[extropy-chat] LINK: Giant Fractal Pecan Pie, was Re: Extropy of Cooking

[Jay Dugger]

Saturday, 01 July 2006

The aesthetics of cooking leave me bored, but this caught my eye!

http://www.instructables.com/id/E5JZ3ILC4AEP2877E4/

"introgiant fractal pecan pie
for thanksgiving 2k4 we opted to construct a very large pie.

based on a prototype the previous year we were aware of a fundamental
limitation of large pies, namely the crust to filling ratio. for
traditional circular pies of radius R, the amount of filling scales as
R2 while the crust only scales linearly so as the pie grows larger,
the flaky crust is completely dominated by the creamy filling.

our solution was to construct a pie pan in the shape of a koch
snowflake (whose perimter obeys completely different scaling laws),
fill it with delicious pecan pie and bake in a custom backyard oven."

Instructables goes on to give illustrated directions for the pie.

I know little about commericial baking, but do you suppose a market
exists for optimal pans? Such items would balance baking, storage,
shipping, sales, and manufacturing costs at the producer, retailer,
and customer stages.

-- 
Jay Dugger
http://jaydugger.suprglu.com
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