Attn ATOT engineers: need help, stat!!!

[LiuKangBakinPie]

I think using heatguns or whatever burners won't help with Pop Tarts. I think you will just burn her face. Her pimp will be fucked off at you.

 

[Rubycon]

The small torch is good for a quick toasting. Especially when you're in tight places (way smaller than say where one could "swing a cat") and no electrical power is available that would work a toaster - the torch is a good compromise.

 

[DrPizza]

OMG, I didn't think of this! Grab an extension cord, cut the end off. Stick the wires into opposite ends of your pop tart. Plug in the extension cord. When the pop tart appears hot enough, unplug the extension cord. Enjoy!

I'll be doing an experiment on parallel and series circuits later this week by doing exactly that with hotdogs (except I impale the hotdogs on nails that are connected to the extension cord.)

 

[Exterous]

1) Burn the office down. Cook poptart on smoldering remains

2) Stand on your desk in order to hold poptart closer to overhead light fixture. Hold poptart close until it reaches desired temp

3) Break into your company's server room. Place poptart in server. The more important the server the faster your poptart will toast

 

[JSt0rm]

I have an idea, entirely untested:

Find a sheet of glass. Heat glass in microwave (timing unknown). Open, test heat (drops of water should boil quickly), put pop-tart on glass, remove pop-tart, repeat for other side.

Make sure the room doesn't have a smoke alarm right over the microwave.

You think glass will heat in a microwave?

 

[KillerBee]

 

[Rubycon]

OMG, I didn't think of this! Grab an extension cord, cut the end off. Stick the wires into opposite ends of your pop tart. Plug in the extension cord. When the pop tart appears hot enough, unplug the extension cord. Enjoy!

I'll be doing an experiment on parallel and series circuits later this week by doing exactly that with hotdogs (except I impale the hotdogs on nails that are connected to the extension cord.)

I don't think there's enough salt in a pop tart to produce notable heating even at 240V.

Oh and since that was brought up, cannot forget this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvS6bOKLhFs

You think glass will heat in a microwave?

Some types of glass will get very hot in a microwave, but most don't.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

1. Heat up frying pan on stove
2. Insert poptart
3. Brown to taste
4. ????
5. Profit?

 

[vi edit]

Idea for future needs:
http://www.overclock.net/t/248896/jager-idea-5-25bay-poptart-toaster

 

[Howard]

What sources of heat do you have?

 

[crashtestdummy]

You think glass will heat in a microwave?

Apparently, it won't, and you'd need something better absorbing (or colored or leaded glass) to get it to heat. Oh well.

 

[alkemyst]

you need to put yourself in the microwave, pop tart goes on the outside.

It'll be epic.

 

[DrPizza]

I don't think there's enough salt in a pop tart to produce notable heating even at 240V.

Oh and since that was brought up, cannot forget this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvS6bOKLhFs



Some types of glass will get very hot in a microwave, but most don't.

That's how we cook the hotdogs in class. (Although, 2 at a time; sometimes in series, sometimes in parallel.) At 120V, it takes approximately 90 seconds before a Ball Park frank splits open. (And, as expected, a little over 6 minutes in series, since they split the voltage & with twice the resistance, there's only half the current. So, P=VI = (1/2V*1/2I)=1/4 the power for each hotdog. And, of course, with the increase in time, there's an increase in the total amount of heat that's radiated away, adding a few seconds to the total time, or so I presume. Of course, the difference could be from an effect of temperature on the resistivity of a hotdog. I should test that some day.

 

[Saint Nick]

Lower the power level on the microwave to like 10% and microwave for about 15 seconds

 

[Capt Caveman]

Start car, place poptart still in pouch on top of car engine. Give it a couple of minutes.

 

[Rubycon]

That's how we cook the hotdogs in class. (Although, 2 at a time; sometimes in series, sometimes in parallel.) At 120V, it takes approximately 90 seconds before a Ball Park frank splits open. (And, as expected, a little over 6 minutes in series, since they split the voltage & with twice the resistance, there's only half the current. So, P=VI = (1/2V*1/2I)=1/4 the power for each hotdog. And, of course, with the increase in time, there's an increase in the total amount of heat that's radiated away, adding a few seconds to the total time, or so I presume. Of course, the difference could be from an effect of temperature on the resistivity of a hotdog. I should test that some day.

You can use LEDs to map out nodes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXx1qxH247k&feature=related

Lower the power level on the microwave to like 10% and microwave for about 15 seconds

10% at 15 seconds will not do much of anything. Unless you have a true inverter type microwave, all ovens use duty cycling to achieve so called power levels. A 1200W oven running for 10 minutes at 50% power actually has its magnetron energized (1200W input) for five of those minutes. The other 5 minutes the turntable just spins with the fan and light on.

Start car, place poptart still in pouch on top of car engine. Give it a couple of minutes.

Not sure what that will do - in order to "brown", crisp, toast etc. the surface of the foodstuff needs to be in close proximity to incandescent material or a flame playing nicely along the surface, etc.

Speaking of flame I wonder what it would taste like if splashed with everclear, then ignited. Poptart crêpes anyone?

 

[Modelworks]

Your options are stop being cheap and spend the $10 for a toaster.

 

[Rubycon]

Your options are stop being cheap and spend the $10 for a toaster.

Could be banned.
I can't have a personal toaster.
(That's what prescotts are for!)

Plugging any kind of heater into a UPS is generally a bad idea too.

 

[Modelworks]

Could be banned.
I can't have a personal toaster.
(That's what prescotts are for!)

Plugging any kind of heater into a UPS is generally a bad idea too.

I'm talking about the OP, he already uses a microwave, going through extremes when necessary is one thing, doing it because you are too lazy to go to a store and pay $10 to solve the problem is totally different.

 

[Modelworks]

That's how we cook the hotdogs in class.

Have you found a way to prevent the scorch marks around the nails ? I prefer to cook mine using DC vs AC , just a taste preference

 

[dr150]

Place aluminum pan on your car's engine. Take tart off when cooked. Profit! :thumbsup:

 

[Rubycon]

Have you found a way to prevent the scorch marks around the nails ? I prefer to cook mine using DC vs AC , just a taste preference

Increase the surface area using really wide spikes. Presto came up with this idea in the 70s with their hot dogger. Will cook five dogs at a time in just 60 seconds to feed a family. Runs on 120VAC in North America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUAkezGstlQ

Back in the 1970s microwave ovens (radarrange hehe) were EXPENSIVE! The little hot dogger was $10, was fast and cleaned up easily. Some people complained about a weird taste. (could be psychological, I dunno)

Higher frequency would probably be a little better. Easy enough to do with a signal genny and powersoft 10K amp here.

 

[Modelworks]

Increase the surface area using really wide spikes. Presto came up with this idea in the 70s with their hot dogger. Will cook five dogs at a time in just 60 seconds to feed a family. Runs on 120VAC in North America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUAkezGstlQ

I never knew they made a retail product out of the idea, nice, bet it had some serious safety issues though.

Back in the 1970s microwave ovens (radarrange hehe) were EXPENSIVE!

My grandmother had one of the first ones. It took up the entire counter and even stuck out because it was so deep . It was made by Amana.

Higher frequency would probably be a little better. Easy enough to do with a signal genny and powersoft 10K amp here.

A new use for function generators ! Does sine wave taste better than square, what about triangle ?

 

[EagleKeeper]

ModelWorks:

If possible, please take off the cover and look on the wave guide.
See if initials have been written on it.

When in between college, I worked for a company that manufactured those models for Amana.

Some of us doing QA, used to initial the unit before the cover was put on.

 

[Rubycon]

I never knew they made a retail product out of the idea, nice, bet it had some serious safety issues though.




My grandmother had one of the first ones. It took up the entire counter and even stuck out because it was so deep . It was made by Amana.

A new use for function generators ! Does sine wave taste better than square, what about triangle ?

There was no on-off switch, just an interlock that would only energize the electrodes if it were fully closed. Back off even 1/4" and the power was cut.

Yes those were the ones. Amana, Litton, Tappan, and Magic Chef were the popular brands of the day. Built heavy like a tank compared to the junk coming from China today.

A wiener probably tastes best when cooked with 160V of pink noise, in perfect phase. :biggrin: