I Turned My Dumb Food Dehydrator Into a Smart Pasta Dryer (PC fans, Sensors and all)

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@VideoSchoolOnline 2 года назад

Never seen such a good cliffhanger in a pasta-themed video.

@MrMartinSchou 2 года назад

Yup. I could hear the capital letters in that comment. > "EVERY day is a challenge in drying pasta."

@geraldbrooks2763 2 года назад

That is a brand new sentence.

@VideoSchoolOnline 2 года назад

@@geraldbrooks2763 😂 Alex, bringing out all kinds of new feelings in us.

@mister_darkwood9843 2 года назад

@@VideoSchoolOnline ALEX!!!! why?

@latch909 2 года назад

Easily in my top 5 for pasta themed cliffhangers

@PaulTMaack0 2 года назад

"Every day is a challenge in drying pasta." That guy's awesome. Giving it to ya straight. No sugar-coating. Exactly the kinda guy you want in your corner.

@techorizo1 2 года назад

Exactly!

@davidhalldurham 2 года назад

I was going to say the very same thing. Cavalieri seems like a great guy and is willing to share his expertise...as long as you're not going to open a pastificio.

@jonarific8504 2 года назад

For some reason that reminded me of davie504. Maybe the voice is similar as I think he's Italian.

@davidf2281 2 года назад

I'd wear that t-shirt

@GigaDavy91 2 года назад

Btw Cavalieri in Italian means Knights

@NonEuclideanTacoCannon 2 года назад

"Every day is a challenge in drying pasta." Words to live by. Perhaps you could set up something with a servo to allow a few milliliters of water to drip onto the bottom of the box like a minute before the fans turn off, so that it starts to evaporate. That way the humidity will increase during the rest period. Or you could make it really complicated. Set up a humidifier with some of that duct hose, and use servo to open a vent to allow the humid air to enter during rest.

@David.Lopezz 2 года назад

I'm so invested Alex!! 😂 I need to see that perfectly dried pasta!

@alipaulstagram 2 года назад

I can't wait to watch the finale of this series more than the finale of Stranger Things

@stazeII 2 года назад

Pasta-man is always intense!

@timmypanic 2 года назад

Maybe warm and cold cycles?

@timmypanic 2 года назад

There is a lot in the pasta factory. That the dough does not rest and is mixed quickly in a vacuum to stop air pockets.

@chunguskhan3009 2 года назад

This guy will make a tandoor out of clay he found in a construction site and call on Indian masterchefs to make the best naan ever.

@Nickle314 2 года назад

Check out the channel, "The Wood Fired Oven Chef" :-)

@MrBlueBurd0451 2 года назад

Don't give him ideas! No, wait, DO! I wanna see Alex-ified roti and tandoori chicken.

@petermarknimmo 2 года назад

You can make a decent tandoor out of terracotta pots. Tried it myself and it works a treat 👌

@jcnash02 2 года назад

I would watch that

@TheCatWitch63 2 года назад

@@petermarknimmo please tell me how!!! I can get many types of clay pots in my country, but very few people has ever seen a tandoor and even fewer has one.

@alevel2cpu285 2 года назад

I can only imagine this guy at Home Depot buying all of this equipment. "What are you making?" Alex: "Carbonara"

@2guysandacooler 2 года назад

Loving the pasta series Alex!! Keep it up! Can't wait for the saucisson sec series😉

@fpoastro 2 года назад

I said this before and I know it may seem weird but its real.. you can also learn a lot from wood drying. Its the same exact principal. Dry, then allow a rest (which is some rehydration) then resume drying. Your fractured pasta result is exactly what happens with wood.

@PLF... 2 года назад

Exactly, you dont want to go too hard. Also vacuum is a thing, but probably a bit too complicated for something like this

@fpoastro 2 года назад

@@PLF... Who said anything about vacuum? You can take a slow drying process where you slowly dry day to day allowing the charge to cool (and attract moisture) overnight to allow it to equalize then resume drying. Its much slower but also much easier. Again... where the fu)k did vacuum come from? Thats a whole nother level.

@j.anthonyszepsy8712 2 года назад

Just check out cannabis drying , people really delve into keeping RH and ventillation on spot for 14 days exact dry , then comes the cure which is a whole other ballgame , I have a feeling the processis there would help out in Alexs journey

@fpoastro 2 года назад

@@j.anthonyszepsy8712 My niece is a PHD bio and working on cannabis as a focus (not for passion but because its money). Drying cannabis has nothing to due with maintaining structural integrity as it does with wood/pasta/cellulosic materials that are trying to be dried with a specific structure and integrity. Drying basil, oregano, cannabis, etc.. mold control, is about all you care about. Drying wood and pasta, your concerns are stress relieving the cellulosic fibers periodically throughout the process as not to create infinite numbers of fractures in the structure that all equate to the catastrophic failure Alex has seen consistently in his pasta.

@LiteLotus 2 года назад

@@fpoastro maybe not directly but im sure there are things to be learnt from the process im sure.

@catos3045 2 года назад

Ah, as an Electronics Engineer, this is what I love about your channel, and why I suscribed in the first palce. Don't get me wrong, I love everything you do, even if it doesn't have to do anythign with electronics, but I did missed seeing you building stuff with electronics for cooking. Keep it up.

@kubeek 2 года назад

and yet he talks about turning the dryer on an off every hour with his finger, instead of hacking the guts out and controlling the heater and fan by his controller :D

@catos3045 2 года назад

@@kubeek HAHAHAHAHAHAHA That's the exact same thought I had. Just automate the hell out of it.

@rasmis 2 года назад

@@catos3045 I searched the comments to see if anybody else had thought this. Alex is also an electronics engineer, so why doesn't he just connect the built in fan to the arduino? I'm a lawyer, but I could do that :-)

@bernat_CustardCream 2 года назад

@@rasmis I think there's a strong chance he will do that as one of the improvements. I mean, he made a bluetooth angle measuring device for knife sharpening, for example :D

@e3498-v7l 2 года назад

"Every day is a challenge in drying pasta" is the perfect cliffhanger. Love the series, can't wait for more.

@TacohMann 2 года назад

Hey Alex, I’m sure you know this already but you can (probably) easily hijack the power to the fan and use the microcontroller to control it. If you need to control the heater you can also most likely do that with the microcontroller, you’ll just need to use a mosfet or a relay instead of controlling it directly from the gpio like I imagine you’re doing with the other fans. Lastly, I think it would be beneficial to find some way to add humidity. If it were me I would use an ultrasonic transducer to try and atomize the water as much as possible; that should make the “lag” between the addition of water and it’s acceptance as humidity relatively low. These are all fairly quick ideas though so I don’t know exactly how well they would pan out. Excited to see how you figure out each of these new challenges though!

@VinayVarsani 2 года назад

I was thinking less complicated and just use a humidifier and connect it externally but yh 🤷🏾‍♂️ bit difficult to control the humidity but then that's what the fans are for

@Reinier020 2 года назад

@elderperez2047 2 года назад

Exactly was I was thinking. You already went out of your way to upload data and have nice graphs, adding these features should be easier.

@Techno_Nomadic 2 года назад

Shoot, I would just go old school and put a relay between the motor/heater and the incoming power and control it with a programmable timer for lights. Doesn't matter if the unit is never turned off, and the built in temp control would still work, cause there would be no power to the fan/heating unit.

@SallyGreenaway 2 года назад

I'm going to find some of Andrea Cavalieri's brand of pasta here in Australia, just to support him for being such a great guy in helping Alex! Great episode!

@thalesrodrigues8214 2 года назад

It feels illegal to be here that early

@rileyverrall3797 2 года назад

I'm usually asleep when he posts but currently I am up at 2:30 am

@prame4p 2 года назад

yea

@FrenchGuyCooking 2 года назад

Thanks for following my heavily-carb-loaded adventures ! You guys are the best ! Here's a link to the data collecting code : gist.github.com/frenchguycooking/d368ba94bb9754faecaa10d747e0c635

@eliseleonard3477 2 года назад

It’s possible that your extruder isn’t generating enough pressure to really homogenize the dough structure. Maybe let the dough sit for a while longer before sending it through the machine.

@facundoriccardi6708 2 года назад

I was thinking about this, maybe the pasta is not really hidrated. In the Monograno factory they use vaccum in the mixing system, so the dough get hidrated faster. But whit a house mixer like the one Alzex is using, I think that the dough is not getting the time to actually get that hidrated.

@JonCLTV 2 года назад

This comment is so underrated right now

@rickross5421 2 года назад

@@JonCLTV How is it overrated ?

@JonCLTV 2 года назад

@@rickross5421 It should have more likes to get Alex to read it. I find it very useful information that can change the course of the pasta drying series.

@JonCLTV 2 года назад

@@rickross5421 I mean underrated sorry 😣

@wv_ 2 года назад

You’ve already got the Arduino going. You can get ready made opto-isolated relay modules that are built for Arduino.

@NonEuclideanTacoCannon 2 года назад

You mean for turning the original fruit dryer on and off? If he has arduino chops, and he clearly does, he could automate a lot more of this process. I'm imagining a source of humid air (either a humidifier, or even just an electric kettle) connected to the box with some of that duct hose, and a servo-controlled vent. It could turn on to warm up just before the active cycle ends, then the servo opens the vent and allows the humid air in to the box.

@iacopob 2 года назад

@@NonEuclideanTacoCannon then he could add a PID controller and voilà!

@HaralHeisto 2 года назад

@@NonEuclideanTacoCannon Probably best to use one of those little ultrasonic humidifiers (can get USB powered ones that connect to a standard 500ml bottle for pennies on aliexpress). Using a kettle would add too much heat during the rest period

@fluffigverbimmelt 2 года назад

@@iacopob very much agreeing with proper CL control. As an electrical engineer, this should not be an issue at all

@NonEuclideanTacoCannon 2 года назад

@@HaralHeisto oooh I forgot about those, that would be perfect

@kaib5048 2 года назад

I have noooo interest in ever doing this, but I’m completely addicted to watching Alex slowly move towards pasta perfection. Keep it up man, almost there !! 🤓

@MarianaCorinaR 2 года назад

The only food channel that has a build/maker workshop vibe, loving the series Alex!

@ninjakiller275 2 года назад

Hey Alex! I was looking for the github repository, as a software engineer I think I may be able to help! I have only found the dough sheeter so far, could you point me in the right direction?

@azyfloof 2 года назад

You've got the arduino sorted for logging data, now it's time to disconnect the dryer's original control board entirely, and use the arduino to turn the fan and heater on and off :D Some fans have a separate PWM line which you can use with the arduino to vary their speed, which might help too

@morningstar8187 2 года назад

Have you considered the possibility that your dough making process and extrusion method may be at least partially responsible? If the dough has a lot of air incorporated into its structure it could weaken its structural integrity after drying? Think hardtack vs a dried slice of bread. One is easier to crush than The other.

@Mikapoofs 2 года назад

true that, even shown in his monograno factory video the dough is mixed and extruded in a vacuum to avoid that problem

@thischannelisforcommenting5680 2 года назад

my man will be buying factory at this rate

@PLF... 2 года назад

Its a factor but can be circumvented. It changes the material constant for the dough, likely making it require a more gentle drying program with longer rests.

@RoboticParanoia 2 года назад

Vacuum extruded pasta gives a more resistant result, and iin colored pasta a more vibrant color. If you put pasta that wasn't vacuum extruded in an industrial tunnel dryer, it will collapse, because the air bubbles will expand too fast for the air to escape. A tunnel dryer, that can dry pasta between 4 and 8 hours work with a hot cycle ranging from 80° to 115°C, the pasta is pre cooked after drying, hence the dark yellow color. Pasta is carb, and carb is sugar, it caramelize. For drying non vacuum pasta you have to make three long cycles, at a very low temperature and long time. Aim for at least 48h total time, and it's the minimum. By the way, his first mod got it right, in order to the pasta dries from inside out, the first stage should have a huge increase in humidity, then slowly going down. There's more to that, but it's the beginning.

@thesecondislander 2 года назад

@@RoboticParanoia how do you know this stuff

@jonmsimpson 2 года назад

This is the best series on RU-vid right now! Your videos showcasing Luciano Monosilio's pasta techniques were a game changes to not only my own personal pasta making, but those of my customers at the shop I work at. As your videos educate me, I pass that knowledge on to many others in my local area to improve their pasta making. (I provide credit where it is due). Ciao!

@robfenwitch7403 2 года назад

In the next episode, Alex builds his own pasta-drying street...

@canchero724 2 года назад

I'm half expecting him to go to Gragnano and dry it in the sun himself. He loves going to Italy and this sounds like the perfect opportunity to go back again.

@Viniter 2 года назад

I feel like at this point, the original drier is just holding you back. You need to go full DIY.

@fluffigverbimmelt 2 года назад

When you want to have something of this power running unattended for hours and hours, I would be careful with complete DIY. Insurance will not pay for recklessly burning down the studio

@MarkEichin 2 года назад

He's already well into "drying box of Theseus" territory...

@mlindholm 2 года назад

The original has a safely integrated heater, and fan to equalize the heat from the heater. He just needed to integrate a relay to stop it too during the rest periods. Perhaps one of those "obvious in hindsight" things he didn't think of until it was mentioned.

@Viniter 2 года назад

@@fluffigverbimmelt This man built his own gas stove. I don't think an insurance company will touch his studio with a ten foot pole anyway. :D

@vdmlouis 2 года назад

Have you tried cooking the pasta you have dried so far? I’m really curious whether it would be good or not.

@jonaslundholm 2 года назад

”Every day is a challenge in drying pasta”

@jamescambray5595 2 года назад

Alex, I would recommend you look into the science of psycrometrics. The relative humdity depends strongly on the temperature; increase the temp and the RH goes down. This is why you need to turn off the heater and not just the fans during the rest peroids.

@dumboy886 2 года назад

So, PC fans exist on a range from pressure optimised fans to airflow optimised fans. I may be wrong, but I think those fans look like airflow optimised. Pressure optimised fans may work better at pushing a sustained amount of air through all your obstacles.

@Timmycoo 2 года назад

Tbh that's what I thought he was going to do at the start. But the fan he had in there looked more like one I've seen used in dry aging in a mini fridge.

@Enhancedlies 2 года назад

great spot

@neovictorius 2 года назад

That hasn't really been a thing for a loooooong time now. Nowadays computer fans are pretty much all a hybrid between the 2

@tokiomitohsaka7770 2 года назад

That’s why on the previous episode I recommended Alex to use Noctua’s Industrial PPC fans. They have great performance in both air flow AND very high static pressure, quiet which is good for a studio which he films things in (as long as you avoid the 3000 RPM version), and are rated to work at difficult conditions like higher heat and humidity (which is the main reason I recommended these over regular static pressure PC fans).

@Viniter 2 года назад

I think airflow fans are the right call here. Static pressure optimized fans are more for pushing air through dense radiators, I don't think this is that kind of obstacle.

@JoriDiculous 2 года назад

If everything have to be Off at resting period, just hook the "dryer" to a timer socked. You can get some nice cheap digital ones that you can set to several intervals.

@xeropunt5749 2 года назад

Not to belittle this video, but nobody’s making pasta or eating it around here we’re fat af. Do project farm type of things like you did with the eggs…or how to get that wok hei at home…🙏👍

@fishnewhere387 2 года назад

I love you did this, I was thinking about getting the same one and hooking it up to an Arduino controller.

@PaulJMorey 2 года назад

I feel like Alex got hit with a very polite “if it were easy, everyone would do it”

@Molikai 2 года назад

So, so far: He's bought a professional pasta machine, and now he's making a customised, dedicated pasta drier. So we can say comfortably this is outside the realms of a home cook!

@PaulaBean 2 года назад

Home cooks can just buy ready-dried pasta at the supermarket, which has been professionally dried in a factory.

@Just_Sara 2 года назад

Well, we regular home cooks could use a pasta roller like regular people, and figure out how to modify our own dehydrators after we see what he's figured out. I bet, once we learn the principles, we can do this with our crappy home-cook tools if we try!

@jamesmchenry4708 2 года назад

...the moment when someone in a different country, on a different continent, is wearing the exact same carhartt shirt you are. The journey of science, engineering, and discovery is awesome as always, though!

@michelhv 2 года назад

This is starting to look like those heat treating ovens for blade smiths. They can be programmed to a specific sequence of temperatures plateaus according to time to ensure proper hardness and toughness properties.

@jimurrata6785 2 года назад

A heat treat microcontroller might be the readymade (and programmed) solution to Alex issues. It really is like the pasta needs tempering cycles... at lower temperature.

@VinayVarsani 2 года назад

They definitely need normalisation cycles too

@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 2 года назад

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@hhhvsg 2 года назад

Bro put an Rtx 3080 in the oven 💀

@matthewlang7364 2 года назад

lol

@AlRoderick 2 года назад

Needs some RGW LEDs (because Italy)

@hikerbro3870 2 года назад

"This is great, except it sucks" - Alex 2022

@voxor314 2 года назад

8:00 btw Alex thought you might appreciate knowing the correct terminology is intake and exhaust (rather than outtake). Not trying to be rude, I just know english is not your first language :) great video ✌

@furrane 2 года назад

Since I know a bit of electronics I already know what that cliffhanger is about ^^ But I won't spoil it and will let Alex relay the information himself =)

@AudreyRobinel 2 года назад

At this point, i wonder if it wouldn't be simpler to build the machine from scratch. You know, with a heater element powerful enough, beefier fans (more like industrial fans, they can move a ton of air at full speed) And also better electronics; i'd build a esp32 based board, on a custom PCB, with relays and mosfets to enable AC and DC loads (heater in AC with the relays, fans with the mosftets in DC). All of this using esphome as software, so that you could have a pid controller rather than a bang controller : it would anticipate the heat rise/fall to not overshoot the wanted temperature. And the best part is that you'd have nearly no code to do, only a configuration file to have it work. As for graphs, you can have them go into home assistant/grafana automatically. I would really enjoy building such a machine, but i have no use for it nor room :)

@diamonddogie 2 года назад

"Turning on and off is a challenge" c'mon you already did a fan controll with wifi and plotting graph, coming up with a relay shouldn't be a problem

@nachelia 2 года назад

I hope those components are metal and are void of plastic. You dont want fumes and plasticizers drying on your pasta...

@christopher-miles 2 года назад

this so random: like, why isn't this a piano? you should ask Mattias Krantz one day how to make to help ya out. put in a piano! let's GO!

@gregmuon 2 года назад

Alex overcomplicating the problem is why everyone loves this channel...

@iuribogar9611 2 года назад

next step: build a pasta dryer from scratch! get rid of the elements of the food dryer and build a new one that can be fully programmed as wished I may be wrong, but that's what I think is coming for the next episode... can't wait to see it! congrats for all the great content Alex! \o/

@ImBarryScottCSS 2 года назад

Rofl the hard close is one of the best I've seen in a while. Now pasta drying is a Bourne movie.

@AKARaygun64 2 года назад

It seems to me like the little bit of water that makes the dough isn't given enough time to fully wet the semolina before drying. It looks like it crumbles because it isn't allowed to rest like you would bread dough. (edit) Maybe keep a batch in the fridge overnight.

@petegalvs 2 года назад

"Every day is a challenge in drying pasta" 🤣🤣🤣

@aoeuable 2 года назад

Arctics are a nice budget option for PCs especially as they have decent airflow and a nice noise profile so while they're not as silent as can be they won't annoy you, however, as I already recommended on a previous video, in this case Noctua IndustrialPPCs is where it's at. They're *not* silent, they're performant. With only two on the inflow you'll rather have trouble not blowing away the pasta, forget about the outflow the inflow fans are easily going to pull from that side, too: 3000RPM IndustrialPPCs have twice the airflow and more than seven times the static pressure of Arctics, very much worth the money.

@chinesefantasy 2 года назад

I love this series because it clearly shows the amount of engineering and thinking went on before they where capable of doing the stuff they did on an industrial scale and most of this stuff was figured out a century ago before they had precise measurement instruments and so on. Respect.

@karlboucher1379 2 года назад

Quand je clic like et que je suis le 69eme, trop chaud Tes series sont toute cinematographiquement epique, instructive et rafraichissante, merci alex!

@JohnJones-oy3md 2 года назад

One of these days I'm going to make it to Italy for the annual spaghetti harvest.

@Kalachoff 2 года назад

I can't get rid of the feeling that I'm watching a very exciting TV show series :) Bravo Alex! Can't wait for the next episode!

@459_nilavratbera4 2 года назад

Short Pasta take 24hrs vs. Long Pasta at 30hrs.

@adhithmathewjacob 2 года назад

I think your pasta dough may be the real culprit here

@seanrrichards 2 года назад

Whooooo we are so close to seeing him crack the pasta code!!!

@dijanagugicbokun3833 2 года назад

When you started talking about conecting the intake and outtake fans I had a slight “Apollo13” flash back… 😮😂😂❤

@stevenverhaegen8729 2 года назад

Same here! 😂😂😂

@SapioiT 2 года назад

Tiem to disconnect that fan from the rest of the contraption.

@marcopisellonio3657 2 года назад

"Hot for a min" in every video please

@turuanu 2 года назад

That was one dramatic final statement!

@ImTheDudeMan471 2 года назад

Incredible that you have the "best of the best world experts" helping with your project. It's like if you make hobby beer in your workshop and In-Bev is helping you.

@goncalito 2 года назад

does anyone know the model of those headphones?

@baileystanley8677 2 года назад

Impressive work

@13359610 2 года назад

If Casey Neistat was French :

@apefu 2 года назад

I hope there are more mistakes to come. This is so entertaining and it is making my aerophonics experiments look easy. This is so much fun to watch!

@Simon_Laserna 2 года назад

These are the best episodes! When cooking meets the saw, and circuitry!

@pantrymonster 2 года назад

Omg.... the thing I love most about Alex's videos is the sheer determination he has to get things done as close to perfection as possible. It's really inspiring. Also the community here in the yt comments so is great! Everyone who knows something comes to share their expertise while this who don't know how to help still like the helpful comments for more visibility. It's so great 😊

@Argosh 2 года назад

You said the code would be in a GitHub linked somewhere? I can't find it.

@03sjbrown 2 года назад

It's posted as a "gist" not as a repo (see gistDOTgithubDOTcomSLASHfrenchguycooking). Sorry for the mangled URL but comment links aren't enabled.

@ModBay 2 года назад

Man I love this hybrid of making stuff and cooking! Two things, perhaps switch to a mega instead of that Uno or even better an esp32 board. It will give you a little more memory and processing headroom for your code. I'm not saying you can't do it with an Uno but certainly you might find it less error prone to work with if you don't want to spend time optimizing your code. Secondly, the fans you are using are good for air flow but I couldnt help but think you might need more static pressure. Arctic do the same fans but for static pressure so you might want to try that. It's what I use for water-cooling pc radiators to force air through its fins. Just a thought and I hope it helps. Keep up the great work! Peace.

@ameturephysicist 2 года назад

what's the github link?

@carlosseum 2 года назад

So glad you mentioned benedetto cavalieri in this series. I am an absolute food lover and travel all over Europe in search of new things to try, I went to visit them at the factory and ended up talking with "Dottor Cavalieri" for over one hour. Such a great family business! Thank you for your great videos, I always highly anticipate to see where you are going next. Keep up the good work

@leolaf6501 2 года назад

I love this combination of engineering and food

@maitreyeti 2 года назад

Funny thing, I went into the exact same issues and solutions for making my charcuterie dryer from an electrical wine cellar, humidity was the biggest problem. I couldnt pierce through the side but had to rework the door seal instead. Anyway, great work and engineering Alex, I keep learning here with you :D

@snoozeKIT 2 года назад

Why does everybody miss you

@UmmonTheLight 2 года назад

Gotta say, as much as I love watching you tinker with stuff and as much as my pasta game has improved lately thanks to your series, I can't see your results actually being better than industrially made pasta. Are there shapes you just can't get otherwise? Or is it all just to understand the process?

@Dotty_Dotter 2 года назад

Maybe you need to alternate the flow of air too during the drying process

@Cpmnk 2 года назад

I really think you shouldnt associate yourself with betterhelp, they are a scam

@SeanQuinn4 2 года назад

Such a dramatic end 🤣

@JonathanKayne 2 года назад

When you said that you were gonna manually turn the machine on and off at the end, I actually facepalmed. You went through the trouble to automate the system with an arduino, I don't see why you can't control everything else on the dehydrator. As someone with electrical engineering knowledge this shouldn't be a challenge for you! now for tuning, thats your challenge Alex!

@lewismaddock1654 2 года назад

It's been 7 years, Alex is still trying to make dry pasta. How long will this cow be milked?

@gadeaiglesiassordo716 2 года назад

It's pasta. he has content as long as he want.

@lewismaddock1654 2 года назад

@@gadeaiglesiassordo716 nice pun.

@SallyGreenaway 2 года назад

love reading all the expert comments with technical suggestions here in this comments sections. what a diverse and interesting community of viewers!

@kyobinbou 2 года назад

Now just put a motherboard, cpu, AIO, a RTX 3090 and LED lights, you have a CPU Central Pasta Unit

@davidrysdam902 8 месяцев назад

The graph is showing you your problem. The resting periods show the temp jumping *up*, probably because the fans are turned off and you aren't losing as much heat in the ducting. The higher temp means a lower humidity (with the same water content) so that's why the two graphs change at the same time. Once you remove that effect, your humidity vs t curve is just an exponential, which is exactly what it should be. It just needs to be slower. I think you are overthinking the drying. The on/off thing is just to minimize the drying time. You only need to minimize the drying time if you are trying to maximize profit. Unless you plan to sell bulk dried pasta, you can take as much time drying as you want. Put the pasta on a rack in a some kind of semi-closed container (propped-open oven, tented towels, etc). If it dries too fast, close the container more.

@leighdonald3112 2 года назад

PID with ramp/soak capability connect to a humidity sensor a humidifier and a dehumidifier and a Temperature sensor connected to a heat source and a cold source. You can the set the periods of heating/chilling and the Humidification/dehumidification and the durations for each of these functions and whether they occur at the same or different times. IE: Heat ON Dehumidification ON + period - Heat ON Dehumidification OFF + period - Heat Off Humidification ON +period - Heat OFF Dehumidification ON + period etc, you can get these with 32, 64 etc steps and the ON/OFF period is user set. Knock up a box, (insulated), couple of fans (4?) A Heat source, Cold source (use a Thermo-electric Chiller (Peltier) and a vaned Heat sink) a Humdifier, a Dehumidifier and a PID controller (& a PSU also) Et voila, Bob's your Uncle ...

@kevinreardon2558 2 года назад

I always like to Google Map a location when somebody mentions it. I'm a shut-in, what can I say. The photo Alex showed is at 0.690689540132674, 14.517698199834914. Plug that into Google Maps (or whatever you want) and then look around. You'll find the stairway and the second story balcony. Now, If I was Alex, I'd cross the streams to even out the moisture in the air. As an Engineer I see why having the in/out ducting on the same side makes visually symmetric sense, crossing one side to the other could balance out the moisture content of the recycled air. Then, who knows until you measure.

@DaftRebel 2 года назад

Why italian features are alway SO EPIC ADN DRAMATIC?!!! hahahaha great episode Alex!

@Swangdangflang 2 года назад

Alex, you are the textbook definition of patience and tenacity. Definitely not "impatient"

@davidefogagnolo 2 года назад

well, i guess more insulation and a relay to completely turn off the dryer during rest is the way to go

@shitijarora 2 года назад

Europe went into wheat crisis after: (1) Popular belief: Ukraine's invasion by Russia (2) Reality: watching Alex's experiments on making dry pasta

@__-nd4hf 2 года назад

I would go for injecting some mist in the machine to increase humidity, without turning off the side fans. You can control the level of it automagically, so maybe heater-on->>wait->>heater-off-->>humidifier-on-->>wait->>humidifier-off-->repeat cycle? When humidity reaches a critical level for the step you turn the humidifier off, reduce that level every cycle by 10% or so.

@Roamer145 2 года назад

Get a Blowiematron, 10000rpm fan, with high static pressure. I'm sure LinusTechTips would hook you up. All the airflow, all the time.

@benhudson2748 2 года назад

Seems like an easy fix, just use another relay on the fan at the back and tie it into the pc fan circuit. I'm excited to see the next episode! The deeper Alex goes into building his own equipment the better ❤️

@HaralHeisto 2 года назад

Not so much - he also needs to turn off the heating element. Unfortunately, just cutting power to that will likely upset the original dryer's PID controller that's trying to keep it at a stable temperature. If that goes into a fault state because it can't control the temperature, the heat might well not come back on when Alex's arduino wants to start the next drying phase. At this point he really needs to stop using the existing controls and bring everything (airflow, heater and some source of humidity) onboard on the arduino.

@markfischer5044 2 года назад

You couldn't have made the winds down from the mountains green to make the Italian flag...instead it was was blue to make the French flag... I like the petty tribalism!

@christianwinter8364 2 года назад

Hi Alex, i have learned very much from your videos, i love watching them... My 50cent to your pasta-drying machine is, you need to get rid of the huminity as fast as possible... at the moment you only circulate the air. Maybe another fan, blowing the huminity out of the box, only a minute or two, could do the trick. I'm locking forward to the next video and how you solve the problem... like you always do.... keep on trying! Greetings from germany!

@angelcalero6464 2 года назад

Alex I admire all the crazy things you do and the lengths you go to but I mean, come on...very few people if any will go as far as you. Entertaining yes, crazy yes. The cooking shouldn't be this difficult, it should be easy and pleasurable (that's my opinion anyway)

@patric3917 2 года назад

For drying beef-jerky you also try to control the humidity.. Depending on thickness you want different levels of humidity and temperature.. Having dynamic control of a extractor-fan based on current humidity does wonders.. Start the fan slowly at say 90% humidity and then increase fan-speed slowly as it climes up to 95% humidity. Drying beef-jerky and some fruits too fast can create a shell that slows the drying of the center, but if the humidity is kept above a specific level you don't get that hard shell and allows much better control over the speed it's drying. No clue if this is the same for pasta, but it did wonders for drying thicker pieces of jerkey.