Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]
Discussion
OyAke said:
Frozen sweetcorn / pea boiling...
What's the fastest way to get peas / sweetcorn (assuming similar heat capacity and surface variation for each unit of product and an initial temperature of -20C ) up to boiling temperature?
Say the "product" goes 1/3 the way up a pan with a 20cm diameter a 15cm height.
You have a kettle which is already boiled with enough water to brim the saucepan.
Do you put a little bit in (on full stove heat), so that even if the water reduces in temperature a long way because of the effect of the frozen veg, but then there is less volume to heat.
Or do you put a lot in, so the temperature of the water does not decrease so much, but there is now a greater volume of water / product to heat?
Or is there a certain middle ground?
Wife and I disagree, I put loads in, her a little bit. We've never timed it, perhaps we should.
Brim it, then pour off the excess. Maximum heat input then minimum mass to heat. What's the fastest way to get peas / sweetcorn (assuming similar heat capacity and surface variation for each unit of product and an initial temperature of -20C ) up to boiling temperature?
Say the "product" goes 1/3 the way up a pan with a 20cm diameter a 15cm height.
You have a kettle which is already boiled with enough water to brim the saucepan.
Do you put a little bit in (on full stove heat), so that even if the water reduces in temperature a long way because of the effect of the frozen veg, but then there is less volume to heat.
Or do you put a lot in, so the temperature of the water does not decrease so much, but there is now a greater volume of water / product to heat?
Or is there a certain middle ground?
Wife and I disagree, I put loads in, her a little bit. We've never timed it, perhaps we should.
OyAke said:
Frozen sweetcorn / pea boiling...
What's the fastest way to get peas / sweetcorn (assuming similar heat capacity and surface variation for each unit of product and an initial temperature of -20C ) up to boiling temperature?
Say the "product" goes 1/3 the way up a pan with a 20cm diameter a 15cm height.
You have a kettle which is already boiled with enough water to brim the saucepan.
Do you put a little bit in (on full stove heat), so that even if the water reduces in temperature a long way because of the effect of the frozen veg, but then there is less volume to heat.
Or do you put a lot in, so the temperature of the water does not decrease so much, but there is now a greater volume of water / product to heat?
Or is there a certain middle ground?
Wife and I disagree, I put loads in, her a little bit. We've never timed it, perhaps we should.
Put a lot in. Maximise the thermal mass of the cooking medium relative to the mass of the frozen food to make a higher net average.What's the fastest way to get peas / sweetcorn (assuming similar heat capacity and surface variation for each unit of product and an initial temperature of -20C ) up to boiling temperature?
Say the "product" goes 1/3 the way up a pan with a 20cm diameter a 15cm height.
You have a kettle which is already boiled with enough water to brim the saucepan.
Do you put a little bit in (on full stove heat), so that even if the water reduces in temperature a long way because of the effect of the frozen veg, but then there is less volume to heat.
Or do you put a lot in, so the temperature of the water does not decrease so much, but there is now a greater volume of water / product to heat?
Or is there a certain middle ground?
Wife and I disagree, I put loads in, her a little bit. We've never timed it, perhaps we should.
SpeckledJim said:
Put a lot in. Maximise the thermal mass of the cooking medium relative to the mass of the frozen food to make a higher net average.
I know it's not frozen product, but I was taught, when boiling potatoes, that the most efficient way was to put only just enough water to cover them.V8mate said:
SpeckledJim said:
Put a lot in. Maximise the thermal mass of the cooking medium relative to the mass of the frozen food to make a higher net average.
I know it's not frozen product, but I was taught, when boiling potatoes, that the most efficient way was to put only just enough water to cover them.
V8mate said:
SpeckledJim said:
Put a lot in. Maximise the thermal mass of the cooking medium relative to the mass of the frozen food to make a higher net average.
I know it's not frozen product, but I was taught, when boiling potatoes, that the most efficient way was to put only just enough water to cover them.Flibble said:
Surely that's feeling the humidity though, not the pressure difference.
I think it's the same mechanism which detects both. Flibble said:
Also proprioception us being able to tell where parts of your own body are in relation to each other, not meteorological sensation.
My mistake - somatosensory system. It's been a long time since my Degree mhurley said:
Why is carbon fibre so expensive?
I don't think the actual carbon fibre is the expensive bit, it the process that give the carbon fibre advantages that's expensive. You can buy the matting and resin for not much more that glass fibre stuff, but if you just lay it up like a fibreglass roof or boat it wouldn't have any of the lightness or strength that you'd associated with some F1 parts. It's all the precision laying, vacuum wrapping and autoclathing that's so labour intensive that makes it expensive. 227bhp said:
What is this thing?
It stands by the side of the road and looks like it's made of fibreglass or something similar. It has a solar panel on it and the sticker says it's an 'explosive atmosphere' ( relating to internal batteries perhaps?).
It resembles, but it patently isn’t, a U.S. roadside newspaper dispenser.It stands by the side of the road and looks like it's made of fibreglass or something similar. It has a solar panel on it and the sticker says it's an 'explosive atmosphere' ( relating to internal batteries perhaps?).
Just introduce one, two, three, four or more quarters, depending on the publication, and the day of the week, pull the door toward you, take newspaper, return to house/condo.
Pour coffee, O.J., beer, or vodka, relax around pool, depending on location and time of year, and leisurely peruse the important stuff, like sink hole appearing in Rock Springs UT., or Mayor of Bumf**k IA, caught using Canadian coins in candy dispensing machine.
Turn to pages 5 or 6, halfway down the page, learn that gilets jaune (whatever they are), are rioting in France, and that the dumb Brits still haven’t figured out that they made a doozy of a mistake by voting to quit the E.U., but who cares, we kicked their ass in 1781, at Yorktown.
Frank7 said:
227bhp said:
What is this thing?
It stands by the side of the road and looks like it's made of fibreglass or something similar. It has a solar panel on it and the sticker says it's an 'explosive atmosphere' ( relating to internal batteries perhaps?).
It resembles, but it patently isn’t, a U.S. roadside newspaper dispenser.It stands by the side of the road and looks like it's made of fibreglass or something similar. It has a solar panel on it and the sticker says it's an 'explosive atmosphere' ( relating to internal batteries perhaps?).
Just introduce one, two, three, four or more quarters, depending on the publication, and the day of the week, pull the door toward you, take newspaper, return to house/condo.
Pour coffee, O.J., beer, or vodka, relax around pool, depending on location and time of year, and leisurely peruse the important stuff, like sink hole appearing in Rock Springs UT., or Mayor of Bumf**k IA, caught using Canadian coins in candy dispensing machine.
Turn to pages 5 or 6, halfway down the page, learn that gilets jaune (whatever they are), are rioting in France, and that the dumb Brits still haven’t figured out that they made a doozy of a mistake by voting to quit the E.U., but who cares, we kicked their ass in 1781, at Yorktown.
Antony Moxey said:
Why are the button holes down the front of a shirt all vertical except for the bottom one which is horizontal?
The horizontal ones are more secure and so you have one top and bottom to stop a run of button opening. Verticals are easier to do hence are used for most of the holes. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff