Ever wondered if you can cook a chicken solely from the heat generated by slapping it? So did YouTuber Louis Weisz, and the verdict is… yes. Yes, you can.As you can see from the video embedded below, the endeavor took plenty of work – two months’ worth in total – from testing out the theory to constructing a super-speedy (and customizable) chicken slapper to actually getting the bird cooked. But in the end, Weisz did indeed come out with a cooked chicken at the end of it: a triumph of persistence if not really a practical option for your next camping trip.Two key considerations along the way were keeping the slaps fast and hard enough to heat the meat without causing it to disintegrate and managing to restrict heat loss – and as the video shows, they were both overcome.The cooking physics behind the idea is actually sound. It’s possible that a 2019 Reddit post was the inspiration for the video, as it originally posed the question of whether converted kinetic energy (movement) into thermal energy (heat) could cook a chicken.Among those who weighed in on that original question was a physics student who suggested that one slap would do…
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This Guy on YouTube Actually Cooked Meat by Slapping It… a Lot
