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For me the change would be to become spherical. That would simplify some calculations.
by delichon 8mo ago
For me the change would be to become spherical. That would simplify some calculations.
- noboostforyou 8mo agoDo I exercise and eat healthy? "Yes, I am in shape (round is a shape)"
- thot_experiment 8mo agohalf way there, now you just have to find the frictionless vacuum
- CrazyStat 8mo agoA friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).
- hinkley 8mo agoHeating the middle has to be a pain. And cutting it…
- _aavaa_ 8mo agoWell if you insert metal rods through it you can help with the heat transfer, then you can lattice over the holes. If you pumpkin pie it, you might even be able to have it hold up under its own weight. Plus a bit of stiff whipped cream in the holes would help.
- mordechai9000 8mo agoI would make them fairly small (personal pie-sized) and use a filling that doesn't need to be cooked in the oven to set. The main limiting factors, I think, would be structural integrity and heating the filling to the center. You could set it on a ring (like the rim of a spring-form pan) to support it better during cooking. Now, a four dimensional hyper pie, on the other hand...
- thatguy0900 8mo agoIf we don't care what the filling is you could just use sticky rice.
- _aavaa_ 8mo agoIf you’re not cooking the filling, then do a teflon ballon that you put the crust on. Cook. Remove balloon. Then pipe in ready to ready to set chocolate cream.
- reactordev 8mo agoI would bake it on a pizza stone to ensure an even bake. Has nobody here ever done this? It comes out perfectly cooked.
- raddan 8mo agoYou cook a spherical pie on a pizza stone? Do tell.
- reactordev 8mo agoI cook a circular pie on a pizza stone.
- Nevermark 8mo agoA pie like this, to the face of a problematic politician, would add drama and help resurrect the profile of pies as activists!
- redundantly 8mo agoOne could always precook the filling.
- addaon 8mo agoI’m pretty sure that the state of the art right now is firing the pastries on a ballistic arc in hard vacuum and hitting them mid-trajectory with a laser pulse to cook them through.
- MrJohz 8mo agoThe first two things that spring to mind are pasties from the UK (which are not usually spherical but can get quite hemispherical), and the "UFO-Döner" from Germany (which are more oblate spheroids). Maybe by combining these ideas, your friend can get closer to their dream?
- walthamstow 8mo agoBritish steak and kidney pudding (a steamed pie of suet pastry) is a truncated cone shape, could go spherical with the right pastry case.
- raddan 8mo agoA truncated cone is called a "frustrum" which always seemed fitting to me.
- Fluorescence 8mo agoBeef Wellington could be spherical if you so chose. I suspect that deep-fried-battered haggis might exist which could be very spherical.
- fmbb 8mo agoI heard circles are also related to pi but have not had the time to confirm yet.
- inigyou 8mo agoThat's a pi-ty
- NegativeLatency 8mo agoPies are more of a Tau day thing https://www.tauday.com https://www.tauday.com
- gdhkgdhkvff 8mo agoSure would be a lot easier if we could just have “4 right angles”-day
- ant6n 8mo ago> A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success). Could also do it on pi approximation day (July 22), then one doesn't have to be so exact about it.
- fsagx 8mo agoI didn't get it, so I looked it up. 22/7 ~= 3.14
- emmelaich 8mo agoActually closer to π and matches the more sensible date format. (Yes this is worth fighting over!)
- xxs 8mo agowhile true that month being 1st making little sense, the good format usually features leading zeros, so '22/07'
- fuzztester 8mo ago355 / 113 ( = 3.1415929204 ) is one approximation I have read about, attributed by some, to ancient or medieval Indian or Chinese mathematicians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_pi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_pi
- cmehdy 8mo agoNow I'm considering making a Matt Parker pie: a spherical pie made from a normal pie + calling it close enough in 2 out of 3 dimensions.
- dessimus 8mo agoSo a "Parker square" of pies then?
- harimau777 8mo agoI wonder if they could look to dim sum for inspiration? A apple dumbling is basically just a round apple pie right?
- AngryData 8mo agoThere are some old 18th century pies they cooked in boiling water inside a bag which could be quite spherical. Townsends on youtube has some videos on it.
- DiggyJohnson 8mo agoIsn’t that essentially a stuffed pudding? Or do some use pie dough
- AngryData 8mo agoFrom what I understand many of the pie doughs of the period were the same thing as pudding dough, everyone had a pot to boil stuff in and it was just extra if you had an oven and pie pans, sometimes with noted cooking times for a pan at the end. The that era of American cooking kind of blends puddings and pies so that they mean basically the same thing. Similar someone making a pan fried rice recipe today and just adding on the end of the recipe if you are fancy and own an actual wok you can adjust cooking times for that.
- magneticnorth 8mo agoYes, me too. Reading the caveat "– and she would give each pie away" made a lot more sense. It's a social commitment at least as much as a creative/culinary one, and since there aren't a lot of people you'd want to give a pie minus a slice to, that keeps the extra calories under control.
- bell-cot 8mo agoYep. And if one gives away the "QC Passed" pies - then as your skill improves, you're eating an ever-shrinking fraction of your output. And you feel like you're growing ever-thinner, as all your friends & neighbors eat more and more pies. ;)
- delichon 8mo agoThat explains so much. She seems wholesome but is actually a psychopath plotting to look better by surrounding herself with fat people.
- CobrastanJorji 8mo agoThe pie calculation for spherical you would be 3*volume / 4*radius^3.
- bbstats 8mo agoEating enough pie could help with that