Comments on: Radio-cooked Toast Never Tastes Burned, Even If Black

By: Portacaro

Portacaro — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:20:34 +0000

It works fine in practice. Cost me a bit but it worked out OK. I wouldn’t want to try to cook anything too big with my setup but it does work great for grilled cheese.

By: Al Bear

Al Bear — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:23:55 +0000

Engineers are not quite sure just why this is

Crazy know nuthin’ Engineers!

By: Casandro

Casandro — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:07:21 +0000

If it was actually heated by current passing through, I wouldn’t eat anything of it. Electrolysis might have created dangerous chemicals.

By: Torgo

Torgo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:04:04 +0000

Wow, Fifi D’Orsay. She shows up in the oddest places.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:12:32 +0000

Makes sense, Matt. Wouldn’t toast microwaved until it turns black be ~~almost~~ unchewable?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:18:43 +0000

How many fingers were burned off before they thought this wasn’t such a good idea?

I worked at a TV station, if you opened the cabinet the transmitter was in, the transmitter shut off.

By: Tõnu

Tõnu — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:08:04 +0000

Will they invent TV-dinner next?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:54:23 +0000

George – I think the method used here is different than discovered by Percy Spencer. Since the article talks about them placing the food to be cooked “between electrodes” I think the food is actually being cooked by high-speed electrons traveling between the plates smashing into the food, rather than by electromagnetic radiation. Kind of like the way it’s possible to cook a hot dog by running an electric current through it, but in this case the plates are at such high potentials to each other that the food doesn’t have to make physical contact with them.

By: georgelazenby

georgelazenby — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:36:11 +0000

Doesn’t this pre-date the accepted story of how radio waves were discovered to heat food? 1933 vs. 1945?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer