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The Culinary Phase Diagram

The Culinary Phase Diagram
Finally, someone brave enough to tackle the real scientific questions! While physicists waste time on phase diagrams for boring things like water and carbon, this culinary scientist has mapped the fundamental states of food matter. The transition boundaries between soup, stew, and casserole are governed by strict thermodynamic principles of viscosity and temperature. Graduate students have been known to defend their PhD theses on the critical "Is chili a soup or a stew?" boundary case. Next up: the quantum superposition state where your dinner is simultaneously a casserole AND a lasagna until you observe it.

I Expanded The Food Phase Diagram

I Expanded The Food Phase Diagram
Someone's taken the classic phase diagram from thermodynamics and turned it into the culinary equivalent! This brilliant parody maps food states based on viscosity and solid food fraction. The "Bolognese critical point" marks that precise moment when your pasta sauce achieves perfect consistency—neither too runny nor too chunky. The "stew gap" represents that mysterious region between sauce and solid food where things get... interesting. And let's not forget the "soup dome," which perfectly captures the physics of why your chicken noodle always splashes onto your shirt. This is basically what happens when physicists get hungry during thermodynamics lectures and start daydreaming about dinner instead of triple points and phase transitions!