Weekend Eating: Mobile Cooking

Weekend Eating:
Mobile Cooking

with Suzzanna Decantworthy
additional research: Sean McCleanaugh

Many students, and other young people, have little in the way of cooking skills but can usually get their hands on a couple of mobile phones. So, this week, we show you how to use two mobile phones to cook an egg which will make a change from phoning out for a pizza. Please note that this will not work with cordless phones.
大多数学生和年轻人都没有什么烹饪的技能，但是他们通常都有多部手机。所以，这周我们会向你展手机除了可以用来订购pizza外，我们怎么使用两个手机来煮鸡蛋。不过需要注意的是这个方法不能用在普通的固定电话上。

To do this you will need two mobile phones - they do not have to be on the same network but you will need to know the number of one of them. The only other items you will need are:
做这一切之前你需要准备好两个手机 - 这两个手机不需要相同的接入网络，不过你需要知道其中一个手机的号码。其它必要的材料是：

1. An egg cup, (make sure that the egg cup is made of an insulating material such as China, wood or glass - plastic will do. DO NOT use stainless steel or other metal).
   一个装鸡蛋的杯子，（请确保这个杯子由绝缘材料制成，比如陶瓷、木头或玻璃，塑料的也可以。一定不要使用不锈钢或其它金属材料的杯子）。
2. A radio, AM or FM - you can also use your hifi.
   一个收音机，调幅或调频都行 - 你也可以使用你的音响系统。
3. A table or other flat surface on which to place the phones and egg cup. You can place the radio anywhere in the room but you might as well put it on the table.
   把手机和装鸡蛋的杯子放在桌子或表面平整的平台上。你可以把收音机放在房间的任何地方，当然最好你还是把它放在桌上。

How To Do It:
操作步骤是：

1. Take an egg from the fridge and place it in the egg cup in the centre of the table.
   从冰箱里拿一个鸡蛋，然后把它放在桌子中央的杯子里。

2. Switch on the radio or hifi and turn it up to a comfortable volume.
   打开你的收音机或音响系统并调整到你觉得舒适的音量。

3. Switch on phone A and place it on the table such that the antenna (the pokey thing at the top) is about half an inch from the egg (you may need to experiment to get the relative heights correct - paperbacks are good if you have any - if not you may be able to get some wood off cuts from your local hardware shop).
   打开手机A并把它放到桌上，让它的天线（头上凸起的部分）离鸡蛋大约半英寸远（你需要试着调整来得到它们正确的相对高度 - 如果你有一些书本将会很好 - 如果没有书本你可以从本地的杂货店弄一些锯好的木块）。

4. Switch on phone B and ring phone A then place phone B on the table in a similar but complementary position to Phone A.
   打开手机B并拨通手机A，然后将手机B其放在桌上与手机A相对的位置上。

5. Answer phone A - you should be able to do this without removing it from the table. If not, don't panic, just return the phone to where you originally placed on the table.
   接听手机A - 你可以让手机呆在原位不把它拿起来就接听来电。如果一定要拿起来，也不用担心，接通后把手机放回原位就行了。

6. Phone A will now be talking to Phone B whilst Phone B will be talking to Phone A.
   现在手机A在与手机B通话，同时手机B也在和手机A通话。

7. Cooking time: This very much depends on the power output of your mobile phone. For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg. Check your user manual and remember that cooking time will be proportional to the inverse square of the output power for a given distance from egg to phone.
   烹调时间：这很大程度上将依赖于你的手机的输出功率。例如，一对输出功率为2瓦特的手机使用3分钟可以煮熟一只鸡蛋。阅读你手机的用户手册，记住在手机和鸡蛋距离一定的情况下，烹调的时间正比于手机功率平方的倒数。

8. Cut out these instructions for future reference.
   整理你的操作步骤已备以后参考。

Note: We cooked our egg during the evening using free local calls, if you were to cook an egg for lunch it would cost £3.00 - not cheap but you do have the convenience.
注意：我们使用的是晚间免费的本地通话时间来烹调的鸡蛋，如果你要为午餐这样烹调鸡蛋的话，那么它的成本将在3英镑左右 - 虽然不便宜，但是你得到了方便。

Original location: http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm
Translated by: birdshome