Chocolate Chip Cookies: Baking with Optimism

What is your limiting reactant, the ingredient that would run out first?

The limiting reactant is the chocolate chips (they would run out first) because you can only make 3 batches with 300 chips.

The first ingredient to run out would be the chocolate chips.

Limiting Reactants

A limiting reactant is a reactant that determines the amount of product that would be formed in a reaction. In this scenario, the ratio of flour to chocolate chips to sugar to milk for 100 cookies is 1:100:1:0.5. The ratio of the same ingredients bought in the store is 5:300:6:16. Note: 16 cups = a gallon. To the lowest ratio: 5:300:6:16 = 1:60:1.2:3.02. Since the ratio of flour to chocolate chips is 1:100, it means that the chocolate chips would be the first to run out first and thus, the limiting reactant.