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 2 months ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Dude who downvoted you: How dare you be relevant, insightful, and correct.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 months 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 2 months 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.
Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Efficacy of White Genocide as a Fuel Source
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
tbh I clicked on “comments” thinking “guarantee imma find the best reply from someone from hexbear” lawl
Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 2 months 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
Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Creation of holy water
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Guess that’s one way to measure the calories of a cracker.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
DIY calorimeter?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You’ll never get published with that writing flair.
ignotum@lemmy.world 2 months 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
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
“Finding the correct amount of crackers to make a boiling tube crack, by Liane Cartman et. al.”
Skuldug@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eat the Ritz™
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cracker fire water
AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Calorie count of soylant green.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Novel implementations of field expedient laboratory heat sources - a systematic scientific litterature meta-analysis.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
Categorizing how hard a cracker got burned by measuring its caloric output with water as intermediary.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
External bomb calometer
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s kinda like The Matrix. Or, maybe I didn’t understand that movie.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Saul Goodman can’t help us, only his high-school aged children can! Better call the Saul teens!
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
🥁🐍
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It’s within a percent.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Systematic review of lab equipment and techniques applied after the prohibition of bunsen burners
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Me getting family members cremated
Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 months 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 2 months 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.