I Cooked a Chicken by Slapping It

it's done it's cooked oh my god i mean all right let's eat it a portion of this video was sponsored by hellofresh the chicken you see here is the only one on earth ever cooked by the power of slaps and as funny as that might sound the engineering required to pull this off was no joke a couple months back i posted a video investigating a question as old as time how many slaps would it take to cook a chicken the results were incredibly promising increasing the chicken's temperature by as much as 16 degrees c above ambient with the original rig destroyed by our testing we were back at square one but boy did i have a lot of suggestions on where to go from here my comments and my discord were both flooded with ideas some of them pretty good and yeah a lot of them were really bad um multiple slappers chicken sized plate armor a rig sized vacuum chamber all these suggestions addressed important issues with the original design but each only really addressed one at a time i needed all three faster slap rate more impact control and minimal heat loss from the chicken right off the bat i knew we'd need a stronger arm so i made a new oak core aluminum version whose outer shell provides strength while the wood core adds rigidity the original meat beater also had a fundamental problem and that there was no way whatsoever to control the power of a slap without also adjusting the speed this is a real issue because it means that as we go faster we're forced to hit the chicken harder and harder thereby accelerating its pulpification what we need is a rig that can slap really really fast without hitting the chicken all that hard which means making a paddle that allows for adjustable slap depth and yes that's the technical term this was the biggest overhaul from the original rig which meant it was a pretty involved process the design i settled on used a cutting board as the impact surface aluminum angle bars for mounts and spring steel strips as the adjustable height legs that connected it to the arm this allows for far more control over how we impact the chicken without compromising too much on weight or flexibility the other big issue with the original design was that the chicken was constantly losing heat to the environment and this was where joel's experience really came in handy joel suggested ultra thin aerogel insulation which would minimize heat loss from the chicken without greatly dampening the force of the slapper's impact the genius of this design is that it basically acts like a one-way energy filter where the kinetic energy from the slab is still transferred to the chicken but once it's converted into heat it has no way to escape i also made sure that this time i measured the temperature in degrees celsius since as many pointed out in the comments that's the scale used for real science which i mean this definitely is while unfortunately the new design made it impossible to see the chicken the internal wireless thermometer and digital slap counter made our progress far easier to track [Music] and we're off yes we have an increase in temperature nine degrees c let's go in terms of chicken integrity this chicken's looking pretty good we're up another degree celsius let's go the goal of this first attempt was just to figure out what still needed to be improved on the slapper and the meatbeater 9001 ran smoothly for the most part requiring only a few pit stops to check on wear or manage heat dissipation i have some uh cooking oil it's not like really lube but i think it'll do we are cooking after all with no major issues for the first couple hours it looked like the road ahead would be nothing but smooth slapping nothing nothing burned yet now what it needs is more tightness oh what's up we broke the bolt talk about famous last words luckily i had a spare bolt so i swapped it out and kept going tracking our progress along the way and making sure to celebrate the most important milestone of all i didn't expect to cook the chicken on the very first try but as the temperature kept creeping upwards it started looking like a very real possibility 100k but something still felt off guys i just want to be clear this is absolutely freaking mental and i feel like i should explode it pretty much any second so oh i have no idea what the [ __ ] just happened we're going to check the temperature of this chicken [Applause] oh that's freaking nasty what in the [ __ ] name have we created it is really hot i have to tell you 47 45.8 it smells like we came really close on our very first attempt but 48 degrees was still 9 or 10 degrees short of a reasonable pasteurization temperature for chicken i can't nibble this that's accepting defeat and i don't accept defeat but wait 9 or 10 degrees that only puts us at around 57 c or 135 degrees fahrenheit and everybody knows that a fully cooked chicken needs to register at least 165 degrees in order to be cooked but the thing is that's just not actually true the reason we cook our meat is to kill whatever bacteria it contains which in the case of chicken generally campylobacter or salmonella 165 is the temperature at which chicken is instantly pasteurized but dig a little deeper and you'll learn that maintaining a lower temperature for a longer period of time can have the same pasteurizing effect by maintaining a temperature between 55 to 60 c for an extended period of time we can achieve the same bacterial reduction as the typical fda guidelines and thus consider our chicken cooked to take this all the way the rig would need some upgrades so in collaboration with my crack team of discord engineers we implemented some critical adjustments for the rig to prevent the drive bolt from snapping we upgraded to a 3 8 inch hardened steel bolt i also observed a lot of heat building up in the motor during the test so we swapped out our low cfm pc fan for a bonafide blowy matron and used bags of snow to hopefully achieve sub-ambient cooling through the case all right that looks pretty solid to me everything appears to be go the second test was off to a great start the motor was much cooler than before and overall everything was running far more smoothly oh [ __ ] me come on oh come on you kidding so it turned out the motor wasn't the only thing that had been overheating because in less than 30 minutes we totally roasted the variac yeah you can get one of those all right cool that's this whole project it's like yeah dude it's ridiculous the replacement variac i ordered was rated for 30 amps 10 more than the previous one and i also added a pc fan on the back to provide some active cooling i also noticed that the rectifier was getting extremely hot while testing so i mounted it on a spare heat sink that i found lying around in peter's shop yo let's go baby it's time to slap from freaking meat meat meter 9001 three two one and we are off to the races the third stream was off to a very promising start and not too long after we began we started knocking down those milestones other than a handful of pit stops to adjust the chicken or to change out the snow it was pretty much driving on autopilot all we had to do was wait i knew something was up swapping out the backup arm in a desperate attempt to keep this run alive i pressed on but i knew that the imprecise drive slot meant that we were running this rig on borrowed time it wasn't a question of if it would break but when well uh well there's your problem f in the chat i know i know let's take a look at this chicken all right let's see how we've done it's still a little rare not cooked all right it's like 2 50 a.m i'm roasted guys i'm not gonna eat it i'm too tired i won't enjoy it and just as those arms broke so did i i wanted more than anything to eat a meal cooked by the power of slaps and i was gonna do it no matter the cost i built a new slapper arm reinforced with steel plates on the sides of the drive slot and took peter's suggestion to link the motors together with a belt to double the power output the dual motor rig can output a maximum of 6 horsepower with a peak current draw of up to 40 amps having the motors linked like this should also lighten the load on the primary motor significantly and smooth out the bumps and speed that the rig ordinarily experiences this is the meat beater 9001 truly pushed to the limit and just as i was about to toss a chicken in there one last time i realized something if i'm gonna go to this much effort to cook something with slaps it might as well be something that i feel comfortable actually eating so before taking one last step at cooking a chicken i decided to try to make myself a fine steak dinner currently the steak is at 40 degrees c we still need to get it all the way up to 60. since we'd already proven we can get meat to well over 40 degrees using a slapper i took the liberty of using a sous-vide bath to get it up to that initial 40 degree temperature the steak was actually going really well it seemed that as we just kept slapping away the temperature kept rising somewhere around 48 to 50 degrees c we kind of met a plateau i've completely lost confidence in this bag so we're gonna switch back but sooner rather than later it started increasing again and we were back to the races my goal was to have a medium medium rare steak and so 60 degrees c was the temperature that i decided to 60 target 60 degrees we got the 60 freaking degrees yes the steak is done it's cocked holy sh oh my god i mean all right let's eat it all right hold up we have some juice i'm gonna dump that out yo it looks cooked in there holy sh no way yo that is a steak dude wait whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i'm not even playing this up for the camera look at this thing the smell it smells like steak no oh my gosh it's got pink in the middle holy sh look at that time to take a bite full disclosure i got about the toughest piece of meat i could reasoning that the slapper would like beat the life out of it so appearance wise it looks kind of almost like soft it feels kind of soft man i can't believe i am eating something that came off the slapper honestly the texture is kind of yeah the texture is pretty bad it basically tastes like you've been chewing it for a minute already but if you can get past that it actually tastes pretty good i can't believe it yeah that's a freaking steak it's a really bad steak holy cow with the steak having proven to be a resounding success i was cautiously optimistic for our avian alternative i ran the slapper as hard as i could sustaining a minimum temperature of 55 degrees for almost 90 minutes but despite nearly two months of work the rig still broke before i was able to fully cook it [Music] at least that's what i thought until i was editing this video i'm looking at the what we cooked it yes baby yes we cooked it we cooked it i'm still not gonna eat that chicken but we [ __ ] did it that's right after double checking the charts it turns out we did cook the chicken the big reason i didn't eat it is because due to a break in the balloon the chicken got contaminated with fiberglass and aerogel and if you calculate it out you'd find that cooking a chicken requires a minimum of approximately 135 000 slabs and that over the course of the six to eight hour process the meat beater 9001 would consume around 7 500 watt hours of energy or about two to three times as much as your oven would while making a typical roasted chicken it's actually way better than i expected but if you're considering spending the time and money to build a rig like this yourself i'd recommend instead that you try cooking some delicious meals from today's sponsor hellofresh hello fresh is pretty much the opposite of the chicken slapper in almost every conceivable way where the meat beater takes several hours to prepare a typical meal hello fresh meals are designed to be fun and easy to make so you can get dinner on the table in just about 30 minutes hello fresh is also sustainable since the 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Channel: Louis Weisz

Views: 9,749,673

Rating: 4.8686604 out of 5

Keywords: Louis Weisz, chicken slapper, how many slaps does it take to cook a chicken, slaps to cook a chicken, meat beater 9000, meat beater 9001, meme, science, engineering

Id: LHFhnnTWMgI

Length: 13min 16sec (796 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 14 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/stankershim]

It's hilarious that he got a hello fresh sponsorship

[u/Fleckione]

thats mega cool!

[u/DYLDOLEE]

So stupid, and amazing.

[u/ethylalcohoe]

That was fun!

[u/Kevlar_socks]

Cool, but appropriately shitty. The slot design means that the hammer would be systematically decelerating instead of maximally imparting energy onto the chicken

[u/FuckFuckingKarma]

I'm not sure I would trust that machine to beat my meat.

[u/spotter]

Is there Ig Nobel of engineering? Because this is worthy.

[u/urmyheartBeatStopR]

LOL texture feel like it was prechewed for a minute.

[u/evilspyboy]

Just in time for Slapsgiving