Subj : HMMM? Anybody Home?
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Thu May 30 2024 07:05:00


Hi Ky!

 >   KM> It steam-cooks the eggs, but because it vents off, the steam
 >   KM> stays at boiling temp. If it were enclosed therefore under
 >   KM> increasing pressure, would get a lot hotter!
 > And become a mini pressure cooker!  (You want hard boiled eggs? I'll
 > give you hard boiled eggs!!)
 KM> In fact, when you cook them in the shell, each egg becomes a mini
 KM> pressure cooker... it has a pokey thing for making a hole in the
 KM> air-pocket end of the egg shell, so you don't get eggsplosions.

Or why one doesn't put raw eggs in a microwave to make hard boiled eggs.
 ...Or even soft boiled.


 >   KM> And yes, same basic way toasters and lots of other
 >   KM> thermostat-things work -- if it had an auto-off switch, which
 >   KM> mine does not -- bimetallic strip gets X-hot, bends and breaks
 >   KM> the circuit.
 > Yup: super-simple concept.  Trick is to make the make the
 > opening/closing temperature consistent. ...Somewhat consistent.
 KM> Boiling point of water is consistent, at least for a given air
 KM> pressure.
 KM> It's a clever use of that, for sure.
 
Boyle's Law?  Digging waaaaay back into the starting-to-liquify-its-so- 
old memory.   ...Well, that oozed -- Boyle's Law does have something to 
do with pressure and gases.  ..Just follow the directions on the package
for cooking in Denver!


 > I super-vaguely recall I fixed my parents' toaster back when I was an
 > early teen-ager.  ...With Dad's permission.  Good news for me: his
 > attitude was "if it's broken can't make it much worse" so I got to
 > repair quite a few items.  Back to the toaster, I don't recall what was
 > wrong but it didn't work right and I corrected whatever the problem was.
 KM> "How Barry Became a Tinker" :D

Pretty much!  Never had the urge to take something apart to see if make 
work better (also known as the Save Your Butt Rule!) but if not working 
right was allowed to try to fix.


 >   >   KM> And you don't want to cook eggs too fast; they get tough.
 >   > Visualizing angry-looking eggs, flexing their muscles.
 >   KM> AVMUG's logo was an eagle, but I always thought it looked like a
 >   KM> tough chicken!
 > I've seen a few eagle logos which do look more like roosters.
 >   KM> https://web.archive.org/web/20130304213030/http://www.avmug.av.org
 >   KM> /index.htm
 >
 > https://web.archive.org/web/20130304213030/http://www.avmug.av.org/index
 > .htm
 > 503 - Service Unavailable
 >
 > https://web.archive.org/web/20130304213030/
 > 503 - Service Unavailable
 >
 > http://www.avmug.av.org/index.htm
 > Just `spins'
 >
 > <checking> Yup: I am connecting to the outside still.

 KM> Hmm. Working here, it must hate you.

 KM> http://www.offworldpress.com/

 KM> Right side, down a few.

Tried the first one again (Antelope Valley Microcomputer Users Group) --
loaded right away; maybe their computer needed rebooting that day!  
Eagle looks to have been using steroids! <g>  (And Santa has had a 
little too much of the Real Eggnog!)



 >   >   KM> It's really a steam cooker, and the water barely covers the
 >   >   KM> hotplate.
 >   > And I've been immersing my eggs in a saucepan of boiling water to make
 >   > hard boiled eggs!
 >   KM> Steam is water, it's just more widely distributed. Think of it as
 >   KM> clouds from hell. <g>
 > Especially when a body part 'flies' through at close range!
 KM> SPLAT
 KM> Chicken a la floor!
 
Five Second Rule!!


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