• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Because the cigarette lighter plug totally supplies enough wattage to power a heat plate that gets hot enough to burn pancakes

    • It sounds almost like you’re doubting the word of a real life policeman. How unamerican. America was built on the backs of our police. Imagine the dystopia we’d live in, had Tulsa not been saved.

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      2 months ago

      I can pull about 300 watts (14.5v * 20A) sustained without the cigarette lighter fuse blowing

      I have also seen eggs cooked on 65W CPUs

      So could be feasible

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      But Energy is Power times Time. So could you just slowly heat up a plate which „stores“ the heat energy long enough to get hot enough?

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      2 months ago

      I have a portable battery station (BLUETTI) that can plug into a cigarette outlet and it can power 3,000w of cooking things. Maybe that part could have been left out of the story.

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      2 months ago

      Yup.

      You can buy portable frying pans that run on the 12V AUX power, about 180W. They get it hot enough to burn things. Although it takes 10-20min for it to reach that temperature, even with the lid on. And you can’t just keep frying a bunch of things without letting it reheat.

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    2 months ago

    Now that 4chan is gone, I guess we’re doomed to endless reposts of the same few greentexts for all eternity.