DailyDirt: Additional Challenges To Making Dinner
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
For some folks, boiling water isn't a simple task. Others can whip up a delicious meal before a pot of water can boil. Cooking skills can be amazingly good or mind-bogglingly bad, but there are some people who just don't want to do things simply, and they turn cooking into a kind of obstacle challenge. Sure, there are reality TV shows that put ridiculous time pressures on cooking a 7-course meal or restrict ingredients to rare delicacies. For pure fun (or sometimes necessity...), though, some cooks are forgoing a stove or conventional cooking devices to make their meals. Here are just a few examples.- A coffee maker can double as a steamer, cooking dishes like poached salmon with steamed broccoli. When you're only allowed to have a coffee maker in your dorm, that Mr. Coffee machine can start to look more interesting after your 50th bowl of ramen noodles. [url]
- Okay, there are some fancy rice cookers that come with pretty lengthy recipe books, but even no-frills rice cookers can make stuff beyond plain rice. Banana bread, chocolate lava cake... and maybe someone should try making coffee in a rice cooker? [url]
- The concept of cooking in a dishwasher has been around for a while, but some chefs are starting to really refine dishwasher techniques. Aluminum foil wraps for dishwasher cooking are being replaced by ziplock bags and mason jars -- so you can actually add soap and wash some dishes at the same time you cook your next meal. [url]
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Filed Under: coffee maker, cooking, dishwasher, food, poaching, recipes, rice cooker, steamer
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I'm confused... Making coffee with a rice cooker is a wide spread thing in my uni.
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Hm
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Re: Hm
There are no dangers associated with non-stick until the temperature gets very high (450F or higher, if you have birds as pets; up around 650F when they start getting dangerous for people). You can reach those temps relatively easy with high heat on a burner, but a rice cooker isn't ever going to be a danger.
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This lead me to look at how things are done elsewhere.
Thermodynamic Cell Phone Charger (I found a pot and a stove that do that)
Rapid Solar cellphone Charger
Hand Crank Emergency Cell Phone Charger
The handcrank is nice, but I was thinking more in the line of a foot powered thing, like those old sewing machines that used a flying wheel to operate, it also reminded me that the first modern dental drill was powered by a flying wheel that produced the compressed air in the 19th century
Wikipedia: >historic foot-powered dental dril. Picture taken at the Wabeno Logging Museum
Wouldn't be nice to have something that could work with electricity, foot or hand? you just change the motor.
NCBI: Biological conversion of hydrogen sulphide to elemental sulphur in a fixed-film continuous flow photo-reactor.
Wikipedia: Hydrodesulfurization
Reacting hidrogen sulfide with iron oxide(III).
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To bad I am not a chemist by any means, so it is hard for me to do all the research and come up with visions of what can be done, still I like to fool around with concepts and build little prototypes to see how things work.
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Cooking with Explosives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Ready-to-Eat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Combat,_I ndividual_ration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-ration
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