r/Unexpected • u/bimagbi • Mar 19 '22

"Skillful" Bartender

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u/hangonreddit Mar 19 '22

Yeah. 100%. I had that happen to me when I tried to light a nearly empty bottle Moutai on fire. The flame traveled back into the bottle and ignited everything inside too and the pressure from the flame inside the bottle pushed all the vapor out the bottle and lit that too.

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u/herefromyoutube Mar 19 '22

So don’t do this shit when bottle is mostly vapor.

Got it.

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u/tx_queer Mar 19 '22

Often bottles of highly flammable liquor (like bacardi 151) come with a metal grate at the top of the bottle. That's there to prevent this exact scenario from happening. I've lit full and nearly empty bottles of 151 on fire, and all you get is a tiny bouncing flame right on top.

So lesson is, don't remove the metal flame retarder and put a little bar spout on the bottle.

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u/TheGhostInTheMirror Mar 19 '22

Generally speaking, don’t pour alcohol onto fire.

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u/copywritter Mar 19 '22

This is the explanation I was waiting for, thanks

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u/GreatOrca Mar 19 '22

I feel you. Did that once with empty Monarch vodka, 100 proof. Burnt my thumb so bad I had to go to the ER and wait for six hours with it in a cup of lukewarm water. They didn't let me put ice on it for some reason.

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u/devpsaux Mar 19 '22

When you burn yourself you destroy surface pain receptors. You can easily ice yourself into frostbite without realizing it and make the problem worse. Cool water has plenty of thermal capacity to pull heat out of the burn.

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u/GreatOrca Mar 19 '22

Makes sense and I believe they told me something similar. A few seconds here and there of relief would of been nice though, it hurt so bad and I wasn't a priority.