In 1626, Sir Francis Bacon, one of the most influential minds of his time, was watching a snowstorm. He was struck by the notion that maybe snow could be used to preserve meat. And he wasn’t exactly wrong: people everywhere put chickens in their freezers to preserve them. Sadly for him Bacon was a man too far ahead of his time. In 1626, electricity hadn’t even been invented let alone artificial cooling. But did that stop Bacon? Of course not.
Determined to find out if snow could preserve meat, he purchased a chicken from a nearby village, killed it, and then, standing outside in the snow, tried to stuff the chicken full of snow to freeze it. The chicken never froze. But Bacon caught a cold that turned into pneumonia, and died shortly afterward.
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