Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Edgeless Brownie Tray

Recently somebody told me about a specialty brownie tray designed for people who like the edge and corner pieces in a tray of brownies. Although good for its intended purpose, it is the exact opposite of what I would want in a brownie tray. I would like a brownie tray that makes brownies with no edges. As far as I see it, there are 3 possible ways to make this happen (two of which I invented, and the 3rd one was invented by Robin Toop).

Solution #1: Using a spherical cookie tray, you first suspend it in an anti-graviation field (or take it up into space). From there, you create a gravitational singularity at the center of the sphere, such that the sphere has its own gravitational field. Once you've done that, you smear brownie mix around the sphere until it is completely covered. Then you can apply heat evenly around the sphere in order to cook the brownies. Presto! Edgeless brownies!

If you're having trouble securing anti-gravitational fields or controllable gravitational singularities, I have come up with another solution.

Solution #2: We'll be using the same spherical brownie pan, but this time we'll be cooking brownies on the inside of the sphere. To do this, the sphere must have a hole so that you can inject the brownie mix. Once the mix is injected, just plug up the hole and cook the whole sphere! When done, just split the sphere in half (this spherical pan must come apart in half) in order to get at the brownies. Whoopie! Edgeless brownies!

Oh, except I forgot to mention that you need to simultaneously spin the sphere along every one of its axes of rotation in order to make sure that the brownie mix is distributed evenly along the inside of the sphere. It might be possible instead to heat the sphere slowly and rotate the sphere around, cooking the brownie to the inside of the sphere layer-by-layer.

That's when Robin suggested the completely preposterous Solution #3: Change the molecular consistency of the brownie mix so that it's no longer a liquid, but a non-Newtonian fluid (like a putty or dough) that can be molded into any shape you want. From there, we can mold it into a sphere and cook the sphere, which of course will need to be suspended in mid air so that no part of it is touching any surface (or an edge-like crust will be created). Hooray! Edgeless brownies!

Take THAT you crust-eating, edge-loving brownie eaters! We can have our brownies without edges if we want, too! (Some details may need to be worked out first.)

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