偉民 ([info]andr00) wrote,
@ 2003-12-02 00:10:00
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What have I been up to?
I'm baking, as usual. You might think that a good way to get a whole bunch of cupcakes (which are still too hot to handle) out of the muffin tin is to move the tin very quickly upwards from the ground, veering towards the counter, and at the last second jerking the pan downward so that the cupcakes all continue in a parabolic trajectory and land upright on the counter with near-zero vertical velocity, but...

whaaat. no one thinks that? Look, this is what I mean:

That seems like a good idea, huh? No? Pff.

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[info]andr00
2003-12-02 12:35 am UTC (link)

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[info]snoo
2003-12-02 05:55 am UTC (link)
I don't know which is better.. the mental image of it snowing cupcakes and you trying to catch them before they hit the floor, or the fact that you took the time to actually make a graphical representation of the cupcakes' flight and landing. Personally, I'd have just let the pan sit there for a few minutes and cool off before I tried to touch them. You must've been in a damn big hurry!

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[info]andr00
2003-12-02 11:22 am UTC (link)
I was kind of in a big hurry, because I only have one muffin tin and I was making 2 batches. But yes, eventually common sense won out and I left it sitting there for minutes on end so I could remove them one at a time by hand from the muffin tin, rather than one at a time from diverse locations in my kitchen.

This diagram is completely theoretical, but I like the little muffins going everywhere.

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[info]snoo
2003-12-02 11:27 am UTC (link)
I like the little muffins going everywhere also. It was good for a laugh first thing in the morning.

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[info]resilient
2003-12-02 06:12 am UTC (link)
Haha!

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[info]speicus
2003-12-02 10:56 am UTC (link)
The amazing thing about this method is that the number of muffins exceeds the number of muffin holes in the pan! Are they making muffin babbies?

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[info]speicus
2003-12-02 10:57 am UTC (link)
(... or are they quantum muffins?)

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[info]andr00
2003-12-02 11:19 am UTC (link)
Ahem - More like: You shut YOUR muffin hole!

I knew someone would count the muffins, and I had a hunch it would be you. You just can't keep all that book learning under your hat.

Ok, the trick is that the muffin pan is a 3-dimensional object with isometric projection, and the muffins are 2 dimensional, so you can fit an infinite number of them in a stack, oriented vertically in the center of just one of the cups.

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[info]speicus
2003-12-02 11:27 am UTC (link)
2-dimensional muffins can't be very filling. Are you on some sort of diet?

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[info]andr00
2003-12-02 11:52 am UTC (link)
I'm only eating things which can be shoved under a standard interior door. It's called the "Napkins Diet"

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[info]bustopratbag
2007-08-03 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Can this be made into an icon?

I don't have a muffin/ cupcake tin. NEED ONE.

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[info]andr00
2007-08-05 11:25 pm UTC (link)
Ya sure! However you like. Like this?
http://www.toxin.org/lj/muffin12.gif

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[info]bustopratbag
2007-08-07 02:35 am UTC (link)
<3 perfect, it will be added to the stash forthwith!

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[info]levenator
2003-12-02 02:14 am UTC (link)
They make these muffin pans now that are floppy. Have you seen those? You can bend them and supposedly the cupcakes come out easier.

Plus, they're black!

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[info]andr00
2003-12-02 02:17 am UTC (link)
Helen bought me hot pads/trivets/jar opener things made out of the same floppy material, and I have to say they're the greatest things ever. she's been threatening to get me one of those floppy muffin pans for a few weeks now.

See, then I will be able to test the centripital-force muffin de-panning method I've been working on.

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[info]broken_gizmo
2003-12-02 04:59 am UTC (link)
Seems brilliant to me. Make sure you patent it.

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[info]frippy
2003-12-02 07:54 am UTC (link)
This would work if you were a cartoon character.

Surely there's a Hanna-Barbera sound effect for "cupcakes flying out of pan."

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[info]andr00
2003-12-02 11:06 am UTC (link)
Now that you mention it, they kind do go "Waheep"

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[info]fifi225
2003-12-17 01:21 am UTC (link)
You know...if you fill your sink with water...you can use your gloved hands to set the pan across the sink...it cools the pan off almost instantly...just becareful not to..you know...drown your muffins..

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