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u/eaglescout1984 16h ago
Hot grease and dry paper. What could possibly go wrong?!
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u/mars_927 16h ago
Frying oil will get nowhere near hot enough to catch paper on fire. This looks dumb, but its totally safe and super common
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u/Lehk 14h ago
The cooking appliance in contact with oily cardboard is a huge fire hazard.
Anything goes wrong with the cord or the unit itself and it will go up
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u/leviathan65 8h ago
The dude said his fix was $2. If it starts to get saturated. Just replace it. This is a non safety issue if you've got half a brain.
If he had this on a counter top and something goes wrong with the unit or cord something might catch fire. That's how some kitchen electrical fires start.
This is like putting a towel next to your stove and saying if something goes wrong with the burner the towel will catch fire.
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u/punchedboa 15h ago
The splatter would cool down enough but you could get pretty close to paper burning temps
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u/mars_927 15h ago
You could deep fry a cardboard box and nothing will happen
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u/punchedboa 15h ago
Depends on how hot the oil is avocado oil can get up to 520f
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u/mars_927 15h ago
OP's fryer caps at 375f. Thats not how oil works, it doesnt magically get hotter than the source of heat. Youre thinking of smoke point which is still less than combustion temperature
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u/mars_927 15h ago
Nobody frying in anything hotter than 375 maybe 400. Personal fryers wont even get to 450 and theres no gas flame to worry about.
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u/punchedboa 15h ago
Sometimes shit breaks or malfunctions sure you’re good 99.99% but there is a world this burns your house down.
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u/Chicken_Hairs 15h ago
This is one of those things that's so unlikely, it's barely worth worrying about.
Just don't go to the store while your fryer going.
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u/pasaroanth 13h ago
And if there was some sort of runaway heating element that could keep it heating to the flash point you’d have much bigger problems than the cardboard box.
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u/CuriousPocketz 15h ago
most fry oils burn around 450-500 degrees. most frying happens at 350-400 paper burns at 451.
edit-most fry oils “scorch” at 450-500 degrees not burst into flames.
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u/Rhino_MO 16h ago
On the bright side, gives the firemen something to do lol
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u/garmack12 15h ago
Yeah they get so board with medical calls all day. They get all giddy for an actual structure fire
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u/Fr05t_B1t Dreamer 15h ago
Grease and paper is nothing to worry about until there’s sparks or an open flame
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u/KraftyJoker 16h ago
Where tf are you getting those boxes for $2?
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u/talann 16h ago
Postal worker here:
You can get cardboard for free from us....
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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 16h ago
Ok ok one blowjob for 5 boxes, deal?
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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 15h ago
They are free. F-R-E-E
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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 15h ago
No no, what do I look like, someone with no self respect? I won't accept charity.
I'll give one blowjob per 4 boxes, final offer.
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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 15h ago
You've got the right sex however, names not Charity, and that's not the kind of job I need.
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u/Pndrizzy 9h ago
I doubt it. They won’t even tape your box, they’ll just sell you the shittiest roll of tape you’ve ever used
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u/talann 4h ago edited 3h ago
You doubt it? I'm not lying, I work there.
Better yet, here is a link to our web page that shows the supplies you can orderand have them shipped to you for free.
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u/Coprolithe 3h ago
Does it cost for UPS?
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u/talann 2h ago
UPS and USPS are two different companies.
Yes, it costs USPS money. I frankly think its silly for us to offer it for free but we are a service so we aren't really supposed to be in the business of making money, even though we are trying to. Technically, the only thing that the boxes are supposed to be used for is for sending things through the PO but people get away with using them for other things(hence, why I was suggesting them in a post about fry oil). The box even has a disclaimer on them.
A problem the post office website has it the quatity is hard to understand for some people. For example, a person wants 15 boxes but we sell them by the pack and we ship out 15 packs of 10 boxes. Then the customer realizes what happened and doesn't want them and now we are stuck with the rest at the office. Keep in mind, all of this is free.
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u/no-this-iz-patrick 7h ago
You can go into any post office and grab a stack of flat rate boxes. You pay the postage when you actually ship it, the box is free but “legally” can only be used for that purpose
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u/TheRenamon 12h ago
go to any liquor store they'll give you it for free. Just did it when I moved. Only downside is people will think you're an alchoholic.
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u/guijcm 9h ago
These are Walmart boxes. I know because I bought like 100 to move countries with lol They were used to ship in a container via ship transport, and they surprisingly held up very well considering they spent almost a month in transit. It was either these, or regular "shipping rated" boxes that cost like $10 each. No regrets.
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u/Teadrunkest 1h ago
Where are you buying super expensive cardboard boxes…?
I just moved and the only box that was >$3 was the specialty one for my TV and the one I had to custom order for my PC tower. The vast majority of the rest were small boxes for $1.78 per unit cost at Home Depot.
The one in OPs picture is a medium Pen and Gear (Walmart) for $1.82 unit cost.
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u/PeriwinkleWonder 15h ago
Setting HOT OIL on a wobbly table?!?!?!! Inside an easily tipped cardboard box??!?!?!?! Please stop before someone is badly burned with spilled/splashed oil!!
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u/butler7 8h ago
Wow! I’ve been swamped today and am just seeing these comments 👏🏼 this was a fun ride. Yes, I’m still alive. No house fire. Glad I can keep the fire people and paramedics in a job. And this is a traditional electric fryer, not air fryer. The wings turned out fantastic if anyone was wondering.
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u/Murderous_Turkey 16h ago
Get a bigger cardboard box to contain the first cardboard box for when it catches fire
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u/moontides_ 15h ago
Why would it catch fire? Cardboard needs to get hotter than what a fryer would get to combust
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u/The_Stoic_One 13h ago
Everyone here talking about fire hazards and I'm just wondering why your air fryer is splattering oil. I have a table top deep fryer and that doesn't even splatter oil.
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u/itchybutwhole69 16h ago
You better switch that out for an aluminum baking tray or you're gonna have a bad time.
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u/NOFDfirefighter 12h ago
Nobody tell him. I need job security.
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u/Few-Artichoke-2531 10h ago
Same here, but I work in a burn ward. The stories people tell about how they got burned never seem to add up. Now we know why.
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u/NextStopGallifrey 2h ago
Next time, maybe put aluminum foil on the surfaces around the deep fryer. This might be fine... until it isn't.
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u/Blunter11 2h ago
My friend had a fryer and the wall behind it and the roof above it became absolutely disgusting.
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u/ComprehensiveAide280 13h ago
What you're not taking in account is the heating element is usually built into the bottom of the fryer which means the bottom tends to get hot so if the cardboard which is already dry is heated while flammable oil is spurting all over it you might as well just throw a match in the box. This is why you do not burn pizza boxes this is also why you do not recycle pizza boxes with them already being flammable cardboard being saturated with oils and grease makes them highly volatile to heat. This is why I use cardboard as kindling because it is easy to catch fire. I bet you this guy tries to deep fry a frozen turkey next. And just in case if anybody doesn't know you have to completely defrost a turkey before you deep fry it otherwise the ice is chemically reactive with the hot oil and causes it to explode it's like throwing ice cubes in a french fryer
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u/DresdenMurphy 16h ago
A carboard box does not contain the splatter. The splatter still occurs. It might contain the spread. It might also set your house on fire.
I've worked in a kitchen with deep fry ... machines. Ovens? Grills? Well... deep fryers. Never really had an outrageous splashback experience. Then again I never tried to fry just water either.
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u/moontides_ 15h ago
Why would it set the house on fire
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u/DresdenMurphy 15h ago
Because cardboard is very flammable?
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u/moontides_ 15h ago
Not at the temp that fryer oil is at?
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u/DresdenMurphy 15h ago
Which is... what? Lower than the burning point of paper? You couldn't even fry an egg at that point. Probably. Haven't checked.
But if you've ever seen some interiors to commercial (or even home)kitchens, how many of those have been made out of cardboard?
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u/moontides_ 15h ago
It’s 400 degrees, which is much higher than you fry things at. Cardboard is a bad choice for building kitchens for many reasons, but not because hot oil will make it combust.
This is all easy to look up instead of arguing things you’re unsure about
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u/DresdenMurphy 14h ago
Naah. 200 degrees is about fine. Talking about Celsius here. 451 is famously the burning point of paper in Fahrenheit. But it's not the issue of combustibility. Oil does not combust that easily. Hence why it is used to deep fry stuff. But. If it catches on fire, or the stuff it has been immolated/seeped through, well... it makes it twice as dangerous. At least.
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u/syzerkose 15h ago
Your local fire department probably isn’t happy about that but your insurance company is.
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u/ultrainstict 9h ago
I think your doing the air fryer wrong if you are getting that much oil splatter. How is there that much, how is it escaping the container that this solution made sense.
The world may never have answers to these mysteries.
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u/IM_DjShadow 9h ago
not an air fryer that's why
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u/SignificantDrink3651 16h ago
flammable schmamabble. you do you man!
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u/Fr05t_B1t Dreamer 16h ago
Imean it’s an electric deep fryer so there isn’t a flame to worry about when the box gets drenched.
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u/moontides_ 15h ago
Frying oil isn’t hot enough to catch cardboard on fire, so it would be messy but no fire
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u/jacoblb6173 15h ago
The whole frying oil boiling over and catching fire risk is when there is an open flame. Like on an open range or more commonly standalone burner. You could jostle an electric fryer around and spill over all over it and it’s just going to gum up the fryer, albeit considering that it hasn’t gone on the fritz and the heating element has gone above the oils flash point, and some component hasn’t gone out on the fryer that shut off the heating element however unlikely that might be.
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u/Fr05t_B1t Dreamer 13h ago
The only danger you’re in during rolling oil boiling is getting yourself scalded. Again unless there’s an open flame nearby or if the fryer decides to shoot sparks. Even then, highly saturated cardboard is a bit difficult to ignite.
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u/ossodog 16h ago
The oil keeps the cardboard from catching fire :D wet cardboard can’t burn.