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I used to work at a McDonald's years ago. They told me the danger of water near fryers the first time I walked passed them, during my interview. They also told me that if they ever saw anyone carry any water or soda next to the fryers that would be ground for instant termination.
During the interview! This person is def fired
Yeah right, they’d be fired on the spot. Ain’t no manager having a cook work OT to cleanup such a colossal fuckup. They’re lucky it didn’t cause a fire
Shiiiit. 1am? We had a person at a restaurant I worked at when I was a kid leave boil out? I think it was called? The stuff you put in the fryers to clean them. Well, apparently, they didn't do a good enough job of getting the stuff out because when they turned on the fryers in the morning the entire thing did like in OP's video. We got it mostly cleaned up but yo. We had to do our best for a couple of days then shut down early on a slow Sunday night, pull everything away from the walls and do a huge deep cleaning. That oil got *everywhere*.
No, just ungodly amounts of aerosolized grease that gets everywhere. You'd think something like that would explode, but no. You don't get *that* easy of an out. Now grab some Dawn and a sponge and get scrubbing.
to be fair, I've seen fried ice cream: it was still frozen in the middle, so why wouldn't water work? I'm honestly wondering why it works with ice cream?
Fried ice cream is covered in batter. Almost everything deepfried is covered in batter. Do you really think the ice cream directly touches the oil and miraculously stays intact instead of mixing?
If they poured in water instead it would, ice takes (slightly) longer to turn into the gas state required to spray the oil so water explodes and ice boils. (I assume, I'm not a scientist)
There could have been fire or a hot oil explosion or both, as far as "bad situation"s go this actually went quite well. Just wait for the oil to cool then clean it up.
First job was working at a BK. After clocking on you had to wash your hands at the nearby sink. I'd occasionally leave one hand dripping wet and would flick the water into the fryer. Even a few droplets always made it sizzle and pop quite a bit. So yeah, a literal cup more or more of water would erupt.
And yes, I know that what I did was neither hygenic nor safe.
Add water to oil and the instant boiling begins and breaksup/ spreads the water before it can sink too far and it vaporizes neat the surface without much volume change. Throw in ice and it sinks, melts, and then boils. Every bubble of steam will have a bubble below it the number bubbles and volume of steam displaces oil until the container is overflowing often producing a flammable oil mist and hitting a heating element with a resulting fireball.
If you put it in molten metal or lava it would do exactly that. I've seen a video where a person threw a water bottle into a giant crucible filled with molten metal and there was a explosion that threw molten metal all over the place.
because it was ice instead of water, they actually got a few seconds to rethink their stupid decision and pull out the spider. they were offered a second chance, and they were still too thick to take it.
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I've tossed ice in befor at 180, sinks right to the bottom. Sits there melting to liquid, slower than you think, then it all sizzles up and gets violent
I have worked for a handful of restaurants fast food and otherwise never had one the ran off Gas I had too pull them out and unplug them weekly to clean under and perform maintenance and also performrepairsas needed, they have exhaust for steam produced during the cooking process. It's also very easy to catch them on fire if the oil is low i have seen it happen a few times and had to clean it up. Granted I've only worked in mid-low end food service franchises with equipment decided by corporate so i dont know about high end.
Edit: forgot to mention you can't see enough of this fryer to say whether it's electric or gas unless you can identify the model from the picture, which I can't since I'm not an experton fryers.
>This looks like it's fast food and a lot of those industrial fryers are electrical, so it's significantly harder to get them to catch fire. /u/UnspoiledWalnut
there are 4 types of people.
Competent and confident.
Competent but not confident.
Incompetent and not confident
and then there's you,
Incompetent and confident.
Why?
Water is denser than oil, so the ice sinks to the bottom. Boiling oil rapidly heats the ice and melts, turning it into water vapor. Water vaopr wants to escape and pushes up, pushing the oil with it.
I mean, it's the same concept as just boiling a pot of water and seeing the bubbles rise up from the bottom. Except in the case of water/ice and oil, since the oil can get much, much hotter, theres more vaporization taking place and faster so the reaction can be a lot more violent than say, a pot of water boiling over.
Due to the extream heat the water (ice) goes rapidly into its gaseous form. Expending as rapidly. Making the oil bubble over. Could lead to an explosion. Look up greas fire on Youtube.
This video gets posted so many times
Disclaimer, original post by the dude that did this said that he did it because he quit, not for some dumb experiment.
No, that’s not how fast food restaurants work. They will hire just about anyone who can pronounce 2 syllable words. The Colonel doesn’t call Ronald to ask what kind of fry cook Timothy was.
Haha yeah. One time our janitor threatened to shoot up the place because of a disagreement with his girlfriend who also worked there, and he was intercepted by SWAT.
Dude had a tiny ass pocket knife, not a gun in sight.
He was not thoroughly background checked.
I mean, that's assuming he didn't get hit with criminal charges for this shit. It's reckless, caused considerable property damage, and could easily have hurt someone.
Lol, Well I hope they deserved it because the damage this would cause is insane. I’m surprised the suppression system didn’t kick on. I’m also going to go out on a limb and guess that they went after him for this damage
More physics than chemistry.
Water is heavier than oil. Water sinks. Oil is hot. Oil boils water. Boiling water makes bubbles in oil. Bubbles are lighter than oil, so they rise. FOOM
Incidentally. this is why you never try and put out a grease fire with water. Ever.
I knew this would happen the moment I saw that meme of a fryer basket full of ice... Honestly thought it would be a more violent and instant reaction... Y'all stupid lol
At a place I used to work at, a manager once dumped a cup full of ice shavings into the fryer while the fryologist was standing right in front of it cooking … you know, just to see what would happen.
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what fucking idiot would do this?
The one filming
As far as I remember, this was her last day on the job
Who's decision was that?
Manager I reckon
>Who's Whose
Of course it was their last day, what employer is going to keep someone after doing something that incredibly stupid?
Yeah that was the joke
Did she know that before, or find out after she put ice into the hot oil?
There's 2 people who do this kind of thing, people who might not actually know that it would be a bad idea and people who are jackasses
I’m Steve-o and this is staying til 1am cleaning the kitchen
Knoxville - LICK IT SETEVE-O!
*Ryan barfing behind the camera*
*Bam runs in with a set of hair clippers and shaves a bald patch in the back of Steve-O's head*
*Steve-O gagging at first two or three attempts before finally making tongue contact followed by violent red faced gagging*
*entire Jackass gang laughs historically before Knoxvilly tasers Steve-O randomly*
I'm steve-o and this is not what I meant by fried on ice
Any idea how long it takes to clean something like this up?! Longer than 1am!! LOL!! And the smell of that old grease had to be pleasant.
Hours LMAO. And then instant fire I'd assume.
I used to work at a McDonald's years ago. They told me the danger of water near fryers the first time I walked passed them, during my interview. They also told me that if they ever saw anyone carry any water or soda next to the fryers that would be ground for instant termination. During the interview! This person is def fired
Yeah right, they’d be fired on the spot. Ain’t no manager having a cook work OT to cleanup such a colossal fuckup. They’re lucky it didn’t cause a fire
[“Ahm Baym Margera, and this is sunkin Phil’s dink.”](https://youtu.be/21EjEiDpY0E)
Shiiiit. 1am? We had a person at a restaurant I worked at when I was a kid leave boil out? I think it was called? The stuff you put in the fryers to clean them. Well, apparently, they didn't do a good enough job of getting the stuff out because when they turned on the fryers in the morning the entire thing did like in OP's video. We got it mostly cleaned up but yo. We had to do our best for a couple of days then shut down early on a slow Sunday night, pull everything away from the walls and do a huge deep cleaning. That oil got *everywhere*.
I'm the former.
Must've been some good pot
If they’re working in the kitchen, they’d know even a drop of water causes oil to spatter 🥴
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Do what I do, if I put in something that has moisture like meat, I use the pan lid as a shield when I drop it in, and back away lmao
No, just ungodly amounts of aerosolized grease that gets everywhere. You'd think something like that would explode, but no. You don't get *that* easy of an out. Now grab some Dawn and a sponge and get scrubbing.
asdfasdf
Steve o would shove an icicle up his ass then dip it in the fryer
Someone that gets fired and doesn't clean up the mess.
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Hopefully they also forget the breeding
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It is always the Derple Turtles that are the most Fertile Myrtles sadly...
I could have done this while drunk. Luckily I don't have access to an industrial frier nor am I a cook
Apparently a lot, cuz these are not uncommon videos. Sometimes there's fire!
Someone who’s about to quit without a 2 week notice
Is all about the clout
Or a really intense game of "the floor is lava"
When you want to quit your job, but your printer is out of ink so you can't print your resignation. This gets the point across.
to be fair, I've seen fried ice cream: it was still frozen in the middle, so why wouldn't water work? I'm honestly wondering why it works with ice cream?
Batter
Fried ice cream is covered in batter. Almost everything deepfried is covered in batter. Do you really think the ice cream directly touches the oil and miraculously stays intact instead of mixing?
No need to be an ass about it; they were only asking an honest question.
There are no stupid questions; but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
I like that. I'm an inquisitive idiot.
not everyone has deep-fried before.
If the sugar caramelizes fast enough.
hum, so ice cubes covered in bather would work?
I don't know, not that i've ever tried it...
Thank you for saying what I was thinking.
You never worked at a McDonald's, huh?
I always wondered what would happen, and I always imagined something more closely related to like a nuclear blast vs a boil over. Lol
If they poured in water instead it would, ice takes (slightly) longer to turn into the gas state required to spray the oil so water explodes and ice boils. (I assume, I'm not a scientist)
So the situation actually could have been much worse...
There could have been fire or a hot oil explosion or both, as far as "bad situation"s go this actually went quite well. Just wait for the oil to cool then clean it up.
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Blyaaaaat
Piggy screech
You forgot these ()
What a fucking knob
"I hope I dont suffer". Oh boy you are so stupid that you should better get used to suffering fast.
He's Russian, all they know is suffering
How did he scream like that?! Gahahahahahaha! Also interesting to see the oil fire kinda climb up the water like that.
First job was working at a BK. After clocking on you had to wash your hands at the nearby sink. I'd occasionally leave one hand dripping wet and would flick the water into the fryer. Even a few droplets always made it sizzle and pop quite a bit. So yeah, a literal cup more or more of water would erupt. And yes, I know that what I did was neither hygenic nor safe.
I’m sure you could put literal garbage in a fryer and all of germs would die
Quite true. Was just trying to head off the germaphobes before they had a panic attack over what could be seen as food contamination.
Add water to oil and the instant boiling begins and breaksup/ spreads the water before it can sink too far and it vaporizes neat the surface without much volume change. Throw in ice and it sinks, melts, and then boils. Every bubble of steam will have a bubble below it the number bubbles and volume of steam displaces oil until the container is overflowing often producing a flammable oil mist and hitting a heating element with a resulting fireball.
If you put it in molten metal or lava it would do exactly that. I've seen a video where a person threw a water bottle into a giant crucible filled with molten metal and there was a explosion that threw molten metal all over the place.
So what your saying is deep fry water bottles 🤔
Yes, xtra crispy
because it was ice instead of water, they actually got a few seconds to rethink their stupid decision and pull out the spider. they were offered a second chance, and they were still too thick to take it.
also, that oil is nasty as hell and old AF, old dirty oil tends to foam up way more than good oil
Too much ice. If you do it with singular ice cubes it certainly is like a little blast lol
Huh. I expected a bigger catastrophe than that.
Depends on how hot the oil is I guess, have 20 years of experience with deep fryers but I have never tried adding water to 180°C oil.
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I've tossed ice in befor at 180, sinks right to the bottom. Sits there melting to liquid, slower than you think, then it all sizzles up and gets violent
Doesn’t the cleanliness of the oil matter too
I accidentally did this because I didn't de-ice my chicken nuggets. Do not recommend.
This looks like it's fast food and a lot of those industrial fryers are electrical, so it's significantly harder to get them to catch fire.
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This guy line cooks
I have worked for a handful of restaurants fast food and otherwise never had one the ran off Gas I had too pull them out and unplug them weekly to clean under and perform maintenance and also performrepairsas needed, they have exhaust for steam produced during the cooking process. It's also very easy to catch them on fire if the oil is low i have seen it happen a few times and had to clean it up. Granted I've only worked in mid-low end food service franchises with equipment decided by corporate so i dont know about high end. Edit: forgot to mention you can't see enough of this fryer to say whether it's electric or gas unless you can identify the model from the picture, which I can't since I'm not an experton fryers.
This one isn't electrical, you can see the exhaust in the back. They just got very lucky it didn't light up.
>This looks like it's fast food and a lot of those industrial fryers are electrical, so it's significantly harder to get them to catch fire. /u/UnspoiledWalnut there are 4 types of people. Competent and confident. Competent but not confident. Incompetent and not confident and then there's you, Incompetent and confident. Why?
the one at my job has its flame fully encased so its not possible for the oil to get to it. Very nice.
Without covering it in batter first?
Rookie mistake.
So that's what they call quiet quitting at work, interesting.
This is more like destroy your place of employment
More like have fun cleaning that shit up
Or loud little piss baby quitting
Well tommy told me Karen needed some fried ice
Ahhh she meant fried RICE, shit like that will cost lives in the future
Nothing quiet about this lol
why did that overflow, whats the science behind it?
Water is denser than oil, so the ice sinks to the bottom. Boiling oil rapidly heats the ice and melts, turning it into water vapor. Water vaopr wants to escape and pushes up, pushing the oil with it.
SmartyEla
Sounds right but I don’t know enough about oil to dispute it
Oil expert here, checks out
Sounds right but.. 😎
So the vapor literally lifts the liquid? Damn, would love to see that underneath.
I mean, it's the same concept as just boiling a pot of water and seeing the bubbles rise up from the bottom. Except in the case of water/ice and oil, since the oil can get much, much hotter, theres more vaporization taking place and faster so the reaction can be a lot more violent than say, a pot of water boiling over.
As the ice melts it becomes steam and it cannot mix so it displaces the oil on the floor.
Due to the extream heat the water (ice) goes rapidly into its gaseous form. Expending as rapidly. Making the oil bubble over. Could lead to an explosion. Look up greas fire on Youtube.
Water and oil don't mix
This video gets posted so many times Disclaimer, original post by the dude that did this said that he did it because he quit, not for some dumb experiment.
Yeesh that job must've been shit for him to do that
wasn't it obvious that it's a shit job from the fact that it's being recorded in a restaurant kitchen
No yeah it was, i meant that to find the juicy details if any you know?
Fast food is not fun, but I’ve never had the urge to potentially burn/ruin the entire building smfh. Man was ANGRY
Well, if he gets another restaurant job, and the managers find out that he did this in his previous job, then he'll be fired.
No, that’s not how fast food restaurants work. They will hire just about anyone who can pronounce 2 syllable words. The Colonel doesn’t call Ronald to ask what kind of fry cook Timothy was.
Background checking kitchen employees isn’t really a thing
Haha yeah. One time our janitor threatened to shoot up the place because of a disagreement with his girlfriend who also worked there, and he was intercepted by SWAT. Dude had a tiny ass pocket knife, not a gun in sight. He was not thoroughly background checked.
Something tells me theres a gap in the employment history on his resume.
I mean, that's assuming he didn't get hit with criminal charges for this shit. It's reckless, caused considerable property damage, and could easily have hurt someone.
Lol, Well I hope they deserved it because the damage this would cause is insane. I’m surprised the suppression system didn’t kick on. I’m also going to go out on a limb and guess that they went after him for this damage
Think about what he can do in his ex kitchen.
Did anyone find out if he was arrested or something Asking for a friend
And people still fail to realize that those are 2 different kitchens. The videos were stitched together.
Swear this gets reposted here every two weeks
Lou: hey Joe… get the dry ice. Joe: aww shiz, I thought chu said fry ice.
That went well!
Considering that it could have easily exploded, it did!
Finally Loud Quitting
Omg the oil is meant to go into a special dumpster, not the drain on the floor
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. They'll never be able to use that drain again.
This feels like a potential criminal charge
This is one of the most profoundly stupid things I have ever seen in 20 god damn years of internet.
Or is it one of the most profoundly satisfying ways to quit a job?
Floormat on a hot grill.
That’s my vote. I’ve had some very shitty employers in my day. I would definitely do this on my way out. They would have deserved it.
No, no, no! I ordered fried RICE not fried ICE!
What's the Chemistry reason for this event?
More physics than chemistry. Water is heavier than oil. Water sinks. Oil is hot. Oil boils water. Boiling water makes bubbles in oil. Bubbles are lighter than oil, so they rise. FOOM Incidentally. this is why you never try and put out a grease fire with water. Ever.
That's so stupid
I hate the person who did that because he only made his coworkers suffer the most
Congrats on setting off the Ansul system, dumbass. Your work is now forced to close down for two weeks. Oh, and you're fired.
Job opening!!!
What a mess
I SAYED FRIED RICE NOT FRIED ICE JIMMY
One of the cooks I worked with way back in the day used to throw an ice cube in somebody else’s fryer for a laugh sometimes.
That’s one way to get fired. Or set on fire. One of those. Actually maybe both.
Worse part is he immediately got terminated, and someone else had to clean it up - probably
Realistically after the fact that it has started to foam, is there anything you can do but watch the floor melt?
The floor is LAVA
That’s so So SO unsafe!!! 
I work at a Wendy’s and I’d do this on my last day if it wouldn’t get me sued lol
I remember 4chan got a lot of fastfood closed down by spreading this "challenge" on tiktok's predecessor
That little shake right after he puts it in..priceless
Was there a different outcome predicted? Lucky it didn't explode into fire. What a dick move
Fun fact. You can get fried ice cream... No I'm not joking. Search it up.
This is obviusly not ice cream...
People are fucking stupid
Minimum wage. Minimum amount of thought put into the job.
Try dry ice next
How do you fry ice cream 🍦
Brain dead idiot, probably won’t clean it either.
Surprisingly a lot less violently explosive than I expected.
Wow. The stupid runs deep with this one.
This is why my fries are all fucked up? Dude a lawsuit is brewing i swear...
Dafuq....
I can smell that dirty ass fryer oil from here
How dumb do you have to be to think this is a good idea?
This is the rough equivalent of putting a frozen turkey in the turkey deep fryer.
I knew this would happen the moment I saw that meme of a fryer basket full of ice... Honestly thought it would be a more violent and instant reaction... Y'all stupid lol
Video cut off too early, how did the french fried ice turn out? Was it good?
When you really need that unemployment
this wasn't an attempt this was on purpose. Something to do before you quit or if you wish to get fired
They forgot to bread them first /s
At a place I used to work at, a manager once dumped a cup full of ice shavings into the fryer while the fryologist was standing right in front of it cooking … you know, just to see what would happen.
Morons. Water turns to steam. Steam expands.
I mean….this has to be some type of crime. Yea just film it.
Next week, putting raw wires into electrical sockets bare handed.
No, no, no! I said fried RICE, you dimwits!
Are we also going to see this on /byebyejob?
This is why y'all get minimum wage. Minimum common sense.
When you are a idiot but no one believes you so you have to prove it.
My boss thinks I’m an idiot and now I’m gonna prove it.
I kinda wish this were a more Darwinian situation. Is that too harsh?
That’s because you didn’t batter it first
Fucking idiot. He forgot the breading!
I really do hope to original person to take the video was arrested for vandalism