Bigclivedotcom offers this video adventure in electrical/culinary engineering. The official description is “Turbo charging a 120V Presto hot dogger on 250V.” That led to a further experiment, this in comparative electrical/culinary engineering: (Thanks to Paul Mansfield for bringing this to our attention.)
Tag: cooking
When seafood scientists became food-poisoned by their own holiday seafood
Having failed to perish, they proceeded to publish. Serendipity and not-careful-enough cooking technique by Norwegian shellfish scientists (for their own Christmas gathering) led to a nasty illness for two-thirds of their group, which led to a biomedical investigation, which led to a published scientific study about it all, which led to a report in Forskening.no […]
A look back at George Goble’s prize-winning barbecue quick-ignition triumph
A look back (a news report, on Oct 9,1996, via the Wayback Machine) at the Ig Nobel Prize for fastest way to ignite a barbecue. (An additional, until-now untold aspect of the story: The university’s administration was proud of this, then years later suddenly decided to be frightened of mentioning it, then eventually became again proud […]
Cooking up a weapon: Kangri for the angry
Warfare breeds ingenuity of a sort: “Use of Kangri (A Traditional Firepot) as a Weapon,” Arsalaan F. Rashid, Rifat Fazili, and Akash D. Aggarwal, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2014. (Thanks to investigator Ivan Oransky for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Medical College and Govt. Medical College, […]