Day 95 of 1000
We used Igor’s temperature differential minimization technique to cook our turkey this Thanksgiving and came out perfect. I would like to say that the results were conclusive, but I do not think I can. It is going to take a whole lot more experimentation. Here are the reasons:
- Our previous method was good enough to get our turkey right about 75% of the time anyway. This might have just been one of those times.
- Eric’s pressure differential method was so appealing that we could not resist adding it to the mix. Given that the control for this experiment was a method that managed neither temperature nor pressure differential, we are going to have to get help from Eric next year to design an experiment that helps us determines what percentage of the contribution to perfectly cooked, moist result was contributed by minimized temperature differential and what percentage was contributed by was contributed by minimized pressure differential.
- Now that we know that gravy comes from gravitational differential equalization, we tried to apply that theory, too, but were not sure we got it right. Bryan’s level of technical sophistication on this topic far surpasses anything the rest of understand. We will probably need several years of lessons from Bryan before we can get enough of a grasp of the concept to even be able to think about how to design an experiment to optimize it.
Stay tuned. I am going to try to develop a collaboration on this for next year.