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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)

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Post by CitrusFruits »

pansa2 wrote: post #70
hakken306 wrote: post #13

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…

> The author lazily took the 165F temperature and… Where did they even get 165F from in the first place? The “classic solution” article uses 400F, a much more appropriate oven temperature.

165F is the safe eating temperature recommended for most meats here in the U.S.

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

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Post by robocat »

whycome wrote: post #5

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.

I first heard the Australian version of the urban legend: a chicken fired into a jet engine to test for bird strikes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/catapoultry/

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

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Post by margalabargala »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #66

If we're considering unconventional cooking methods, what about orbital re-entry cooking, or atmospheric friction cooking in general? What speed/altitude would a plane need to be travelling at to lob a chicken out the window and have it perfectly cooked when it hit land? SR-71 external temp reached 600F or so at Mach-3, so that might result in a charred chicken.

An amateur rocket enthusiast did this on YouTube, also going at mach 3.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9UX7NJLYyb4

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

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Post by whycome »

bregma wrote: post #48
whycome wrote: post #5

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.

Nah. Those just cook on reentry ;)

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

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

margalabargala wrote: post #73
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #66

If we're considering unconventional cooking methods, what about orbital re-entry cooking, or atmospheric friction cooking in general? What speed/altitude would a plane need to be travelling at to lob a chicken out the window and have it perfectly cooked when it hit land? SR-71 external temp reached 600F or so at Mach-3, so that might result in a charred chicken.

An amateur rocket enthusiast did this on YouTube, also going at mach 3. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9UX7NJLYyb4

I like that these guys did it in style, wearing chef's hats!

I guess even cooking a rare steak (beyond just searing the outside) takes a couple of minutes, so maybe it'd need some Mach-3 horizontal flying time.

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

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Post by olelele »

thebruce87m wrote: post #19
whycome wrote: post #5

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.

Could aim it at the space station. Would be nice to receive a fresh cooked chicken in orbit I imagine.

Wait. Orbital chicken coops w drop delivery..
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