• laserwash2000@sh.itjust.works
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    The chicken has to exceed the boiling point of water for it to be cooked? Unless we’re making chicken caramels, I don’t think so.

    Doing some math, I think it works out to 6,242 slaps or a single slap at 1,939 mph. Much more attainable.

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      Single slap assumes all kinetic into heat, which isn’t. Alot is lost to the slap sound, alot more is lost into the flying bits of pulverised chicken bits.

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      That 205C would just be the surface temperature of the chicken, not the average. Note that the calculation doesn’t take into account the volume or radius

      EDIT: No, I’m wrong. The calculation is for boiling the whole chicken. Who was this written by, a Brit?

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        Who was this written by, a Brit?

        Nope. Likely an American.

        When cooking, people in general like to use round numbers, like “200°C”, since a difference of 5°C in oven temperature is not a big deal.

        And yet they went with some oddly specific 205°C. That only makes sense if they’re used to Fahrenheit, eyeballed a round value (like 400°F), converted it into Celsius (204.4°C), and then rounded it up to discard the decimal.

        I’m also going to say they’re completely clueless when it comes to cooking - 200°C is the oven temperature. The chicken itself reaches a far lower temperature, in the 70~80°C range. By the time the chicken reached 200°C, it’s already dry and close to catching fire. (The self-ignition temperature for biological stuff is typically between 200°C and 250°C.)

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        Are you sure? The numbers in the tweet reddit post talk about total mass and heat capacity. So I think that means the entire bulk has that average temperature.