• edinbruh@feddit.it
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    17 days ago

    Is this to measure calories? We did something similar in elementary school, our teacher would light a piece of snack on hanging above an aluminium dish, and we would count for how long it burned. Then we looked at the packaging and the snacks with more calories burned the longest.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    17 days ago

    Related: a guy in Poland posted online about buying supermarket donuts to use as fuel in a wood-burning stove. The donuts turned out an order of magnitude cheaper than firewood.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      I wish donuts were that cheap near me. The dollars to donuts phrase has been backward for like at least 10 years in my area.

      • operationalHazard@lemmy.zip
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        17 days ago

        Poland is still fairly religious and I’ve heard accounts of the amount some people eat on Fat Thursday on the leadup to Easter. Pretty sure that a specific type of donut is quite popular for it. So yeah, probably related

      • Ignotum@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        Yeah you need a more eye-catching title, like
        “I accidentally made a calorimeter?? Gone wrong - GONE SEXUAL”
        Now that’s a paper any journal would be itching to publish