Comments on: Cooking with processors

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:16:56 +0000

Over at Wontonway, we put an egg in a microwave (in the name of science, of course). The video is over at http://www.wontonway.com in the Microwave section

By: madis

madis — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:26:58 +0000

I have harvested allready 100 ceramic Pentium CPU’s for my bathroom floor and will try to get 4-6 times more. I also consider making them to heat the floor. This cyrix-joke-site was missing a very important thing – CMOS chips dont’t disspate much heat in static regime i.e. without clock. Actually I’m not sure that clock only is enough. Maybe some pseudo random signals to data control lines would be good? OK, I’ll study some datasheets first…

By: Bob Predaina

Bob Predaina — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:21:16 +0000

thanks for your link to The Jackass! Project in your December 7 hack-a-day. :D

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:06:42 +0000

With regard to that last comment, how is the bottom of an egg determined?

By: Nezuji

Nezuji — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:55:44 +0000

Even if the mobile phone gag worked, anyone who’s ever microwaved an egg can tell you why it’s a bad idea. And no, it doesn’t matter if you poke a hole in the bottom first.

freshly-microwaved egg + cold metal spoon = an astounding number of tiny, red-hot egg particles on every exposed surface.

By: the new Management

the new Management — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:28:56 +0000

I wrote the mobile cooking page in 2000 and it is pretty obviously a spoof, especially if you read it in the context of the surrounding pages. It’s in the weekend colour section of the spoof Wymsey Chronicle, the newspaper that serves the imaginery village of Wymsey.

What’s strange is that the page was written 5 years ago but has had about 200,000 hits this year!

Anyway, we had 2000 hits from you guys yesterday!

Charlie :)

By: Igor

Igor — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:01:37 +0000

like this experiment at wth in cooking with … err… p2p hardware: http://blog.doomicile.de/?p=50

By: fakeeggs

fakeeggs — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:27:58 +0000

yeah… the cellphone egg thing is fake. In fact, I just watched an episode of Brainiac the other day where they tried it with 100 cell phones, and the egg was still completely raw after several minutes.

By: Skeptical

Skeptical — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:20:35 +0000

I tried the cellphone egg cooking method with 4 phones at varying heights for about 20 minutes with no success. Is this a joke? Am I missing something?

By: Confused fishcake

Confused fishcake — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:41:31 +0000

That mobile phone egg thing doesn’t work, I tried with three phones for one egg for an hour. Admittedly they were only phoning the 02 top-up line, but they are still transmitting.

By: Adelmo

Adelmo — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:16:26 +0000

How does the cellphone one work, microwaves? And is the radio to make the phones feedback on each other, or for atmosphere?

By: Masterwhey

Masterwhey — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 08:55:26 +0000

Does the xbox run hot enough to cook eggs? I have no idea, but it sure is funny to joke about:

http://www.officialwdc.com/comic.php?id=72

By: 'Liam

'Liam — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 08:51:24 +0000

wasnt there a hackaday thing about a still that someone made a while back? that would be cool. rum 360.

By: nach0s

nach0s — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:41:21 +0000

wow f, you’re a complete idiot. How did you manage to type that message with a straight jacket on?

By: snoozer

snoozer — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:09:00 +0000

MS could repackage the thing as the “EggsBox” and market it using informercials like George Foreman’s grill.