What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object?
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The first microwave ovens created were being used to gently re-warm frozen live hamsters, because when they tried to reheat the hamsters with conventional cooking methods, they heated unevenly and burned at the edges, which isn't good for the hamsters.
Anyone else randomly think of Joe Cartoon for the first time in a very long time?
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Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
helluva mouse problem at the Maxim house
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Hugo Boss (the clothing line) started out making uniforms for the Nazi Party.
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I have to assume the microwave didn't work either, because they cook far more unevenly than an oven.
On high, yes. Lower and intermittent power in micro wave heats far more evenly than an oven
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HOW IS THAT BETTER
The crazy part is it was less painful then what they were doing without the chainsaw...
On the plus side I believe that was the same time they invented vibrators, and when women complained about how shitty everything was, they'd just go get vibrated to cure their "hysteria".
Here's a very upbeat song by Riki Lindholm about it:
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helluva mouse problem at the Maxim house
Looks like that one Love, Death & Robots episode.
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Microwaves also heat from the outside in. The difference is the heat can be turned on and off as easily as a light switch, whereas an oven is literally just a hot box. Defrosting works solely because the heat can be turned off for 14 out of 20 seconds (or what ever cycle the microwave has) to let the heat conduct through the frozen tissue.
I wouldn't be surprised if the hamster/rat defrosters achieved their results by simply being less powerful than a kitchen appliance.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Microwaves penetrate a certain distance into the material and then turn into heat. Heat conduction from the outside doesn't. I don't know exactly what the average of that distance is and how it compares to the size of a hamster, but I would bet that it's pretty competitive with the thickness of the hamster.
Your whole argument here makes no sense at all. Having the ambient temperature set to the perfect defrosting value would work better than heating the skin of the frozen meat in cycles of full on / full off, if the microwaves were getting stopped right at the skin and then the heat had to conduct in from there.
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Hugo Boss (the clothing line) started out making uniforms for the Nazi Party.
You know they are some of the most iconic uniforms of all time I'll give them that
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Artificial raspberry flavor is made from beaver anal glands.
Seems unnecessary. Raspberries are plentiful and likely cheaper than beaver parts.
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Chewing gum is a petroleum product.
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Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
And the maxim gun is still in use today. Not new ones, mind you, the ones from his lifetime.
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HOW IS THAT BETTER
Chainsaws are fast, imagine doing it with a manual saw
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Which brings us to just one of those bizarre US things, "artificial flavor" versus "natural flavor" is totally arbitrary and random. It's based on which molecule, not what the source is, so you can have "natural flavors" that came from a massive stainless steel tank and will kill you if you touch them in pure form without the proper protective gear, or "artificial flavors" that come from squeezing beaver ass glands.Edit: Every word of this post is wrong. Literally every one. I think I read a book decades ago that told me this, maybe I remembered it wrong, but anyway according to the internet of today it's different and I'm a big dummy.
Which brings us to just one of those bizarre US things, "artificial flavor" versus "natural flavor" is totally arbitrary and random. It's based on which molecule, not what the source is,
But, that's sensible. If it's the chemical you find in raspberry, then its natural raspberry flavor. If it's something we invented or discovered that's like raspberry, its artificial. Who cares if it came from a bioreactor?
will kill you if you touch them in pure form without the proper protective gear,
While I wouldn't recommend eating concentrated artificial flavours, touching them won't kill you. Unless you jump into the reactor, but jumping into one would kill you no matter what the substance inside is.
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Seems unnecessary. Raspberries are plentiful and likely cheaper than beaver parts.
Yeah, a little research online says it's likely only used in perfumes due to expense, but technically it could be used in food.
Most foods though will just use raspberries in some form or another.
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Anyone else randomly think of Joe Cartoon for the first time in a very long time?
You ain't got the balls! No. Balls.
I probably got that wrong, but it's also been at least 20 years since I last pressed those blender buttons.
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Seems unnecessary. Raspberries are plentiful and likely cheaper than beaver parts.
Yeah, it sounds like this might not actually be as common as suggested. Synthetic chemicals are usually going to be cheaper than hunting a beaver.
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Which brings us to just one of those bizarre US things, "artificial flavor" versus "natural flavor" is totally arbitrary and random. It's based on which molecule, not what the source is, so you can have "natural flavors" that came from a massive stainless steel tank and will kill you if you touch them in pure form without the proper protective gear, or "artificial flavors" that come from squeezing beaver ass glands.Edit: Every word of this post is wrong. Literally every one. I think I read a book decades ago that told me this, maybe I remembered it wrong, but anyway according to the internet of today it's different and I'm a big dummy.
It's based on which molecule, not what the source is
Other way around. You can have identical molecules be classified as "artificial" or "natural" depending upon whether they were synthesized or extracted.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/svbl7/what_are_artificial_flavors_made_out_of/
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It's based on which molecule, not what the source is
Other way around. You can have identical molecules be classified as "artificial" or "natural" depending upon whether they were synthesized or extracted.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/svbl7/what_are_artificial_flavors_made_out_of/
Oh, you're completely right. IDK how I thought it was different, but yes, what I said was completely wrong.
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
During the War on Terror, there was a much-publicized fact that your own household furnishings were much more likely to kill you than terrorist.
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Chewing gum is a petroleum product.
