One of my favorite things about blogging is getting inspired to take a concept to the max (well, as much as I can do on the hardware I have at my disposal in any case. This week’s log is about this, and maybe a little bit about carnival foods.

When learning and then teaching a concept, you need to know more than you are teaching. One of the ways I suggest people do this is to explore the boundaries of everything they are learning. My analogy is me imagining what the Mythbusters might do with a deep fryer and an array of items. They would learn things, and you could too (I mean, I doubt it was an academic who first proposed the idea of deep frying an Oreo, but I bet a scientist, an actuary, and a lawyer have subsequently discussed this many times after the first person tried it.)

It will behoove you for learning and teaching to try things in your code that seem a silly as deep frying ice cream to see what would happen. Sometimes you will learn that everything you have been taught makes sense, and other times you will learn that some things you have been taught are just myths that have been propagated through time. Plus they can make interesting reads and are far safer than the schenanagans you can get in when testing the limits of cooking devices.