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Years ago I saw a TV science/cooking programme in which a meringue was cooked in a partial vacuum, making it extra light.
However, by whisking your meringue mixture in a helium atmosphere, then cooking in a vacuum, it should be possible to make a meringue that was buoyant in air - floating meringues!
Given
that diffusion would eventually bring them down-to-earth, you could launch them before the first course of dinner, have them bumping around the ceiling while you eat, and have them touch-down delicately at dessert time.
Or you could use hydrogen, and have them explode when they drifted too close to the candles.
Fat Duck restaurant
http://www.fatduck.co.uk
Great food cooked through the power of science [hazel, Oct 17 2004]
Sure would come in handy here:
http://www.halfbake...Gallon_20Restaurant
[k_sra, Oct 17 2004]
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Perhaps an easy way to do this would be to use Helium as a propellant in an aerosol can of meringue mixture. Nice idea. |
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<aside> we went to a restaurant at the weekend where they squirt a green tea and lime mousse out of an aerosol can then 'cook' it at your table in liquid nitrogen - nice! </aside> |
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I was thinking they might go down (or up) well at The Fat Duck - I've just got to make some now. |
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"Hold that thought, Bob. The waiter is floating me an air biscuit."
So would eating them cause the pitch of your voice to go up, like sucking on a balloon? Either way, I like! +1. |
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It was the Fat Duck we went to. Totally amazing. If you ever got it working I'm sure they'd be interested. |
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I'd like them to be counterweighted a little bit, just to neutral buoyancy, so instead of floating up to the ceiling they stay in the air in front of me and I can bounce them around. Very good. |
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Actually, now that I think about it, I'd like large, wearable helium tanks that could do the same thing to me...add an air tank with a bicycle pump for variable-weight ballast, so I can float up and down. Never need a ladder again. |
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[hazel] er...sounds delightful (yack). |
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Neutral bouyancy croissant for the idea. |
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Neat idea, welcome to the bakery. (WTAGIPBAN) |
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Thanks Krelnik...pleased to be here - brilliant site all round |
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(+) Neutral buoyancy in air will usually get my vote. |
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