Posted: 3/9/2013 2:43:14 AM EDT
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I've always wondered this. You have a cardboard box of pizza, let's say 16x16x2 units and a box of cheesesticks, which is 12x8x2 units. Both arrive to your house at midnight at 100*F. The goal is to keep the cheese on both items as melted as possible after one hour. Should you put the cheesestick box on top of the pizza box or vice versa? Without precisely knowing all the various heat dissipation coefficients, what would you estimate to be the best solution for this problem and why? |
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The heat will radiate in all directions from the cheese stick box. If you put the pizza box on top of it, the crust will insulate the cheese from the cheese stick heat. If you put the cheese sticks on top of the pizza, some of the radiated heat will go to the cheese.
The best solution is to put the cheese sticks in the pizza box, as Intheburbs noted, and put the empty box on top of it to operate as an insulator, but that was not an option. Is it a high capacity cheese stick box and are you ordering cheese sticks in a ban state? |
| D) None of the above. If you have ordered both at midnight, you are hungry (and perhaps drunk / high), and should eat all but two of the pieces of pizza, and all of the breadsticks asap. Keep the remaining two pieces of pizza in the box, put it in the fridge, and eat for breakfast the next day. :) |