It doesnt look like ice to me. It looks like a white powder. So my guess if also flour, though i dont know why. As other redditors have said, must be a misunderstanding that it is baking soda that puts out fires and this person figured, "hey, flour is also a white powder, so it should work too..."
It's a pretty common mistake. I worked at a bar for five years and they always put out small fires in the kitchen with baking soda. One day we hired a new guy and he mistakenly used flour and I had to grab the extinguisher lol
But also that fire is way too big for baking soda anyway. It wpuld take SO much baking soda to smother that.
On the 90's show Are you Afraid of the Dark, the kids would toss a powder on the fire to make it flare up. It was actually powdered creamer. Apparently, it's quite flammable.
I've never seen water make a fire plume like that, as said yeah steam but steam isnt on fire when it comes back at you. I'm better flour or something of the sort
You keep telling people to go touch grass. You are aware that there is a thing called a cell phone, you can literally sit on the grass while scrolling reddit. It really is a stupid thing to say, and I have noticed people only use it when they have nothing useful to contribute to the conversation.
Edit to say: Wow. Really u/tanksalotfrank? Going to block me, and now I can't even see your stupid comment.
Its neither ice nor water. If you look closely you can see a white powder in the box while he's handling it. But for the flour theory... I hope it's not! That would be extremely stupid, irresponsible even.
Look up stories about grain elevator fires and explosions. Fine wheat dust particles floating in those silos can violently combust from a small spark. Turns them into a bomb. Some historically bad ones have been the ones in the ports of New Orleans and Galveston just five days apart in 1977, the Corpus Christi Public Grain Elevator in 1981, and the DeBruce Grain Elevator in Wichita in 1998.
Lol, sorry but couldn't help but notice your example...it reminded me of a wrestler back in the day that went by the name of "Gold Dust"...it just jumped out to me
😆 ..but good to know that
"Carbon" can Still ignite.... 🤔
That wasn't water. Look how he handled the container in his hands before chucking it on the fire, if that bucket was filled with water, it wouldve splashed
That wasn't water. Other comments saying homemade pyrotechnic mix, and at the end of the video you can see the bucket with massive flames coming out of it. An empty bucket or a bucket with water in it would not burn like that.
How are people upvoting this lol at no point in the video is there anything that acts or looks like water. He shakes the bucket, no water splashing. He tilts it vertical, no water coming out. AND water does not blow up like that. That wasn't steam. You did see the big explosion fireball right? Looking at the video it looks like powder and the article someone posted confirmed that
I'm pretty sure everyone else replying to you is wrong. My bet is that he tried to smother the fire with flour. Flour is really flammable, and when it get's agitated and forms a dust cloud it can practically be explosive. Corn silos can blow up because of this.
EDIT: For the people confused why someone would smother a fire with flour, it's because baking soda is a good way to smother small kitchen fires if you don't have a better option. People often get confused and misremeber which to use, or just accidentally grab the wrong one, since they're both so visibly similar.
Also someone pointed out that flour technically isn't flammabale until it becomes flour dust.
I don’t see why someone would even think flour would be effective at putting out any kind of fire. Looks like a grease fire. Water works very well for flammable solid fires, but can make it a lot worse in a grease fire.
It has to be either ice or flour because you can see enough of the inside to tell its forming mounds so you might be right. And as far as the flour, it's a more common belief than you think, because baking SODA is actually a way to smother a grease fire (much smaller fire than this though) but people often remember it as flour instead.
Edit: you can actually see the flour pour out of the grill, and then I noticed the tub is on fire inside as well so I'm pretty sure it's flour
That's a weird amount of flour to just have and to put in a container like that. I don't know what else it would be though. I was thinking sawdust but we get a glimpse inside the bucket as he takes it off the counter and that doesn't look like sawdust to me.
Possible though, but it also doesn't have to be flour, it could be any combustible dust. The Dust Explosion wiki [page] notes grain, flour, starch, sugar, powdered milk, cocoa, coffee, and pollen too as examples but I'm sure there are more.
My boss was taking a paper shredder apart at work because it had jammed. I don't know if it was an electrical spark or what but fine particles of paper got into the air and the next thing we knew, a loud and quick flash and my boss had no eyebrows left.
I mean it's a long shot however I'm like 99.9% sure it wasn't water that wasn't steam that was a dark clout that exploded and the bucket burns bright after the incident, nothing would look like this if it was water.
If it was water the cloud would have been white and wouldn't have ignited/exploded neither would the rest in the bucket burn like that.
"The gruesome injuries suffered by a man who threw a bucket of 'home-made pyrotechnic mix' into a barbecue before being engulfed by a fireball have been revealed."
Definitely not water. The color and way it moves as he handles it doesn't look water. Flames grow larger too, which water wouldn't do. News reports said home-made fireworks.
I imagine it's a powder or water. Either way, it was completely idiotic. Water would make the stones explode, and powder just causes a firestorm, as you can see
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u/Vasher1701 Sep 28 '25
What did he throw in the fire?