• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    For those that don’t know, there’s no oil in those fryers. Soap and water? Check. Probably some hefty degreaser. That’s how you clean the fryers, and then cool off the water so it isn’t boiling, and can be drained.

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      11 months ago

      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?

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        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

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        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.

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        11 months ago

        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

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    11 months ago

    The doctors at the emergency room and the burn victims hospital nurses/doctors: “Ok! Can you tell us how that happened?”

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      If the victims are still burning, you’ve taken them to the hospital too quickly. Please extinguish all open flames before the patient enters the building.

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        “I’m sorry, sir, but this has been a non-smoking location since '95. You’re going to have to stop, drop, and roll for me before we can wheel you in.”

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          “Nope, nope, not yet. I still see a couple of embers; get back down on the ground and keep rolling till you’re fully extinguished.”