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This idea is for a simple sensor to be added to microwave ovens that could pick up on the continuum between well-done popcorn and burnt popcorn, and automatically shut the oven off before it reached the high end of the continuum. See link. Could save Seattle a lot of false fire alarms.
Here's the link
http://www.king5.co...banTP.43bf29d9.html
Don't know what happened to the original one [longshot9999, Mar 21 2008]
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<U.S. The Office reference> "Ryan started the fire! It was always burning since the world was turning..." </USTOR> |
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Hmmm. Maybe some sort of mass spectrometer. |
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A smoke detector will get contaminated, either by particulates or steam or vapourised fat, and stop working. So the idea needs a mass spec, or some sort of electronic "nose" that won't "fatigue" at recurrent high levels of "normal" contaminants. |
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Not seeing that link, I have to say... |
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By that time it might be too late. Better to detect the pops, and shut off automatically when they decline to a certain rate. |
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mine has a humidity detector that senses the corn is popping and then shuts off within a certain time period based on the bag size you selected, works pretty good. |
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The article doesn't mention why popcorn burns so often in Seattle. Is it a problem with the humidity detector? Fancy Justice Center commercial radiation equipment? Even when I set it at 3 minutes, forget about it, and it's "all done", popcorn turns out fine (maybe slightly charred). |
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It's not just Seattle. Here in Florida I've worked at companies that had to ban it in microwaves because people kept burning it and stinking up the building. |
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