Cooking with gas! New pan heats food 40% faster thanks to its 'fins' - and is designed by a rocket expert
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The Flare pan (pictured) uses 40 per cent less energy to heat up your dinner and is about to go on sale
After a long day at work it can seem to take forever to heat a meal on the stove.
But such frustration for hungry humans is set to become a thing of the past as a new pan that claims to cook food 40 per cent faster, is due to launch next month.
The Flare pan was invented by an engineer who designs rocket engines and is due to go on sale shortly.
The finned design channels heat from a gas flame across the bottom and up both sides, to capture energy that would otherwise be wasted.
This results in the pan heating up significantly more quickly and cooking food faster.
A set of cast aluminium pans have been developed by Lakeland in conjunction with Dr Thomas Povey, a professor of engineering at Oxford University, whose usual field of expertise is thermo-dynamics applied to advanced jet propulsion and rocket engines.
The homeware shop said it believes the design is a world first and offers substantial savings of time and energy consumption.
Dr Povey, who led a team of masters students to test the design over three years, said comparisons had shown a conventional pans need 40 per cent more energy to heat up.
The finned design (pictured) channels heat from a gas flame across the bottom and up both sides, to capture energy that would otherwise be wasted. This results in the pan heating up significantly more quickly and cooking food faster
HOW DOES THE PAN WORK?
The finned design channels heat from a gas flame across the bottom and up both sides, to capture energy that would otherwise be wasted.
This results in the pan heating up significantly more quickly and cooking food faster.
It claims to be 40 per cent more efficient and consequently, faster.
The design has already won the 2014 Hawley Award from the Worshipful Company of Engineers for 'the most outstanding engineering innovation that delivers demonstrable benefit to the environment'.
Dr Povey said: 'I am delighted that the Worshipful Company of Engineers have recognised the engineering complexity that lies behind Flare's apparently simple design and have selected it for their Hawley Award for engineering innovation that benefits the environment.'
Lakeland's buying director Matthew Canwell said: 'We're always looking for new innovations that will save our customers both time and money.
'Flare does just that, and we're extremely excited to be able to bring this incredible new technology to our customers.'
The pans go on sale next month starting at £49.99.
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