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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

What if I wanted to cook the chicke through friction, by say inserting an object 3 fingers or so thick in and out of its cavity as fast as athletically possible? ... so um... how long can I keep fucking my chicken?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

alternatively, how long do I have to keep choking my chicken to cook it?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

As your friendly neighborhood person with knowledge about food and cooking, 2 pounds is an absurd weight for an uncooked rotisserie chicken, that is a very small and cooked weight, 4-6 pounds is going to be typical. Also, more importantly, you cannot cook something faster by increasing the temperature past a pretty quick point, meat is an excellent insulator. No slap can cook the inside of a frozen chicken unless the entire chicken disintegrates.

Tbf though, a slap at 3700 mph would absolutely disintegrate the chicken.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

No one's going to point out the absurd starting assumption KE=mcT??

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Gotta love how everyone forgot about Newton in all this. Enjoy your instantly well-cooked hand, which is also made of meat.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lord have mercy on folks cooking their chicken to 400 F. Those birds will come out as dry as the sands of the Sahara.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes that is about 2.5 times the recommended safe temp. I am not going the math though.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

https://youtu.be/hzMzFGgmQOc?t=285

"well done steaks. if I see a speck of red, it's going back. you better cook my food".

Signed, a well done meat enjoyer.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Also at room temperature, the average speed of atoms in the material is at 400 m/s, at least for a gas. That might give you a hint.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

But how do you get the chicken back from the stratosphere once you've slapped it that fast?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You start in the stratosphere and slap it down towards the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Better to slap it twice at half strength so that it's cooked when you catch it.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well otherwise it has to stay at some 100 degrees for quite a long time to consider it cooked

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

You need the chicken to be 165F or 74C to be food safe. It takes a long time to cook at 100-200C because the heat is being transferred much slower. If we're using this instant slap-based cooking method, it only needs to get to the food safe temperature.

Using the OP's calculations and a cooked temperature of 74C:

It would take 8315 average slaps

or

A slap at around 813m/s or 1819mph.

*Edit for a correction to the second calculation (it still might be wrong), also, I rounded the numbers to whole integers.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Maybe they like their chicken fucking black

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Common sense and physicists are common enemies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I confirm this as a physics PhD. I also understand exactly this thinking of assuming a system is in thermal equilibrium where it is far from it (like a chicken in am oven).

[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Typical physicist, ignoring enthalpy of phase changes. Starting from 1C defrosted makes a huge difference from 0C as the melting takes up a ton more energy/slaps. Their underslapped chicken would give you salmonella

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They haven't considered rate of slap. Significant heat transfer to environment even at 10 slaps per second.

They're also assuming sea level standard atmospheric conditions. You may need to reduce rate of slap at altitude.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Also only about half the heat goes into the chicken and the other half into the hand used for slapping

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I believe we're well on our way to developing the worlds first slap coefficient.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Slap the salmon

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also completely neglecting that not all the energy in a slap will be transferred to thermal energy in the chicken.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

Assume a spherical chicken...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the phase change from uncooked to cooked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Where do I find cooked in the phase diagram?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This is why AI will take all of our jobs. Oh well, as long as we can.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At this point we have to consider the ambient temperature as well, as the chicken will slightly cool between two slaps once it exceeds it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I think we should put more consideration into the fact that slapping the chicken this much will dissipate a lot of energy into deforming the chicken.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Assume the chicken is spherical an in vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I think they did this on mythbusters

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bro really wanted his chicken well done at 400°F

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Naw, that’s burnt.

Maillard reaction where things brown starts at 350f.

More than 165/175 in the center and that’s dried out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I saw your username first.

Then I misread the rest as a Mallard Reaction.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

The mallard reaction is only relevant when cooking duck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you spatchcock your bird then you’ve only gotta slap your cock to about 150°F at the thickest part of breast

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

naturally. Best to slow it down and keep it juicy, too. I like smoking them at about 200 f, it's perfection.

also... way to make spatchcocking sound even dirtier than it is. the no cooks here are probably thinking it's some sort of sex act and the rest of us are wondering if it's not also some sort of sex act.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

spatchcocked birds also kinda look like a random roadkill animal to the ignorant, idk if you care about who sees you grillin

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