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Things You Thought You Knew - Earth’s Spinning Core

StarTalk Radio

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Why It's So Hard to Burn Someone at the Stake

This is why it's so hard to burn someone at the stake. If you have fast moving air, hot air across the food. This is like a wind heat factor. Take a slice of bread and leave it out until it just gets hard. OK. Just leave it out. We'll get another squishy crusty one later. And put them in your oven both at the same temperature. They're both going to brown 10 times faster than they did before. You can't live without an air fryer. I spent $400 on a toaster? Yes, you did. So that's everything you wanted to know about toast and why it's not a linear process. Well,

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