{"id":184,"date":"2026-09-11T01:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/?p=184"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:41:09","slug":"pasta-pass-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Pasta Pass #8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear valued readers, I&#8217;m starting to get recognized. Hopefully in good, leaves cash tips and no mess, way. A reader submitted an inquiry regarding the economic analysis of this whole setup, so as I wait for my Zuppa Toscana, let us calculate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extra distance commuting to the local Olive Garden is 10 miles. With my current vehicle and gas prices that comes out to about $3. List price for the Never Ending Pasta Bowl (with protein, of course) is $20, while the Pasta Pass was $100. Therefore break even for the Pasta Pass pass is 100\/(20-3) = 5.88 bowls, which the astute may note has been already achieved. Of more interest is finding if it is economical compared to home cooking. A 5lb pack of boneless, skinless, chicken breast can be had for $2\/lb, adding pasta ($2\/box) and vegetables ($10\/bag at the farm stand) it&#8217;s reasonable to achieve $5 per meal. We can exclude the cost of cooking energy due to the solar project and cooking time due to me not valuing it. Therefore our new break even equation is $5 = $3 + $100\/x where x is the number of bowls, solvable to x = 50 bowls. Due to missing the first week I only have 12 weeks of Pasta Pass to work with, meaning I need to consume 50\/12 = 4.17 bowls per week on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of economics, the fastest turnaround I&#8217;ve had thus far with today&#8217;s selection, Spaghetti+Meat Sauce+Meat balls+Italian Sausage, came out with the soup in 5 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_editor_output_image419251836-17890908169276410228800113079131-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_editor_output_image419251836-17890908169276410228800113079131-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_editor_output_image419251836-17890908169276410228800113079131-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_editor_output_image419251836-17890908169276410228800113079131-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_editor_output_image419251836-17890908169276410228800113079131-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_editor_output_image419251836-17890908169276410228800113079131-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_editor_output_image419251836-17890908169276410228800113079131.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear valued readers, I&#8217;m starting to get recognized. Hopefully in good, leaves cash tips and no mess, way. A reader submitted an inquiry regarding the economic analysis of this whole setup, so as I wait for my Zuppa Toscana, let us calculate. The extra distance commuting to the local Olive Garden is 10 miles. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-pasta-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewis.engineering\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}