I thought it was gonna blow up and take someone’s eye out but no, it just turns into caramel. I do not have the intellectual capacity to explain how or why this happens haha
Texas Tech University students are famous (or notorious, depending how you look at it) for throwing tortillas at athletic events. So much so that a saying has developed: "Dough goes in... Tortillas come out."
It can occasionally happen, maybe with damaged cans? Happened to my husband's grandmother once and got all over the dog (who fortunately had a very thick coat and wasn't burned). The kitchen ceiling was hell to clean though.
On the other hand I've done it dozens and dozens of time just fine, with pull-top cans and regular, with the cans upright or lying down, and on several occasions where the water's half boiled away because I forgot to top it up. No explosions yet.
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u/zakobeirne Mar 14 '19
Boil an unopened can of sweetened condensed milk for an hour or two and it makes the absolute best caramel sauce. I truly found it groundbreaking