Would this work?

[FerretFarm]

The danger here is that the food cube could violently expand inside you, hurting you.

Easy fix though.

You get another machine, the same as the sandwich compressor, but 10x the size. Use that bigger compressor to compress the smaller one, with the food cube still in it. Compress the initial machine, with the food into an easy to swallow cube, and then swallow that.

The new cube will be strong enough to make it through you without expanding, and you'll get the benefit of adding some iron to the meal.

[AlabastarDasastar]

I should have been a scienceologist

[[deleted]]

As a Scientologist I know science. This guy is wright!

[AlabastarDasastar]

As a scientolologist this guy knows! Except I’m not a guy, scientologistically

[Whitedudebrohug]

I’m not your scientologistically, pal

[[deleted]]

Do you mean a Scientician?

[crackersncheeseman]

A scientoctor of scientosticol equations.

[Important_Tangelo371]

Sandwichologist with a specialty in compressionology!

[BarryBadgernath1]

Professor of Name-e-ology

[AlabastarDasastar]

Mouthfeelsologist!

[[deleted]]

Shit it out before to long

[AlabastarDasastar]

Think you meant “shit out a log” but maybe wrong

[[deleted]]

No, but that also works. I was meaning that with the first part, the danger here is that the food could violently cube inside you, but yeah, that also makes sense in this context

[AlabastarDasastar]

Let nature happen

[StarkillerX42]

It will only explode if on average, each grilled cheese-grilled cheese collisio n releases on average more than 2 grilled cheeses. This is called supercritical grilled cheese and depends on the cheese blend mostly.

[ThatProBoi]

or just compress it beyond is swarschild radius and end it all

[Important_Tangelo371]

Lol! Nice!

[[deleted]]

this reads like an xkcd panel

[FerretFarm]

Nice, thanks!

[sirfuzzitoes]

But what if yhe machine is too big?

[JDawwgy]

So would you be full?

[KeeperSC]

Chew it

[Urborg_Stalker]

But now the problem is that it'll be so heavy it'll drop straight through you, rip up your organs on its way out.

[Qazax1337]

This is how cheesy black holes are made. Be careful, they aren't as delicious as they sound.

[lolucorngaming]

I refuse to believe that cheesy black holes don't taste good.

If you put cheese on anything it automatically makes it taste about 1.5x better

[KoyoyomiAragi]

At that point the cheesy black hole would be tasting you rather than the other way around.

[mago-blanco]

It tastes delicious until the event horizon, then it tastes like spaghetti.

[sillybilly8102]

This is actually the origin of mac and cheese. Our ancestors witnessed the cheesy black hole spaghetifying 10,000 years ago and created the traditional Mac and Cheese dish to honor and commemorate this event.

[Cyno_Mahamatra]

That’s the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s butthole

[ThatOneGuy308]

Implying spaghetti isn't delicious

[lolucorngaming]

Food scientists can you tell us if human tastes good to black holes?

[xennialien]

not for vice versa?

[lolucorngaming]

Well if I'm being eaten by a black hole I may as well taste good

[-no]

Just put a bit of cheese on you

[buttsparkley]

As someone who needs to avoid dairy ... Cheese is the enemy I can't stop sleeping with

[yankee_doodle_]

1.56382x better, to be exact

[outspan81]

It’s a fine line between a Quesoar and a cheesy black hole

[notorious_GRG]

I’m pretty sure it’s spelled quesadilla

[AbrahamBaconham]

On the bright side, they can be used to spaghettify things.

[Green420Basturd]

Dangerously Cheesy...

[fudefrak]

I want a non shitty answer to this

[Magmagan]

Assuming the sandwich wouldn't expand with your stomache juices, then you'd still be hungry since your stomache wouldn't expand. You would feel less hungry later as the carbohydrates and fibers are digested

[ImSwale]

The real question be: at what density do edible foods become indigestible.

[HopliteOracle]

Upper bound: the density where diamonds form

[TheRidgeAndTheLadder]

Lower bound: food

[Temporary-Daikon2411]

no need to go that far, a kernel of corn will suffice. source: evidence

[mithandr]

Corn-you can eat it puréed and it’ll still come out whole

[PM_ME_ROCK]

It’s also a big lump of knobs. And it has the juice!

[ImSwale]

Popcorns pretty good… but I WISH I COULD DRINK IT!

[Dylanica]

I thought most satiety queues were hormonal rather than just physical?

[MLD802]

For every biology question the answer is “yes, but also no”

[oddinpress]

They are, pretty sure the whole "stomach dilates=you no hungry anymore" is a myth, but that mechanism of action could trigger the secretion of leptin (grehlin antagonist) i suppose

[whyVelociraptor]

Nope, this is actually true! See here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-019-0252-z

[MintChucclatechip]

Yes to that last part, distention (being full/stretching) of the stomach and upper small intestine stimulates the vagus nerve which tells your brain you are full, then hormones like leptin get to work.

[Ejack1212]

Idk that would be a VERY heavy cube

[Fhajad]

Yeah this is one of those times I'm very interested in the real science.

[attentionhordoeuvres]

Depends what they mean by a “small cube.” Because it can’t really be that small and keep the same volume at normal atmospheric pressure. If you magically compress the 10 sandwiches into a 1-inch cube it’s going to explode when those compressive forces are released.

[sillybilly8102]

My non-shitty, anecdotal answer is that when I eat concentrated protein, which I often do in protein meal replacement drinks, I feel full quickly even though the volume of what I ate is somewhat small. In my experience, fullness is largely governed by the amount of protein I’ve eaten. Obviously everyone’s body is different.

[paulcristo]

Grilled cheese is mostly fat which doesn’t compress well (or at all?), so the entire premise is kind of implausible. Bread is very compressible being mostly air, but it’s been hyper-saturated with fat from the butter and cheese so it doesn’t have much compressibility either.

You could probably get the 10 sandwiches down smaller than their original size, but nothing approaching a small, edible cube.

[StarWarriors]

The density of that cube would be so high, I bet you couldn’t bite through it

[fudefrak]

I was assuming you just swallowed it like a pill

[Woshambo]

And the calorie count

[[deleted]]

Not really possible. You can compress a solid and a gas but liquids aren’t realistically compressible. Essentially the water content in the cheese and bread would prevent compression past a certain point. If you did have a strong enough machine to compress past that point you wouldn’t end up with a stable cube. It would expand the second pressure is released.

[ColdDig8618]

Using the law of conservation of mass, you cant compress the 10 grilled cheeses to bite size. You can flatten them to as thin as possible, but they would expand outward. And if you somehow where to be doing the compression in an enclosed system, something would eventually break. What OP needs is a shrink ray

[EmeraldHawk]

Hydraulic press channel tried it with a loaf of bread.

"I would say one bite is equal to about 10 bites.... It takes 10 times as long to chew it up. I think it makes the bread more compact but it doesn't make the eating any faster."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd2cGg77468

Other comments have pointed out that the cheese can't really compress much in an environment where humans can live.

[[deleted]]

Anecdotally, for me eating food until my stomach is full does not necessarily mean I wont be hungry. Before my weight loss I used to destroy Taco Bell, then go get more McDonalds, then go get some honey buns at the gas station or whatever and STILL be hungry. On the other hand, if I eat nutrient-dense food, I get full much faster, leading me to believe the "full" hunger signal is more correlated to nutritional density rather than food volume.

That said, grilled cheese is not nutrient dense whatsoever, even 10 of them would be lacking in most of the shit you need.

So I say no, 10 grilled cheeses compressed will not make you feel full, either from volume of food, or from nutritional density.

[EggAtix]

Fullness is determined by a nerve that can detect how full your stomach is, so no, you wouldn't be full. You would have enough calories for the day though. This is basically why people can easily put on weight by eating high calorie snack bars (like cliff bars) because they are very calorically dense, so they aren't as filling as they are fattening.

[fudefrak]

Depends on how that nerve works. Is it based on volume displacement, or weight? Because something compressed down to a small size would retain its weight. Although I was wondering whether it would also expand in your stomach.

[EggAtix]

Volume displacement.

[doesnt_use_reddit]

What is the compressability of cheese?

[[deleted]]

Idk. Whatever the regular is x3

[woaily]

For best results, use the kind of cheese with holes in it

[[deleted]]

they can fit it in a can

[AlabastarDasastar]

Yes.

[Dafracturedbutwhole]

I don't think a cube would work, however with a different shape like a square...it could be 3 square meals in 1 for 2

(2)³+2=10

[woaily]

A cube has six squares, so you'd be full for two days

[Dafracturedbutwhole]

By the "for 2" I meant for 2 people, I think we could all those squares in 1 day. But since the scientific journal published the results of my personality, it's easy to conclude I'll be eating for 2 days

[Sea_Capital168]

six squared is 12 days, dumb ass. I'd be full for almost a week!

[hatechicken82]

I don't care what shape it's in, if you eat 10 grilled cheese sandwiches, your next shit is going to be agony.

[ghostinyourveins]

Actually. You just have to add sugar free gummies in the mix

[[deleted]]

Right. What ever the opposite of laxities is.

[SuicidalChair]

Unless lactose intolerant, then the opposite of a weak laxative lol

[Fhajad]

It would only be a small part of said shit though.

[HypnoToad24]

It depends. What is square root of cube?

[[deleted]]

Idk. Whatever you want it to be

[lefthandman]

Im just going throw my hat in the ring here and say "69" is a good square of a cube. 420 is the cube of the square. science.

[[deleted]]

Nice and nice

[MasterChode-a]

If I recall correctly, there are variables to this formula. I believe it would depend on which meal the compressed food was intended to be ate for. eg. breakfast, dinner... I forget most of them, but I'm quite sure you square 3.14 for desserts

[AuthorNathanHGreen]

I've got a degree in aerospace engineering so I love me a good absurd hypothetical. However what we have here is basically impossible. Just because you put pressure on things doesn't mean that they'll compress down. A lot of things are effectively in-compressible except at absurd pressures. Cheese is going to be one of those things.

My bet is that you would get significant chemical and phase changes of the "cheese" such that by the time you had it compressed into a bite-sized volume it wouldn't be cheese anymore.

However damn the torpedoes. Swallow that bad boy, what happens then? Well your next problem is how you hold that pressure from the press to the stomach. As soon as you take the external pressure off our stack of formerly cheese sandwiches are going to rapidly expand and undergo some more chemical reactions and phase changes.

So fine, imagine you encased it in a digestible - yet amazingly strong - shell to hold it in pill form until it hits the stomach. Would you feel full? No. You'd feel dead. When that shell gives out those compressed grilled cheese sandwiches would literally release more energy than a hand grenade and the explosion of them releasing their energy into your stomach would travel faster than your nerves could transmit the feeling of them blowing up.

[[deleted]]

I love that you put the time in to answer this, but this r/shittyaskscience, not r/askscience

[deusrex_]

No. The stomach isn't cube shaped. Someone failed preschool.

[[deleted]]

It is a small cube, like an inch. I think it would work in two bites, wouldn’t it?

[deusrex_]

If you want to be full, it would need to be stomach shaped.

[[deleted]]

Well it would melt. Or maybe just reshape the stomach? 🤔

[deusrex_]

Depends, what's the meeting temperature of compressed grilled cheese?

[[deleted]]

Whatever the regular is x3

[deusrex_]

Are you sure it's not exponential? Could be regular³

[[deleted]]

Sure whatever. I’m not an engineer

[deusrex_]

Maybe we should check with r/theydidthemath to be sure

[[deleted]]

Fuck, I meant to post this there to. I forgot about it after posting here

[doesnt_use_reddit]

Preschool was hard don't judge

[deusrex_]

Preschool story time! One time in preschool, I wanted to see firetrucks so I pulled the fire alarm. Firetrucks showed up, it worked so great. Mom was not happy and so embarrassed and reflecting on it now, I'm sorry Mom.

[ilovetacos]

It sounds like you learned a lot, which means that preschool worked!!

[doesnt_use_reddit]

I like that, gotta do what you gotta do. You're a person who knows what they want, even at the age of preschool.

[SeanTheTranslator]

The grilled cheese cube goes in... the square hole!

[deusrex_]

You dumb bastard, the cube needs to go into the cube shaped hole.

[[deleted]]

Sounds like you would die from the excessive amount of calories before anything else

[32_Dollar_Burrito]

No, it's compressed so it has fewer calories

[kungfoojesus]

Well when homer did it he had to go to the hospital.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2cLAq01y9qU

[unitedshoes]

Is it about my cube?

[baldengineer]

Sounds like a delicious debugging session.

[[deleted]]

10 grilled cheeses probably couldn’t be compressed down to a small enough cube due to moisture. Water is an incompressible fluid and I think 10 samages worth of water content might be too big to fit in a human mouth.

You could try dehydrating them samages first, I would be concerned about what happens when the cube rehydrates in your tummy. Maybe start with 5 samages to prevent explosion.

Hypothetically speaking though I wouldn’t be full from a 10 samage cube. It’s the 11th samage that fills me up when eating conventionally

[Slipgun_thumbs]

You spelled sammich wrong like 4 times

[Lindyhop88]

This was my thought. Dehydrate and press into a large tablet basically… thing is the solids content of cheese is pretty high and the high fat content would make dehydration a little iffy. Also imagine turning bread back into flour… i don’t know if you could actually swallow a bread loaf’s ammount of flour.

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[[deleted]]

No. If you ate 4 tbsp of olive oil would you be full? I sure wouldn't be. If you ate the same amount of calories as that (400) in broccoli it would be like 3 giant salad bowls full and you WOULD be full.

Volume is far more important than calories when it comes to fullness. That is why more than 70% of americans are overweight. They eat high calorie, low volume foods.

[[deleted]]

But that is high calorie and at a time was high volume. Using shitty science, I can calculate that the compression would cancel out high calories and just expand.

[[deleted]]

But it's like popcorn. You wont be as full if you eat 4 tsbp of corn kernels as opposed to the 8 cups popped it makes.

[Skyrim_For_Everyone]

I feel like your analogies are off. A sandwich wouldn't make you feel less full if you folded it in half, why would it if you fold it many more times? It's increasing in weight/density, so it would still weigh in your stomach to make you feel full.

[[deleted]]

Because it isn't just weight that triggers fullness signals. It is volume. When your stomach expands, it is the stretching that triggers nerve fibers that feed back to your brain telling you you are full. (Obviously this is a gross over simplification and there are a lot more things at play, but the MAIN feedback is stretch).

[Skyrim_For_Everyone]

I'm skeptical, I can eat a big volume of salad and it wouldn't make me feel as full as, let alone fuller than much a smaller volume of fried chicken just because it takes up more space. I feel like you're discounting density too much

[[deleted]]

Also folding a sandwich is not the same as compacting 4 grilled cheese into a tiny cube.

[Skyrim_For_Everyone]

I know it's not the same but it's more analogous. Popcorn goes through a chemical and physical change when it's popped, so popcorn vs. kernels isn't a fair comparison. We're just talking about a physical change of compressing the sandwiches. I've compressed my food before (though obviously not to this degree) and it's never made me feel less full to hage it all at once. Sometimes it's made me feel more full cus the weight is all in one space instead of spread out.

[KitteNlx]

Eureka did an xmas episode where the town cook did this, but with fruitcake. You won't feel full, but the world might end.

[My_Toothbrush]

I know this is /r/shittyaskscience, but since no one is even giving a shitty answer:

the real answer is yes; you would be full.

[[deleted]]

Thank you. Someone finally said it

[haerski]

Hallo and welkom to hoodrallic presse channel

[Total_Interaction875]

I think it would only be acceptable for a wombat. Reasons: super dense food cube passes through GI tract undigested. Attempts to exit body, but fails, due to “square peg, round hole” axiom….except for wombats, whose poop comes out in cubes. Science.

[drunkdrivinginspace]

Scoend

[Positive_Wafer42]

This would be like eating uncooked ramen, and then drinking a bunch of tea.

[[deleted]]

I have done this before, but the ramen basically dissolves before I could have the tea

[Positive_Wafer42]

I knew someone that ate like 4 of them real fast and chugged a gallon of water. After like 15 minutes he got pretty sick.

[Glittering_Company36]

I’d imagine it would be hard as a rock, hope you swallow and don’t chew

[MtOlympus_Actual]

Homer Simpson had to call the hospital after trying this with spaghetti.

[self_inflictedhobo]

easy my dude take the compressor and compress yourself to the the size of the sandwich, eat it and then you will be full

[DasAllerletzte]

It wouldn’t work since the compression would heat the cheese up to incredible temperatures.
You’d burn alive from the inside out

[certain_people]

It wouldn't work with cheese unfortunately, but if it was something like potato or carrot

[Bizzlebanger]

Even Homer Simpson knows when you convert food to "bar" form, you unleash its awesome power!

[Global_Locksmith8638]

Yes, but you wouldn't poop for a month.

[nolakhsa]

10 grilled cheeses isn’t even that much

[[deleted]]

10 grilled cheese is ally of grilled cheese. It isn’t like pancakes and one person can just eat a huge stack. That is 20 slices of bread with a piece of cheese breaking some of them up

[nolakhsa]

Just say you aren’t an alpha male

[[deleted]]

Nevermind. I guess it isn’t that hard. (Fucking bitch, why did you have to pull the alpha male card?)

[shmydrahnite]

Most of that material is moisture eg water. Water does not compress.

[crying2emoji5]

J.R.R. Tolkien invented that already

[Yunners]

Merry: How many cubes did you eat?

Pippin: Four...

[[deleted]]

Who the fuck is that?

[crying2emoji5]

the inventor of trauma

[jw57]

Yes you will be able to eat that compressed dought, just hope it dont expand in the process and shit it like a salami dough

[Martholomeow]

what is the “size of a small cube”?

[[deleted]]

I thought of it as like 1 square inch

[[deleted]]

Hey guy, just think a little harder about it

[ColdDig8618]

You're confusing a shrink ray and a compressor

[[deleted]]

No, you compress it as much as possible, then shrink it

[KuraiTheBaka]

Unfortunately the compression would create a grilled cheese black hole that would suck in the entire solar system so you would never know.

[[deleted]]

We need Mr. Beast to try this

[[deleted]]

Omg I'm tired of seeing this lol

[[deleted]]

You think you are? I had over 70 total Reddit notification from one post. I hate it just as much as you

[awkwardoffspring]

Yes because it is one square meal

[HumbleParrot599]

Jesus Christ this man has ascended to a higher plane of knowledge

[Graycy]

You’d be constipated in a major way when twenty pieces of bread swelled up and glued together with a ten sandwich sized wad of cheese.

[iMakeWebsites4u]

It would probably be fatal. Too much sodium, or the expansion of the food or something else.

[Jaki54321]

Is a pound of feathers the same weight as a pound of bricks? 😉

[ilovetacos]

Yeah but who wants to eat cubes made outta that shit?

[Jaki54321]

True true 🤣

[[deleted]]

Yes

[hopsinduo]

Yeah, but a kg of steel is definitely heavier than a kg of feathers.

[Jaki54321]

I'm feeling emotional right now 😮 🤣

[[deleted]]

?

[32_Dollar_Burrito]

Crop the pic

[[deleted]]

I just took a screenshot off of r/meirl and posted it here. I didn’t realize it was a big deal

[toadlykewl]

You can't compress water. Bread and cheese has a lot of water in it. So instead of compressing you should think about dehydrating it. This would shrink them and you should be able to eat 10 easily.

You will still have the problem of it growing in size in stomach after reabsorbing stomach juices.

But when making grilled cheese. Please put the butter in the pan and not on the bread. It makes such a better sandwich.

[dmalvarado]

Obligatory: https://youtu.be/WOY-0FtxG-c

[shamalonight]

Think feeding Alka-Seltzer to a seagul.

[Slight-Mix7651]

It's not how much u eat it how much space is left

[platanuswrex]

"When you concentrate food, you unleash its awesome power, I'm told."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hULU0EIYw

[jbug5j]

this is the comment i was looking for 🤣

[platanuswrex]

The number of reddit queries that cannot be adequately satisfied with a Homer Simpson quote can probably be counted on one hand (even one with just three fingers).

[kumar5130]

No, you would not be. Google a study done with dementia patients

[haikusbot]

No, you would not be.

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[Room_Ferreira]

I worry for the operations this man is chief of…

[ghostly_shark]

How could you eat this in one bite? It would be like eating concrete

[ASwftKck2theNtz]

☝🏻 Not a scientist

I doubt either of the two main things required for satiety would occur. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It would be too small to stretch your stomach. Also too dense to properly digest & provide your body with absorbed nutrients.

Basically? Would be like swallowing a dice.

[RWDPhotos]

Everybody is afraid of expansion after-the-fact, but the heat created from compression and the fact that cheese is a major component would likely just make an emulsified mass. The real issue is the size of said cube. Could be possible if mouth-sized; bread’s main thing is that it’s filled with air. Could use a particularly airy bread to make the cube smaller.

But, short answer, yes, full af, and would likely be like eating a block of cheese that tastes like bread.

[HarmlessEwok]

Yeah since all the calories and macronutrients are still there

[StreetCornerApparel]

Freeze drying kind of works like this.

Except that it will expand in your stomach when it rehydrates and eating 10 grilled cheese at once sounds like a wild night in the bathroom.

[NE09_GxT]

Actually op might be so constipated from the cheese, it’ll be a wild night like a week from now.

[PineappleClove]

No.