Cooking cake with electricity

The trick seems to be maintaining the electrode contact throughout the bake. I wondered if "Iron Maiden" style spikes would do it. I suspect it is worth using a voltage profile across time. I was only half joking about using DMX!

Mike Page

Looking in to the panko cooking method, I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-IwZ0jK6o

Kadah

Perhaps the cake would turn out better with 3 phases. An excuse to buy Quicktest QT3?

I was going to say "I think it'll cook better with more currants (substitute 'e') in it" (sorry, I'll leave now!)

Stephen Eyles

I was thinking that a grill 'tray' (what do you call them?) would be good, top and bottom maybe? But then you'd have to pick the cake bits out from between them...

Stephen Eyles

There's a good lot of info on WiFi here (I learned a lot at least!): https://gizmodo.com/why-your-router-has-two-wifi-channels-and-how-they-work-1828650288

Stephen Eyles

It's called an oven!

Nuts 'n' Proud

The voltage should stay the same. The source resistance will rise as the mix bakes and dries however. A Line-Earth loop tester working down to 100V should be able to do it. I can think of a couple.

Mike Page

"I shall unplug the cake" said no one ever....until Big Clive!

A skewer as a probe in the middle of the batter to measure voltage as it cooks would be interesting. Also, instead of plates at each end, maybe steel fingers across the bottom, and maybe half way up (and staggered so not directly above might speed up the process?

Simon York

Only a few tens of pF through the glove.

Mike Page

They use 2.4GHz for the same reason as WiFi - because it is absorbed by water molecules. Some kind of resonance. In the oven, it causes even absorption regardless of salinity and state (ice/water/steam). In the WiFi case, it creates a geographically-limited "cell" due to humidity. Or thereabouts. I'm almost certainly not 100% correct in all of that.

Mike Page

I feel like it needs a dimmer. Yes - a DMX controlled muffin-top machine!

Mike Page

Uhoh

Jeremy Impson

Well he does make exceedingly good cakes.... Sorry couldn't resist! hahaha

Mike Hughes

Next list try some hearable brownies!

No alcohol involved at all. I did consider the variac, but wanted to see what sort of current would flow at 240V.

Big Clive

I was under the impression that the wavelength (about 12.5cm) induces current flow through the food. But I could be wrong. Cody's lab did an experiment where he showed fruit flies unaffected by being in a microwave, but it got flagged as insect cruelty.

Big Clive

For all we know, Mr Kipling may well use electrical current to cook sponge.

Big Clive

Funny little experiment :) To my knowledge, microwave oven do not pass current through food. It just flips dipoles (in example water) 2400000000 times/s, and that generates heat.

Aleksander

Photonic would use at least 11 thousand volts!

Nuts 'n' Proud

Excellent experiment! Now I want to see Photonic make a cake pop!

"Welcome to How To Burn That; I'm Big Clive, and today we're going to zap together some yummy orange cake..."

Leak

Mr Kipling has nothing to fear then...

Mike Hughes

I would imagine something along the lines of: ---[LIE]---

Scott Miller

I just watched the take 2 video. I want to lick the bowl.

Nuts 'n' Proud

Clive just a quick question - How much alcohol was involved before you made the video? I guess a shit load, Perhaps you could use the variac next time.

Nuts 'n' Proud

I lost it when you stuck the metal spoon in to stir lol!. Surprised to see it worked and there was no browning from spoon arcing. Thanks for trying this so I don't have to 🤣

What's the electrical circuit diagram standard symbol for "cake" ? :-)

Jon Knight

Maybe some treacle to keep a steady connection at the ends ? Would make a kinda syrup sponge. It's pretty fast-cooking.

adrian

You know it's serious when BC gets the rubber gloves out

adrian

Cake, no power factor correction needed! I love this dangerous video Clive!

That actually looks tastier than the banana cake my wife cooked two days ago!

Andrew Donaldson

That's a lovely old knif you have there.

Ymir the Frost Giant

I'm surprised you weren't cooking Spotted Dick - good fun nevertheless.

nowt

That metal spoon put the shits up me...................

I think I may have done a spoon divider demo on the Chinese electrode cup heater video.

Big Clive

Ummmmm cake and spiky voltage now to connect it to the output of your ioniser to cook faster. I love the use of the cliff quick cake in the video

Next time I'm thrifting I'll try this with a shallow ceramic or Pyrex dish and maybe have the electrodes at a 90 so they run underneath and up the side, judging by your hotdog vids I imagine 120v will just mean it cooks twice as slow.

Fantastic !! The nerdy child in me so wanted that spoon attached to one leg of a multimeter for the first demo of a cake potential divider I’ve ever seen ps now want cake for breakfast

RDM