Need to know, FAST!

[captain_slinky]

Does bacon conduct electricity? Like, could you make a bacon lamp in the same way that one could make an Electric Pickle (see below)?

As all of my posts in LJ, it's pretty important that I know the answer STAT.

(My assumption is that even if it *does* conduct electricity, it won't do it very effectively)

Comments

[d-a-r-a.livejournal.com]

Heh - I googled it to see if I could find out and all I got was your post...seems like no one else is really asking this question of the universe. =P

[pastilla.livejournal.com]

A bacon lamp would sure smell better.

[rogh-sensei.livejournal.com]

Yes, after a fashion. The salt and water content of the cells. I suggest taking a strip of bacon and putting an ohmmeter to it.

Heheheh

[firefly-pink.livejournal.com]

...your weird. *snickers*

Don't you know bacon's too thin.. gotta use a ham I'd bet.

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Pickles have very high electrolyte, salt & water content, which makes it a good conductor of electricity. By comparison, bacon has a high salt content but a low water content, as well as a high fat content, which acts as an insulator. So its unlikely a bacon lamp would do anything more than (maybe) spark a little at the points of contact due to electricity arcing across the surface of the bacon through any salty water that has condensed on the surface.

This is all theoretical, of course... if you do decide to do some live tests be sure to tape it for us, your avid listeners.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

See, that's EXACTRLY what i was thinking! It wouldn't be the BACON conducting the electricity so much as any salt water found on the surface! Too much fat for insulation!

This all started with somebody asking me if I had Bacon-Lights for my tree. I said no, because unfortunately one of the three things that bacon CAN'T do is conduct electricity (the other two things were "Raise the Dead" and "Be Eaten by Orthodox Jews").