2QUESTION 2 OF 3
Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
720
drops
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
A 2 oz bottle is 4 tablespoons, which is 12 teaspoons. How many drops of hot sauce fill a teaspoon? More than you'd think. Call it 50.
- Teaspoons in the bottle
- 12
- Drops per teaspoon
- × 50
- 12 × 50
- ≈ 600
The bottle holds 60 milliliters. How big is one drop? Tiny, maybe a tenth of a milliliter, so 10 drops to every milliliter.
- Bottle
- 60 ml
- Drops per milliliter
- × 10
- 60 × 10
- ≈ 600
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- 2 fl oz bottle, at 2 tablespoons per ounce and 3 teaspoons per tablespoon
- 12 teaspoons
- Drops per teaspoon (McIlhenny Co. FAQ)
- × 60
- 12 × 60
- ≈ 720 drops
Reference cited by Fermi: McIlhenny Co. Tabasco FAQ: a 2 oz bottle holds at least 720 drops, at 60 drops to a teaspoon
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