The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?
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The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?
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Re: The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?
#2I think it has something to do with the Curl Theorem: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CurlTheorem.html
It's the relationship between the line integral around the sausage (what the S stands for in δS) and the surface integral.
Re: The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?
#3This isn't a hard question. There's two reasons pepperonis curl. One is that the top is cooking faster than the bottom, and as with any piece of meat that will cause it to curl towards the surface being cooked faster.
The other reason is that the edge of the pepperoni cooks faster than the middle, that means that the edge experiences tension which causes the pepperoni to fold.
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#4This isn't a hard question. There's two reasons pepperonis curl. One is that the top is cooking faster than the bottom, and as with any piece of meat that will cause it to curl towards the surface being cooked faster. The other reason is that the edge of the pepperoni cooks faster than the middle, that means that the edge experiences tension which causes the pepperoni to fold.
And a third reason is simply because pepperonis can't be bothered to wget
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#5This isn't a hard question. There's two reasons pepperonis curl. One is that the top is cooking faster than the bottom, and as with any piece of meat that will cause it to curl towards the surface being cooked faster. The other reason is that the edge of the pepperoni cooks faster than the middle, that means that the edge experiences tension which causes the pepperoni to fold.
And a third reason is simply because pepperonis can't be bothered to wget
I don't wget the joke
Re: The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?
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#7This isn't a hard question. There's two reasons pepperonis curl. One is that the top is cooking faster than the bottom, and as with any piece of meat that will cause it to curl towards the surface being cooked faster. The other reason is that the edge of the pepperoni cooks faster than the middle, that means that the edge experiences tension which causes the pepperoni to fold.
And yet, his experiments suggest that how the sausage is packed can exacerbate curling in one direction over another.
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#8This isn't a hard question. There's two reasons pepperonis curl. One is that the top is cooking faster than the bottom, and as with any piece of meat that will cause it to curl towards the surface being cooked faster. The other reason is that the edge of the pepperoni cooks faster than the middle, that means that the edge experiences tension which causes the pepperoni to fold.
And a third reason is simply because pepperonis can't be bothered to wget
Depends on the -source of the links.
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#9This isn't a hard question. There's two reasons pepperonis curl. One is that the top is cooking faster than the bottom, and as with any piece of meat that will cause it to curl towards the surface being cooked faster. The other reason is that the edge of the pepperoni cooks faster than the middle, that means that the edge experiences tension which causes the pepperoni to fold.
Yet there are pepperonis that don't curl (which some pizzerias allegedly prefer) as discussed in the article. It appears that the way the pepperoni is stuffed, so that the meat forms a U if you take a cross section, gives it a propensity to curl in the first place.
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#10Haha! My friend is in the Chicago Tribune today for his new pizzeria in Chicago and he managed to sneak in a reference to the grease chalice: http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/restaurants/ct-paulie-g...