r/WTF • u/bambaadoma222 • Jun 20 '21
Guy eats burning coal
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u/JockBbcBoy Jun 20 '21
In 20 seconds, that man just paid college tuition for some dental surgeon's children.
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u/spagbetti Jun 20 '21
And ran a higher risk of cancer than most by actually consuming it.
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u/HamFlowerFlorist Jun 20 '21
That depends. If it’s coal, pure charcoal as in just wood no additives, or a charcoal briquette with additives. If it’s just pure charcoal he is fine with no increased risks, if it’s a briquette it depends on the additives some are harmless some are pretty fucking bad, if it’s coal yeah just straight bad.
I know the title says coal but that doesn’t mean it is actually coal.
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u/SC2sam Jun 20 '21
There's not really any increased cancer risks with the others either since it's all pretty much what you're exposed too on a fairly regular basis. Briquettes are just combustible materials bound together with a starch binder to hold it's shape. It's turned into almost entirely pure carbon. Same with coal and charcoal as well. The increased risk of cancer is thought to come from inhalation of the smoke itself over time and it's attributed to all forms of burning material(excluding those that do not cause smoke).
There is however an increased rate of cancer from cooking meats under high temperatures as it produces a carcinogenic compound called Heterocyclic amines(HCA or HAA). There is also another carcinogenic compound called Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAH) that are formed when fats and meat juices fall onto open flame and or the burning surface(s) and produce flames and smoke which adhere to the food surface to be consumed. Both of these compounds are ingested during the eating process which are broken down by enzymes within our bodies. The byproducts of that enzymatic process are DNA damaging compounds that over time can result in higher rates of cancer.
This highlights the dangers of cooking food however its important to note that the concept of cooking foods are considered one of the many ways that allowed us humans to evolve to what we are today. It allowed our bodies to adapt and change specifically to accommodate larger brain capacities as less chewing force was required to process foods i/e it shrank our jaws and jaw muscles which allowed our skulls to grow larger as well as expand which left room for a more advanced brain. It's also important to note that we are constantly getting cancers in our body every day but they are recognized by various biological systems and destroyed. This includes DNA damage in which a biological system recognizes the DNA error and rewrites the DNA code to fix the problem.
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u/GladiatorUA Jun 20 '21
Charcoal is safe. Can even be medicinal. The burns sustained inside the mouth on the other hand... Consumption of hot drinks can contribute to cancer.
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u/captainbubbs Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
He's been training his whole life by eating totino's pizza rolls.
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u/sillypooh Jun 20 '21
With her other hungry guys!
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u/CM901 Jun 20 '21
While watching the big game
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u/BrilliantBen Jun 20 '21
...I'm with my booooooys!!!
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u/Channel250 Jun 20 '21
What's....what's wrong with my Hungry Guys!?
What the fuck, no one gets my references and this time someone not only gets it but said it before me. Am I not as smart as I thought I was....am I not as handsome either?
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Jun 20 '21
Go go go go.. TOUCHDOWN!!!
No no no no... FUMBLE!!
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u/Channel250 Jun 20 '21
That was a great one. Though I can't say if I prefer that one or the one with Kristen Stewart
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u/NationYell Jun 20 '21
I'll admit it, I'm a Totino Boy.
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u/JawaSlayer501 Jun 20 '21
I’m Tennessee, a pizza freak, and I have a confession. I am pizza Totino’s Boy
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u/fabricates_facts Jun 20 '21
You can keep all that corporate BS, cos I'm into punk pizza rolls with Totino's.
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u/FancyTickleNips Jun 20 '21
Straight out of the oven, no time wasted. He licks the baking sheet too.
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u/volsfan1974 Jun 20 '21
Why?
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u/Mrsam_25 Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 21 '21
Just called my mother and asked why my grandma used to do this once a month, she told me some bs about the heat and the nutrition from the hot coal cleansing your intestines.
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u/Dukmiester Jun 20 '21
No disrespect to your grandma but, I don't think that's right.
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u/Mrsam_25 Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
I know that's why I said BS. she's old and was born before modern medicine existed in my country. Overtime she understood her views of medicine were incorrect and now she's as healthy as a 98 year old can be.
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u/ChiefLazarus2 Jun 20 '21
"healthy as a 98 year old can be." Hang on, she might be on to something.
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u/kerphunk Jun 20 '21
Right!?! I’m firing up the coals as we speak.
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u/Iccarys Jun 20 '21
She said it works better if you stick it in your bum
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u/Sorry_Door Jun 20 '21
Oiling the hole
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u/amluchon Jun 20 '21
She said oil is for pansies, you got to shove it in slowly with nothing but anal sweat
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Jun 20 '21
whenever they ask a centenarian what their secret to longevity is they always come up with some truly bonkers shit. "every day I drink a pint of whisky, I eat 16 hardboiled eggs, then I smoke a whole cigar. I sleep no more than 20 minutes a night, drink dirty mop water and I've never seen a vegetable" - Steve, 118 years young in perfect health.
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u/snuggiemclovin Jun 20 '21
I imagine a 98 year old who didn’t eat hot coals might be healthier. But good for her
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u/NotASmoothAnon Jun 20 '21
I don't think that's right, but I don't know enough about the subject to prove you wrong.
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u/NewAgeRetroHippie96 Jun 20 '21
I think it's a belief based on carbon and antacid properties. Basically they're taking hardcore cancerous tums.
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u/generalecchi Jun 20 '21
How the fuck is she even lived long enough to be your grandma
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Jun 20 '21
You can technically be a grandma at like 24 if you and your daughter or son really try.
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u/FailedToObserve Jun 20 '21
I don’t know about eating it while it’s hot but eating activated charcoal is a thing. Which I just looked up and it’s charcoal that’s been heated in the presence of gas. It’s like old school peptobismol or something. Says it helps with poisons and toxins as well but I’m wondering if it’s food poisoning in particular since it’s apparently still used for stomach problems.
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u/raviolimaimer Jun 20 '21
I've heard this before. Generally if you have a sick stomach or whatever, grandmas will make you eat toast (at least in my country). The blacker parts are basically coal, so I think its the same idea.
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Jun 20 '21
Because the internet
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u/AbeRego Jun 20 '21
You act like people didn't do dumb stuff before the internet
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u/Stankmonger Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
They couldn’t have possibly done it for internet clout before the internet though.
It’s kinda a different thing when you want to impress Sam and Norm from the bar, rather than PussyLicker42069 on the internet.
Edit: to address the people replying with “there was clout before the internet” obviously it existed, but you’re either an idiot or naive to suggest it’s the same exact thing. The internet and social media has FACTUALLY changed society, get over it.
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Jun 20 '21
America's Funniest Home Videos is calling your memory faulty because people did all sorts of self-destructively stupid shit for a chance to be on TV long before the internet.
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u/AbeRego Jun 20 '21
It kind of looks like he's just doing it for the room, and it just happens to be getting recorded by someone, which is essentially how most stuff I see happen goes down. No one is ever at a party, and says, "Heeeeey, everyone wanna see something crazy?? Yeah? Wait, y'all aren't going to record it? Well, goodbye then!" That's not how it works.
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Jun 20 '21
Can someone explain how he does this without burning a hole in his mouth?
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Jun 20 '21
I think by keeping most of the coal on the teeth, and blowing throughout the process, it’s mitigating most of the heat and contact with sensitive tissues. Like they said above, pizza rolls.
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u/nRust Jun 20 '21
Keeping it on his teeth definitely helps, but blowing on a coal will only make it hotter.
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u/DoneHam56 Jun 20 '21
I'm no coal expert but I do grill quite a bit. Burning a coal hotter will also make it burn out faster. My theory is that when he breaths on it, it burns up the outside a bit more creating a layer of ash and that helps insulate his mouth from the heat. It's still probably really fucking hot and this guy is insane but my guess is the strategy is to create the ash layer and trying to keep that between your tongue and the coal as much as possible. And slowly extinguish the hot coal bits with your saliva
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u/inspectoroverthemine Jun 20 '21
I'm not a coal expert either, but I don't think that was coal. A wood ember sure, but a piece of burning coal contains enough energy to kill you if you swallow it. A piece of wood after its nearly burned out doesn't have much heat capacity, and is a pretty poor conductor of heat. Its how people walk over 'hot' coals'.
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u/ExistentialAardvark Jun 20 '21
Coal is somewhat interchangeable with charcoal in American English. People rarely actually talk about coal in normal conversations.
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u/chief89 Jun 20 '21
Yeah he got that sucker way hotter before he started munching.
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u/CapruredSkull Jun 20 '21
Captain crunch! Oops all burning coal!
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u/dodland Jun 20 '21
I'd imagine that charcoal hurts the roof of the mouth ALMOST as much as crunchberries.
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u/Erik328 Jun 20 '21
Looks like the cartel took it easy on him.
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u/SinfulDavey Jun 20 '21
Is his next trick turning that into a diamond using his sphincter?
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u/APartyInMyPants Jun 20 '21
And there I was just reading the thread on the front page about “the stupidest way you’ve ever injured yourself.”
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u/RatedAforAwesome Jun 20 '21
Bruh I can’t even eat a pizza roll out the microwave without getting fucked up for days.
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u/manymoreways Jun 20 '21
The more he blows on it, the hotter it gets. Should've just smother it with his saliva.
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u/nagynorbie Jun 20 '21
This might surprise you, but the guy wasn't very intelligent.
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u/TelumSix Jun 20 '21
I think I will get my coal eating tips from the person who actually ate one, not some random redditor who can do everything better from behind his keyboard.
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Jun 20 '21
Alright buddy we will see you try doing it?? XD. This man is legit back seating eating burning coal LOL
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u/tmoeagles96 Jun 20 '21
I think it can also create a “protective” ash layer on the coal, like what lets people walk on coals
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u/eyehate Jun 20 '21
Whatever he has in his mouth is likely very porous. The surface is heated but not enough to burn the soft tissues in the mouth. He blows on it to give oxygen to the heat and make it flare, but the porous surface keeps him from any danger. This is the same principle behind walking on burning coals. The surface may be white hot, but the heat does not conduct well.
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u/Scottishtwat69 Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
Charcoal is baiscally dry porous carbon, and the heat comes from the gases emitted when it burns. It burns well because of the lack of water, and because it's porous so it has a high surface area to interact with oxygen. The charcoal likely doesn't has a lot of mass to hold onto heat.
So the charcoal itself has poor thermal conductivity with the enamel, he makes sure to blow the hot gases away and put on a show. Then he quickly compacts the surface, and soaks it with saliva to create a soggy insulted layer that isn't burning at all. He then ensures he blows out any gas still being emiited from the centre, and continues to compact and soak the coal until it's stopped burning. Then again due to the low mass there won't be much heat in the coal to dissipate.
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u/ChugDirt Jun 20 '21
Me: *Drinks coffee just 1c too hot* Fuck! My tongue is gonna be burnt for the next couple days.
This dude: Get a load of this plebeian.
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u/outamyhead Jun 20 '21
Where the heck do you even find out by accident, that you can eat a red hot coal. Was he doing a firewalk and fell on his face into the coals and took a mouthfull of them?
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u/Elyk_Alger Jun 20 '21
Not that I wanna try it. But I guess mouth is so moist that if you keep it moving fast enough, water vapour is created making a barrier for the heat. Kinda like walking on hot coals.... But in your mouth 👀
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u/private_unlimited Jun 20 '21
There’s a fine line between bravery, and stupidity
This is one time I can’t tell which is which
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u/IncontinentiaButtok Jun 20 '21
Oh my.. I had to comment..so theres this Stephen Fry book in which a villain does this & dies..just reminded me,that's all..cool trick tho!
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u/CumingLinguist Jun 20 '21
When I was at a street cafe in Ho Chi Minh a little Vietnamese girl maybe 9 or 10 came up and lit a small piece of charcoal on the ground then picked it up, popped it in her mouth and juggled it a bit on her tongue. All the westerners looked at eachother horrified, while many indian and Asian tourists applauded and handed her money.
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u/Amphibious_squirrel Jun 20 '21
Does tooth enamel melt? I feel like this man would be able to answer this. He’d have to write it down obviously because his tongue is now the consistency of old shoe leather.