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This exclusive and ridiculously expensive dish would most probably be served only by billionaires trying to impress their guests and out-do their contemporaries:
1) Take a plucked chicken, generously baste with olive oil and place in a well greased titanium pod, designed to an optimal thickness
by a team of engineers and chefs to achieve just the right level of heat exposure during re-entry.
2) Launch the pod into orbit either using a purpose built rocket, or as cargo on a space shuttle.
3) Release the pod at a point where you can be sure it will land in the ocean in a location convenient for collection.
4) The chicken will be cooked by the heat generated in re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. On reaching a pre-designated height above sea level, the pod will deploy a parachute to slow the chicken down.
5) Fish the chicken out of the sea.
4) Serve cold with salad.
Re-entry cooked Meatballs
http://www.halfbake...a/Meatball_20Cooker
Rods has already devised this method of cookery in his brilliant Jan. 10 annotation here. Bonus pull-string delivery system. [waugsqueke, Apr 25 2002]
Pizza Satellite
http://www.halfbake...a/Pizza_20Satellite
More halfbakery orbital fast food. [Aristotle, Apr 25 2002]
We'll serve the drinks
SDI_3a_20Sodapop_20Defense_20Initiative
[normzone, Jan 21 2008]
XKDC what-if Steak Drop
http://what-if.xkcd.com/28/
[xaviergisz, Jan 18 2013]
Orbital_20toaster
didn't we do this just last week? [Brian the Painter, Jan 19 2013]
[link]
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are tights involved in any way? |
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I read this idea name and my stomach lurched. I think I have the mind of a schoolboy... |
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The chicken-vessel could have aerodynamic control surfaces to vary its speed and flight-path to ensure the chicken is done to a turn. Although, being as I'm a vegetarian, could you do me some roast peppers instead? |
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I don't think I've ever seen the turn of phrase "Fish the chicken" before... Oh, wonderful halfbakery! |
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(Hey! Not that I'm an orbital cooking expert or anything, but isn't this more like "Re-entry baked chicken"?) |
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stuff with onion and a potato. cook sage and onion stuffing separately if desired. yum |
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at what temperature would olive oil begin to decompose? perhaps you'd be better off with a motor-oil derivative. |
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The butter on my corn cob would melt far to quickly. |
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I think a re-entry Tandoor oven would work better - the principle of a Tandoor oven is to cook small pieces of chicken for a short time at a very high temperature (340C). |
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There would doubtlessly be a huge
espionage story surrounding the theft of
the Colonel's recipe and 16 secret spices. |
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Far away galaxies have been using the
same cooking technique, but with Pizza in
flying saucers. |
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You've successfully practiced the
maneuver, here, with buns. |
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// Far away galaxies have been using the same cooking technique // |
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No, frictional heating from atmospheric braking is a bit crude. The trick is to slingshot a projectile around a chosen star at sublight velocity, so that the package arrives back perfectly cooked, and still warm. |
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If you can cook a souffle that way you earn extra points. |
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//16 secret spices//
Salt, sugar, MSG. |
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//frictional heating// - <scientific
pedantry>Things rushing through the
atmosphere don't heat up because of
friction, they heat up because the air in
front of them is compressed and thus
under high pressure, and so heats up.
</scientific pedantry> |
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Crispy duck would be better, but the pancakes might be a little dried out. |
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[xaviergisz] that link is priceless, thx |
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// //16 secret spices// Salt, sugar, MSG. // |
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I was at a friend's house recently and was amazed to see a large bag of MSG along with the salt and pepper. |
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[+] for the idea. A bimetallic strip (or some complicated robotics) will have to be added to release Yorkshire pudding* batter when the temperature of a separate, but attached, tray is correct. |
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*Yes, a Yorkshire pudding is different from the batter pudding I'm talking about here, but let's ignore that, as everyone else does. |
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Would it work if you released the Tandoor pod a
kitchen that was already up there at say,
Baumgartner height? When the patron orders the
chicken, it's launched from the space station or
some high-flying Zeppelin or somesuch, cooks on
the way down, and lands at (or on, or into) the
restaurant ... |
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Was this "catering", or "cratering"? |
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