The members of a community on the Reddit social network seek the answer to an intriguing question: Is it possible to cook a chicken that throws ice cubes? Users have been inclined on the subject and the answer is already known.
“If the impact is slow enough, the ice cube can cool the chicken. But if it is quick enough, the collision can warm the chicken. If the kinetic energy becomes thermal energy at the time, you can cook a chicken that throws ice cubes?” Ask Hokran Sobrenom user.
New version of an old question
Although it may seem like a silly question, it is based on another more intriguing question. One of the issues that have been traveling on the Internet for years and based on the current discussion is that it is possible to cook a chicken just hitting it. In theory, it is possible, and kinetic energy is the key to understanding the problem.
“Thermal energy is partially a form of kinetic energy; a part refers to the movement of small particles within a substance. This movement has kinetic energy, but we do not see it because particle directions are random and change very quickly,” says physicist David Schmid at the University of Illinois.
The main difference between thermal and kinetic energy is that the first consists of random movements of particle, which are not visible in the naked eye. In the meantime, the second is a unified movement of these same particles, this time visible on a large scale.
In short, adding enough kinetic energy to a chicken could warm it. However, the greater curiosity is necessary the strength or frequency to cover the chicken to make it edible? Physics Parker Ormonde did the math and published on his Facebook profile.
“To cook the chicken at the same time, you must hit it at a speed of 1,665.65 m/s,” concludes ormonde. It is about 600,000 kilometers per hour, almost 500 times the speed of sound.
Instead of one, thousands of tapas
However, there is an alternative to the supersonic slap. It is only possible to cover the chicken repeatedly at high speed to get the same result. YouTuber Louis Weisz decided to try to do it. After some adjustments, he managed to warm up the food in 8 hours, with about 135,000 slaps.
The great disadvantage of trying to cook something with bladder is that each action has an opposite or equal reaction. So, in addition to the chicken, the hand would also cook.
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In the case of ice, the principle is the same. The advantage now is that the hand is out of the equation, but wild machines capable of throwing frozen cubes.
“In practice, you have to create a device to throw many ice cubes barely and I can’t guarantee that they will not convert chicken into juice when cooking,” says the user of many classes3927.
Even with answers in answers, the case is only possible in theory. Trying to cook a chicken with an extremely strong slap or through a ice machinery still requires equipment far from the current culinary utensils.
