Systematic review of lab equipment and techniques applied after the prohibition of bunsen burners
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Guess that's one way to measure the calories of a cracker.
Saul Goodman can't help us, only his high-school aged children can! Better call the Saul teens!
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Determining the caloric content of Jesus
Game over, everyone. That's perfect.
Related: a guy in Poland posted online about buying supermarket donuts to use as fuel in a wood-burning stove. The donuts turned out an order of magnitude cheaper than firewood.
Yeah I think i remember seeing that. The donuts were like 90% for some holiday
Poland is still fairly religious and I've heard accounts of the amount some people eat on Fat Thursday on the leadup to Easter. Pretty sure that a specific type of donut is quite popular for it. So yeah, probably related
Dude who downvoted you: How dare you be relevant, insightful, and correct.
I wish donuts were that cheap near me. The dollars to donuts phrase has been backward for like at least 10 years in my area.
That suggests you could mix flour and vegetable oil and maybe dry it into bricks which might be cheaper than donuts usual are. I wonder how dirty that burns...
Maybe the frying is the special sauce in making them more flammable? Fry donuts with a donut-fueled stove to get more donuts for fuel.
Is this to measure calories? We did something similar in elementary school, our teacher would light a piece of snack on hanging above an aluminium dish, and we would count for how long it burned. Then we looked at the packaging and the snacks with more calories burned the longest.
If I recall my undergrad thermodynamics class correctly, you can calculate the calories in food by burning, but in an experiment like this too much of the heat would escape to the surroundings to be usefully measured. Usually they use something like a bomb calorimeter to make sure all the heat is captured and measured.
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"Finding the correct amount of crackers to make a boiling tube crack, by Liane Cartman et. al."
DIY calorimeter?
You'll never get published with that writing flair.
Yeah you need a more eye-catching title, like
"I accidentally made a calorimeter?? Gone wrong - GONE SEXUAL"
Now that's a paper any journal would be itching to publish
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tbh I clicked on “comments” thinking “guarantee imma find the best reply from someone from hexbear” lawl
I had a brief moment of regret after posting because I realized I could have collected downvotes if I had switched to an account that would federate with .world
Ahhh I didn’t realize world was defedersted from hexbear! I’m happy db0 doesn’t defederate with many places, as far as I know. I know hexbear and this instance haven’t gotten along in the past but a lotta my values line up with both instances most of the time, and a ton of bangers come from bears.
They were so scared of the bearsite that they needed to “preemptively defederate” “as a last resort”
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External bomb calorimeter.
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Cracker fire water
Calorie count of soylant green.
It's kinda like The Matrix. Or, maybe I didn't understand that movie.
Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?
It's within a percent.
The main substance that burns but doesn't necessarily get metabolized is dietary fiber, which is a category of some different polysaccharides that burn but don't get (fully) digested.
So high fiber foods would tend to give incorrect results in bomb calorimetry.
I always wondered with this experiment why burning the food gives an accurate measure of calories? Obviously our digestion doesn't literally burn the food, so how are the two processes analogous?
You do oxidize food in your gut. Maybe not as completely as burning it. But in a proper bomb calorimeter, it is sealed if that helps it make more sense.
Thanks for that. I guess in my head I feel there must be so much more to it. I need to read into it all
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Categorizing how hard a cracker got burned by measuring its caloric output with water as intermediary.