History Main / OvenLogic

* Parodied in the ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'', where a microwave is hooked up to a VCR to introduce fast forward (cook something rapidly), rewind (freeze something rapidly), and eject (launches the food product).

* {{Invoked|Trope}} by a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/7b4u8y/request_how_many_orchestra_players_would_you/ math problem]] from a school: ''If an orchestra of 120 players takes 40 minutes to play Beethoven's Ninth, how long would it take 60 players to play the same song?''. (The answer, just in case you're unsure, is still 40 minutes. Although some were quick to point out Beethoven's Ninth is supposed to take ~70 minutes to play through.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E3TheKnights The Knights]]", Gumball orders Darwin to bake cookies to prepare for Penny's visit to the Watterson house. When Darwin's just putting the tray in the oven, an impatient Gumball tells him to bake faster, then turns up the temperature and burns the cookies to a crisp.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' where Steve hears about slow cooking, and goes in completely the opposite direction - he reasons that if a joint of pork cooked on a low heat for six hours renders it juicy and falling-off-the-bone, how much more succulent will it be if cooked on the lowest possible heat for a lot, lot, longer... Steve leaves it on a very low heat for several days. When it comes to serving it, it's falling off the bone because it has gone rotten and all four boys end up with serious food poisoning.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Cave of Two Lovers", the Gaang and a group of hippies find themselves trapped in a tunnel labyrinth. It's been established that the torches they have will last two hours each. One of the hippie girls proceeds to light five of them thinking they're now good for 10 hours before [[OnlySaneMan Sokka]] has to put them out explaining the problem.

* One episode of ''Franchise/CareBears'' has Mr. Beastly watching a cooking show, which at one point directed him to put a bowl of cookie dough in the freezer for 30 minutes -- ''"or the Deep Deep Freeze for 12 seconds!"'' We never know just how bad Mr. Beastly's oven math is, though, because apparently he fell asleep waiting 12 seconds. When he wakes up, the bowl is encased in a solid block of ice.
* In the [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Classic Disney Short]] "Mickey's Birthday Party", Minnie's oven goes all the way up to "volcano heat." Goofy uses the setting to speed up baking the cake with explosive results.

* A recipe-based variation in ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': Roger needs eight bananas for banana pudding but only has six, so he comes up with the brilliant idea of subtracting 2 from everything. The resulting goo isn't very appetizing on its own, but it turns out to be fantastic as a pizza topping. Note that this is ''almost'' a valid cooking method, as he could have made a smaller recipe if he reduced each ingredient by 1/4 of its original amount, but subtracted when he should have multiplied. Close, but still so wrong.

* Millie in ''Anime/LostUniverse''. You know that "exploding kitchen, perfect pie" analogy? The one used in the summary at the top of this page? She does this every time she cooks.

* In 2006, a man died in Australia after receiving at least 28 "jolts" from a taser, at 50,000 volts. Channel Nine News described this as "over a million volts altogether", but voltage doesn't work like that. Think of it this way: jumping from a height of 1 meter 100 times isn't as dangerous as jumping from a height of 100 meters once. 20x 50kV volt shocks is dangerous (especially if given in quick succession) but not for the same reason a single million volt shock would be.