as necessary to use up all the batter
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
But the amount of brownie is also determined by time spent baking
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
True but I think they’re saying that in their typical use-case, one versus two batches doesn’t practically matter. Now, that might be true, but that doesn’t change the fact that every container has a maximum usable volume which would be limited per-batch, and that’s what was being said initially.
It’s just a really strange and I know it doesn’t matter but also this way of thinking is fascinating to me.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Two batches definitely matters to me. I’m not spending twice as much time baking! I want a big pan with room to make all my brownies at once.