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GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts) Thu Nov 8, 2012, 10:59 AM Nov 2012

Bacon from a calculator?

Overheard conversation about Nate Silver's reality based prognostication: "Trying to talk sense to a conservative is like trying to get bacon from a calculator." Thanks to one of my Philadelphia Facebook friends.

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Bacon from a calculator? (Original Post) GoneOffShore Nov 2012 OP

Anything with Bacon deserves a Rec. TalkingDog Nov 2012 #1

Keep Calm and Eat Bacon! ThatsMyBarack Nov 2012 #2

You can't get bacon from a calculator... but.... Chiyo-chichi Nov 2012 #3

TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)

1. Anything with Bacon deserves a Rec.

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 11:04 AM

Nov 2012

n/t

ThatsMyBarack

(7,641 posts)

2. Keep Calm and Eat Bacon!

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 11:09 AM

Nov 2012

That is all.

Chiyo-chichi

(3,580 posts)

3. You can't get bacon from a calculator... but....

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 11:14 AM

Nov 2012

The Math of Perfectly Crisp Bacon

Four researchers from the UK's Leeds University spent more than a thousand hours testing 700 variations of bacon sandwiches using both a computer and 50 taste-testing volunteers, and they managed to come up with the formula for perfectly crisp bacon:

N = C + {fb(cm) . fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc . ta
N = force in Newtons required to break the cooked
bacon.
fb = function of the bacon type.
fc = function of the condiment/filling effect.
Ts = serving temperature.
tc = cooking time.
ta = time or duration of application of condiment/
filling.
cm = cooking method.
C = Newtons required to break uncooked bacon.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/04/the-math-of-perfectly-crispy-b.html

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