Subject:  Re The heating effect (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 30 Nov 1998 145540 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:20:39 +0100
From: Christoph Reuss 
To: EMF-L 
Subject: Re: The heating effect (fwd)

> From: dingel@concentric.net
>
> I thought the following article on the ěheating effectî might be appropriate:
>
> BIRD BRAIN:  A PHYSICIST TALKS TURKEY
...
> To understand one aspect of cooking, you need to understand the principle
> of heat conductivity. As we all know, when food is cooked in a conventional
> oven, or over an open fire, the food cooks from the outside-in.  Cooking
> requires that heat be conducted into the center of a turkey.  Thatís why
> meat that is undercooked or rare is cooked on the outside but pink or red
> in the center.
...
> So, when you prepare your Thanksgiving dinner, remember: what is happening
> within your oven is an example of one of the many interesting principles of
> physics in action.

Hmm..  I don't see the relevance to EMF-L -- worse, the most relevant fact
is _missing_ in the forwarded article:  That cooking a brain or turkey
with a cell-phone or other microwave oven ;-)  will cook the object FROM
INSIDE TO OUTSIDE rather than vice-versa.

Happy thanxgiving,
Chris


References:

[1]  Severe burns resulting from an exploding teat on a bottle of infant
     formula milk heated in a microwave oven.
     Dixon JJ; Burd DA; Roberts DG.
     Burns, 1997 May, 23:3, 268-9.

[2]  Laryngeal burns secondary to the ingestion of microwave-heated food.
     Goldberg RM; Lee S; Line WS Jr.
     J Emerg Med, 1990 May-Jun, 8:3, 281-3.

[3]  Effect of microwave and conventional baking on yellow cakes.
     Hill M; Reagan SP.
     J Am Diet Assoc, 1982 Jan, 80:1, 52-5.

[4]  Protective effect of conventional cooking versus use of microwave ovens
     in an outbreak of salmonellosis.
     Gessner BD; Beller M.
     Am J Epidemiol, 1994 May, 139:9, 903-9.





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