• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    Because the cigarette lighter plug totally supplies enough wattage to power a heat plate that gets hot enough to burn pancakes

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      It sounds almost like you’re doubting the word of a real life policeman. How unamerican. America was built on the backs of our police. Imagine the dystopia we’d live in, had Tulsa not been saved.

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      I can pull about 300 watts (14.5v * 20A) sustained without the cigarette lighter fuse blowing

      I have also seen eggs cooked on 65W CPUs

      So could be feasible

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      Yes. Yes it is.

      Personal experience.

      I have a 750w inverter plugged into my 12v plug, and it is absolutely more than enough to run the little 500w single plate burner I have.

      I have used them together but I don’t do it outside of camping when it’s too rainy to use a fire. It takes forever to cook bacon eggs and pancakes on a single burner.

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      Yup.

      You can buy portable frying pans that run on the 12V AUX power, about 180W. They get it hot enough to burn things. Although it takes 10-20min for it to reach that temperature, even with the lid on. And you can’t just keep frying a bunch of things without letting it reheat.

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      I have a portable battery station (BLUETTI) that can plug into a cigarette outlet and it can power 3,000w of cooking things. Maybe that part could have been left out of the story.

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      But Energy is Power times Time. So could you just slowly heat up a plate which „stores“ the heat energy long enough to get hot enough?

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        No, because it will dissipate such heat.

        If you put it in a vacuum and cover it with reflective surfaces, though…