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		<title>Kids, don&#8217;t try this at home</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister Becky can come up with some truly scary ideas at times. Ideas she tirelessly insists will work, brushing off many of our (well-founded) objections. Here&#8217;s one she feels particularly passionate about. I&#8217;m allowing her to guest post here just to get this off her chest, but I honestly don&#8217;t recommend you try this one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My sister Becky can come up with some truly scary ideas at times. Ideas she tirelessly insists will work, brushing off many of our (well-founded) objections. Here&#8217;s one she feels particularly passionate about. I&#8217;m allowing her to guest post here just to get this off her chest, but I honestly don&#8217;t recommend you try this one &#8230;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">TWICE THE TEMPERATURE, HALF THE TIME<sup>TM</sup>! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Catchy, isn’t it? But what does it mean? Why, I appreciate you asking! Let me explain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">It’s simple, really. Anyone who has completed junior high math, or can at least operate a calculator, can apply this principle. In order to cook foodstuffs, one puts said foodstuffs in the oven at a certain temperature for a certain amount of time. Thus the formula for cooked food is:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">number of degrees<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>x<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>time in minutes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>cooked food<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>(also written as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>n<sup>d</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>x<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>cf)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Let’s say you have a roast you’d like to cook for supper, but you don’t want to wait an hour and a half for it to cook. So you whip out your calculator and apply the TWICE THE TEMPERATURE, HALF THE TIME<sup>TM</sup> principle. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">An average roast cooks at 325º for 90 minutes. So if you set your oven (or kiln, whatever the case may be) for twice 325º (which would be 650º), the roast will only need half of the 90 minutes (which would be 45 minutes) to cook. Wonderful!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Let’s look at the scientific explanation for this roast-cooking phenomenon. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Old-fashioned cooking method:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">325º<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>x<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>90 minutes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>29,250</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">New-fangled cooking method:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">650º<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>x<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>45 minutes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>29,250</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">There you have it, folks- scientific proof that TWICE THE TEMPERATURE, HALF THE TIME<sup>TM</sup> really works! As you can see, the same number of degrees is applied to your meat, but in half the time. Voilà! The TWICE THE TEMPERATURE, HALF THE TIME<sup>TM</sup> principle makes your life more efficient, one supper at a time!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">*Letters of adoration and generous monetary contributions to fund my cooking show are graciously accepted. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">*The Great F is not responsible for any illness acquired due to food poisoning or salmonella. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">*This principle is a trademark of the Get Rich Quick Schemes Department of Great F Unlimited. </span></p>
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