How much is a 100 pounds of whipping cream cost?

Answer 1

By Cans of Whipped Cream

One can of whipped cream weighs about 8oz (1/2 pound), so we would need:
100 lbs / 0.5 lb per can = 200 cans
A can costs about $2.50 in the supermarket, so the total cost would be:
200 cans * $2.50 per can = $500 (plus sales tax)


By Hand-Whipping


The recipe for homemade whipping cream is as follows:


* 2 cups whipping cream (=16 ounces)
* 1/2 cup confectioners sugar (=4 ounces)
* 1 tablespoon vanilla (= 1/2 ounce)
* 5 minutes


The total of the ingredients in the recipe is 20.5 ounces, about 1.28lb, so we would need:
100 lbs / 1.28lb per recipe = 78.05 recipes
Accordingly, we would need:


78.05 * 1lb cream = 78.05lb cream
78.05 * 0.25lb sugar = 19.52lb sugar
78.05 * 0.03lb vanilla = 2.34lb vanilla


Cream costs $1.25 per 16oz (1lb) box, coming to a total of $97.56
Sugar costs $0.75 per 16oz (1lb) box, coming to a total of $14.64
Vanilla costs $18.00 per 16oz (1lb) bottle, coming to a total of $42.12


Adding the cost of all of the ingredients, one gets $154.32 (plus tax)


Assuming the time needed to beat the ingredients was linear, we would need:
5 minutes * 78.05 recipes = 390 minutes = about 6.5 hours


Assuming that someone could beat the ingredients at minimum wage ($7.25), it would cost:
6.5 hours * $7.25 = 47.15 (plus appropriate employment taxes)


So, the total would be about $202 (plus employment and sales taxes)