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Cooking With Electricity.

1. Locate your old M.E.M. switch fuse.


2. Open the door to check that the working parts are dry and need grease.


3. Apply spray lubricant generously to handle and mechanical moving parts.


4. Close door.


5. Operate switch handle to distribute lubricant and help it work in.


6. Observe smoke issuing from enclosure.


7. Panic.


8. Realise that a spark must have set fire to the lubricant or propellant.


9. Realize that a fire extinguisher is not to hand.


10. Panic again.


11. Fan flames with rag in effort to snuff them out.


12. Remove burning switch fuse door and throw it to a safer place.


13. Allow everything to cool then reassemble.


14. Read warning label on spray can lubricant with strong magnifying glass. Notice the words Highly Flammable in letters 0.25mm high.


15. That is how you flambe an M.E.M. switch fuse.


Next week fish.


Z.


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  • Some foods can be heated or cooked by passing electricity directly through them. Needs to be AC.

    In some countries one may purchase a horribly dangerous device for cooking hot dogs. It consists of several metal rollers with 120 volt mains between them. place hot dogs on rollers. The de-luxe version has a plastic lid interlocked with the supply.


    "In cup water heaters" are popular overseas, the cheap ones are simply two electrodes on a stick and heat a cup of water by passing current through it. Very popular for heating water for instant noodles, particularly entertaining if the noodles in the now salted water become cold and reheating is attempted.

    Two nails driven through a piece of wood and connected to the mains may be used to heat water. Connect between phases for quicker heating.


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  • Some foods can be heated or cooked by passing electricity directly through them. Needs to be AC.

    In some countries one may purchase a horribly dangerous device for cooking hot dogs. It consists of several metal rollers with 120 volt mains between them. place hot dogs on rollers. The de-luxe version has a plastic lid interlocked with the supply.


    "In cup water heaters" are popular overseas, the cheap ones are simply two electrodes on a stick and heat a cup of water by passing current through it. Very popular for heating water for instant noodles, particularly entertaining if the noodles in the now salted water become cold and reheating is attempted.

    Two nails driven through a piece of wood and connected to the mains may be used to heat water. Connect between phases for quicker heating.


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