# What exactly constitutes a "square" of baker's chocolate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980 "2014-08-06T21:48:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980/1 "2014-08-06T21:48:09Z")
Yes, I know the difference between a square and a rectangle. But I’m not quite sure what a “square” of baker’s chocolate is. See[this picture](https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS47njnHk1mEIZ8LSb7CvdvCmqKlUZcOnsTlGrH54K6zdTmwrIXvA). Is a square the two rectangles together, or a single rectangle? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980/2 "2014-08-06T21:48:57Z")
That’s one square. It’s in sections like that so you can easily break it into two half squares. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980/3 "2014-08-06T21:55:34Z")
One square which is equivalent to 1 oz. I verified this many times when I was younger because I had the same question as you. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980/4 "2014-08-06T22:44:02Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > One square which is equivalent to 1 oz. I verified this many times when I was younger because I had the same question as you. Baker here confirming this. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980/5 "2014-08-06T23:23:40Z")
Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980/6 "2014-08-07T04:01:12Z")
The half-squares are a pretty recent innovation that has messed up a lot of handed-down recipes. A square had been a square since the Truman Administration, if not before. Still, it’s better than one of my recipes, written out by an aunt in the 1960s, that calls for a “39-cent” container of Cool Whip. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-constitutes-a-square-of-bakers-chocolate/694980/7 "2014-08-08T05:02:40Z")
Then there’s the question of what constitutes “one graham cracker” – the large rectangle? One of the two squares it breaks into? One of the two rectangles that the squares break into?