A TRAGIC WASTE:

Bacon: the Other White Heat (You know bacon is delicious, but did you know it contains enough energy to melt metal? (Theodore Gray, 04.15.2009, Popular Science)

I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My initial attempts were failures, but I knew success was within reach when I was able to ignite and melt the pan using seven beef sticks and a cucumber.