How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it?
17 hours ago
- #humor
- #physics
- #cooking
- A classic calculation suggests slapping a chicken at 3726 mph would cook it, but this only heats it to cooking temperature without maintaining it.
- To actually cook a chicken, it must be kept at 165°F for several minutes, requiring continuous energy input to counteract heat loss via blackbody radiation.
- A chicken at 165°F radiates about 2000 watts of power, equivalent to 300 fluorescent lightbulbs.
- In a vacuum chamber (to avoid air cooling), four people swinging baseball bats at 75 mph once per second could maintain the chicken's temperature long enough to cook it.