A2 3 Cosmic Cuisine

Abstract

This paper explores the time taken for a Turkey to be cooked with Cosmic Background Radiation (CMB), at an epoch corresponding to oven temperatures. We found that this occurred when the universe was 6 x 10^6 years old. Under a constant-power assumption for radiative heat transfer, the time taken for the turkey to reach safe eating temperatures was around 51 minutes and through an integrated model, this was increased to 57 minutes.