Hi , chef here - grease fires are the #1 reason for property damage and loss of life , nearly all major accidents in kitchens involves burning grease or oil - its very very very dangerous to do anything but choke the fire, so you would want to keep a lid around big enough to cover the entire pot/pan , and leave it until the entire thing is cold - as we saw with the lard fire that it keeps coming back if its hot enough so let i suffocate and then when its cold its safe .
Yep. Kitchens can be dangerous when you don't know the rules. Need to clean old grease. And please don't walk away with anything still on! I almost burned down our kitchen a long time ago when I walked away and forgot the stove was still on.
A tip for the home chef who might not have a good lid for every pan, and also is likely to forget to keep it nearby. Buy a fire blanket, they're cheap and can save your life.
I worked in a place that had a big cauldron to render liquid tallow. It caught fire one night, and one line cook no joke suggested dumping ice in it. They ended up the luckiest of lucky that they smothered the fire resulting, but that kitchen to this day bares the brief explosive inferno that occurred. Hair on everyone didn't come back for weeks.
They could possibly also have reached a greater height if they had used a taller pan/pot, so the sides would funnel the fire/explosion upwards at the start, rather than the flat pan where it can go outwards instead.
@@netheshramroop3281 I think the 30 foot comes from outdoor "kitchens", where people fry seafood or make fries. Throwing frozen food in hot oil is a disaster in the making and since many people are clueless, it happens a lot.
Karis face when she was absolutely dumbfounded about how fast the C4 took to explode while waiting for the boys to realize it but them just being excited about the explosion was absolute gold and hilarious. Also using a pregnancy as an excuse to eat cheese is pretty great too.
This one made me super uncomfortable because I have scars head to toe from a grease fire. Please people, don't ever put water on a grease fire! Either put a lid on the pan, or use a fire blanket to smother the flames!
Soup Can Fireball was terrifying because you can see the can shoot off at the same speed. It shot up about 30ft in 9 Frames, on the Slow-mo. So in about 1/3 of a second of slow-mo footage, the can was shot 30 ft into the air, and rising. I don't know the exact framerate of the slow-mo, so I can't do the exact math, but that's... terrifying regardless
A group of men with a small private yard in the middle of Wilmington DE decided to deep fry a turkey. I arrived after the fire department left. They neglected to removed the frozen gizzards etc. That oil was not on fire and the damage was done to a roof and porch one story up. I stopped attending that group's parties because the made the same mistake on purpose the next season. They tried to deep fry frozen chicken wings en masse, the still scorched wall left for the next ball of fire fun.
❤ ❤ thank you for reposting this episode, i watched it again after a long time, in the past week. And this afternoon, a pot with oil caught fire in my dad's kitchen!!! I was in such shock, the first thing i thought of was MYTHBUSTERS, NO WATER!!! After regaining my composure, some seconds later, i realised i should put the lid on the pot, and i also a wet dishcloth over the pot as well. THANK YOU MYTHBUSTERS, YOU LITERALLY SAVED ME TODAY!!❤❤
I feel like the reason someone would think to shoot cheese wheels from a cannon is because the cheese wheels matched the diameter of the cannon. I know the show stopped, but I wish they got wheels that matched the diameter with the wax wrap still on.
i made this mistake when i'm young, just learning how to cook... luckily i didnt burn the kitchens down but it also teaches me a lesson that i'll never forget... grease fire is scary stuff..
They poured water from too high a height. Before all the water had time to pour into the oil, an explosion occurred and the rest of the water was pushed away from the burning oil. The pot of water was much higher above the oil than if the pot had been held by a person trying to put out the burning oil.
They should've tested one more variation. - Heat 2 quarts oil until it burns - Pour 1 quart water to create the FIRST fireball - Pour 2 kilos of flour into the first fireball to create the SECOND fireball
Just an interjection here...... Those conditions are not the same as the inside of a kitchen..... Those flames would most certainly reach and exceed 30ft if not for the present wind conditions..... In fact, when those flames hit the ceiling they propagate to all the surrounding sources of ignition thereby further spreading the inferno.... Doing this test out side with windy conditions is skewing the data somewhat....
The grease fire "experiment" is soooo flawed, in a home you dont have wind to push the flames to the side, therefore with that information the fireballs can exceed 30 feet if the wind wasnt pushing it away from a straight line up
Oil is no joke. I met someone in school that has a scar in their eye. Grease jumped in it. There is a Brazilian athlete with a scar on his head, it was oil when he was a kid.
Ya but then they wouldnt have anything to film. Have to draw things out to the full run time you know what I mean? Include the neccisary suspense and drama to make their story.
Yes I agree, re-do but inside a warehouse that has no cross wind and I’m sure it would reach 30’ ! And if you do retry this myth can I suggest olive oil??
First things first, many comments claim that the fireball would reach 30ft if there was no wind, this is not a correct statement as the wind didn't remove momentum from the system but rather added sideways momentum. Second, the likely culprit is actual must likely the fact that the water was heated by being placed above boiling oil, with the water at a higher temperature it didn't have time to enter the oil properly and must likely turned into steam far quicker and therefore closer to the surface than a normal situation
Wind doesnt blow straight across land, it blows in flurries and vortexes. It definitely could have added downward momentum to the air column. But I still agree the test wouldnt have been much different
TECHNICALLY you can put a grease fire out with water... You just need enough water to starve it of oxygen. Which is an amount that most people won't have readily available.
As well as wind being a big factor, the water must of been pretty hot before they dunked it; I expect normally people will grab water from a tap. It would be room temperature at best, and probably alot colder. I might be wrong but I think colder water will get more of a chance to sink through the oil before it explosively vaporises, and the extra pressure will have a greater effect, hot water is more likely to flash on the surface. That's my hunch anyway.
That would have been another interesting experiment. I don't expect that it would have made that much difference though, given how rapidly the water turns to steam upon contact with the oil, and the relatively minor (compared to water vs oil) temperature differential between tap water and water at room temperature.
The dumbest smart guys on TV... "derp lets make a fireball in a windy environment, derp why didn't fire go 30 feet?". Fireball was 30 feet long due to the wind. Remove the wind and it would go 30 feet straight up.
@@cameronknowles6267I have multiple types and sizes of cups at home, so which one? For a show preaching science, their only flaw was not going metric (which is understandable, given their main target audience was the american, which still uses outdated Imperial measurements and customs in their day to day lives).
I wonder why don't anyone is talking about the obvious fact the there is clearly wind at play moving the flames away and stopping from rising upward.🙄🙄
paper wil catch fire in a microwave under 2 min, so all they needed was paper and a fuse, how i know: don't warm up mcdonalds to long hahaha Gouda is Dutch, it is pronounced like OW NO , gOWda, Gouda
Whats the lethal cheese name? Garrotxa slides better Garrotxa One of my favorite of all the Spanish cheeses, this is an artisan, unpasteurized hard cheese from north-central Cataluña. It comes in a gray, felt-like wheel and has a bone-white interior. This cheese has a very smooth texture and a tangy, and somewhat, grassy flavor laced with hints of hazelnuts.
I cannot stress enough to NEVER put water on grease fire, I was living above a older lady who dint know and I lost most my personal belongings forever, its not just you that you effect its everyone as well, remember if its grease use baking soda/powder NEVER water and immediately put a lid and call fire dept.
I don’t think there is one. The water is causing a steam explosion and aerosolising the burning oil. Since the oil is at auto-ignition temperature it ignites as soon as it has access to air, and when it’s turned into millions of droplets that happens practically instantly. You’d have to somehow remove enough heat from the oil to drop it below auto-ignition temperature, and I don’t think that’s possible, there are limits to how quickly thermal energy can be moved from one substance to another.
People in the comments arguing about whether it achieves thirty feet or not doesn’t matter because you don’t have ceilings that high. The main point you should focus on is a fireball hitting that large won’t burst through your shorter ceiling, it’s going to billow outwards and roast the ever loving fuck out of anything in the vicinity. Also, if you watch many of the drops of water into the burning grease, the reaction causes much of said grease to flood out of the pan and set fire in the immediate vicinity as well, which in a home kitchen grease fire would be your torso and legs. So yeah, just fucking cover the fire.
As a Brazilian I had to check that also, couldn't remember of that at school. But it was 1825-1828. It wasn't called Uruguay at the time, but the war was against that region. In Brazil we call it 'guerra da Cisplatina' between Brazil and 'provincias unidas do rio da prata'
I don't know where everyone had their eyes, but in the first grease fire test (canola) part of the fire ball was at 30ft - even with the quite strong winds they had. Without the winds, it surely would've gone higher. So call it "confirmed"!!! That doesn't destroy the show: Y'all know most of us are just waiting for the bigger booms, and take whatever results you get at the end to learn.
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Hi , chef here - grease fires are the #1 reason for property damage and loss of life , nearly all major accidents in kitchens involves burning grease or oil - its very very very dangerous to do anything but choke the fire, so you would want to keep a lid around big enough to cover the entire pot/pan , and leave it until the entire thing is cold - as we saw with the lard fire that it keeps coming back if its hot enough so let i suffocate and then when its cold its safe .
Yep. Kitchens can be dangerous when you don't know the rules. Need to clean old grease. And please don't walk away with anything still on! I almost burned down our kitchen a long time ago when I walked away and forgot the stove was still on.
We're always extra cautious when cooking with oil.
It's never unattended and we keep the lid nearby and we have a fire blanket too.
A tip for the home chef who might not have a good lid for every pan, and also is likely to forget to keep it nearby. Buy a fire blanket, they're cheap and can save your life.
The worst thing that people do in stress, pour a water in burning oil which makes even worse…
I worked in a place that had a big cauldron to render liquid tallow. It caught fire one night, and one line cook no joke suggested dumping ice in it. They ended up the luckiest of lucky that they smothered the fire resulting, but that kitchen to this day bares the brief explosive inferno that occurred. Hair on everyone didn't come back for weeks.
what kind of hero is in charge of this channel and reuploading these episodes for free
Banijay science or who ever owns it. Bought up all the rights to Mythbusters. Why they are uploading on two different channels is beyond me.
@@trizkit995 They're about 2 1/2 seasons ahead on the Banijay channel; probably to drive more traffic over there.
Not all heroes wear capes
Only works outside the US as well. Thats probably why it works
would be funny if Adam Savage would be the one in charge
The full-size test had a definite wind issue. I think it would have reached 30ft in dead calm conditions.
Came here to say this.
@@MarcosCodas Same. Quite obvious as well, but it would be a short episode if they tested it indoors (plane hangar or something).
They could possibly also have reached a greater height if they had used a taller pan/pot, so the sides would funnel the fire/explosion upwards at the start, rather than the flat pan where it can go outwards instead.
Who has a kitchen with a ceiling 30ft high🤔....
Definite wind issue and should be tested indoors...
But really... A kitchen with a 3 storey ceiling?
@@netheshramroop3281 I think the 30 foot comes from outdoor "kitchens", where people fry seafood or make fries. Throwing frozen food in hot oil is a disaster in the making and since many people are clueless, it happens a lot.
Find yourself someone that looks at you the same way that Grant looks at that bomb robot 😅
Entire kitchen is blown apart. Jamie: this is messed up, there's cereal on the floor.
Priorities!
lolololl
22:18 you can tell even the bomb squad guys were a little surprised it worked.
Karis face when she was absolutely dumbfounded about how fast the C4 took to explode while waiting for the boys to realize it but them just being excited about the explosion was absolute gold and hilarious.
Also using a pregnancy as an excuse to eat cheese is pretty great too.
This one made me super uncomfortable because I have scars head to toe from a grease fire. Please people, don't ever put water on a grease fire! Either put a lid on the pan, or use a fire blanket to smother the flames!
Of course, one of the only times I've ever seen Jamie without a hat, he is using his head to light a match.
"Do those pinchers go both ways? Was that too much too soon?"
I genuinely laughed out loud at that :')
Soup Can Fireball was terrifying because you can see the can shoot off at the same speed. It shot up about 30ft in 9 Frames, on the Slow-mo. So in about 1/3 of a second of slow-mo footage, the can was shot 30 ft into the air, and rising. I don't know the exact framerate of the slow-mo, so I can't do the exact math, but that's... terrifying regardless
well the wind blows all the fireballs to the right? so in non-wind environment 30ft could be reached easily I think..
Yes, I thought that too.
Honestly I think the same
Sorry to say the 1st test would of hit 30feet if not for the wind 😅
A group of men with a small private yard in the middle of Wilmington DE decided to deep fry a turkey. I arrived after the fire department left. They neglected to removed the frozen gizzards etc. That oil was not on fire and the damage was done to a roof and porch one story up. I stopped attending that group's parties because the made the same mistake on purpose the next season. They tried to deep fry frozen chicken wings en masse, the still scorched wall left for the next ball of fire fun.
Thats a weird accent on Washington DC
That soup can fireball might actually be one of the best on the show O_o
Nice use of Flight of the Valkyrie, during Apocalypse Kitchen!
Jamie: "You didn't"
Adam: "I did"
😅😅😅
The MythBusters loaded the cannon all wrong! They should have used Cannonbert Chese! 🤣
Now what about putting out burning water with room temperature oil?
No wait... 🤔
They just wanted to make bigger fires. Otherwise they'd be open to see that wind was taking those 5 feet to the side 😂
"I guess you shouldn't do that."
"No. Let's do it again!"
God I love these guys
❤ ❤ thank you for reposting this episode, i watched it again after a long time, in the past week. And this afternoon, a pot with oil caught fire in my dad's kitchen!!! I was in such shock, the first thing i thought of was MYTHBUSTERS, NO WATER!!! After regaining my composure, some seconds later, i realised i should put the lid on the pot, and i also a wet dishcloth over the pot as well. THANK YOU MYTHBUSTERS, YOU LITERALLY SAVED ME TODAY!!❤❤
I feel like the reason someone would think to shoot cheese wheels from a cannon is because the cheese wheels matched the diameter of the cannon. I know the show stopped, but I wish they got wheels that matched the diameter with the wax wrap still on.
whether it's 25ft or 30ft it's still enough to destroy a building
5:38 you can clearly see a flame ball at least at 30 feet, and that is considering wind is clearly messing up the result, would of been 40 feet.
Señor. Me has mirado a los ojos... Keep uploading these please ❤
i made this mistake when i'm young, just learning how to cook... luckily i didnt burn the kitchens down but it also teaches me a lesson that i'll never forget... grease fire is scary stuff..
Love the way Jamie says lard
15:25
Zombie Jamie goes "Laaaard..."
They poured water from too high a height. Before all the water had time to pour into the oil, an explosion occurred and the rest of the water was pushed away from the burning oil. The pot of water was much higher above the oil than if the pot had been held by a person trying to put out the burning oil.
I love Adam's joke at 1:59 and Jamie's reaction to it. Is there something wrong with me?
They should've tested one more variation.
- Heat 2 quarts oil until it burns
- Pour 1 quart water to create the FIRST fireball
- Pour 2 kilos of flour into the first fireball to create the SECOND fireball
The should have shown how to extinguish a grease fire correctly. E.g. remove it from the heat and put a lid on it.
Just an interjection here...... Those conditions are not the same as the inside of a kitchen..... Those flames would most certainly reach and exceed 30ft if not for the present wind conditions..... In fact, when those flames hit the ceiling they propagate to all the surrounding sources of ignition thereby further spreading the inferno.... Doing this test out side with windy conditions is skewing the data somewhat....
40:03 Adam's talking about his new fear of making fries and I'm transfixed by the utterly awesome flames.
Adam really needed a waterjet all those years ago. The signs and cutouts would have been so much more plentiful, creative, and efficient.
@10:50 is not from "Shooting a fish in a barrel"
Fantastic video. Maximum effort was clearly put into this. ❤
The grease fire "experiment" is soooo flawed, in a home you dont have wind to push the flames to the side, therefore with that information the fireballs can exceed 30 feet if the wind wasnt pushing it away from a straight line up
Does your kitchen have a 30 foot ceiling
@@bazzacorps No my warehouse does though
@@casperstour you should recreate it then
@@bazzacorps And spend time away from my businesses to recreate something that just takes common sense to know and get 0 views? Im good thanks
@@casperstour what is your business
They would of hit 30ft if the wind never blow it away
*would have
*would’ve
32:49 The numbers don't match the test results. They've switched the Smoked Gouda and the Garrotxa.
Oil is no joke. I met someone in school that has a scar in their eye. Grease jumped in it.
There is a Brazilian athlete with a scar on his head, it was oil when he was a kid.
I can see that the fire would have reach the 30 ft Mark on the stove but the wind didn't let it.
Ya but then they wouldnt have anything to film. Have to draw things out to the full run time you know what I mean? Include the neccisary suspense and drama to make their story.
Awww, pregnant Kari. Such a sweetie. 😊
IF there wasn't any wind, the 30ft would have definitly reached.
Yes I agree, re-do but inside a warehouse that has no cross wind and I’m sure it would reach 30’ ! And if you do retry this myth can I suggest olive oil??
First things first, many comments claim that the fireball would reach 30ft if there was no wind, this is not a correct statement as the wind didn't remove momentum from the system but rather added sideways momentum.
Second, the likely culprit is actual must likely the fact that the water was heated by being placed above boiling oil, with the water at a higher temperature it didn't have time to enter the oil properly and must likely turned into steam far quicker and therefore closer to the surface than a normal situation
Wind doesnt blow straight across land, it blows in flurries and vortexes. It definitely could have added downward momentum to the air column. But I still agree the test wouldnt have been much different
38:16 Jamie also changed the rules here and claimed the wind would mess with the fire ball results.
Dammit, now I want cheese.
6:04
Gav, is that you?😏
This is the only time where the bomb squad are happy to see a bomb go off
"cut the cheese" made me laugh (means to 'break wind' in UK = fart/trump)
For christ's sake, go around the side of the building and get out of the gale-force cross wind.
I'm gonna try that one, hi nice actuator you have there!
22:13 Safety! XD
This needs to be revisited with pool full of burning oil and a water drop from helicopter!
TECHNICALLY you can put a grease fire out with water... You just need enough water to starve it of oxygen. Which is an amount that most people won't have readily available.
Now I want grilled cheese
How I miss them....
It is Gouda Watching
How do you sleep at night after puns like that!!?!
Hey u should test if Jamie's beret is bulletproof lol😂😂😅
This show must have been so great for the police for visibility and community outreach
trust the Dutch to make cannon worthy cheese - lol!
I hope the cops let grant had a spin with the robot off cameras
As well as wind being a big factor, the water must of been pretty hot before they dunked it; I expect normally people will grab water from a tap. It would be room temperature at best, and probably alot colder. I might be wrong but I think colder water will get more of a chance to sink through the oil before it explosively vaporises, and the extra pressure will have a greater effect, hot water is more likely to flash on the surface. That's my hunch anyway.
Definitely how it works.
That would have been another interesting experiment. I don't expect that it would have made that much difference though, given how rapidly the water turns to steam upon contact with the oil, and the relatively minor (compared to water vs oil) temperature differential between tap water and water at room temperature.
The dumbest smart guys on TV... "derp lets make a fireball in a windy environment, derp why didn't fire go 30 feet?".
Fireball was 30 feet long due to the wind. Remove the wind and it would go 30 feet straight up.
"guuda cheese" lol
8 ounces of water? Had to google that. FFS, just use metric (just short of 300ml) and be done with it 🤣
They could’ve also said 1 cup
@@cameronknowles6267I have multiple types and sizes of cups at home, so which one?
For a show preaching science, their only flaw was not going metric (which is understandable, given their main target audience was the american, which still uses outdated Imperial measurements and customs in their day to day lives).
@@Lord_Ralph One standard cup is 250ml
@@DrBarbequeSauceAnd that is not taught in science classes 🤣🤣🤣
@@Lord_Ralph Not in America, lol. Also isn't that math, not science?
Kari❤❤❤
Mythbusters is usually pretty good so it's surprising that they didn't recognise that the wind was the critical factor from the very first test.
Im sure they did but what type of cable show would it have been if it ended after a minute?
I wonder why don't anyone is talking about the obvious fact the there is clearly wind at play moving the flames away and stopping from rising upward.🙄🙄
Was that an fj40 i saw there?
paper wil catch fire in a microwave under 2 min, so all they needed was paper and a fuse,
how i know: don't warm up mcdonalds to long hahaha
Gouda is Dutch, it is pronounced like OW NO , gOWda, Gouda
Even worse is when people make puns relying on pronouncing Gouda like it's a French word
I believe that without the wind outside, the peanut oil fireball would have easily been 30 feet tall!
1845 ppl found out about Grilled cheeze sandwiches
ppl before 1845 :
15:3 detail? ..without the sidewind it would problably 30 feet flame 🤷🏻♂️
Whats the lethal cheese name? Garrotxa slides better
Garrotxa
One of my favorite of all the Spanish cheeses, this is an artisan, unpasteurized hard cheese from north-central Cataluña. It comes in a gray, felt-like wheel and has a bone-white interior. This cheese has a very smooth texture and a tangy, and somewhat, grassy flavor laced with hints of hazelnuts.
I wonder if the temperature of the water affects the fireball height at all
Don't forget it's a TV show.
I think without wind it reaches 30 feet with ease
I cannot stress enough to NEVER put water on grease fire, I was living above a older lady who dint know and I lost most my personal belongings forever, its not just you that you effect its everyone as well, remember if its grease use baking soda/powder NEVER water and immediately put a lid and call fire dept.
Never use any kind of powder! Dust explosions are as dangerous as grease fire explosions
it would have been 30 fett without the wind.
i know they supersized it at the end but im curious what the actual ratio of water is to smother without fireball
I don’t think there is one. The water is causing a steam explosion and aerosolising the burning oil. Since the oil is at auto-ignition temperature it ignites as soon as it has access to air, and when it’s turned into millions of droplets that happens practically instantly.
You’d have to somehow remove enough heat from the oil to drop it below auto-ignition temperature, and I don’t think that’s possible, there are limits to how quickly thermal energy can be moved from one substance to another.
then howcome my plate is near melting point while my food is still almost frozen?
What was the time they put the microwave in the movie ???
1 minute
my question is what kitchen has 30 foot ceilings?
So in this Episode they put c4 in a Microwave,nothing happend.
2 years later (S8)
"Lets try cooking with c4,maybe it explodes..."
Waste of time...
They confirmed the myth because who has a 30 foot kitchen
Instead of Water, can you use a sand to kill the grease fire?
what about a lower setting on the microwave?
Btw wind makes a test fail
Just so people know all the episodes of this are the wrong season and episode in the title
Does the frying pan say not for cooking food
People in the comments arguing about whether it achieves thirty feet or not doesn’t matter because you don’t have ceilings that high.
The main point you should focus on is a fireball hitting that large won’t burst through your shorter ceiling, it’s going to billow outwards and roast the ever loving fuck out of anything in the vicinity. Also, if you watch many of the drops of water into the burning grease, the reaction causes much of said grease to flood out of the pan and set fire in the immediate vicinity as well, which in a home kitchen grease fire would be your torso and legs. So yeah, just fucking cover the fire.
"That's what yummie sounds like".. I don't know why but this sentence made me laugh a lot. 😂
It's a shame that he had to die so young.
im uruguayan, uruguay and brasil never fought a war
As a Brazilian I had to check that also, couldn't remember of that at school. But it was 1825-1828. It wasn't called Uruguay at the time, but the war was against that region. In Brazil we call it 'guerra da Cisplatina' between Brazil and 'provincias unidas do rio da prata'
never heard that one before either
I don't know where everyone had their eyes, but in the first grease fire test (canola) part of the fire ball was at 30ft - even with the quite strong winds they had. Without the winds, it surely would've gone higher. So call it "confirmed"!!! That doesn't destroy the show: Y'all know most of us are just waiting for the bigger booms, and take whatever results you get at the end to learn.
Grant almost cheated on deadblow
8:16 Kari got TOLD! Go Tori! That shut her up!💪💪💪
Perhaps if we all band together and demand cheaper grease, the fires won't cost millions of dollars per year.
What if u add ice or dryice to a Greece fire
Mythbusters supporting their local community by creating outrageous training situations for their local fire department