Comments on: 6 Real World Food Experiments, Just to See if We Can.

By: DixonSteele1on1

DixonSteele1on1 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:55:24 +0000

personally, I’ve never heard the saying ‘like nailing jelly to the wall!’

but if it’s as popular as Miss Cellania claims it is — well, um, you could’ve knocked me over with a feather by golly!

By: Zelda

Zelda — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:21:00 +0000

My husband was an only child of a single mother who was often away from the home. This incident occured when he was six…
He was home alone. He wanted hot dogs. These were the days before microwaves and he was not allowed to use the stove.
So he took a extension cord which he had stripped, some six-penny nails and a soda bottle. Enter hot dog. This wonderful contraption was then plugged into the wall with the expected disastrous results. Complete with the blowing a power transformer and causing most of the (small) town to lose power!
My favorite story.

By: Paper Shredders Ratings

Paper Shredders Ratings — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:07:00 +0000

Departmental shredder are auto start-stop so you don’t have to monitor shredding long runs of continuous forms. Select from high speed or large capacity models. Every Destroyit shredder model has a 10-year warranty on cutting heads and can take staples and paper clips.

By: Katie Sue

Katie Sue — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:32:00 +0000

my dad used to heat up his c-rations in the radiator of his car when he was in the army. also, when i lived in california i was able to make a hot dog rotisserie out of an oatmeal container, foil and a skewer (also fried an egg on a piece of foil. took about 10 minutes) used the sun as a “cooker”

By: Gollum

Gollum — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:54:08 +0000

There are probably even earlier examples — but the bread/butter issue was tackled by Magnus Pyke, producer of a long-ago popular science program on BBC. He wrote a book, published in 1976, actually titled “Butter Side Up”.

By: Tru

Tru — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:42:12 +0000

There have been several videos and even a couple new reports on baking cookies in your car. Most have been on the safety of leaving any living thing in your car during the summer, some just to see if it could be done.

The usual result: not completely done, but edible.

By: jax

jax — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:42:29 +0000

Actually, the first time I know of that the egg and radiator thing is mentioned is in an old episode of mcguyver.

By: Ella

Ella — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:06:03 +0000

the survival rate of loaf A is higher due to the fact that butter is lighter in WEIGHT than honey, jam or nutella. And there is also no way to ensure the product was evenly spread in exact amounts unless there is a spreading machine i’ve never heard of…this one goes out the window. That doesn’t stop me from yelling “BUTTER UP!” every time i drop it, though.

By: Pajibill

Pajibill — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:38:44 +0000

Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi mag (ASIMOV) did a great April Fool’s edition in the ’80s where they had a detailed physics analysis of the forces at work on a falling piece of buttered bread. As I recall, the analysis included a graph correlating annual rainfall in Sweden to duck populations; very reminiscent (prescient, actually) of venganza.org’s famed Pirate Theorem.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:13:52 +0000

Another fun thing you can do with eggs-
When your radiator is leaking, throw an egg in the top. It’ll stop the leak when it heat and cooks w/ in the system and plugs it. Eventually, the pressure of the system will push it out. But then you just get another egg. Or fix your car…

Eh… I stuck with the egg for about 6 months and it was fine! Lernt that’n on MythBusters too…