Cream-filled biscuits, including Oreos, have been raising increasingly pressing and distinct questions for years. It is still debated, for example, how to eat these sweets correctly: do we need to unpack them and eat the cream separately, maybe dip them in milk, or just eat them like a real sandwich.
While it is unlikely that broad consensus will be reached on the following issues, there is much assertion that science does not know, or at least does not want to know, the word impossible. For this reason, researchers at the American University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now begun to combat biscuits filled with white cream, and the result is to fill in the blanks completely, the researchers said
A biscuit rolling machine has been created which will have a good chance of separating the cookies neatly.
A cookie wrap for research purposes already has a scientific name, and a previous post created a file archeology A term that specifically addresses the various problems of stuffed biscuits.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they wanted to see if it was possible to get an equal proportion of delicious white cream on two biscuits using a machine developed for this purpose. CNN. The chassis is called an Oreometer, and the chassis breaks cookies with a precisely defined amount of torque, so you can even split the Oreo in equal proportions.
In the course of the research, the results were quite evident in the case of pieces that were unscrewed manually; After that, the researchers also tried the task, which until now seemed impossible, with the machine developed for this purpose, but so far no great success has been achieved here, 95 percent of the attempts ended with a result similar to manual twisting.
However, it is reassuring that the remaining attempts were successful and the biscuit was halved exactly, but it is not yet possible to determine the factor that could have led to the fair distribution of the cream.
Oreometer can be created by anyone with a 3D printer for further experimentation, such as Search details Available to all.
When I was little, I always tried to break up the biscuits so that they had even creaminess on both sides, that way both biscuits would be equally tasty. That’s why we’ve been looking for an answer to this, but haven’t been able to achieve a breakthrough result yet. We learned that, unfortunately, even when unscrewing a cookie with a precision machine, in most cases, cream is applied to only one. Our research on biscuits is still in its infancy, which is why we have published the machine parameters so that anyone can do more experiments to solve the problem.
Crystal Owens is a research engineer.
Although Princeton engineers were already working on the popular biscuit in 2014, research He was searching for the answerWhich of the two biscuits sticks to the cream? The production process for Oreo and the full recipe are still unknown, but several other large biscuit companies have previously revealed the method they use to make their stuffed candies on the production line.
It turns out that the machines only press the cream on one side, and then the other piece of biscuit is placed on it with a press-like machine, so in most cases it is possible to remain on the side it was first applied to as the cream enters the cavities of the biscuit dough.
The engineer leading the research says identifying similar issues could be a good entry into the more serious scientific world for the layman.
In most cases, MIT research is motivated by curiosity to help people make sense of things around them in the world. So when someone notices something special, they take the time to think about it and figure out why it happened.
Owens said.
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