I Derived a Steak
Details
- External ID
- 48691840
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I Derived a Steak
- Website domain
- absurdlyoptimized.com
- Launched
- June 26, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4952185792349727
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- meal planning and food discovery
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
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- Audience
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- AI stance
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- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project is an interactive blog post containing mathematical/thermodynamic formulas implemented in client-side JavaScript calculators.
Discussion
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