Why Engineers Don't Cook





 Why Engineers Don't Write Recipe Books
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 Chocolate Chip Cookies:
 Ingredients:
 1.)   532.35 cm3 gluten
 2.)   4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
 3.)   4.9 cm3 refined halite
 4.)   236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
 5.)   177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
 6.)   177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
 7.)   4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
 8.)   Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
 9.)   473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
 10.)  236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)

 To a 2-L 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 2-L 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
 extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a
 316SS sheet (300 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.

 PS - don't try this at home.

 Commentary: I don't recommend 316 Stainless Steel for the baking
 sheet.  This will only promote the formation of pure carbon compounds
 along the contact area.  My own preference is for two sheets of  3 mil
 Al with contiguous seams and a 4mm thick enclosed air space filled
 with standard atmospheric.



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