scaled up version of that where I just
get like a gallon of oil boiling and on
fire and pouring my head gallon of water
onto it I don’t know if this dome would
be big enough to contain that fireball
honestly that would be a lot of fire hey
guys I’m eight welcome back to the dome
where as you can probably see by my
breath it’s pretty chilly today we’ve
got another fun experiment salt and oil
are usually things that go really well
together on foods today we’re gonna see
if they go really well together when the
salt is 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit we’re
gonna melt down some salt until it’s
nice and liquid and then we’re gonna
pour that superhot salt on a three
different types of oil to see how it
reacts we’ve got some standard liquid
cooking oil we’ve got some butter and
then we’ve got some motor oil we’re
gonna try pouring molten salt into all
three of those and see what happens the
flash point or the point where these
oils should light on fire is well below
the melting temperature of salt so we
might be able to get these to light on
fire let’s find out let’s fill our
crucible of salt and fire up the ferns
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looks like a good amount of salt here
we’re gonna start using our cooking oil
and while our salt is just finishing up
melting in the foundry we’ll fill our
pot
now I don’t think that pouring salt into
oil will have any large splashing or
explosive effects but as a precaution I
am wearing this jacket I’m gonna even
put the hood up I’ll have glasses on and
I’ll have my thick leather welding
gloves like I said I don’t think it’ll
explode I hope it’ll light on fire we’ll
find out look at that is some toasty
salt all right here we go
three two one all right that lit on fire
just exactly like I was expecting it to
but I did not see the formation of the
salt coming at all look at the shape of
that it’s like coral or something in
there that is wild
that is so weird Wow also it kind of
smells like we’re cooking now cuz you
know salts and oil together
that’s not unpleasant yeah that sheep I
hope I can get that all out in one piece
from the pot it might be a little bit
fragile so it might break when I try but
yeah that is cool also the oil is just
still on fire it’s kind of interesting
because most of the oil I think is not
hot enough to be burning but it lit the
surface on fire and so we’ll see maybe
that’s now heating it up even more it’s
hard to tell
I haven’t lit a whole lot of oil on fire
maybe it’s something I need to play with
hmm I think the moisture from my breath
makes it angry it does not want to blow
out what do you think should I pour some
water on it of course I should I’m gonna
ah that was great
nice little fireball I love the way that
traveled up like that that looked really
good and interestingly it did put the
fire out actually I think it was that
the fire winds did fireball and might
have burned up all the oxygen so there
was no more for it to be burning but I
don’t really know but in the end it
looked cool
no one got splattered nice little tower
fireball and now fires out so we can try
and take our chunk of weirdly shaped
salt out there we go
that is what happens to our molten salt
when I poured it into the cooking oil
and I will tell you there were many
things I thought might happen it never
occurred to me that this would happen
now I’m curious if it will do that with
the other kinds of oil we’ve also
started to fry our board a little bit
because our oil is still very toasty
next up we’re going to see what happens
if we pour our molten salt on to butter
now this isn’t going to start as a
liquid so I’m sure we’ll have something
of a different result
I don’t even know it is that’s igniting
all right there you go molten salt on to
that’s a lot of pig smoking these most
of the flames went out though I hear it
bubbling a lot now butter has a lot more
water in it
butter isn’t as pure of an oil as
cooking oil it has a lot of other
chemicals and materials in it that
smells really good smells like something
delicious cooking boy that is some
boiling oil right there
still going it’s been there for like a
minute half so it’s obviously very hot
but I’m curious if it’s flammable so I’m
gonna hit that with the blowtorch and
see if it’ll ignite nope something’s
bubbling and boiling but it’s not
lighting on fire our butter didn’t light
on fire the same way or cooking oil did
but it did boil a lot and I think that’s
because there is some non oil components
to butter I think the milk fat that
butter is made from still has water in
it something like that and now it’s just
boiling and that’s why it didn’t ignite
but I’m curious to see what happened to
the salt on this one so I’m gonna
dispose of the butter and then see what
the salt underneath it’s looking like
alright so I poured off the melted
butter and you can see where the two
lower blocks of butter were still in the
pan so we’ve got the salt that poured
down melting the top two bricks of
butter and the bottom two took longer to
melting so I think the salts solidified
around those two blocks so we just have
the two gaps where they were then of
Sault number one salt number two well
we’ve got one more kind of oil to try so
let’s melt up some more salt
try it on that we’re gonna be doing this
with motor oil and it’s on five for the
motor oil lit on fire very similar to
how the cooking oil did making some nice
boiling bubbling action there too can’t
really see what the salt has done it
hasn’t reacted the same way we don’t
have the large coil looking formations
that we did with the cooking oil hard to
tell what we do have going on doesn’t
smell as good as it did with the butter
that smelled really good if we have the
oh it’s just so war but reignited itself
interesting how different those turned
out I definitely like the one from a
cooking away all the best that’s fun
because this is now cooled off so this
is salt that cooled down in butter
pretty good a little burned tasting but
I can taste butter and I can taste salt
that’s a good combo but it also tastes
like burning that part’s not great I’m
not going to try licking that one
frankly I’m not too interested in trying
to lick that one either although it does
look just beauty molten salt poured into
three different types of oil we’ve tried
pouring it into cooking oil
we tried pouring it onto butter and we
tried pouring it onto motor oil the
cooking oil and motor oil both burst
into flames almost immediately and
stayed burning the butter lit on fire
very briefly but then was put out and I
think that’s by all of the non-oil
solids and liquids that might make up
the butter it was very fun throwing a
little bit of water onto our oil fires
and of course that explodes and you
should never do that anywhere that could
catch things on fire like a kitchen or
most places at your house or anywhere
that isn’t a concrete dome with a dirt
floor this is a very safe place to burn
things and even so I was careful to be
wearing gloves long sleeves a hood
glasses thick pants everything to keep
myself protected I think by far the most
surprised I was at this whole experiment
was what happened to the salt when we
poured it into the cooking oil how full
of something I don’t know air or bubbles
or oil or something that the salt got
when we poured it into our canola oil
that part surprised me overall I’m glad
to have learned that salt does not
explode on contact with oil or anything
like that but it does catch it on fire
and that’s always fun hey guys thanks
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