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Pacion
09-23-2004, 05:20 PM
For the engineers amongst us :wink: :lol:

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe:

532.35 cm^3 gluten
4.9 cm^3 NaHCO3
4.9 cm^3 refined halite
236 cm^3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
177.45 cm^3 crystalline C12H22O11
177.45 cm^3 unrefined C12H22O11
4.9 cm^3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein ovoids
473.2 cm^3 theobroma cacao
236 cm^3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)
To a 2L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two, and three with constant agitation. In a second 2L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous.

To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.

Using a screw extruder attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 mm x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown.

Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to equilibrium.

Source: wilk4.com/humor/humor.htm

pygmalion
09-23-2004, 08:50 PM
Those cookies sound SO tasty! :lol: :lol:

*princess*
09-25-2004, 07:24 AM
so cant wait to taste a hydrogenated tallow triglyceride

it just sounds SO tasty :lol:

pygmalion
09-25-2004, 08:41 AM
shortening? :roll: :lol:

jon
09-25-2004, 01:39 PM
Speaking as an engineer, I'd measure the solid ingredients by mass, not volume. Granulated solids in particular have an unpredictable density depending on such factors as humidity and whether or not the container has been agitated, so repeatability of the experiment is compromised by volumetric measurements.

pygmalion
09-25-2004, 01:43 PM
Actually, I was thinking that the recipe has more of a chemist flavor (pun intended :wink: )

DWise1
09-26-2004, 11:13 AM
Speaking as an engineer, I'd measure the solid ingredients by mass, not volume. Granulated solids in particular have an unpredictable density depending on such factors as humidity and whether or not the container has been agitated, so repeatability of the experiment is compromised by volumetric measurements.
Actually, German recipes call out granulated solids (eg, flour, sugar, rice) by mass rather than by volume. But before you congratulate them for being such natural born engineering geniuses, be aware that they still measure those granualted solids by volume using measuring beakers with multiple scales, each one calibrated for a different solid (plus one for liquids, too).

Personally, I had always prefered using the metric system when cooking, especially whenever I had to cut the recipe. I always found doing the conversions within the English system confusing, especially since you have to go look up the conversion factors between tsp, cups, fl.oz., etc (BTW I had formed this opinion long before Google, but even then it's still confusing). In metric, it's all right there ready to use with only a very few equivalences to remember (1milliliter = 1cubic centimeter = 1gram of water, and all else that follows is simply powers of ten).

Medira
03-13-2007, 12:35 PM
*falls over laughing*

I was looking for a recipe thread. I thought we had one around here somewhere...and I came across this in my travels.

Pacion, wherever did you find this?

Chris Stratton
03-13-2007, 12:47 PM
I have to agree... a previous roomate had a bread machine, and another had a nice digital scale. And all were engineers or scientists who spent most of their time playing engineer. We quickly did empirical conversions and filled the recipe booklet with masses for the various ingredients. Add water, rezero scale. Add flour, rezero scale. Add sugar, rezero scale. Etc... much faster than getting measuring implements dirty.

samina
03-13-2007, 01:06 PM
oh, this is just hysterical... <have to pick myself up as well!> :)

looks like the pharmaceutical process documents that have numbed my mind for the last six months... sent the recipe on to my engineer colleagues, who i know will have the same response.

thanks for calling this one out, medira!!!

Pacion
03-14-2007, 05:16 AM
Pacion, wherever did you find this?

Source: wilk4.com/humor/humor.htm ;) :lol:

Joe
03-14-2007, 07:48 AM
Sheesh, people, why do you think kitchen scales are sold? Aside from me, who uses mine for mixed drinks (making the assumption that all liquids have the same density, which of course they don't).

Pacion
03-14-2007, 08:37 AM
Sheesh, people, why do you think kitchen scales are sold?

To gather the dust that would normally settle on the kitchen counter, to thereby help you to keep the counter 'cleaner'/dustfree? :roll: :roll: :D