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Show HN: I made Gyroscopic Gyro Sandwiches
Have you noticed that a gyro sandwich is only cooked in one axis? What a missed opportunity.
The following details an elaborate way to slow cook food, using a handmade contraption. Not only is it tasty, it's mesmerizing. Feel free to copy the design for your own festivities.
- salvagedcircuit 2y agoGordon Ramsay suggests you season and cook lamb evenly on all sides >> challenge accepted. Nice work.
- voidUpdate 2y agoIs this guaranteed to be even on all sides though?
- pointlessone 2y agoYeah, it seems this free-rotating design would keep one side down if the center of gravity is not exatly on the intersection of all rotation axes. This might be worse than a common single-axis cooking.
- HenryBemis 2y agoI watched the short gif/video and I had the same thought. If you don't pierce the object/meat in a manner that its centre of gravity is on the very centre of this contraption, it would skew the spin and it affect its randomness in the movement. But totally a fun project and cool topic to discuss on any BBQ
- transistor-man 2y agoHave you noticed that a gyro sandwich is only cooked in one axis? I built a contraption to slow cook in multiple axes and documented it here: https://transistor-man.com/gyroscopic_gyros.html https://transistor-man.com/gyroscopic_gyros.html Not only is it tasty, it's mesmerizing to watch. Feel free to copy the design for your own festivities.
- xrd 2y agoMy only critique is that you should have incorporated an aquarium somehow and added sous-vide to your cooking process. Otherwise, a flawless piece of work. And, the links to your friends are amazing and a treasure trove as well.
- blinding-streak 2y agoAbsolutely brilliant.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoI have never cooked a gyro sandwich, I have, however, cooked gyro meat and used that in a sandwich That said, this is really cool. I enjoyed the read.
- quuxplusone 2y agoSadly for the title, I think the word you were looking for is "gimbal," not "gyroscope." A gyro rotates stably on a single axis. Your cooker "tumbles" on three axes at once. A gyroscope specifically prevents tumbling.
- swiftcoder 2y agoDoesn't a gimbal specifically keep the target object in a consistent orientation? This seems to function as an anti-gimbal
- transistor-man 2y agoAdmittedly this is a play on words, fair point! Gimbaled Gyro Sandwiches would be a better title
- yreg 2y agoDoes it actually work? Watching the video[0] it seems like the same end of the gyros keeps being pointed upwards/downwards. I suppose it's difficult to balance the slab of meat perfectly. Anyway, it's hilarious! Thanks for sharing. [0] https://transistor-man.com/PhotoSet/three_axis_gyro/animated/party1.mp4 https://transistor-man.com/PhotoSet/three_axis_gyro/animated...
- transistor-man 2y agoIt does indeed work! I've been meaning to instrument a food stimulant mass to determine how the chaos is effected my mass offset vs speed. I think due to the under-actuated nature of the system you're stuck with a balance between cg-offset, gravity and input rotation on the first axis
- itslennysfault 2y agoI pronounce this yeeroscopic
- transistor-man 2y agoThis is excellent
- OldSchool 2y agoit's all fun until someone gets gimbal lock?