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Show HN: I Derived a Steak

https://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/grilled-meats/

After years of juggling imprecise grilling recipes and temperatures, I've made a grilling calculator that derives perfect meat results from thermal models, Fick's law of diffusion, protein structures, and more.

Along the way I calculated exactly how far in advance to salt meat (spoiler: even when it's frozen!), realized the best dry brine is usually "cling brine" (covered), derived approximate charcoal quantities with physics, and much more.

As with the pancake calculator[1], I did an insane amount of grilling to develop this. And like the pancake one, it's a pure ESM library with frameworks around heat and salt diffusion and the other underpinnings, making it easier to develop more recipes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408854

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Re:Show HN: I Derived a Steak by Dschaga on Saturday June 27, 2026 @05:38PM (#48702010)
A wonderful article and like the selfmade mineralwater - "very wild" ;) Thank s for that article.. was entertaining.