The question posed is not "how hard" but "how many times and how hard". You can't cook a chicken in one hit because that amount of heat requires a large amount of force which then obliterates the chicken. There's a video on youtube that tries to answer this question.
How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)
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#102That chicken would be obliterated long before cooking
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#103"Assume a spherical chicken..."
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#104Ahab had his whale, and James Simon apparently has his chicken.
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#106It takes a tough man to hit a tender chicken.
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#107I still need to know how fast I need to ride my bike to not freeze my hands, when biking during the winter without mittens. There has to be some sweet spot where my hands a warm, but not burning.
I knew there was an What If? from xkcd about this. It's the fifth question in this short answer collection: https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/
> quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that if your body were doing that much work, your core temperature would reach fatal levels in a matter of seconds.
Disappointed they didn’t factor in other inputs to the propulsion (e.g. battery assist, etc).
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#108Cannot believe they did all the math..
Then made it impenetrable to non-Americans by using imperial.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The charges were filed in April [2023] after police received reports that Prince Ssenteza-Woodson cooked a baby chicken in an air fryer while streaming it live on social media. https://www.wdrb.com/news/crime-reports/uofl-student-sentenc...
Yeah that’s fucked up.
Honestly par for the course for human treatment of chickens. See chick culling [1]. Billions of baby chicks are macerated live because they are not commercially useful.
> Worldwide: As of 2015, approximately 7 billion male chicks were culled annually around the world
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The charges were filed in April [2023] after police received reports that Prince Ssenteza-Woodson cooked a baby chicken in an air fryer while streaming it live on social media. https://www.wdrb.com/news/crime-reports/uofl-student-sentenc...
Yeah that’s fucked up.
That tells me the police have nothing better to do.