Cook Maggi Noodles in 1-minute the Scientific Approach 🙂
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How to cook two minute Maggi Noodles in One Minute?
In all likelihood, all readers of this post would have eaten Maggie noodles. The tagline of any Maggie commercial is that it takes only two minutes to cook them, but there is a way to reduce that time by half.
Now we know that water needs to be fully boiled for Maggie to cook. What if we can reduce the temperature at which boils which means that it would take one-half of the time for water to gain heat from the stove and then transfer that heat to Maggie noodles.
So, how do we reduce the boiling temperature of the water? Well, it is possible on this earth that we inhabit but requires a serious climb. To start with we know that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at one atmospheric pressure.
One atmospheric pressure is the key here. If we somehow can reduce this pressure to about half, that is 0.5 then we could be in business. It’s common knowledge that as we go up the mountains the air available in the atmosphere gets reduced, that is why when we reach high mountains, (especially the people living on plains), we face shortness of breath. This means that the pressure of air (atmospheric pressure) gets reduced as we go up the mountains.
Near the surface of the earth where all human beings live, the earth’s gravity holds the air not allowing it to escape hence pressure here is the highest, also termed as one atmospheric pressure (76 cm rise of mercury). Now, first, 5.5 Km above earth’s surface pressure drops about 50 % as the gravitational pull of earth decreases at the ratio of inversely proportional to distance (Newton’s gravitational law). So, at 5.5 km above the earth’s surface water would boil at 50 degrees hence the Maggie noodles can cook in one minute.
Anyone who has worked in heat transfer or thermodynamics knows that there are always inefficiencies concerning heat transfer that is 50 percent reduction in the boiling temperature may not mean that the heat transfer time of water to Maggie Noodles gets reduced by half, so let’s stretch this argument further and talk about the height of Mount Everest. At 8.8 KM tall it is the highest mountain on the earth, and going by the logic described above atmospheric pressure gets reduced to 0.3 as that on earth on Mount Everest. Therefore, the water boils at 30 degrees Celsius, and taking into account any heat transfer inefficiencies it should allow for Maggie noodles to cook in one minute.