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How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

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Re: How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

#42

Used to joke in the kitchen that I worked in that if we were pressed for time, instead of baking something for an hour at 300°, we can just bake it for 6 minutes at 3,000°. It's such a fun concept and always makes me giggle

It's somewhat used for milk pasteurization. You can heat it to 61°C (145°F) for 30 minutes or to 72°C (162°F) for 15 seconds (yes, 0.25 minutes). More info https://www.idfa.org/pasteurization and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization

Re: How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

#43

"Mom, where are the hitters in the oven?" "We call them heaters in that one case."

> To keep an object at a given temperature, you have to continuously give it the same energy it’s radiating away.

Or put it in mirror chamber - a bit less trouble than windmilling baseball bats ...

Re: How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

points for'a perfectly spherical chicken'.

For the uninitiated https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

My personal favorite.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/3j96p1/a...

Re: How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

#45
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your intuition is right in this case. A 2kW oven is more than enough to heat small chicken up to temperature. The author lazily took the 165F temperature and put it into a blackbody calculator without converting the units. Anything but the metric system... Assuming the chicken has a surface area A=1m^2 (corresponding to a perfectly spherical chicken of radius=25cm/diameter=50cm, a little bigger than usual) and is a p…

"a little bigger": it would weigh 65 kg.

But ideally you could stuff it with a dozen thanksgiving turkeys themselves stuffed with ducks stuffed with regular chickens stuffed with sausages. Be prepared: there will probably be leftovers.

Re: How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

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Chicken Gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun I’m pretty sure NASA used a version of this to test the resiliency of the space shuttle tiles. Not fast enough to cook tho.

The actual NASA chicken cannon just used gelatin blobs because at muzzle velocity the effects were the same but there was a lot less bones and feathers to clean up.

Re: How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)

#49

You don’t have to hit a chicken hard to cook it you just shoot it at a wall.

I think it would negatively affect the visual appearance and texture of said chicken.

Purely a matter of personal taste. Chicken pate on toast is popular in many regions.
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