From what height must a turkey be dropped so it reaches a cooked temperature by the time it hits the ground?

Question

The cooked temperature of a turkey here is about 74 degrees celsius.

Answer 1

Won't happen, because the amount of time required to thoroughly cook the turkey is on the order of 3-4 hours. To drop it from a height great enough to allow this amount of time, assuming air friction could heat it up enough to cook, it would be deep frozen from being in space, and would not thaw out in time.

Besides, you would have no chance to baste it, so it would be dry and nasty tasting.

Answer 2

Depending on its initial velocity, the turkey would either incinerate like a meteorite, or hit the ground long before the heat from air friction had time to penetrate to the inside of the turkey. A workable solution is to build a cooker with a ceramic exterior like the space shuttle, with a shape designed for a controlled rate of descent, and spikes with high thermal conductivity to carry the heat quickly toward the insides of the turkey. If a single static shape could do it, it would probably be the shape of the original Mercury capsule. You'd probably need to start at the mesopause boundary to get enough cooking time, especially if you start the turkey at rest.

Answer 3

Even if you did drop it from high enough for the friction to heat it up enough to cook it, it would get kind of mushed up from the sudden stop at the end of the drop.

Answer 4

It must be dropped from Outer space- a cooled turkey(in an ice cube -100 centigrade temperature ) to get fried.But, I prefer frying it.Don't believe me!Try it yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Answer 5

cooking not applicable to height of drop age, try cooking your self by dropping off a good height and see if your temp. rises