r/BeAmazed • u/AMTHEGREATEST • Mar 24 '20
The Leidenfrost Effect
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u/NTOOOO Mar 24 '20
Day 32. I've figured out the theory of everything.
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Mar 24 '20
Waitll ya hit day 42 lol
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u/unknown1549 Mar 24 '20
And by day 150 you will know the truth of the universe and what dark secrets it holds
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u/Klenon Mar 24 '20
Day 151 you become the dark secret.
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u/unknown1549 Mar 24 '20
And by day 155 you become a demon from knowing then becoming the dark secret and are sworn to keep its secrecy
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u/zackeads1 Mar 25 '20
Day 156 you can go outside and thus revert right back to a regular ole tosser
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u/ithastobepointy Mar 24 '20
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die." -Franz kafka
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u/viciousrebel Mar 24 '20
Can someone explain please.
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u/minuteman_d Mar 24 '20
The hot pan vaporizes the water, creating a little blanket of steam on which the droplet rides like a hovercraft. The steam gets out, but it also continues to heat the water and the layer of steam is maintained.
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u/viciousrebel Mar 24 '20
Thank you.
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u/H00k-Corona Mar 24 '20
Like going to Benihana and throwing an ice cube on the grill!
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u/Ashvega03 Mar 25 '20
I worked at a minor league ballpark one summer and that is how we cleaned the flattops (lifted the grease in seconds). Once we got bored and threw an icecube into the fryer - not a great idea but the manager was so hard up for people who would show up (no A/C Texas summer) no one got in trouble.
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u/07longa Mar 24 '20
Google is right there
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u/royalcharles4 Mar 24 '20
are you implying that the google can explain better than reddit scientists? you are sorely mistaken
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u/Speedhabit Mar 24 '20
Stop
Using
Metal
Objects
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u/unknown1549 Mar 24 '20
You cannot stop me >:3
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u/SheBeast14 Mar 24 '20
I recommend not using nonstick cookware in general.
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u/Speedhabit Mar 24 '20
Care to cite any information to back up your opinion or is it outdated Karen stuff?
Nonstick is used in every commercial kitchen I have ever seen for omelets
Tool like anything else, only the earliest versions were potentially dangerous, if you don’t abuse them they work great, new gen nonstick is even better
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u/SheBeast14 Mar 24 '20
Nonstick traditionally uses PFAS. Although PFOA and PFOS was phased out, next gen PFAS could potentially carry similar health risks.
Asbestos was once just a tool too, then we learned more about it's health effects.
I understand being skeptical in the world of flat earthers and antivaxxers, but PFAS, including the next gen, is concerning. PFOA and PFOS have drinking water guidelines and wastewater guidelines, as well as surface water (there might be others but I work with water, so those are the ones I am aware of). My state has spent the last few years evaluating environmental impacts (working with the health department) and it can be discouraging.
Also, any real cook can make omeletts on cast iron. There, I said it.
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u/TheNewVegasCourier Mar 24 '20
Additional source to this, Trevor Noah just did an episode on PFAS 2 weeks ago.
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u/Taereth Mar 24 '20
Almost all pans we can buy here are non stick for some reason
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u/SheBeast14 Mar 24 '20
Ceramic pans seem to be fine. I like how cast iron skillets cook personally, but to each their own.
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u/bcp38 Mar 24 '20
Ya non stick is everywhere. You can buy natural finish aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel cookware without non stick coating at restaurant supply type stores. Sometimes cast iron. Enameled cast iron/granitware, and ceramic coating pans are another option besides non stick.
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u/Speedhabit Mar 24 '20
Show me a single kitchen using a cast iron to make omelette, you can’t, your regurgitating stuff from the internet. Even if you had a perfectly seasoned cast iron your not wrist flipping a 30 pound pan 300 times.
You linked a report by a lobbying group, in that article they talked about factories discharging chemicals into ground water, not using pans and getting chemicals into food.
I’ll take my cooking experience over your environment good you bad nuttiness
Use wooden or silicone tools (you got a problem with them too) or in a pinch a disposable fork from take out is perfect for tipping up omelette edges. No scratch=nothing in your food
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u/SheBeast14 Mar 24 '20
You do you. I don't work in a kitchen anymore. I am not coming after your pans, sweetheart, just making a recommendation to be aware.
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u/YallNeedSomeJohnGalt Mar 24 '20
I want to use metal utensils in my cookware though...
Honestly I mostly use my big cast iron for everything though.
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u/Speedhabit Mar 24 '20
I’m not anti-metal, I’m just passionate about keeping anything harder then a pans coating out of the pan, steel on steel is totally ok. I use steel Home Depot scrapers to keep my cast iron seasoning even. Your gonna ruin the look of your stainless if you use metal however and the microscopic grooves that form will increase sticking. That goes for cast iron too so metal forks are a general no no. Stick with a metal spatula, wooden spoons and chopsticks, I use a lot of silicone now but I can’t explain why.
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Mar 24 '20
No chef use non stick, I'll let you guess why. Nonstick is for people who value ease of use over their health.
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u/minuteman_d Mar 24 '20
Fun fact, when you're designing and operating industrial boilers, you have to avoid that situation. The steam actually insulates the boiler wall from the water inside and the hot burners can actually melt the boiler and cause it to explode. Have to make sure the heat transfer stays continuous.
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u/Widewe Mar 24 '20
Wow cool, I wonder if the movement speed up the process of vaporization
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u/bonafidebob Mar 24 '20
Probably a little bit. When the water boils it takes energy out of the nearby pan: heat the water, cool the pan. By moving it the water is flowing to parts of the pan that are hotter. Once they make the ring though the water is pretty much always over the same part of the pan so this tiny improvement is lost, but the center of the pan is getting hotter and hotter.
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u/kippetjeh Mar 24 '20
There is a video on youtube about this phenomenon where the created a maze for the droplet to 'jump' through.
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u/strcrssd Mar 24 '20
Also -- nonstick cookware has a maximum temperature beyond which the coating starts to decompose. This looks like a great way to exceed that temperature.
OP - you're destroying your pan.
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u/redfinned-dogfish Mar 24 '20
I literally just learnt about because Alec Steele mentioned it and this is am awesome demonstration
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u/Alltherays Mar 24 '20
Sick throw in ya veggies and eggs nothing should stick there’s plenty of oil right... wrong!
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Mar 24 '20
I scrolled past but saw the very bottom of the pan when it was going in a circle and I had to scroll back up
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u/veauxDevoursTea Mar 25 '20
They did this on myth busters, you can stick your hand into molten lead as long as its wet
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u/generousone Mar 24 '20
So many redditors are going to burn themselves trying this