A rocket scientist at Oxford University is designing better cookware
21 Jul 2014 • engadget.comWhat do rocket scientists do in their spare time? Design cookware, apparently. A Oxford University professor has created a new kind of saucepan that heats up 30-percent faster than traditional cookware. He calls it “Flare,” and it borrows from the same principals used to efficiently transfer and distribute heat in jet engines. The pan gets its name from a series of ridges that run around the circumference of its base – these fins draw flames up the side of the pan and distribute heat evenly over its aluminum body.
I wonder how much more advanced we would be as a species if we found some way to maximize cross-discipline knowledge sharing like this. I’d love to see Chef Ramsey sharing cooking secrets that could help make our rockets go 30% faster.