Cooking Hamburgers With Thermite 🍔🔥

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welcome back to another random
experiment with thermite now to give you
a little context in this video a couple
weeks ago Jimmy Fallon’s team reached
out asking if I can come up with some
new summer life hacks now being a
youtube mad scientist the first thing
that came to my mind was seeing if we
could light off a grill with thermite
and actually cook hot dogs and
hamburgers
now unfortunately lighting off the
thermite in the studio is one thing that
Jimmy Fallon is not allowed to do so for
this video I thought let’s put it to the
test anyway and see if barbecuing hot
dogs and hamburgers or thermite is a
viable option after all here’s the basic
idea behind our experiment today we have
two metallic powders iron to oxide and
aluminum powder these are very very fine
powders and when we mix them together in
the right ratios we create a batch of
homemade thermite the burning of
thermite is an extremely exothermic
reaction releasing temperatures upwards
of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit so we’ll
start the reaction by putting the
mixture in a terracotta planter pot
setting it on top of the grill and
letting the molten iron flow down into a
terracotta base plate down below when
the bottom plates are full of molten
thermite we’re going to remove the terra
cotta pot stick on some hot dogs
hamburgers and using the residual heat
of that metal we’re going to see if we
can actually get them to grill
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all right our bachelor might is mixed up
for ready to go so we’re just going to
transfer it into this terracotta planter
pot sit on top of the grill and let it
off so we got a blowtorch a sparkler for
our time delay let’s go ahead and light
it up fastest way to let your barbecue
ever there you go all right here goes
let’s see if it works
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come check this out this is amazing so
we got the terracotta pot on here which
I’m going to promptly remove looks like
a little bit of our grill kind of gotten
bolt in there and look at that bottom
plate you can see how all the thermite
stripped down to the bottom and now
we’ve got a plate of glowing lava as it
were just sitting down there at the edge
I can’t actually pull this grill off oh
yeah there goes look at that that is
unreal now right now I think this is way
too hot to put our meat on I think this
is actually burn the meat so we’re just
gonna let it cool down for a few seconds
did you see the way that that lid off
and all that molten metal flowed down to
the bottom that’s the reason I had this
little terracotta base and even that
it’s cracked into a bunch of pieces but
it has managed to keep everything one
place and not burn to the bottom of our
width you look at the planter pot on the
other hand this thing is so hot right
now it’s actually scorching the sand
that I was setting it on it’s broken
into pieces and there’s all kinds of
vitrification happening on the inside
the other thing I noticed is we actually
burn the little hole through one of our
grill racks here but that’s cool I’m
just going to go ahead and replace that
now stick that on top
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yeah look at that you see how that
melted right through that’s where the
thermite was dropping and it just melted
that clean off that was a superhot
reaction that was fantastic and it’s
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all right back to the barbecue let’s
take a look at the slow-mo replay so it
looks like I caught the slow mode just
as the reaction was really starting to
take off and you can see it’s glowing as
bright as the Sun which makes it very
hard to see what’s happening here now
the iron oxide is reacting with the
aluminum to produce a lot of heat it’s
putting off a lot of light energy the
way you can’t see happening inside is
all that molten metal inside the pot is
flowing down to the bottom hole cutting
through the grate and landing in that
terracotta dish underneath I have to say
that’s probably the most dramatic way
I’ve ever started to barbecue that looks
absolutely fantastic what I can’t get
over is how bright that reaction is it’s
so incredibly bright that you can’t see
anything else is taking place for the
light that’s coming off of that kind of
looks like peering into a volcano
nothing but glowing molten
is fantastic and probably the coolest
way to cook food on set
that looks amazing if I were to do that
again I might use a second terracotta
dish underneath but it looks like it
contained all that at the bottom great
all right go ahead and put on some hot
dogs listen to that sizzle so we have
eight hot dogs on here we’ve got three
hamburger patties and it’s already
starting to smell amazing so I’m going
to go ahead and put the lid back on
let’s wait about 10 to 15 minutes and
see if there might in fact is able to
cook our food all right it’s been 20
minutes let’s see we got oh my goodness
that looks gorgeous absolutely looks
really good it smells delicious do these
and give him a little flip those are
juicy huh oh that was good there we go
very nice very nice
the little cheese on that we go make
your cheese burgers beautiful today’s
couple men who would ready that looks so
good
oh nice and juicy smells delicious mmm
that is really good these things are
absolutely ready fantastic here we are
guys we’ve got our hot dogs are
hamburgers and everything is looking and
smelling amazing I can’t believe we
actually pulled this off
we started by mixing iron to oxide which
is basically rust with aluminum powder
and lighting off inside of a terra cotta
plant suspended over a barbecue we use
the residual heat from that exothermic
reaction to go clock dogs and hamburgers
to perfection and now it’s time to eat
them we’ve got our hamburger we’ve got
melted cheese onion pickle tomato
lettuce and all tops with a sesame seed
bun let’s eat as much as I want to try
this myself
ladies first I’m going to go let my wife
have the first bite here you go baby
what do you think oh it looks good I’m
always up for a good meal you have to
give us your honest opinion take
nutrition let’s take a look inside there
let’s show them the inside of the
hamburger there you see it actually did
cook it cook all the way through what
you weren’t sure it wasn’t question you
let me bite it I was pretty confident
Lee go take a look at this you see you
got the meat in there it’s fully cooked
if we break that open yeah you can see
it’s cooked all the way through nice and
juicy absolutely delicious Bon Appetit
mmm that is one delicious and juicy
hamburger that’s definitely one way to
put a little iron in your diet so there
you have a guy’s no more waiting for
charcoal to get ready we have just used
iron and aluminum powder to make the
world’s fastest starting barbecue ready
for cooking with in about a minute and a
half
hurray for science hey thanks so much
for joining me for this experiment today
I’ll be looking for in the next one talk
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