Foot-Long Pita

Foot Long Pita
Andre Willers
10 Mar 2011

Synopsis:
Healthy baking from the inside .

Discussion :
With thanks to Johan Willers .
The essential tool is a Paint Stripper heat gun that blows hot air at about 400 C .
This enables food to be baked from the inside .

On Amazon they sell for about US $15

Many can be set at varying temperatures .
A glorified , high temperature hair dryer .

Foot-Long Pita's
Roll the thin dough in a tube . Blow the 400 C air through until the dough , inflating it until it is crisp to taste . Fill with desired yummies .

The dough can be pre-prepared and the cooking takes seconds .
Ideal for fast food .

Health :
Acrylamides form from 120 C , peaks at 175 C and tapers off thereafter . At 400 C , only traces remain .

Monograms :
A simple stamp on the dough should ensure a visible monogram or picture .

Spiral Doughnuts .
With various fillings .

Monogrammed toasted sandwiches .
With extra cheese . Yum .
Monogram in blue cheese !

The perfect sausage roll :
Or sugar roll
Or cinnamon roll .
Stick the dough on the filling , roll , blast hot air through to bake .
Voila!

Mega-Macaroni .
Cook large macaroni's from the inside , then stuff them .

Macaroni Katyuska
Line them up and blast the hot air through .
The pasta should cook and absorb any liquid in the filling .
Yum!

Interesting experiment :
Many types of offal have tubes :
Lungs , intestines , kidneys , heart , giblets , etc .
These can then all be cooked from the inside .
The timing would need some experimentation .
If you think I am joking , watch the price of meat in the coming decade .
Why do you think the Chinese eat anything ?
They have been there before .

Dieting (weight) considerations :
I suspect (but cannot prove) that the very high temperatures in the dry-cooking process means that the material left over will not only be very crispy , but will take a lot of energy to break the bonds (ie digest) . This will be true down to intestinal molecular level . The stomach will not bother to break down foods that will yield a nett negative energy , unless it needs some elements in the food .

So , if you take a fairly good multi-vitamin and multi-mineral , you can eat foot-long pita's all day and lose weight . But watch the filling !

Low-carbohydrate
The same holds for carbohydrates , as long as there is no shortage of carbon .
Drink a soda .

The physics :
Chemical activity doubles with every 10 C rise in temperature . This means that even if the difference is only 400C-200C = 200C , it means a 2^20 fold increase in activity.
A very large number .

This means that the cooking takes place very quickly .
So , passes of the hot air should be short and layers to be cooked , thin .

Experimentation seems to be called for .

Floss-candy -> Floss-protein .
Proteins can be expanded to fit politicians' promises .

Something to get your teeth in .

Andre

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