Omelet wrote:
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> Doing it with all steel and heat treatment it can seem like magic. But
>> steel reinforced concrete seemed like magic to me until I spent a
>> quarter in college grinding through the math in my statics and materials
>> course. Ye gods that was a miserable course. But now i understand why
>> tempered chocolate works because I understand why tempered steel works
>> because I understand why steel reinforced concrete works. All the same
>> principle.
>
> Sounds like a lot of physics. ;-)

Steel reenforced concrete arch bridge, katana samurai sword, chewy on
the outside creamy on the inside candy bar. It's all physics but at
least it's all the same physics. Even M&Ms use the same principle for
mechanical strength. Chocolate kisses need to have a foil wrapper but
M&Ms are tough enough to stay together in a bag.

I didn't read enough of this thread to get how it drifted from George
Foreman grills to tempering with heat to make chocolate sculptures
strong enough to stand under their own weight. Somehow the crock pot
spends most of its time out on the counter but the Foreman grill spends
most of its time in the shelves. Both are specialty items but that
tells me how much each gets used. Neither are used quite enough to have
a permanent shelf location like the nuke or mixer. Neither is used
quiet as often as the Tilia vacuum sealer. Both are used more often
than the dehydrator.