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some kinds of fire extinguisher could accomplish this. bit expensive though.

[โ€“] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This was a b plot on the Bam Margera movie haggard.

Falcone wants his royalties

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[โ€“] ExLisper@linux.community 5 points 2 years ago (12 children)

What I would like to know is if we will ever have microwaves that stop the spinning plate in the same place that they started. It's XXI century, I want to take out my cup as easily as I've put it in.

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[โ€“] Snowman44@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a drink chiller that chills drinks in about a minute. You could use the same idea for other things.

[โ€“] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

The Chill-O-Matic is smaller, cheaper and probably easier to clean as it doesn't seem to have tubing.

The design of that machine in your link is a lot of overkill for something simple.

[โ€“] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

In beer brewing there's a point where you want to cool your beer down as quickly as possible.
A chiller is dropped into the just cooked wort. (wort is the beer before fermentation).
It goes from steaming hot to room temperature very quickly.
It's just a spiral pipe that you run cold water through.
Sounds like you need something like that for a potato.

[โ€“] Comment105@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You should try to build a chamber that sprays liquid nitrogen or other cryogenic liquids at the food.

Idk, good luck.

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[โ€“] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

That's an air conditioner. Or a fridge.

You just need to adjust the output and input sizes. Do to like... physics. It is easier to add heat to a system than to remove it.

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[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 3 points 2 years ago

I present the Macro Wave!

[โ€“] muddi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah there are those machines that like instantly cool your soda can or make ice cream instantly supposedly. They just bathe it in ice and salt water for some time basically

[โ€“] Poopmeister@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] uralsolo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It occurs to me that you could get some really high-speed cooling with liquid nitrogen (or dry ice and alcohol) but the reality of working with cryogenic fluids is that they're pretty dangerous so I don't think anyone would do that. Unlike a microwave where the dangerous part (the waves) is all self-contained and turns off the instant you open the door.

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