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>Bob > wrote:
>>Blair wrote:
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>>> BTW, using a hair dryer continuously would tend to cool the
>>> meat, even if it gets it more radiant heat, because radiant
>>> heat isn't the only effect of a grill.
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>>Er...you mean the way a bellows cools a forge?
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>No, the way blowing air through a convection cell pushes
>the heat out the other side. You're increasing radiant
>heat (didn't I just say that?) by increasing oxygen flow
>to the combusting surface but pushing heat that would have
>been convected to the food over to the exhaust.
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>If the hair dryer weren't a cooling device in that system,
>you might as well just cook the food with the hair dryer.


But a hair drier is a *heating* device (unless set on "air only")... and then
there are super hair dryers:
http://www.diydata.com/tool/heat_gun/heat_gun.htm


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