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Pancake Physics to Cut Batter Splatter

Posted by chrisd on from the all-hail-science dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The headline just about says it all on this one. A physics grad student in the UK has come up with the mathematical formula for how to flip a pancake and have it land correctly back in the pan. The BBC has the details."

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  1. Pancake day was Tuesday by fruey · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Shrove Tuesday (or pancake day) or "Mardi Gras" was on Tuesday. Why is this not posted until Thursday then? The pancake stories were for pancake day.

    I am British BTW, so that means I think pancakes are pancakes, not those HUGE dripping in syrup (I wonder why Americans are overweight) batter mountains that you in the US eat ;-)

    p.s. I'm joking, taking a rise... I love US based pancakes although I've only ever eaten them in Haiti at the Villa Creole. But it's a statistical fact that the average American is overweight and I'm sure all this oversize stuff you do is the cause of it.

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    1. Re:Pancake day was Tuesday by G-funk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The average american isn't the only one overweight. So are the english and us aussies. Americans eat a lot of sweet stuff, and they eat bigger serves than we do, but the english tend to use gallons of lard when cooking at home whereas americans and aussies would use a little margarine. Basically, your average westerner is a fat prick, no matter what country you're in.

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