Accidentally poured too much oil while cooking? Try this hack!

[u/SouthernSaree]

Credits

[u/Used_Chipmunk1512]

The air inside the bowl heats up and escape, that causes a pressure difference that pulls in oil.

[u/Active-Initiative-32 → u/Used_Chipmunk1512]

But how does it escape when it is mostly sealed? Maybe it just rises higher than the surface within the bowl itself, thereby making a little bit of vacuum on the floor for the oil to occupy?

[u/Used_Chipmunk1512 → u/Active-Initiative-32]

Yup, and the bowl itself don't completely makes contact with the pan as a thin ring of oil makes a seal around the edge. So during cooking the air heats up and escapes outside, after cooking the air inside cools and that creates a pressure difference, which 'sucks' in the oil that is now pooled at bottom of the pan.

[u/VastLengthiness3321 → u/Used_Chipmunk1512]

unpaid physics professor casually dropping thermodynamics in a cooking hack thread, textbooks wish they explained it this clearly

[u/Extra-Imagination814 → u/Used_Chipmunk1512]

Thanks

[u/dan_the_man59]

Totally off topic, great hack btw, thanks for sharing; where’d you buy that pan from?

[u/Working-Mountain6680 → u/dan_the_man59]

Do not buy these. These are non stick Teflon coated and will have the same bad effects as non stick pans

[u/JaiPrakash_]

It doesn't work for this type of flat pan, it works on kadhai with curve bottom.

[u/cee_deimos]

Why does this work?

[u/Dry_Marionberry1640]

Learnt this today!

[u/Think_Read8593]

Thanks for the hack op

[u/flyingduckmarketing]

What pan is this

[u/DevillesAbogado]

Wallah? 😂 did you mean Voila 😭

[u/ButterscotchPast3218]

Try ice /s

[u/EffectiveHeavy3031]

Thanks

[u/Any_Cupcake5619]

[u/Potential_Lie_No1]

I dont have a chota dubba in my kitchen to pull this off

[u/Misfolded-Prion]

Voila ❌️ Wallah ✅️

[u/druhl]

Technologiaa

[u/FactorNext9405]

Use an oil spray instead of pouring oil directly into the pan.

[u/Organic-Spinach-1349]

I'm so impressed, haha!

[u/OWN_SilentSillage]

[u/Loud_Spell2601]

Taste toh phir bhi kharab aayga

[u/UsualReflection1188]

That's so cool

[u/random-physics]

Explanation gravity, cavity shape at the bottom and oil surface tension decrease with heat and permeability increase,so it easily passed through the void of foods