Abstract
Today's experiment was to test the hypotheses that it was possible to cook a Birds Eye Golden Crunch Potato Gems on the sandwich toaster and produce tiny gems of potato goodness at a fraction of the price of buying them from your local fast food store. Only equipment on hand was to be used, with the minimum amount of effort required to obtain a conclusive result. The experiment was very successful, with a very hot, mouth watering, crunchy and golden potato gems being the result.
Introduction
Today we performed another interesting experiment to see just how far we can push our sandwich maker cookery. The sandwich maker is one of our favourite cooking utensils because it is relatively fast to heat up, is very easy to clean, and with a little know how, you can cook all sorts of interesting things on them.
We recommend sandwich makers having a flat non stick cooking surface. This makes them both versatile and very easy to clean. We note that our previous sandwich toaster that had served use well for many years of cooking experiments ceased to operate before this test could be performed, so an emergency trip to our local supermarket was required before the natives in the office became restless due to a lack of hot food being available. Another day without hot food may have unlocked a primal urge to make an open fire between the office partitions, with a kangaroo on a spit being erected.
Birds Eye Golden Crunch Potato Gems were the subject of this experiment, with the aim being to produce very hot, very yummy, crunchy potato gems at a fraction of the cost of buying a cup of them from your local fast food store, while using only renewable resources.
Required Materials
* Coles Sandwich Toaster: Model: YLCSP 240V, 2000W.
* Microwave oven.
* Birds Eye Golden Crunch Potato Gems, 1kg.
* Salt and Pepper.
* Glass, 115mm high x 65mm diameter.
* 1 * Plate Large.
* 1 * small plate for each person performing the experiment.
* Spatula.
Method
1. Place a small number of potato gems onto the large plate and defrost them in the microwave using the auto defrost setting.
2. After defrosting has completed, put the potato gems onto the sandwich toaster and ensure that they are all seperated from each other using the spatula, as some of the potato gems will maintain co-valent bonds which will not be broken during the microwave bombardment as microwave raditation is nonionizing.
3. Place the glass under the sandwich toaster handle to produce a 20mm distance between the top and bottom surfaces of the sandwich toaster. Make sure the normal vectors to both planes are equal.
4. Cook the potato gems on the sandwich toaster for 5 minutes.
5. Remove the potato gems from the sandwich toaster and divide by the number of people performing the experiment.
6. Place an even number of potato gems on each team members small plate, arranging them into the sign for the Fantastic Four, because they turned into Fantastic-Four Cent Potato Gems in dollar cost each.
7. Apply salt and pepper if required and consume.
Results
The Potato Gems turned out to be very hot, yummy, and crunchy. Some staff members commented on the yummy smell coming from our lab, and were eager to sample our results. The total cost of each potato gem was estimated to be AUD$0.04 which is much cheaper than that charged by local hot food stores.
Conclusion
Cooking a Birds Eye Golden Crunch Potato Gems on the sandwich maker was possible, and highly successful. The cooking time was much faster than the suggested oven cooking time of 20 minutes, thereby being better for the environment by not wasting energy and reducing green house gas emissions which is something that we all must strive to do.
Peer Review Status
Yet to be reviewed.
Related Experiments
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Disclaimer
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