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Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
dbCooper
Posts: 2,061
Saw this on another BGE forum, thought it may be of interest to members on this forum too.
"The Stall. The Zone. The Plateau. It has many names and it has freaked out many a barbecue cook. I know because they email me right in the middle of their cook. Panicky."
Full Article can be found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-goldwyn/physicist-cracks-bbq-mystery_b_987719.html?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-main-bb|dl8|sec3_lnk2|100568
Kind regards,
dbCooper
"The Stall. The Zone. The Plateau. It has many names and it has freaked out many a barbecue cook. I know because they email me right in the middle of their cook. Panicky."
Full Article can be found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-goldwyn/physicist-cracks-bbq-mystery_b_987719.html?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-main-bb|dl8|sec3_lnk2|100568
Kind regards,
dbCooper
LBGE, LBGE-PTR, 22" Weber, Coleman 413G
Great Plains, USA
Comments
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fascinating
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great read...I think this part sums it up nicely" The barbecue stall is a simple consequence of evaporative cooling by the meat's own moisture slowly released over hours from within it's pores and cells. As the temperature of cold meat rises, the evaporation rate increases until the cooling effect balances the heat input. Then it stalls, until the last drop of available moisture is gone."context is important
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Very interesting!One statement, however, didn't make sense to me:"When we put a water pan in the cooker, the moisture evaporates from the surface and raises the humidity in the cooker, slowing the evaporation from the meat, and slowing the cooking."If you slow the evaporation from the meat, you should be speeding up the cooking, not slowing it! That's what the tinfoil does, prevent evaporation of moisture from the meat..._____________
"I mean, I don't just kill guys, I'm notorious for doing in houseplants." - Maggie, Northern Exposure
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@Botch I think he(the author) got it right. when you add moisture to the environment, it's going to take longer to get past the stall point. it only gets out of the stall when all the moisture is gone.context is important
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Thanks for sharing ... great info!
I will try this myself ...
Never eat anything passed through a window unless you're a seagull ... BGE Lg. -
Very informative. Thanks for that.
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OMG....you guys are like MIT online!
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