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| The Wisconsin Laser Cheese Slicer | ||
| 2004-01-13 | ||
| From Chuck Simmins, who tends to find this sort of thing... A researcher from the University of Wisconsin at Madison has figured out a better way to slice cheese; just use a laser. "At any other university, people would have just laughed. But this is Wisconsin. It's cheese. And this is no laughing matter," said Xiaochun Li, a mechanical engineering professor and laser expert... Li, working with engineering graduate student Hongseok Choi, has adapted the same kind of laser used for eye surgery to slice Wisconsin's most famed food product. At first, Li tried using a traditional commercial laser that uses heat to cut by melting or evaporating; it fried the cheese. "It smelled really bad," he said.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #12 If someone makes a cheaper or better industrial cheese-slicer there should be a market niche for it, and maybe open up some other industrial uses. Never underestimate the needs of the food-processors. I once worked on a robotics project that used high-pressure water to filet fish. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-1-13 10:10:44 PM |
| #11 Oh grate I can just see the headline: Deep-Blue Opponent sliced in half, after Cyber Genius stumbles into Fools Mate. Oh space borne Cheese Slicers... Never Mind. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-13 8:10:04 PM |
| #10 Wait until Kucinich demands a ban on space-borne cheese slicers. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-13 6:56:50 PM |
| #9 No blood for queso! |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-13 5:59:30 PM |
| #8 Hmm... A few more megawatts, a shiny mirror, and we could slice a cheese from space! |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-1-13 5:58:51 PM |
| #7 two Chinese guys are using lasers to slice cheese in Wisconsin Nope. No John Beloushi jokes. Stop. Don't think about it. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-13 5:15:41 PM |
| #6 Fred, good one, "Who cut the cheese?" I think I just woke the guy in the next cube. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-1-13 5:11:22 PM |
| #5 There's a lesson in this for al Qaeda: Do you really want pick a fight with a country that can afford to spend millions of research dollars perfecting the cheese-slicing laser? |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-1-13 5:09:17 PM |
| #4 "So Goldfinger, do expect me to talk" "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to be Fondue." |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2004-1-13 4:31:42 PM |
| #3 No rathole. This kind of thing leads to big money sometimes. Like laser eye surgery for instance. If someone makes a cheaper or better industrial cheese-slicer there should be a market niche for it, and maybe open up some other industrial uses. |
| Posted by: buwaya 2004-1-13 4:23:10 PM |
| #2 I wonder how much grant $$$ we poured down this rathole. Something's smelly in Madison. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-13 4:18:46 PM |
| #1 Hey, you make it sound like I intentionally seek out the weird and perverse! Is it just me, or is it at all odd that two Chinese guys are using lasers to slice cheese in Wisconsin? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-1-13 4:08:50 PM |