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[โ€“] observantTrapezium 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

205ยฐC ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Common sense and physicists are common enemies

[โ€“] observantTrapezium 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).

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Maybe they like their chicken fucking black

[โ€“] [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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I rounded the numbers to whole integers

whole integers, the best kind of integers

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Look, I just finished my medical board exams recently. My brain is running on the power of about 2/3rds of a yukon gold potato here.