I know this is a bad idea but I want to know parameters. Is ONE ice cube okay? Or say 2 ounces of ice, but not 3? How big could the splatter get? Could I make a party game out of putting a fryer in a driveway and having guests throw ice cubes at it?
Ice is more dense than oil, so it sinks to the bottom of the fryer. There it turns into liquid water anathema immediately into steam. This steam needs at least 1000 times more space than the ice cube (1700 times more than water under normal pressure) and blows all the oil out of the fryer. I would expect quite a fountain.
In a science fair experiment 10ml of water in a cup of hot oil gave a considerable fireball and a splash zone of about 1.5m.
Dropping in a piece of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) just made a little bit of a fizzle.
For those that need to hear this. Please don’t do this.
I know this is a bad idea but I want to know parameters. Is ONE ice cube okay? Or say 2 ounces of ice, but not 3? How big could the splatter get? Could I make a party game out of putting a fryer in a driveway and having guests throw ice cubes at it?
Ice is more dense than oil, so it sinks to the bottom of the fryer. There it turns into liquid water anathema immediately into steam. This steam needs at least 1000 times more space than the ice cube (1700 times more than water under normal pressure) and blows all the oil out of the fryer. I would expect quite a fountain. In a science fair experiment 10ml of water in a cup of hot oil gave a considerable fireball and a splash zone of about 1.5m. Dropping in a piece of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) just made a little bit of a fizzle.
I mean sure, if you want to give your friends 3rd degree burns. A single ice cube is gonna throw oil a few feet. Explosively.
source: worked at a KFC in high school with a dumb ass who put a coworker in the hospital by throwing some ice in the fryer
Zero ice cubes is the correct amount.
Some people want to watch the world splatter
Some people want to watch others suffer third degree burns
Don’t put ice in a deep fryer unless you want to seriously burn yourself
You’re not my real dad, you don’t tell me what to do
But I am the CIA, and I know where you live jeff
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Pretty sure that oil is fairly cool as well, because the oil usually explodes out not just bubbles