Purdue wins with 156-step recipe
A team of Purdue University students concocted a 156-step hamburger recipe to win the national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
This year’s task was to assemble a burger consisting of no less than one precooked meat patty, two vegetables and two condiments, sandwiched between two bun halves.
The victory by the 17-member Purdue Society of Professional Engineers was the team’s third in the last four years in the contest, which is named for the late cartoonist known for his drawings of complicated devices performing simple tasks.
Texas A&M; University placed second; the University at Buffalo was third.
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