{"id":424,"date":"2011-08-09T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2011-08-09T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:37:16","slug":"cooking-with-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/09\/cooking-with-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking with Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last couple of years, I’ve cooked lots of bread. Mostly, I’ve been creating my own recipes and cooking the bread “until it’s done”. But when I follow recipes, like the ones in this awesome book<\/a>\"\" it’s clear than my gas oven is way hotter than it’s meant to be. Sometimes bread takes days to prepare, and I reaallly don’t want to burn it! So, out with the science and in with an oven thermometer<\/a>\"\"! <\/p>\n

Here’s what the temperature did when set to gas mark 6 … which should be 200C:
\n\"Gas<\/p>\n

I always knew that electric ovens take ages to heat up, but I was surprised to see that even gas ovens take about 10 mins to get up to temperature. However, the oven didn’t just heat up to 200C. It kept going … and going … all the way up to 228C. In old money, that’s gas mark 8, a full 2 marks above what I’d set. <\/p>\n

I checked a few other settings, and it was pretty consistently out by two:
\n\"My<\/p>\n

I had always assumed that ‘gas mark’ was a funky old scale, but thanks to wikipedia and R’s plot function, it’s clearly nicely linear:<\/p>\n

\"Gas<\/p>\n

So, this is all useful information to help cook tasty things. But it’s a little bit tempting to also measure how quickly the oven cools down, and thereby model heat-loss. Or, to use the gas meter to see how much energy is going in, thereby indirectly measuring the average heat capacity of the (empty) oven. And so on …<\/p>\n

Or, I could make some more bread. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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