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[2206.13900] The mathematics of burger flipping

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View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:What is the most effective way to grill food? Timing is everything, since only one surface is exposed to heat at a given time. Should we flip only once, or many times? We present a simple model of cooking by flipping, and some interesting observations emerge. The rate of cooking depends on the spectrum of a linear operator, and on the fixed point of a map. If the system has symmetric thermal properties, the rate of cooking becomes independent of the sequence of flips, as long as the last point to be cooked is the midpoint. After numerical optimization,…

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