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The Weekly Inventions of
Dr Splatterjacket

A mirror has writing on it showing temperature, cooking stlye of Fry and size of small. It is above a silver pan.

HeatReflect

21st June 2025

After returning from a globe-spanning hang glider mission (as one does), I needed to eat before rushing back to the mine to tell everyone what to do. I don’t know about you but I vacillate. Sometimes I am incredibly musical and want to use a HeatHorn to warm my dinner, but, perhaps when I am more stressed, I want to be able to cook dinner without also having to play Schubert’s lesser-known Horn ensemble for one.

I could use an oven, I suppose, if I was a boring normal like you. Putting things into pans, heating up the oven – YAWN!

If I want to cook things without a song and dance I simply use the HeatReflect a mirror-based touchscreen technology which stops just short of incinerating anything it is attempting to cook. Want to cook a chicken? 5 seconds. Want to cook a cheese toastie? 1 second. Want to cook a minute steak? 1 minute – don’t mess with perfection.

Now it is fair to point out that the HeatReflect is putting quite considerable heat into the world without any of the “traditional” and “safety focussed” heat shielding of a normal microwave. But if you could make a cheese toasty in 1 second, would you give up the odd kidney being warmed slightly? Of course you would.

Look if you want to use a boring oven, or even a microwave oven then I can’t help you. I use HeatReflect to make sure my food is cooked in the fastest and least safe way possible.

Note to self: I wonder if I should think about some kind of shielding for this? Nah.