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.
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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 16 hours ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
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 9 hours ago
Dude who downvoted you: How dare you be relevant, insightful, and correct.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
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 8 hours ago
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.
edinbruh@feddit.it 18 hours ago
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 15 hours ago
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.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Creation of holy water
Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 18 hours ago
Efficacy of White Genocide as a Fuel Source
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
tbh I clicked on “comments” thinking “guarantee imma find the best reply from someone from hexbear” lawl
Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 15 hours ago
catgirl-salute I had a brief moment of regret after posting because I realized I could have collected downvotes if I had switched to an account that would federate with .world
ICastFist@programming.dev 8 hours ago
“Finding the correct amount of crackers to make a boiling tube crack, by Liane Cartman et. al.”
yesman@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
DIY calorimeter?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
You’ll never get published with that writing flair.
ignotum@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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
Skuldug@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Eat the Ritz™
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Cracker fire water
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
External bomb calometer
AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Calorie count of soylant green.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Novel implementations of field expedient laboratory heat sources - a systematic scientific litterature meta-analysis.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s kinda like The Matrix. Or, maybe I didn’t understand that movie.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
It’s within a percent.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
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.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Me getting family members cremated
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
Categorizing how hard a cracker got burned by measuring its caloric output with water as intermediary.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 13 hours ago
I always wondered with this experiment why burning the food gives an accurate measure of calories? Obviously our digestion doesn’t literally burn the food, so how are the two processes analogous?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
You do oxidize food in your gut. Maybe not as completely as burning it. But in a proper bomb calometer, it is sealed if that helps it make more sense.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 hours ago
Thanks for that. I guess in my head I feel there must be so much more to it. I need to read into it all
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Guess that’s one way to measure the calories of a cracker.