Electrocuting oneself

[Alex K]

Sorry I was teasing you a bit with my questions, I thought you knew that I'm a physicist by training. But the issue is still, there will be a voltage induced along your body, and I am pretty certain that it will be the same as in a wire.

So if I took an AC motor apart and replaced the rotor with a ham, it would still work.

The stator would induce current in the ham and the ham would rotate.

In principle, yes, absolutely! if you made the effort to create some sort of insulated coil out of your ham. But your coil made of "ham wire" has such large resistance that the resulting currents will be minuscule for usual mains voltages, and the resulting torque likewise.

Yes, you can make an electromagnet out of meat.

Edit:
If you just stuck a solid chunk of ham in there instead of forming a coil, and hooked it up to the AC, the magnetic geometry would in general not be in the right direction to induce rotation. More importantly, the magnetic field strength is proportional to the number of windings - so a solid ham would lose a factor of a few hundred in performance on those grounds alone. You *would* get a nicely fried ham out of it, though, and who needs torque when you have that...