Oh! Gizmo

I can fry fish for dinner…while I watch my fish swim. That to me is a bit weird.

how do you clean the tank? In the image the fish looks like its swimming in food - anyone who’s owned a fish tank knows if left unchecked that will lead to polluted water / fish death in no time.

yes, but if an oxygen bubble floats up to the oil layer, it will expand in the hot oil and water vapor trapped in the bubble will “explode” at the oil’s surface many times per second. this can’t be real!

It does seem quite fake. I mean the water would be heated up by the oil which would cause the death of the fishies… remember only a slight change in acidity or temperature can kill them.

This is quite inhumane in my consideration but then again thats japan for you.

“This is quite inhumane in my consideration but then again thats japan for you.”

You racist fuck, did it ever occur to you that the fish are here solely to show off the fact that the heat isn’t transferred into the water from the oil? Did you even notice the fact that he poured water straight into the oil, as well as plonking in an ice cube, without the usual, violent phase change?

I don’t understand enough Japanese to follow the dialog, but it’s really obvious that this is showing off a technology which is preventing heat from transferring to the water as it usually would. The fish are incidental.

“This is quite inhumane in my consideration but then again thats japan for you. ” Wow. Try to understand a little about other cultures instead of attempting a crack at weak comedy, you ignorant fuck.

pathetic weak americans, almost worse then koreans

OK, I’ve heard of something similar before, and this is not something that is very well known, although you can easily find this to be true: Ceriq is a French company that builds tunnel kilns for firing brick. Sme of their top models are water-sealed kilns. You see, a lot of the heat losses in brick firing occur when heat gets past the seal between the car deck and the kiln wall. So what did Ceriq do? They built a kiln below grade so that the car chassis sits under water, and all that is above the waterline is refractory kiln furniture and brick. From what I understand they are pretty good at saving gas!

you can’t stop heat transfer. given enough time the water will start to boil.

Japan is probably the most racist country in the world, btw. Also their retarded cartoons are ruining everything.

The use of such vulgarity is puerile and not worthy of the hard drive space it is stored on. There are plenty of other words in our language that can be used to present more compelling arguments than the pugnacious “f-word�. To put it in the vernacular, you sound like a 4th grader from South Park Elementary when you swear, you lose all credibility.

Firstly- on the racism issue, Jeff was completely justified. Every country has it’s strengths and weaknesses. I bet the commenter (”that’s Japan for you”) considers things to be normal that the rest of us find disgusting or inhumane. The fish look fine to me, and they’re fish!- we eat them! How the fuck is that humane??? “Don’t worry, I’ll kill your mother quickly in the pot of boiling water little lobster children!”. Are any of you wearing leather? Are we all vegans? I know I’m not! An artist in the US had a display where you are invited to turn on a blender that has water and live fish in it. It was legal, because in Western countries, fish are not classified as animals and have no rights.

Secondly- Umm makes a damn good point. What about the fish poo?

Identifying flaws in a culture, does not a racist make.

if you maintained the bottom surface of the water at a cool temperature you could have a steady state gradient of temperature through the water, so at least in a small region the fish could live. This would waste a lot of energy though.

Chaney Says:
“Identifying flaws in a culture, does not a racist make.”

Yoda is correct ^^

No, let’s continue feeding the troll like the idiots we are.

Let’s talk about some random posters language! Yeah! Let’s fixate on that! Forget the story.

How dare he. How indignant. How fvcking mature. How dare he. The story? Aw fvck that no one cares right?

Feed the troll some more!

This thread rules!

“Oh teh noes! They don’t adhere by my American standards! Let me scorn them for—*snoreeeeeeee* Hey Moooooooooom do we have more potato chips?”

I have to agree. The original poster is a racist fuck. Go die, you uncultured loser.

“i’m sorry but japan is so much more technologically advanced than the u.s.”

Hey let’s compare technological advances to social advances, then we can all be retarded.
Also, you should learn a bit about WWII, or as the Chinese like to call it “war against Japanese aggression”. Rape of Nanking anyone?

This idea, minus the demonstrational goldfish, seems pretty neat. Not knowing Japanese I can’t tell what mechanism there is for draining/cleaning the water without touching the oil, which I think would be necessary.

I don’t understand, though, how he drops the water and ice cube in there without having them explode. Is it special oil? Lower temperature than normal friers? Or is he using fake water? To my mind having water under the oil wouldn’t affect how the water dropped in the top reacts to the hot oil.

“Hey let’s compare technological advances to social advances, then we can all be retarded” - GuyWhoLivesInGlassHouse aka dumbass

that’s funny! i thought this was about an invention that a man in Japan came up with… maybe i’m wrong but i think that classifies as technology! this is about one man trying to make a difference in the world the best way he can! think about it… if all the major fast food restaurants around the world had these instead of the fryers that they currently have, it would save so much money! each fryer would take less oil because you wouldn’t have to keep emptying them, cleaning them, and refilling them! as the dominoes fall… less money on oil = more profit… more profit = more money to spend on supplies… more supplies = less overall cost for the consumer… less cost for the consumer = happy fast food eaters. it’s merely a way to keep the economy in a good state and poverty at a minimum. there’s nothing social about that! think before you type!
also… cleaner oils would mean slightly healthier food, albeit fast food is still not all that good for you but since we continue to consume it, shouldn’t it at least be healthier?! i think this man is on to something with his friers! say what you will about Japan and their technologies and culture… but just remember what you said when you’re working at a fast food restaraunt standing in front of one of these things all day long! it may have the impact i think it might… it may not… either way the effort has been made to better the world and all some of you people can do is dis on the county that made it! just because it wasn’t america that made it! i can almost guarantee that if an american man had made this no one in here would have said shit about inhumanities! that just goes to show how much of a big head america has gotten. i love my country and am proud to live here but DAMN!! have some appreciation for the rest of the world! we aren’t the only ones here!

Peace, locks, and nappyness!

Good stuff! Some info I picked up from their website.

1. Not all of the oil layer is heated. Only the top layer of the oil is heated to 160 deg celcius.
2. Air pipe is used to cool down the area where water meets oil. The water layer at the point of contact is below 55 deg celcius. I’m guessing that the area where the goldfish is swimming is probably well below 25 deg celcius.
3. Unnecessary bread crumbs fall into water below and do not get burned/carbonated, thus keeping the oil fresh and clean. Therefore, oil change is not required as often, reducing total use under 50% of existing fryers.
4. At a given period, other fryers use $600 for oil where this fryer uses $250.

Compare oil image from conventional fryer with this fryer, after 29 days of use.

http://www.waterfryer.co.jp/WFabura.jpg
http://www.waterfryer.co.jp/Tashaabura.jpg

Conclusion: no goldfish harmed.

Looks like a pretty cool and interesting device. Very typically of how through internal domestic competition, Japanese companies are compelled to push the envelope.

Shame about the racist idiocy in the thread.
Drawing a negative conclusion about a group of people (specifically a race) through a particular situation = Racism

Rape of Nanking –> Bad –> Japanese bad –> Racism (GuyWhoLivesInGlassHouse)
Invading Iraq –> Torturing prisoners –> Americans bad –> Racism
Japan has social problems –> Japanese bad –> Racism
Killing fish–>Japanese bad–>Racism
(cf. Killing cockroaches–>Humans bad–???)

Pointing out flaws in a society–>Not racism
Pointing out flaws in a society–>Applying those conclusions to all members of that society–>Racism

Being a racist but not being aware of it. Racist idiot.

To: INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Hey dude, some of your comments I agree with, others not so much. You have a right to your opinions. My only problem with your post is that it was incredibly hard to read because of all the misspelled words. Try using a spell check program or dictionary.com. Maybe copy it and send to a friend to proffread.

And everyone in Western society wasn’t taught that anyone else was inferior? Please. White people are just as (and have always been) as stuck up about their supposed superiority as the Japanese, as well as pretty much every other people. Get over it.

And who cares if they’re godless? I seem to remember something about separation of Church and State…

Your last paragraph can pretty much be applied to every other country in the world. The oh-so-great USofA is just as egocentric as everyone else. Look out for number one.

Dear honjiiku: please go to hell you ignorant waste of space. i hope your time on earth is very, very short.

Satan is teh suxors! I’m +0+411y 1337.

Just Punch on.

“Hypocrits Says: It’s funny, racist comments like this are extremely common against Americans on the net, yet noone ever seems to call THOSE people on it. ”

Just a curiousity question, does “racist” really apply to the american people, considering how many different races live in the US? I’m not trying to be rude, or stupid, this genuinely is something I’ve thought about for a while - what word is there to describe prejudices towards countries. I know you can’t use racism… but what would you use?

Back to the topic at hand however - this fryer is really a wonderful idea, it could be a huge improvement in the industry, I sincerely hope it catches on. And the goldfish looks really pretty happy in his greasy home.

YA TLM IS RIGHT U GUYS SUCK FISH IS NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O AND GAY

How did this go from “cool” to “The Japanese were involved in some very disturbing treatment of POWs during WWII. But then again, so were the Germans. Racism is often completely overdone and really becomes an issue because of a person’s lack of ability to understand an objective point of view. Sure there are racist people in the world, but the only thing I have seen on here so far is a bunch of over-strung, up-tight people with too much stuff to complain about.

Japan, and a lot of the Asian culture may seem strange to us. Heck, there is blog out there called “Strange and Weird Asian News� which proves just that. Its culture differences, thats all.

All though I must say, on another note, that the Infant cannibalism that is occuring in China passes the concept of cultural differences and takes steps toward true inhumanism. ” Really this is about how cool the fish are not if the fish are properly cared for. Get over it even if they do die stupid people kill way more fish. I might fell more if it was a puppy or something but the flame wars here are insane.

What is TRULY funny, is most of you apprently think the RAMPANT hate worldwide towards Americans is not considered racist? What a load of crap. From what I can tell, there is more bile nad hate spewed from anti-americanists that racism that the general population of the States ever shows.

Hello my fellow cyber pedants…how are we all doing today?

I just have to say that this is by far the best thread I have found in as long as I can remember. First of all, cooking fish in actual aquarium where the living fish might have a chance to actually eat their own dead (even if only for demonstration purposes) is unequivocally amazing. I mean, that would be like McDonald’s setting up a six-inch high drive through in order to serve Chicken McNuggets to local poultry residents.

Second, the supremely ignorant and angst-filled thread about Japan, history, racism, inhumane treatment of animals (which is a strange concept given that in-HUMANE has to do with the treatment of humans–wait is there a difference? oh yeah, humans don’t crap on the sidewalk and creatures that do are called animals), and even how abused aquatic animals have some cosmic connection to U.S. troops in Iraq is more entertaining than imagining Donald Trump trying to buy a good hair day.

Thirdly, I just know that some incredibly intellectually short-changed internet denizens are going to say something like “fish don’t walk on the sidewalk you stupid moran” because, first, said denizens are too mentally weak to draw a connection and analogy between various environments, expectations, and behaviors, and second, because they probably still can’t really read (let alone type) and they have misspelled the word “moron.” Even if they actually get their spelling right in their response to my comment, the anticipation of what further atrocities of language and so-called higher thought may be included in subsequent posts is simply thrilling.

Thank you for the incredibly fulfilling experience of realizing that the internet is actually not entirely populated by rational and intelligent human beings (thank goodness) but also by a few angry and challenged cockroaches as well. Awesome!

P.S.: Did any of you “racists� or their “cultural defender� counterparts actually consider that just because someone in an infomercial doesn’t care if his fish live or die has nothing to do with race? Even if it did, what if a black guy swerved his car to hit a cat? Would that make all of Africa inhumane? As idiotic as these hypothetical questions sound, I love this thread because I know at least one or two people will actually post a response for both sides of the argument! You guys are the best! What would the world be like if we couldn’t pawn off all of our minimum wage jobs to people like you?

It’ s a very cool illustration of a simple principle. The oxygen and heat transfer is a puzzling question though. Clearly it’s just an example piece, not an actual working, long-term fish keeping method. The water will heat up and the level of available oxygen will drop. The ammonia problem will rear its head as well.

Well it’s definitely the first time I’ve ever seen fish in a deep fryer. Pretty cool. Goldfish seem to like it plus they have a steady supply of food. Very cool.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle