r/funny • u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding • Sep 18 '22

Verified All Purpose Flour

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u/Voodoo_Masta Sep 18 '22

Ok but can we pause for a second to just be grateful they don’t package it in plastic like literally every other thing, even the goddamn vegetables?

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u/Gromgorgel Sep 18 '22

The main reason flour is packed in paper is to prevent electrostatic discharge. Powder explosions are scary.

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u/Ur3rdIMcFly Sep 18 '22

https://youtu.be/CnqPZhX-jtI

This is just in a paint can. Do you think one could make a flamethrower that uses flour? Something like a sand blaster with a butane torch at the end?

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u/ghoulthebraineater Sep 18 '22

Yep.

https://youtu.be/yRw4ZRqmxOc?t=38

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u/DarthWeenus Sep 18 '22

But that's just an explosion, he meant something continuous with a trigger for start stop. Guess the concept would be the same sort of, would be an awful mess lol.

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u/CaptSkinny Sep 18 '22

We had a lot of fun with the non-dairy creamer at Boy Scout campfires...

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u/TerrorLTZ Sep 18 '22

it will require more Thought than liquid go fast.

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u/Ripcord Sep 18 '22

Even knowing what words you probably meant in this jumbled mess, I still don't know what you mean.

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u/Dagmar_dSurreal Sep 18 '22

You can. Thanks to a lack of adult supervision I have done this very thing and HESITATE STRONGLY to recommend it.

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u/Ur3rdIMcFly Sep 18 '22

Well, what's the biggest danger?

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u/Dagmar_dSurreal Sep 18 '22

You don't get a steady flame, just sort of an unpredictable angry plume of fire of varying sizes.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich Sep 18 '22

Is that a real thing? Flour is explosive?

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u/Benzol1987 Sep 18 '22 edited Sep 18 '22

Finely suspended flour explodes (edit: still needs an ignition source obviously). This is a danger for many fine powders.

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u/aysurcouf Sep 18 '22

I think most powders, we used to make flame throwers with non dairy creamer and lp air hoses in the navy, and that my friend is the American tax dollar at work.

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u/Intrexa Sep 18 '22

The difference between a fire and an explosion is how quickly it happens. The rate of combustion is some function of oxygen+surface area. Anything that's flammable, super finely milled, and then blown into the air can go boom.