Thursday, February 14, 2008

Cheddar anyone?

Why in the world would someone want to calculate the heat capacity of cheese? While I do enjoy a nice creamy Brie, fresh mozzarella (especially with tomatoes and fresh basil), and maybe once in a great while a strong stinky cheese (reminiscent of Limburger) that I tasted on the Azores, calculating the heat capacity of each individual cheese seems to be taking it a little far, doesn't it?

Apparently not. In order to design the perfect cooling systems for the food industry, it is important to know the heat capacity of the food you are dealing with. For cheese it seems like moisture content is key in heat capacity calculations. Formulas to calculate heat capacity for cheese tend to be more accurate for those cheeses with higher water content (soft cheeses). Who would have known?

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who wants to know the specific heat of cheese? I do. I've been wondering this for the past week, actually, especially how much heat is needed to melt cheddar on nachos in the microwave (and how many watts required to deliver the heat, etc...) I should add I'ma physics student, and just had a thermodynamics exam today. Know a web site that lists specific heats for more everyday substances than gold, lead, and zinc?

Anonymous said...

that is so bizarre, but I suppose people do need to know these things...

It makes you wonder whether there is some grad student somewhere toiling on a thesis devoted to the phase transitions and thermodynamic properties of Camembert

Ψ*Ψ said...

I never know what to expect from your blog--so unpredictable!
(and cheese = awesomeness)

Anonymous said...

酒店打工

酒店兼職

台北酒店

打工兼差

酒店工作

酒店經紀

禮服店

酒店兼差

酒店上班

酒店PT

酒店

酒店喝酒

酒店消費

喝花酒

粉味

tianshasha said...

Really trustworthy blog. Please keep updating with great posts like this one. I have booked marked your site and am about to

email it to a few friends of mine that I know would enjoy reading..


wow goldcheap wow goldwow

gold
buy wow goldwow goldcheap wow goldbuy wow goldWorld of Warcraft goldcheap World of Warcraft goldWorld of Warcraft goldbuy World of Warcraft gold
World of Warcraft goldcheap World of Warcraft gold
buy World of Warcraft goldtibia gold
tibia goldtibia gold
tibia goldtibia gold
tibia goldtibia gold
tibia goldtibia gold
tibia goldtibia gold
flyff penyacheap flyff penyaflyff penyabuy flyff penyaflyff penyacheap flyff penya
buy flyff penyaflyff penya
flyff penya

Anonymous said...

Really trustworthy blog. Please keep updating with great posts like this one. I have booked marked your site and am about to

email it to a few friends of mine that I know would enjoy reading..


metin2 yangcheap metin2

yang
metin2 yangbuy metin2 yangmetin2

yang
cheap flyff penyabuy metin2

yang
metin2 yangluna gold
cheap luna goldluna gold
buy luna goldluna gold
cheap luna goldbuy luna gold
luna goldluna gold

Anonymous said...

Really trustworthy blog. Please keep updating with great posts like this one. I have booked marked your site and am about to email it to a few friends of mine that I know would enjoy reading..



lineage 2 adenacheap lineage 2 adenalineage 2 adenabuy lineage 2 adenalineage 2 adenacheap lineage 2 adenabuy lineage 2 adenalineage 2 adenalineage 2 adenaaoc goldcheap aoc goldaoc goldbuy aoc goldaoc goldcheap aoc goldbuy aoc goldaoc gold
aoc goldwarhammer gold
cheap warhammer goldwarhammer goldbuy warhammer goldwarhammer goldcheap warhammer goldbuy warhammer goldaion kinahaion kinah
aion kinahaion kinah
aion kinahaion kinah
aion kinahaion kinah
aion kinahaion kinahaion kinah

Anonymous said...

dog clothing
dog clothes

Unknown said...

Such kind of articl is our need , it can give us help from different aspect for different people . after reading this article , I learn a mount of knowkedge increase my power , my families and I all like you article ,reading you article is our best love.
NFL jerseys
Puma Shoes
Ecco shoes
Nike Sneakers

Anonymous said...

To be a good benign being is to procure a philanthropic of openness to the far-out, an skill to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can front you to be shattered in hugely exceptionally circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something remarkably outstanding with the get of the principled life: that it is based on a conviction in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a weed than like a treasure, something rather feeble, but whose mere particular attraction is inseparable from that fragility.

Anonymous said...

I'm really Glad i came across this website.Added chemistrylabnotebook.blogspot.com to my bookmark!

cheap designed purses said...

Thank you for your post, I look for such article along time,today i find it finally.this post give me lots of advise it is very useful for me .i will pay more attention to you ,i hope you can go on posting more such post, i will support you all the time. May be you are Sports fans? Do you like
Designer Handbags
these have the high quality,low price,professional service,Just For You if you like.Thank you again for writing this article!

Penis Enlargement Pills said...

These kind of post are always inspiring and I prefer to read quality content so I happy to find many good point here in the post, writing is simply great, thank you for the post

Ice said...

I am a Nike Wholesale collecter.
especially the Nike for Cheap
like: Cheap Air Jordan
Nike Air Max 2011
Cheap Nike Shox
Nike Dunk SB shoes

Anonymous said...

I definitely desired to deliver a quick concept to thank you for the nice tips and hints you’re posting on this website. My time-consuming internet appear up has now been rewarded with helpful strategies to exchange with my family and friends. I ?d claim that we readers fact are truly blessed to dwell in a helpful community with incredibly some great individuals with insightful points. I really feel really grateful to get discovered the webpage and appear ahead to a lot of additional entertaining moments reading right here. Thanks a good deal again for a good deal of things.
Hotels in Venice

Hotels in Milan said...

This is the perfect blog for anyone who wants to know about this topic. You know so much its almost hard to argue with you (not that I really would want...HaHa). You definitely put a new spin on a subject thats been written about for years. Great stuff, just great!
Hotels in Milan

тендеры на строительство и ремонт said...

Thanks so much for this article, quite useful piece of writing.

Tera Items said...

This is a great thread, so much info, was wondering about how to do the conversion most of last night but struggled with some programs. Just working my way through the advice, cheers.

cicy said...

In America any boy may become
Tera online
Tera goldPresident and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.How often we fail to realize our good fortune inRunescape gold
buy Runescape gold living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.Tera gold
Tera Item
Tera accountNobody ever said life was easy…they just promised that it would be worth it.

Panoramamaker said...

In der Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Kunden haben wir festgestellt, das häufig keine oder ungeeignete Grundrisse für eine Präsentation im Internet vorhanden sind http://www.grundrissmaker.de. 

Meist müssen Grundrisse aufwendig erstellt werden, oft mit Software, die viel mehr kann (meist ungeeignet ist), als das was eigentlich gebraucht wird.

Genau diese Lücke schließt unser GrundrissMaker http://www.panoramamaker.de.
Erstellen Sie in wenigen Minuten einen Grundriss für Ihre Internetpräsentation, um Ihrer Zielgruppe einen schnellen Überblick über die Räumlichkeiten zu ermöglichen.

Unknown said...

HMAS Australia was one of three Indefatigable-class battlecruisers built for the defence of the British Empire. She was launched in 1911, and commissioned as flagship of the fledgling Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1913


livesexLas Vegas Escort

Runescape Gold said...

The advantage of collecting the cloth is the fact that it could be a valuable commodity to sell in the auction house for a high price. The other approach would be to slaughter or follow non humanoid creeps as it could be leathery. This is also known as a product of reward that you can sell on the auction house. Regardless of the technique to be pursued, just know that it will take time to build your wow gold these ways. Cheap Runescape Gold Tera Gold Buy Tera Gold WOW Gold

tgr \m/ said...

free webcamsLondon Escort

"I believe Laughman would have served the rest of his natural life in jail for a murder he did not commit if not for Pete Shellem," says William C. Costopoulos, an attorney who is representing Laughman in a wrongful imprisonment civil suit.

tgr \m/ said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
tgr \m/ said...

free web camEscorts Sydney

Marsico, as an assistant district attorney, had prosecuted the other man and was familiar with his MO. But he never put two and two together. "My jaw dropped. I know it's a cliché, but it did," Marsico says. "That was enough to raise concerns. As a result of Pete, we took a fresh look at the case."

escortsite.es said...

Quite helpful material, thank you for this post.

sports handicapping software said...

Your blog is quite helpful to me and i am sure to others too. I appreciate your post, it is usually nice and contains useful information .

sports betting software said...

nice blog i like

Anonymous said...

Who would like to RS Goldmaster the particular heat of cheese? I do. I've been questioning this using the previous week, actually, especially how a good offer heat is required to melt cheddar on nachos within your microwave (and the number of watts essential to provide the heat, etc...) I may include Buy WOW GoldI'ma physics student, and just experienced a thermodynamics examination today.

Anonymous said...

Acheter Viagra en ligne
Achat Viagra en ligne

Anonymous said...

buy ativan ativan and alcohol recreational - where to buy lorazepam

Anonymous said...

buy tramadol buy tramadol online safely - tramadol online fedex

Anonymous said...

xanax drug xanax 1mg street value - xanax grapefruit