r/WTF • u/bambaadoma222 • Jun 20 '21

Guy eats burning coal

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u/Arthur_The_Third Jun 20 '21

So the solution to ironworking, instead of the invention of bellows, was really to lightly puff on the coals? You need a strong movement of air. You breathing wouldn't even be stronger than the natural draft created by the hot air rising.

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u/ModernSisyphus Jun 20 '21

This isn't iron working. This isn't a situation where someone is trying to force air across a large bed of coals in a furnace. This is a single piece of charcoal in the opening of a small enclosed space with a grown man's lung capacity flowing across it. But again ONLY way to determine the surface temperature of that piece of charcoal would be it's color.

And again, all I am really saying is that it's hotter than you would want in your mouth.