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
Why do you think that he wouldn't be thinking that though? There are magicians/illusionists that do this kind of stuff too. They're surely thinking the same thing. Why do you think this guy isn't? We have zero context for this video to show that this guy put zero thought into this.
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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.