• fantoozie@midwest.social
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    Lord have mercy on folks cooking their chicken to 400 F. Those birds will come out as dry as the sands of the Sahara.

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    Typical physicist, ignoring enthalpy of phase changes. Starting from 1C defrosted makes a huge difference from 0C as the melting takes up a ton more energy/slaps. Their underslapped chicken would give you salmonella

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      Naw, that’s burnt.

      Maillard reaction where things brown starts at 350f.

      More than 165/175 in the center and that’s dried out.

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        If you spatchcock your bird then you’ve only gotta slap your cock to about 150°F at the thickest part of breast

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          naturally. Best to slow it down and keep it juicy, too. I like smoking them at about 200 f, it’s perfection.

          also… way to make spatchcocking sound even dirtier than it is. the no cooks here are probably thinking it’s some sort of sex act and the rest of us are wondering if it’s not also some sort of sex act.

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    At this point we have to consider the ambient temperature as well, as the chicken will slightly cool between two slaps once it exceeds it

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      I think we should put more consideration into the fact that slapping the chicken this much will dissipate a lot of energy into deforming the chicken.

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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.

    • zedgeist@lemmy.worldOP
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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.

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      to my knowledge these calculations pretty much have to be assuming a vacuum. IE there’s no mention of heat loss between slaps. which would be inevitable as 23k instant slaps, would take considerable time.