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I Derived a Steak

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After years of juggling imprecise grilling recipes and temperatures, I've made a grilling calculator that derives perfect meat results from thermal models, Fick's law of diffusion, protein structures, and more.Along the way I calculated exactly how far in advance to salt meat (spoiler: even when it's frozen!), realized the best dry brine is usually "cling brine" (covered), derived approximate charcoal quantities with physics, and much more.As with the pancake calculator[1], I did an insane amount of grilling to develop this. And like the pancake one, it's a pure ESM library with frameworks around heat and salt diffusion and the other underpinnings, making it easier to develop more recipes.[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408854

HN · launched Jun 26, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 50%) · 0 views

Niche: specialized calculation tools · 551 launches, 66 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The project is an interactive blog post containing mathematical/thermodynamic formulas implemented in client-side JavaScript calculators.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #39 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 202 days after the earliest competitor.

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