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[โ€“] kandoh@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

Flash freezing things is a thing.

Well, it does exist, it's called laser cooling, but it's only if you want to have things really cold

[โ€“] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You just have to rotate the food the other way in the microwave like in Steins;Gate.

Call it Macrowave!

[โ€“] bubbalu@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

There is! It's called a blast chiller and just takes a dumby amount of energy proportional the amount of energy removed from the food. It's easier to add than subtract.

[โ€“] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

It's a lot easier to generate heat from electricity than to transfer them out. Closest bet would be just blasting cold air but heat transfer will be slow so it's still quite limited.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably not. Nice choice of pic to illustrate the need, though ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] swcollings@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You would need to find a way to make food spontaneously emit microwaves so it loses energy and cools off. That probably involves altering the strength of one of the nuclear forces or something.

[โ€“] Trd@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liquid nitrogen bath, works opposite of a microwave, freezes it from outside and towards the middle.

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