Let's assume the chicken has to reach a temperature of 205C (400F) for us to consider it cooked.

Remind me never to let this guy cook for me.

To be clear, the slapping would have to be done in one single second to account for heat loss to environment.

I read once that the Mongolian warriors would place raw meat under their saddles and after riding all day would then consume it. Now I'm thinking that's not so far fetched.

How can she slap?!?!

Oh, that's how

This isn't going to be accurate, it's ignoring a key aspect of the heat that will be generated, friction. When designing materials for prosthetics we have to be aware of how much friction occurs between the material and skin. If the amount of friction is too great, the material can create enough heat to damage tissue.

The formula for the skin friction coefficient is cf=τw12ρeue2, where ρe and ue are the density and longitudinal velocity at the boundary layer's edge.

If you could cook a chicken that fast with one slap, wouldn't it be disintegrated from the force of the blow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFhnnTWMgI

And what would that do to my hand?

What I learned from this is never let a physics major cook you dinner, unless you want charcoal for chicken (200C !?!)

The real question is if you slapped hard enough to raise the temperature to 74C (undergrad clearly doesn't cook), what would the temperature of your hand be? And for the engineers: how far up your arm would you have to measure before the temperature returned to normal body temperature? And for the bio/kin/nursing/premed students: how much would need to be amputated?

At 400F it would no longer be a chicken but a pile of glowing cinders. A chicken is cooked at 165F.

Why isn't it a concern what slapping at this speed does to your hand/arm?

The chicken ran away when I tried to slap it.

Don’t forget, the chicken is frozen, so you also have to take into account the latent heat of fusion to melt the chicken before you can raise the temperature

This calculation also assumes that this is an inelastic collision where all the energy is absorbed into the chicken and not into your hand or into the air as sound or other kinetic energy.

Further the chicken is frozen solid, and, presumably, your hand is not. Of the two objects in this collision that could deform inelasticity and absorb the larger fraction of the energy, my money would be on the 0.4 kg slab of raw meat rather than the 1kg frozen billiard ball.

That's assuming an isentropic chicken though. You need even more slaps to make up for the heat loss to the environment.

But it only needs to reach 165°F, about 74°C.
Basically every food package says so.

I was hungry

not anymore

205°C? You're slapping your chicken too long, son. Your mother and I are worried.

Fun fact: someone actually did it