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Robert Wegeng's avatar

It's always fun to challenge yourself by applying thermodynamics and heat transfer to a real-world circumstance. You might enjoy the following, related article: https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/325445/1/1-s2.0-S0960308509000182-main.pdf

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Mike Patterson's avatar

https://douglasbaldwin.com/roasting.html

This is good as well. The problem is a lot more complicated than Andrew leads us to believe.

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Bruce Gelin's avatar

I’ve got to get that book, “Consider a Spherical Cow.” It sounds like the perfect companion to the group of quasi-scientific essays collected in “Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown and Other Essays …”

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John Griffith's avatar

Well written. Made me guffaw OL. Good physicist joke, and that would be Mom FTW 😊

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Jacquie Tsimbinos's avatar

I'm pretty annoyed you're using a sensitive sentient being, which is exploited, abused and violently slaughtered as a comparison.

We are all meant to be protectors and guardians of the innocent, and animals are high on that list.

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Mike Hoy's avatar
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American Thanksgiving Turkey might as well be a sphere of water for its blandness and lack of flavor.

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Alan Jackson's avatar

Which is why splatchcocking cuts the time almost in half. Squish the sphere to an oblate spheroid with a minor axis of 3 inches, and the time is almost cut in half (9/16).

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Jo Waller's avatar

A climate scientist still eating meat. That's an unfollow from me.

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Mike Patterson's avatar

I’m not sure I buy the boundary condition that T = 100. That implies that the problem is independent of the temperature of the oven.

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Radaghast's avatar

I really have my doubts that men are innocent. 😉

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Andrew Dessler's avatar

“Normal innocent men”

https://youtu.be/lr_vl62JblQ?si=L7mrqP9U6EA4v_HX

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