Compression of fruit at depth

[Ed Palma]

Was the water warm? I guess so when you raised the pressure. Just looks like it has started cooking a bit and then been cooled. For some dishes where I need peeled tomatoes I make I boil tomatoes for a few minutes and then stick into cold water, and they look exactly like that (makes the skin easy to get off).

Temp was 29.1 C according to my watch. But interesting notion though.

 

[DevonDiver]

Was the water warm? I guess so when you raised the pressure. Just looks like it has started cooking a bit and then been cooled. For some dishes where I need peeled tomatoes I make I boil tomatoes for a few minutes and then stick into cold water, and they look exactly like that (makes the skin easy to get off).

So, if I took a tomato on a dive to 40m, it would cook? sweet

Waht about noodles?

 

[Sas]

Only if it was warm/hot water. But I doubt 30C would do it!

 

[CuracaoJ]

The real question, if fruit did shrink at depth, and you ate it at depth, would you still be hungry?

You should remember the first day of your OW class. You can't eat shrunken fruit at depth. It will expand as you ascend and you will surely DIE!

 

[Walter]

Too bad we can't see any of the readings on you watch in ether video.

 

[Ed Palma]

Too bad we can't see any of the readings on you watch in ether video.

I tried viewing it on full screen on youtube... for the first video, you're correct. The resolution isn't fine enough to discern the readings on the watch. My bad, i guess. For the second video, you can see the values as the depth passes 34 meters and deeper as the tomato sinks. Had to change the angle afterwards because I didn't have a clear view of the tomato.

 

[sagibson]

You should remember the first day of your OW class. You can't eat shrunken fruit at depth. It will expand as you ascend and you will surely DIE!

Hmmm ... How much gas would there be to expand? Do you stay down long enough that the expanding gas comes out of your back end? I guess that could be a problem if you are diving dry.

 

[Crush]

What would happen if you drank a can of Coke at depth? Could a runaway ascent cause you to have to rapidly vent air from your BC and...

 

[Cave Diver]

One problem I see with this experiment is that there is no inert gas loading being introduced into the tomato. Since it's not "breathing" I wouldn't expect to see much change in it even if you were to leave it pressurized for a given time then rapidly decompress.

Now, if you could put an entire living plant in a pressure pot...

 

[rx7diver]

Okay Zeke and Rx7, experiment run ...

1. ... I'm running low on tomatoes, so further testing will have to wait ...
2. ... Of course it would've been better if I was running a control tomato ...

Here's the video.

Doc_Ed,

LMAO! Outstanding! Thanks for humoring us. Most enjoyable SB thread in quite some time!

Safe Diving,

Ronald