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.
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.
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
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...
Could be. A little char can make things easier to light. But I've never tried lighting a greasy dough block, so I don't know whether it needs help or not.
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
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.
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Triumph@fedia.io · 87 pts · 202d
Determining the caloric content of Jesus
meshitero@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 201d
Game over, everyone. That's perfect.
edinbruh@feddit.it · 53 pts · 202d
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.
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 22 pts · 202d
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.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 48 pts · 202d
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.
Geobloke@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 201d
Yeah I think i remember seeing that. The donuts were like 90% for some holiday
operationalHazard@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 201d
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
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 202d
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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
Dude who downvoted you: How dare you be relevant, insightful, and correct.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 201d
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...
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 201d
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.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 199d
Could be. A little char can make things easier to light. But I've never tried lighting a greasy dough block, so I don't know whether it needs help or not.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 202d
DIY calorimeter?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 202d
You'll never get published with that scientific writing flair.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 202d
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
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 201d
Citations +1
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 202d
aT tHrEe Am!!!1!1!
yesman@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 202d
Safe, clean, and renewable. It's the energy source of the future.
Skuldug@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 202d
(h)Eat the Ritz™
Baggie@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 201d
Creation of holy water
reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 201d
Guess that's one way to measure the calories of a cracker.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 202d
Cracker fire water
ICastFist@programming.dev · 8 pts · 201d
"Finding the correct amount of crackers to make a boiling tube crack, by Liane Cartman et. al."
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 202d
Novel implementations of field expedient laboratory energy sources - a comprehensive scientific litterature meta-analysis.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 202d
Categorizing how hard a cracker got burned by measuring its caloric output with water as intermediary.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 202d
External bomb calorimeter.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 202d
It's kinda like The Matrix. Or, maybe I didn't understand that movie.
AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 202d
Calorie count of soylant green.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 202d
Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 202d
It's within a percent.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 201d
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.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 201d
Saul Goodman can't help us, only his high-school aged children can! Better call the Saul teens!
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 201d
🥁🐍
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 201d
Systematic review of lab equipment and techniques applied after the prohibition of bunsen burners
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 201d
Me getting family members cremated