Attention science majors! Just a couple of days ago the name Rube Goldberg was invoked in connection with a convoluted way of catching leopards, and now we seem to be in need of him again.
Today I find eight news photos with captions, and a 96-second narrated video story, all dealing with goldfish living in some kind of high-tech tempura fryer, and I still haven’t got a clue how it works. I’m getting very frustrated, and the latest explanation from a colleague - the goldfish eat the batter and that makes them easier to fry - just doesn’t seem right on any level.
Your assignment for this evening is to watch the video, look at this photo, and then explain it. Do the goldfish poop in the batter? Do people eat the batter? Do people eat the goldfish? Inquiring minds want to know.
A squid tempura is fried while goldfish swim underneath a layer of oil during a demonstration of Japan’s cooking equipment maker Water Fryer Co.’s deep fryer named Clean fryer at an international food machinery and technology exhibition in Tokyo June 6, 2007. Goldfish were used to demonstrate how the deep fryer uses water to catch falling batter of the oil in order to keep the cooking oil clean. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
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Oh, so THAT’S what I was doing wrong!~
If I would have fed my childhood goldfish all my french fries, and eaten his fish food myself in place of the greasy fries, I could have added 14 years and 355 days onto both of our lives.
- Posted by MellySmells like fish, tastes like yeast batter. Here we go again.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksThere’s a dip-net operator somewhere in Japan carrying a huge load of bad carma.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksGoldfish: slimy and scaly
- Posted by Shawn HendricksGolden-brown fish: delicious
That is fine for the falling, dense batter. What about the light, less dense fish fecal matter? Hmm? Hmm?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksSeer Han Hot was assigned the dubious task of cleaning the fishbowl portion window every Friday night after 11:00 pm.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksThe fish water makes wonderful gourmet coffee. Really. I swear.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI’m not sure about goldfish, but I always get really nervous when I see yellow liquid nearby where I’m swimming.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksDeuce! Help us!
- Posted by Shawn HendricksFrier Goldfish Mythos:
Freddie was floating upside down yesterday. Today, I caught a brief glimpse of him in a suit of bubbly gold way up at the top of Great Yellow Heaven. Some day, I hope we can all join Freddie.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksDeep fat friers in one of the first containers shipped to Kyoto out of New Orleans after Katrina inspired the invention.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksGreat idea. Where’d they put the flux capacitor?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI think Pepperidge Farm has some explaining to do.
- Posted by Melly