I’ve always been in awe of toasters and electric kettles. Unsurprisingly, they’re more powerful than a sprint track cyclist.
Robert Forstemann gives it a good go, but doesn’t have the endurance.
something’s funny about that video as i’d think his crank output is quite a bit higher. I remember pedaling on a bike that was hooked up to a 100W incadescent bulb, and i’m sure i must have been putting out 300W or so and the light still didn’t seem that bright at times. Not sure what the efficiency is of the set up between the pedals to the actual toaster, but the video says he powered the toaster for slightly more than a minute.
If you look at the Coggan chart, it says the top one minute (most likely done during a kilo) power for men is 11.5 w/kg. He’s the best at what he does, and at a reported at 90 kg, it means that he should be able to generate a kilowatt *minute. *My guess is that he averaged somewhere around 1kW (just think about that for a minute and let it sink in) for a minute, but the actual efficiency of the set-up means that the toaster is only on at the ~350 W level, thus producing bread that’s barely toasted.
apparently 90% of the riders on Zwift would be able to out-toaster Forstemann, no problem.
I’ve always been in awe of toasters and electric kettles. Unsurprisingly, they’re more powerful than a sprint track cyclist.
Robert Forstemann gives it a good go, but doesn’t have the endurance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
Is that fake? Not saying the wattages are too out of line but I just don’t know how they hooked up a generator to a monarch. Also there would be windage, bearing friction and AC/DC Inversion, at the very best he would need 15% more at source (cranks say 850 watts) Than load (toaster at 700 watts)
So 850 watts for about 1:30 to toast, they only had it at a single slice though 
Maurice
I think it’s cool!
something’s funny about that video as i’d think his crank output is quite a bit higher. I remember pedaling on a bike that was hooked up to a 100W incadescent bulb, and i’m sure i must have been putting out 300W or so and the light still didn’t seem that bright at times. Not sure what the efficiency is of the set up between the pedals to the actual toaster, but the video says he powered the toaster for slightly more than a minute.
If you look at the Coggan chart, it says the top one minute (most likely done during a kilo) power for men is 11.5 w/kg. He’s the best at what he does, and at a reported at 90 kg, it means that he should be able to generate a kilowatt *minute. *My guess is that he averaged somewhere around 1kW (just think about that for a minute and let it sink in) for a minute, but the actual efficiency of the set-up means that the toaster is only on at the ~350 W level, thus producing bread that’s barely toasted.
It’s done to highlight domestic energy consumption so I assume a little artistic license has been incorperated.
Still doesn’t change the rather poignant point that we use far too much energy and it does quite a nice job of delivering the message at that!
Iain
…but but this is ST and we need to analyze it to death 
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It could be that the wattages are all correct (after accounting for various friction and conversion losses), but that one minute of 700 watts at the toaster is simply not sufficient to produce properly browned bread.
Real cyclists power buildings.
I’ve always been in awe of toasters and electric kettles. Unsurprisingly, they’re more powerful than a sprint track cyclist.
Robert Forstemann gives it a good go, but doesn’t have the endurance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
Humans make better space heaters than electricity generators. ;). Assuming 700W is crank output, he’s putting out 2-3kW of heat.
something’s funny about that video as i’d think his crank output is quite a bit higher. I remember pedaling on a bike that was hooked up to a 100W incadescent bulb, and i’m sure i must have been putting out 300W or so and the light still didn’t seem that bright at times. Not sure what the efficiency is of the set up between the pedals to the actual toaster, but the video says he powered the toaster for slightly more than a minute.
If you look at the Coggan chart, it says the top one minute (most likely done during a kilo) power for men is 11.5 w/kg. He’s the best at what he does, and at a reported at 90 kg, it means that he should be able to generate a kilowatt *minute. *My guess is that he averaged somewhere around 1kW (just think about that for a minute and let it sink in) for a minute, but the actual efficiency of the set-up means that the toaster is only on at the ~350 W level, thus producing bread that’s barely toasted.
It’s done to highlight domestic energy consumption so I assume a little artistic license has been incorperated.
Still doesn’t change the rather poignant point that we use far too much energy and it does quite a nice job of delivering the message at that!
Iain
agreed. alas my initial point about the 100W iridescent light bulb. I was going close to FTP, and the thing was still flickering at times…
They didn’t put the toaster on single slice.
I’ve always been in awe of toasters and electric kettles. Unsurprisingly, they’re more powerful than a sprint track cyclist.
Robert Forstemann gives it a good go, but doesn’t have the endurance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
Humans make better space heaters than electricity generators. ;). Assuming 700W is crank output, he’s putting out 2-3kW of heat.
The Matrix has you.
