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Resistant Starch Conversion Cooker

Appliance Does Multiple Repeated Cooking-Cooling Cycles to Convert Unhealthy Starch in Foods Into Healthier Resistant Starch
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So imagine something fragile made out of plastic - like a plastic bag - which you can easily shred up in your hands. But then you melt that bag into molten plastic, and then let it cool. After cooling, it becomes a more solid lump that's not so easily torn up.

Something similar can be done with unhealthy starches in our foods (eg. potatoes, rice, pasta,etc) Those starches are unhealthy because they're so quickly & easily broken down by digestion into glucose, resulting in a glucose spike in the bloodstream that overloads our cellular machinery.

If we cook our starchy food and let it cool, the fragile starches can be transformed into more resistant starches that aren't so easily broken down during digestion, thus mitigating the negative effects of glucose spike.

Furthermore, if we repeatedly cook and cool that same starchy food over and over again, the repeated cycles will result in more and more of this transformation.

So we want an appliance especially designed to do this cyclical cooking and cooling repeatedly for multiple cycles, in order to make our naturally starchy foods as healthy as possible.

This digital appliance will be equipped with heating element for cooking and refrigeration coil for cooling. Various pre-programmed cooking-cooling cycles will be available for various different types of starchy foods, to optimally transform their unhealthy starches into more healthier resistant ones. Leave your food in the appliance in advance, so that your selected programmed regime of cooking-cooling cycles will be completed in time for your mealtimes.

To sound more hip, fashionable, and marketable, we can refer to this method as "Conversion Cooking", offering a recipe book featuring tasty recipes best suited for preparation with our appliance.

sanman, Sep 06 2025

Making Resistant Starches in Different Foods https://youtu.be/oViY1udQ2wU
[sanman, Sep 06 2025]

Amylopectin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylopectin
Amylopectin is a water-insoluble polysaccharide and highly branched polymer of alpha-glucose units found in plants. It is one of the two components of starch, the other being amylose. [Voice, Sep 06 2025]

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pocmloc, Sep 06 2025
  

       (Customer) Umm, how's the amylopectin today?   

       (Waiter) Excellent sir, we serve a water-insoluble polysaccharide and highly branched polymer of alpha-glucose units found in plants.   

       (Customer) With the two components of starch?   

       (Waiter) Yes sir, with a full serving amylose.   

       (Date, putting napkin on table and getting up to leave.) "Yea, I'm actually not hungry, I'll call you."
doctorremulac3, Sep 06 2025
  

       This sounds like an excellent post-factum justification for eating a lot of re-heated leftovers. [+]
pertinax, Sep 07 2025
  

       [pertinax] I was just going to comment that this procedure occurs spontaneously, or accidentally, I don't know which, between my fridge, my oven, and my leftover deep storage modules. Often 'big eyes' when you are hungry starts the cycle. I don't notice any digestive differences, but the food has had most of the goodness cycled out of it; little flavor, any texture reduced to mush, and the result is a homogenous pasty substance. Healthy or not, is this desirable? Besides being digestible by hypoglycemics, babies and ulcer sufferers, what recommends it to chefs and avid home cooks?
minoradjustments, Sep 08 2025
  

       It's a cool premise...   

       ...it's not original.   
      
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