A Foot-Powered Smoke Rig Makes a Cold Croquette Look Piping Hot
冷めたコロッケをアツアツに見せる方法 あの湯気を人為的に再現する
Shintaro Tamefusa built a rig that makes a cold croquette appear piping hot: as he pulls it apart with both hands, he steps on a foot pump and sends smoke through a tube behind the food.
Smoke from a smoke machine is stored in a sealed container and pushed through the tube by the foot pump. When he compared the effect with an actually heated croquette, the real one was painfully hot but produced barely visible steam, while the cold croquette with added smoke looked much hotter.
Instead of heating the food, the machine adds only the visual evidence of heat. Somehow the cold croquette ends up looking hotter than the real hot one.