Instead of a head of mats, give yourself one of chili peppers or green beans or other snackable, filamentous source of quick carbos.

to hold one's bladder;  to hold one's breath

The mixture finally moves to the compaction chamber where the auger motion precompacts the mixture to remove as much void space as possible prior to extrusion through a shaped die.

“The N.S.A. would obviously prefer that quantum computing were not possible,” said Dr. Seth Lloyd, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But if it does turn out to be possible, then they need to be prepared.”