Wake-N-Bacon: alarm clock that wakes you to the smell of cooking bacon

http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php

by timr • 18 years ago

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sfamiliar• 18 years ago

want.

a-priori• 18 years ago

Also known as the "diet buster".

gaius• 18 years ago

Not if you're on the Atkins diet.

fallentimes2• 18 years ago

I think I'd throw up after day 20 (and I looove bacon).

nuclear_eclipse• 18 years ago

Lightweight!

mattmaroon3• 18 years ago

You'd throw up on day 1 because you just ate a piece of meat that sat out overnight.

fallentimes2• 18 years ago

You underestimate my bacon eating prowl. :-D

josefresco• 18 years ago

Before clicking, I fully expected some sort of synthetic bacon machine integrated into an alarm clock.

But it's just ... bacon.

Hilarious.

Sam_Odio• 18 years ago

> Once the alarm goes off, the clock it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.

I'm pretty sure I could accomplish the same thing by plugging my old foreman grill into a $3 light timer.

Of course, it might also prove hazardous to my feet.

maxklein• 18 years ago

Wait a minute. It's possible to cook bacon with halogen lights?

eru3• 18 years ago

Normal light bulbs might be even better - they turn more power into heat that halogen lights. But they are also bigger.

chwolfe• 18 years ago

Michael Scott: I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.

pgebhard• 18 years ago

And then he steps on the grill one day, no? Haha! Bad idea...

okeumeni• 18 years ago

Cool idea, only I don't like bacon that early in the morning.

redorb• 18 years ago

nice 'hack' on cooking bacon and waking up (mashup?)... guessing a lot of people will have more free time to hack around - after some job cuts :(

Oompa• 18 years ago

Bacon: The best thing ever made. Ever.

ConradHex• 18 years ago

Doesn't this belong on the bacon subreddit?

(Looks around.)

Oh, wait...

mhb• 18 years ago

Jim Gaffigan on bacon: http://vodpod.com/watch/683907-jim-gaffigan-bacon

mattmaroon3• 18 years ago

Unless that thing has a refrigeration unit that wasn't mentioned, it's a really bad idea. You can't let a frozen piece of meat sit out for hours, and then just cook it and it's ok. I used to be a meat cutter and had to do this training where they show you how fast bacteria builds up, and it's really fast. There'd be more microorganisms on that thing within a half hour of thawing than there are humans on the planet.

eru3• 18 years ago

What's the problem? Microorganisms are not bad in general. And they will be killed by the cooking anyway.

People used to store beef for several weeks to let the microorganism improve the product.

mattmaroon3• 18 years ago

If that's the case, then why bother to refrigerate anything you're going to cook? Why did people put it in salt (which kills bacteria in the olden days?

The reason is that microorganisms leave behind toxins that don't cook away.

Tichy• 18 years ago

Better to use smell of coffee. No issues with germs either.

Wake-N-Bacon: alarm clock that wakes you to the smell of cooking bacon

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