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Arithmetic before seasoning

The drop counter

Tell it what sits on the stove and how big the pot is. It answers in drops, because that is how this sauce has always been measured, and it says how many pots one 4 oz bottle will carry you through.

6 drops That is the place to start. Stir it through, then look before you add more.

One 4 oz bottle covers about 304 pots this size.

Seventy-six drops make a teaspoon. Past thirty drops the counter answers in teaspoons, so nobody stands over a pot counting to ninety.

Bottles that match the answer

A 4 oz bottle for the weeknight stove, the 32 oz for kitchens that brown daily, the gallon when the counter starts talking in hundreds.