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Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I live in Utah where it's been sinfully hot and dry for the last week. I fully intend to test this theory. I just bought a high temp probe that should get here tomorrow. I will provide an update once the testing has been completed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Alright, I have the sensor installed. It's a bit cooler and more overcast today, but I'll hopefully be able to get some good data.

A graph from Home Assistant showing the current temperature of the mailbox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if this could inadvertently dox you but I'd be curious to see an hourly outside temperature too to see how much hotter a mailbox gets than outside. Based off your first graph here I'm wondering if cars having glass windows makes a greenhouse effect that would make a car hotter than a mailbox, everything else equal?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Seems like a worthwhile thing to do! I'm not worried about doxxing, since someone would have to go to pretty extreme measures to correlate with the exact climate where I'm at. I installed the sensor after the hottest time of day had already passed, but here's what it looked like:

A graph showing the outside temperature versus the temperature in the mailbox.

I'm pretty sure the spikes in the mailbox temperature were due to cloud cover.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In my opinion this pretty conclusively proves that you can't make a mailbox lasagna. This is the graph I looked but for my previous statement:

A graph showing the temperature the inside of a car can reach in the sun

And it shows that a car can hit 130-140 at temps around what you posted. Which is so much wildly higher than what you posted I do have to assume cars have some sort of greenhouse effect going that mailboxes don't

Finally when you consider how much of the total volume of a mailbox a lasagna covers, I have to imagine that'll slow heating down even more! Great work!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

As a follow-up, I have a new record temperature. Thanks, West Coast heat dome!

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Here's with the ambient air temperature:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Damn. Even with the crazy high heat you're basically parking the food right in the danger zone for bacteria growth. Mailbox lasagna: busted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

science! I'm very pleased.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

By the way, just a quick tip, if you haven't already maybe try airgapping the sensor from the metal with some foam so you're measuring the air itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have it positioned right now so that the probe tip isn't touching any metal, but I'll probably add a bit of foam. I have some incredibly irritating foam packing peanuts that would probably work well. I'll go do that now.

EDIT: here it is, in all its gloriously crappy, uh, glory:

a picture of a temperature probe poking into the inside of a mailbox. A Styrofoam packing peanut with a hole in it has been put over the probe to stop it from touching the walls of the mailbox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Haha it's beautiful. Curious about the results.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Fuck yeah, I love this. I'm so excited to see your results

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Please, post it so we can see!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I just found this thread, this is amazing :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I don't know. I've seen this used occasionally and thought I'd try it here. What's to lose?