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Friday, April 21, 2006

Culinary Math

Inspired by a cooking mishap. I was wondering why egg tastes so different from chicken considering they are essentially the same thing. The best explanation I could come up with is that you need to add some time and chicken feed to a fertilized egg to get a chicken as illustrated by the equation below;

Egg + Corn + Time = Chicken

Because of Time-Temperature superposition we know that;

Time = Heat

By combining these equation we get;

Egg + Corn + Heat = Chicken

QED

Simply by following the math, I am suggesting that cooking eggs with corn will resulting a dish that tastes like chicken.

Addendum: Some have raise the point that there should be a shifting constant, so the equation should look like;

Egg + Corn + Heat + Constant = Chicken

I concede that this is technically the more appropriate formulation, but I argue that the shifting factor changes the intensity of the flavor but not the overall character of the chicken flavor , so though it is practically important for the exact construction of the chicken flavor is not theoretically critical.

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