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[Puzzle] Red-#020-Barbeque
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ryandrew
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 		[Puzzle] Red-#020-Barbeque
Here is a new one from Saturday:
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Among my many ceremonial duties at the academy is the opening of the Summer barbeque, where I have to cook a meal for the top three students that year. I must confess I'm not an expert chef, so generally the students have to settle for a single beefburger each.

After explaining the complex cooking procedure to the three students-5 minutes for one side, 5 minutes for the other - I apologised to one of the students who would receive her burger ten minutes after the first two, since the grill can only fit two burgers at once. She then quickly pointed out that if I change the order of cooking the burgers, I could be finished cooking in 15 minutes instead of 20 - and she was right! How did I order the cooking of the burgers to achieve this?



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oliverkeers13
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 		Old one this
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first cook burgers 1 and 2 on side A.
Flip burger 1 onto side B, remove burger 2, replacing it with Burger 3 side A
Remove Burger 1, put burger 2 side B on it, and flip burger 3 to side B

There ya go, perfect burgers in 15 minutes (although I would question the policy of leaving half cooked meat outside for 5 minutes)
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 		This one's easy...
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Number the burgers 1, 2 and 3.

Step 1 - put 1 and 2 on the grill
wait 5 mins
Step 2 - flip 1, switch 2 for 3
wait 5 mins
Step 3 - 1 is cooked (serve it), flip 2, place 3 back on the grill (flipped)
wait 5 mins
Serve 2 and 3

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 		It's not 'barbeque' (barbeck?), it's 'barbecue'!
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It's not 'barbeque' (barbeck?), it's 'barbecue'!


I think they were going for the silly "queue" pun. Razz
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Rob_Riv
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 		Is it just me or is that Sente cooking?
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Juxta
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 		Sente is the chef, cooking for Scarlett, Violet and Kurt by the looks of things.

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ryandrew
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Rob_Riv wrote:
Is it just me or is that Sente cooking?


Yeah it's Sente, since the card tells us he cooks the meal!
I would also assume the other three are Violet, Kurt and Scarlet, making them the top three students?
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lillyplop
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 		This is just like the Rickety Old Bridge but I cant get it to accept my answers! Anyone managed to actually solve this one? Evil or Very Mad

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pharzo
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 		yeah the little answer thing they have set up isn't the easiest to deal with. I think they have something like
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side a, side b, off, done for each one right? 1 should be side a, side b, done, off, 2 should be side a, off, side b, done, and 3 should be off, side a, side b, done. At least i think so


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lillyplop
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 		I have just solved this card but I am not sure how to use the spoilers!

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1st Column Burger A should be (from top to bottom) Top, Bottom, Cooked, Cooked. 2nd Column Burger B (from top to bottom) should be Top, Off, Bottom, Cooked. 3rd Column Burger C (from top to bottom) should be Off, Top, Bottom, Cooked.


Lets see if this is now in a spoiler box.

I did my first spoiler and it worked!!!! Yeeeehhhhahaaaaaaa!

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 		1) It's not barbecue or barbecue: it's grilling. From Wikipedia: "...grilling is almost always a fast process over high heat and barbecue is almost always a slow process using indirect heat and/or hot smoke. For example, in a typical home grill, grilled foods are cooked on a grate directly over hot charcoal; while in barbecuing, the coals are dispersed to the sides or at significant distance from the grate. Alternately, an apparatus called a smoker with a separate fire box may be used. Hot smoke is drawn past the meat by convection for very slow cooking." Being from Kansas City, the barbecue capital of the world (Memphis ain't got nuthin' on us), I HATE it when people think they're great barbecuers when all thay did was heat up some burgers outside.

2)While it makes a good puzzle, oliverkeers13 is right: leaving half-cooked meat out for five minutes in any environment, let alone an outdoors environment is dangerous. Always make sure you fully cook raw meat to an internal temprature of at lease 180 degrees Farenheit.

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 		 the accepted solution is deceiving
The accepted solution to this card is, IMHO, incorrect.
The recipe says to cook 5 min on a side,
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but the accepted solution calls for 10 minutes for 1 of the burgers. I don't know about you.. but I grill burgers all the time and a 10 minute on a side burger is pretty tough. Good thing he doesn't claim to be an expert chef. Instead of cooked for the last 5 minutes, that single burger should be taken off instead. But perplexcity won't accept that. I guess they like their meat overdone. ICK.


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Flabyo
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I think it assumes that a burger is removed automatically when it's cooked, without you needing to specify that in the solve.


This puzzle is sometimes written to be toasting bread under a grill, I've seen it in a job interview in that form anyway.

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