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HOWTO, Cook an Egg With Your Cell Phone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-joy-of-technology dept.

xPosiMattx writes "Suzzanna Decantworthy published an article in her Wymsey Weekend column that described how to cook an egg with two cell phones. From the article: "Many students, and other young people, have little in the way of cooking skills but can usually get their hands on a couple of mobile phones. So, this week, we show you how to use two mobile phones to cook an egg which will make a change from phoning out for a pizza.""

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  1. Not so fast there. by Mrs.+Grundy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    FTFA:

    6. Phone A will now be talking to Phone B whilst Phone B will be talking to Phone A.

    I love urban legend as much as the next guy, but this isn't exactly true. These are cell phones not two-way radios. Phone A will be talking to a cell phone tower, whilst phone B is talking to a cell phone tower, whilst each cell phone tower is talking to the two phones respectively. There is no reason to think that you are forming some sort of ultra powerful death beam between the two phones by placing them in close proximity to one another. Having said that, if I was being attacked by a giant stay puff marshmallow man, I might give this a shot as a last resort.

  2. Wow. Who knew? Cook an egg with 12 Watt-minutes by crmartin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uh. Huh. Let's see ... an egg is, oh, say 50 grams. So it takes 50 calories to raise the temp of the egg by 1C. and a hard-boiled egg is more or less at equilibrium with boiling water, so the minimum would be something like 70×50 calories, and 4.2 joules/calorie, so its going to take MINIMUM 14,700 joules.

    60 joules to the watt-minute. 720 joules in 12 watt-minutes. 720 joules < 14,700 joules.

    Check: it takes about 1 minute for my 700 watt microwave to cook 1 egg. 700 watt-minutes is 42,000 joules. 720 joules < 42,000 joules.

    I call bullshit.