Why can’t you cook your food at 5000degrees for 1 minute instead of 50degrees for 100 minutes?

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Why can’t you cook your food at 5000degrees for 1 minute instead of 50degrees for 100 minutes?

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Answer 1

All of the other comments pretty much have it covered, but I wanted to add that temperature doesn’t work like that unless you’re talking Kelvin or Rankine, in which case your food is not getting cooked at 50° in the first place.

You can’t multiply temperature unless you’re working in an absolute scale (where 0 actually means 0).