Re: Cooking with the primary

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "John by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
<fireba8104-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 > Hello,
 > I came up with an idea after looking at induction heaters on the Internet.
 > I was wondering if one could remove the secondary coil from the middle of
 > the primary and instead place something to be cooked. At high enough
 > frequencies this should work.

I believe it was Mr. Thordarson (I guess the guy who ran the famous
Thordarson transformer company) who did little shows where he'd fry eggs
and bacon in a skillet sitting on a block of ice, with some sort of
induction heater beneath the table.

Induction or not, that must still be impressive to watch. I'm not sure
when this was done, probably back when electricity was still new and
amazing to everybody.

KEN