Morons.

[dodgem]

Heat can't be reflected. Dat's light, and the byproduct of it being heat. So unless you're cooking with a 1000w bulb...

Please please tell me you are ****ing joking...... For one thing, heat isn't a by-product of light, heat and light are simply different wavelengths of radiation, both of which are, for example, by-products of passing an electric current through a fine metal wire. Both heat and light can be reflected, as can x-rays and radio waves!

So many people in this thread arguing that a reflective surface absorbs heat in the same manner as a dull one! Did none of you listen in physics lessons? Radiant heat is just a form of electromagnetic radiation, exactly like light!! It is true that in an oven the food also gets hot through conduction of the heat from the air to the food as well as by radiation from the surface of the oven, but it's not moronic to believe that foil shiny side in will cook the food faster than shiny side out, it's true!

Or are you all just being ironic in the moronic thread?

(not sure how much faster the food would cook by the way, but nevertheless there is a difference).

 

[Fuzz]

I nearly had a name plate with this thread on it nailed to me today.
It was just before 9:00am and I was in the crew room with the lads discussing the possibilities of blocking certain friends on on Facebook from posting on your wall.
The boss had previously handed me the phone as he had gone off to take a tom ***.

The Phone rings and I answer it
"Good morning, Facebook"

Thankfully I only got to the Faaaaaaa before I coughed and replied with our correct company name.

 

[Snograt]

It is true that in an oven the food also gets hot through conduction of the heat from the air to the food as well as by radiation from the surface of the oven,

Convection, surely?

 

[burns]

Convection, surely?

Pretty sure he means conduction although convection would play it's part.

The amount of irony/arrogance in the thread is funny.

 

[Archy]

An employee of ours cannot comprehend the concept of buoyancy/displacement that allows e.g. cruise liners to float. "But they weigh thousands of tons, HOW CAN THAT FLOAT it must be magic."

This coming from the same guy who has never had mashed or boiled potatoes (and he lives in Ireland and its not the 1840's) He's in his early 30's.

 

[Deadbeat]

Had a nurse phone me up about a year ago to say "I printed out some request forms and bled the patient and sent them off to the lab - one of them was an urgent troponin [marker for cardiac failure], but I've just realised I labelled the bottles from the form and bled the wrong patient, hahaha! Isn't that funny?"

Woman, you nearly killed a man today. That's not funny.

 

[Snograt]

Pretty sure he means conduction although convection would play it's part.

The amount of irony/arrogance in the thread is funny.

Heh, self ownage on my part, then

Up until now I was certain that ovens worked by convection.

 

[Redman]

The amount of irony/arrogance in the thread is funny.

Just remember, it's not arrogance if you're right

 

[FNGsam]

Back home in Aus my mates ex-gf and her friends used to think that spirits were unfreezable just because they don't freeze in a home freezer :S.

Also and this is the worst I have ever heard, they seriously thought that we lived on the inside of the crust of the Earth, as in if you looked up and could see far enough you would see China as an example.... How anyone could actually believe that is just unbelievable to me.

 

[robgmun]

Heat can't be reflected. Dat's light, and the byproduct of it being heat. So unless you're cooking with a 1000w bulb...

OK! Now that's a moron statement!!!

 

[Dano]

OK! Now that's a moron statement!!!

I thought he was posting something somebody had said to be honest and didn't want to get involved after being trolled about fog lights a while back

 

[burns]

Heh, self ownage on my part, then

Up until now I was certain that ovens worked by convection.

Convection will have some affect along with the air being shoved around by the fan, but the heat is still conducted from the to the food/foil. Not that I am an expect on oven thermodynamics, I am fully prepared to be corrected.

 

[DiCe!]

This thread is just amazing.

We have a "quote book" at home. I will dig out some of my mums classics.

Although I once said "yes he plays the guitar" And proceeded to air play the drums.....Thought I had got away with it before my dad nearly ****ed himself laughing at me.

 

[bagsjoni]

Just a while ago my Boss called me to his desk saying the report i developed wasn't working (he had tried five times with zero success). The error message was " Error: Please you have entered a wrong company code".

When i reached his desk he read out the error message to me then i told him to enter a correct company code which he did and it worked fine. He looked at me with a moronic smile and asked me how i found out that he had entered a wrong Co code

Edit:He is an Indian and the IT manager!!!!!

 

[Vonhelmet]

Ovens circulate heat by convection - a fan oven creates artificial convection currents because they take a while to set up. The heat then gets transferred from the air to the food by conduction.

 

[TwsT]

Whilst in Disney Land Paris, A friend of mine turned around and it said I wonder what that means in English BA-Ga-Ge. a slight pause a look of confusion as i turned to the others and said that's English mate it says Baggage.

 

[kylew]

I haven't seen that "How Do They Do It?" episode, and I've never taken the time to think about whether one side of the foil would cook better than the other. I've always put the foil shiny side up whether the food is on top of or under it, but it's really not that hard to believe that one side would reflect heat more than the other if you're not familiar with the physics of heat radiation. Hardly worthy of the strength of feeling a term like 'moron' would inspire.

Not really, when cooking materials propagate the misconception then people can justifiably believe it to be correct without being moronic.

Dull and shiny surfaces do behave differently. Whether the difference on either side of a sheet of foil is significant, I don't know. Whether it can have any bearing on cooking, I don't know.

It's not moron territory, though.

I never once said it was moronic, I think it demonstrates a lack of thinking though, like I said in my post, whether that's moronic or not is up to you. What is moronic though is the woman who won't accept that it's not true, and is even teaching her kids it, it's that type of attitude that makes parents teach kids some weird things which can end up making them look moronic. I know it's not exactly the same, but I had a teacher in secondary school who mixed up the meanings of "defy" and "define", and in one lesson was trying to teach the class the meanings of the words, she wouldn't have it when I pointed out her mistake. She also taught quite young kids to read...

 

[kylew]

In america and large parts of the world, being asian is being chinese, the rest are pakistani or indian or whatever. In B ritian the latter sets are lumped as asian, and chinese called chinese.

Americans see the word oriental as offensive, but we do not, although americans now also see the colour black as offensive, oddly enough, the rest of the world can still cope with using a colour to describe a person, when they are indeed that colour.

If we wanted to be specific we could call people west asian and east asian and it would split them up well.

While I don't find the term "black" and "white" offensive, I do find it incredibly annoying, especially with how you're saying it's just using a colour to describe the person. Not many people are actually "black" or "white", the vast majority of people who are classed as "black" are in fact brown, very far away from black, and the vast majority of people who are "white" are extremely light brown/pink, in fact "black" and "white" people are closer in skin colour to eachother than they are to the "black" and "white" terms for them.

 

[Elixir]

I never once said it was moronic, I think it demonstrates a lack of thinking though, like I said in my post, whether that's moronic or not is up to you. What is moronic though is the woman who won't accept that it's not true, and is even teaching her kids it, it's that type of attitude that makes parents teach kids some weird things which can end up making them look moronic. I know it's not exactly the same, but I had a teacher in secondary school who mixed up the meanings of "defy" and "define", and in one lesson was trying to teach the class the meanings of the words, she wouldn't have it when I pointed out her mistake. She also taught quite young kids to read...

But there is a difference between the shiny side and the dull side, physics wise. Yes it might make a negligible difference to cooking, but it's fairly basic physics that shiny surfaces absorb less heat than dull ones...

 

[kylew]

But there is a difference between the shiny side and the dull side, physics wise. Yes it might make a negligible difference to cooking, but it's fairly basic physics that shiny surfaces absorb less heat than dull ones...

There's a measurable difference between 1.05mm and 1.0mm, and the difference will be very important in small scale engineering, but in the vast majority of applications though it means the same thing. I don't think there's a difference between the sides of foil (Foil manufacturer says the same thing, as well as the "How Do They Do It?" about foil) but if there's a tiny difference, it must be so minor that it's not even worth talking about as a difference when it comes to cooking.