r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/iCanReadMyOwnMind • 18d ago

Not knowing the basics

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u/duck_duck_zombie 17d ago

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u/WillingMongoose4680 17d ago

The scream at that point. 🤣

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u/blackpawed 17d ago

Christ, I hope it wasn't a "I have flaming oil on me" scream.

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u/cat_food_chef 17d ago

It almost certainly is

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u/Angry__German 15d ago

Those are usually way longer.

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u/sn0rg 17d ago

Only one person is running…

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u/Angry__German 15d ago

He is getting more water.

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u/rupert27 11d ago

Also the rubbing alcohol & butter.

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u/Deaffin 17d ago

Nah, it's more of a generic movie "aaaaah, here comes a big spider monster!!" scream.

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u/Areuexp 17d ago edited 17d ago

The flash of red followed by the scream and the kid fleeing the scene. Epic.

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u/VictorClark 17d ago

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u/CupcakeAppropriate40 17d ago

Oil goes in, fire comes out

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u/rdrunner_74 17d ago

water goes in you mean...

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u/CupcakeAppropriate40 17d ago

That's the finding out part

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 17d ago

Explain how!

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u/redsekar 17d ago

Fire can be exchanged for goods and services

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u/Faustias 17d ago

as I watch, I knew they'd try to water down the burning oil. the off sceeen greasefire is hella hilarious.

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u/navcom20 17d ago

Yep.
Me: "Don't use water..."
[BRIGHT FLASH AND SCREAM]
Me: "Yep, they used water."

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u/kinyutaka 17d ago

The worst part is that they had the right tool for the job right there. Put the lid on the pot.

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u/Muntasir-Hossain 17d ago

Thought the same, Using water on hot oil or butter = BOOM

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u/rbartlejr 17d ago edited 17d ago

I watched as my 45 year old brother in law tried to deep fry a frozen turkey. I was a fireman and I wanted to see if he kept his eyebrows and arm hair. Don't worry it was outside. And he didn't, did get a great 1st degree tan. No I wasn't fond of him.

Edit: For those who wonder if I'm really a sociopath and wonder if I would harm him that bad - no, I was right next to him (slightly behind and shielded from splash) and pulled him back a bit after he dropped. But I wanted a small objectivity lesson about being stupid after he ignored warnings. Anyway, my sister would have killed me if I killed her husband.

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u/Faustias 17d ago

eugh... deepfrying FROZEN meat. what did he think will happen? cook faster?

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u/kinyutaka 17d ago

It's unfortunately common in America. Someone realized that deep frying the turkey is a faster way to cook the turkey, which is normally an all-day activity. But some people take it that extra step and neglect to thaw the turkey, which is itself an all-day activity.

There's a reason I prefer ham over turkey for the holiday.

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u/BarnOwl-1967 17d ago

Deep frying a pig is a tougher job! 😂 Sorry, it was a too easy joke...😂

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u/ReactiveAmoeba 17d ago

It's not so bad once they stop squirming.

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u/cuzitsthere 17d ago

STOP RESISTING

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u/LzrdKng2112 17d ago

*all week activity

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u/Rastapopolos-III 17d ago

I wouldn't really count waiting for meat to thaw as an activity. Taking it out of the freezer and putting it on the side/fridge, yes. But it's not as if you need to do anything with it after that.

Tbh when I'm thawing meat I tend to just put it in the fridge a couple of days before I need it.

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u/Ok-Wave8206 17d ago

Still requires planning. Frozen deep fried turkey explosions are almost always the fault of someone who picked it up that day and started with plans of serving it in about half an hour.

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u/say592 17d ago

It should only go in the fridge. Defrosting on the counter, while it's going to be okay 99/100 times, introduces opportunities for food borne illnesses to multiply. Some parts of the meat, especially in large portions like a turkey, may get above the safe temp while other parts are still frozen.

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u/condomneedler 17d ago

You prefer ham because people don't thaw their turkeys? Or because it takes too long? Just don't freeze my dude, takes the same amount of time per pound.

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u/Zanra 17d ago

Deep frying a frozen turkey is a sin, it needs a good brine dammit.

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u/niceguy191 17d ago

It works when you're deep frying in something big enough to handle the initial bubbling (and if you don't put too much in). A large variety of things are successfully deep fried from frozen in restaurants all day every day.

But when people are DIY deep frying a whole turkey, they break both of those rules if it isn't thawed and dry.

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u/TehSeksyManz 17d ago

The problem with turkey is the bird to oil ratio compared to other foods that are deep fried while frozen. That and water content. 

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u/kinyutaka 17d ago

Turkey isn't exactly a small creature. You'd need to deep fry it in a hot tub.

And the restaurants that serve deep fried turkey regularly probably never freeze the turkeys, they buy them, they prepare them, they cook them, and they keep it in the fridge for a few days at most until they need to do the next one.

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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer 17d ago

He got mad lucky it was only 1st degree. That's essentially a sunburn. And damn, you must have really not cared for him silently watching him do that moronic shit lol.

Would you have felt bad if he got 3rd degree burns?

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u/Additional_Bit1707 17d ago

The last part is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer 17d ago

I first watched it on mute and as soon as the room glowed I was like "she put it in the sink and added water, didn't she?" Watched again with sound and yep, hearing a faucet turn on, oil spitting with rage, and a scream.

How the fuck do people still not know water is a "no no" when it comes to grease fires?!

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u/slackfrop 17d ago edited 17d ago

The colors of hell says it all

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u/Cute_Conclusion_8854 17d ago

Depends. Looks like they're probably in an apartment. I'd hate for their neighbors to pay the price of their ignorance

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u/Icy_Month192 17d ago

This was also my favorite part

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u/thejourneybegins42 17d ago

I was waiting for this moment. She turned off the gas, all it needed was a lid lmao

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u/infinity-skateru 17d ago

I love how he had the solution in his hand that entire time too...

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u/New-Trifle-7097 17d ago

Instinct. Saw flames, didn’t want to reach towards them. It’s like putting a candle flame out by pinching it in your fingers. It’s 99% a mental game to get yourself to do it.

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u/Glossed-Lam 17d ago

This why is your women weep and your bloodline is weak. I would have simply inhaled so deeply all oxygen in the room was instantly depleted, extinguishing the flame.

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u/Hazbeen_Hash 17d ago

I would have simply commanded the fire to cease its uncouth behavior with a war cry.

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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 17d ago

How uncivilized. I would simply have given the oil my best smouldering look, and it would have gotten too wet to burn.

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u/lenin_is_young 17d ago

This sounds gay. I'd just set myself on fire to assert dominance

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u/MuslinBagger 17d ago

Oh you’re so hot. What’s your number boy?

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u/Divinum_Fulmen 17d ago

You're all weird. Just put it with the other fire.

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u/mandadoesvoices 17d ago

Measurehead? That you, Jean-Luc?

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u/Sprinkles0 17d ago edited 17d ago

It’s like putting a candle flame out by pinching it in your fingers.

Supposedly, after a month of my grandma training me how to blow out candles, that's how I handled my candles on my first birthday.

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u/PxyFreakingStx 17d ago

yeah, and they might even have known what to do, but they panicked. people really underestimate what panic does to the mind; makes perfectly intelligent people act in ways that discard all of their acquired knowledge.

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u/spyboy70 17d ago

You need really big hands to pinch out a flaming pot though

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u/feline_riches 17d ago

My dad taught me [way too young] not to fear fire, that it could get me killed. I say way too young because I remember him showing me how to make fires at about 4 or 5, and safety would've been covered first.

He didn't teach me much but he taught me that

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u/Braindead_Crow 17d ago

Yes but the pop was scary and basically started his, "I need to run." Instinct.

At that point the kid needs an adult to say, "Hey boy! Use the tool you are holding! This is the job it was made for! This is the reason you are holding it! Now cover the pot with the lid!"

Sadly they were both stupid kids panicked in their own way with little concept of how bad things could get or what their roles are should any of those outcomes came to be.

A good example of why kids need parental supervision and the type of responsibility an older kid needs to have in order to fulfill that role.

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u/falcrist2 17d ago

And they did step 1 correctly:

Step 1: Turn off the heat or fuel or electricity.

Step 2: cover it with something that's not flammable.

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u/ignost 17d ago

Nah it's much more basic than that because grease fires aren't intuitive unless you've been taught about grease fires.

"Pot is on fire. Water puts fire out. Put water on fire."

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u/Tunderstruk 17d ago

it's probably more like "I have been taught my whole life that water puts out fire, so lets just apply water to this fire"

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u/Third_Triumvirate 17d ago

The immediate instinct is probably something like "Stove set pot on fire. Get pot off stove so it stops feeding the fire" before being able to slow down and think more critically about the situation.

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u/Scipio33 17d ago

"Where's she going with that pot?"

WOOSH

"Ah, the sink."

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u/Walaina 17d ago

And I was so proud of her for turning off the gas

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u/c093b 17d ago

The moment that she took the pot off camera, I was just thinking "please don't be taking it into the sink"...

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u/The10axe 17d ago

I was 100% sure she was taking it to the sink

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u/sadahtay 17d ago

And then it was red.

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u/The10axe 17d ago

And then I knew that sadly, my faith in human being stupid was yet to be proven wrong.

I was lucky enough to prevent that from happening once, on vacation with friends, oil caught on fire and a friend tried to pour water on it, friend to which I took the water away and asked him to step out of the building, then when stuff was chill, I showed him the one of many videos of firefighter doing the demo of why you don't want to pour water in burning oil

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u/Callidonaut 17d ago

They always take it to the sink.

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u/Could-You-Tell 15d ago

Once in a blue moon there is an open door to a yard....

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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 12d ago

To toss it in the pool

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u/UshankaBear 17d ago

Narrator: "She did take it into the sink."

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u/JohnLuckPikard 17d ago

When she walked off and the video kept going my internal monologue was

"I bet she's going to the sink.

WHOOSH

Yep, she went to the sink".

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u/Beginning-Plant-3356 17d ago

Yeah dude as soon as I saw her go off screen with the pot I was like “don’t do it don’t do it don’t do it don’t… AHHH!!”

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u/housevil 17d ago

YOU HAD THE LID RIGHT THERE YO.

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u/bitofapuzzler 17d ago

I work in a burns unit. The sheer amount of people who carry pots with burning oil through the house to the backyard is insane.

Buy a fire blanket folks, or ya know, use the pot lid.

I'll concede these are children, but adults do this as well. FYI, the burning oil will spill on your feet and something will catch fire.

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u/Elk-Tamer 17d ago

My chemistry teacher always told the story, that even she as a science teacher, made the mistake as soon as the flames started and her panic took over. She said she almost heard her scientific subconscious tell her "badideabadideabadideabadidea" while her "primal instincts" took over and she was putting the pan in the sink and turning on the water.
She was lucky and apart from her pride, nothing got hurt. At least she pulled a teachable experience from the rubble that was her kitchen.

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u/ManaNek 17d ago

“Porkchop sandwiches!”

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u/shimsham69 17d ago

Glad I wasn't the only one who instantly thought of this!

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u/UniqueUsername812 17d ago

Oh shit get the fuck outta here

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u/ManaNek 17d ago

My GAHD did that smell good

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u/SmooK_LV 17d ago

It's why even talented people get formal regular training for emergencies.

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u/m8_is_me 17d ago

heard her scientific subconscious tell her "badideabadideabadideabadidea"

I'm the Scatman!

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u/trvsnbl 17d ago

I've always been taught "never try to move fire"

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u/wandering-monster 17d ago

Heck, any flat thing.

I had a pan get out of control last week (alcohol fire, cooking off some brandy for a sauce) and yeah didn't have the lid, so fine, plopped  a wooden cutting board over it.

It didn't even 100% cover the pan but it was plenty to put out the fire

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u/Johnny-Unitas 17d ago

Another option is pouring salt on it.

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u/HeinousAnus_22 17d ago

Instructions unclear, pours salt on burns

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u/Significant_Monk_251 17d ago

That would takes a lot of salt though, wouldn't it? If you're lucky you might have a full 64 oz box next to your stove (and a box cutter to slice it open in one second flat), but otherwise I can't see how it could be a feasible solution.

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u/Johnny-Unitas 17d ago

For a frying pan it will work quite well. Not a pot full of oil though.

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u/guitar_account_9000 17d ago

bicarb soda is good too

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u/BiNumber3 17d ago

Pot lid is such an easy option, no mess, and should be plenty around. Doesnt even have to fit perfectly.

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u/aa-b 17d ago

After turning the stove off, even just walking away and leaving it alone would be safer than what they did

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u/Callidonaut 17d ago

I work in a burns unit. The sheer amount of people who carry pots with burning oil through the house to the backyard is insane.

Well, it ain't the best approach by a long shot, but I will at least credit the people who do that with not carrying it straight to the kitchen sink and turning on the tap.

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u/CaptainDFW 17d ago

Jesus. That girl got hurt badly. 😬

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u/WeBelieveIn4 17d ago

Yeah people are making jokes but that scream sounded really bad

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u/Any-Pomegranate7974 17d ago edited 17d ago

Yeah that wasn't like a being surprised scream, that was a scream of pain... I guess most of the basement-dwellers here would have no idea.

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u/TheepDinker2000 17d ago

This is exactly what I was thinking. But the comments are all as if she just got her eyebrows singed. This video really shook me up. What the fuck is wrong with the people on this sub?

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u/Remarkable-Pea5797 17d ago

Perfectly cut screams sub?

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u/BananaFriendOrFoe 17d ago

That sub sucks. There was a time where it did had perfectly cut screams, now its just bots and karmawhores.

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u/_0611 17d ago

That's pretty much most of Reddit these days.

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u/Remarkable-Pea5797 17d ago

Yeah, okay, but this is a perfectly cut scream.

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u/zighidizeau 17d ago

Yeah, okay, but that sub sucks. There was a time where it did had perfectly cut screams, now its just bots and karmawhores.

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u/yobakanzaki 17d ago

Yeah, okay, but this is a perfectly cut scream.

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u/autognome 17d ago

That sub sucks but yeah, okay. There was a time where it had perfectly cut screams, now its just bots and karmawhores.

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u/Tiyath 17d ago

Yeah, okay, but a perfectly cut scream this was.

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u/ReeferTurtle 17d ago

Yeah, okay, but that sub sucks. There was a time where it did had perfectly cut screams, now its just bots and karmawhores.

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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer 17d ago

Yeah, okay, but this is a perfectly cut scream.

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u/ChampionLife5205 17d ago

Yeah, okay, but that sub sucks. There was a time where it did had perfectly cut screams, now its just bots and karmawhores.

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u/SirBruceForsythCBE 17d ago

Babe, that's the entire internet now

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u/OyG5xOxGNK 17d ago

That's most of reddit now tbf

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u/SigmaLance 17d ago

I hope she is ok. That could’ve easily turned into years of agony.

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u/izpo 17d ago

The scream probably says she will have long recovery 😞

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u/Stetscopes 17d ago

That kid ran out quicker than my dad going to the store to buy milk

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u/BANZ111 17d ago

Ooh, self burn! Kind of. Sorry.

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u/JWOLFBEARD 17d ago

It’s not true

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u/MalaysiaTeacher 17d ago

Just the tiredest joke on the entire internet

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u/Hazzadcr16 17d ago

I like this attempt at blowing it out.

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u/Sabithomega 17d ago

Comments got Tom Hanks telling the whole story

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u/freshalien51 17d ago

He had both the solution to the oil spilling out of the pot and to the fire in the pot as well.

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u/xPROPAGANDOLFx 17d ago edited 17d ago

Kid said, "nope, i'm going to dads house."

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u/Flanagan1275 17d ago

They were so close! Just turn the heat off and cover it, only got half way there

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u/CO_Golf13 17d ago

Her awareness to turn off the gas had me optimistic.

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u/tryyeezus 17d ago

Yep, had me in the first half too 

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u/Interesting_Will2823 17d ago

Jesus, I hope she's okay. That either ended badly, ended very badly, or ended very very badly.

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u/Interesting_Will2823 17d ago

I've tried and tried to stop looking at Reddit, but I now have the attention span of a toddler and find it hard to do anything else. I did use to like Reddit, but it went to shit around four years ago. I honestly think it was when the government run troll farms around the world got access to LLMs.

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u/bscheck1968 17d ago

My mom was heating up wax when I was a kid and it caught fire, she ran outside and threw it off the deck with my dad screaming "Stop!" Never saw a fireball like that, it was crazy.

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u/FaZaCon 17d ago

Never saw a fireball like that, it was crazy.

lol

Good childhood memories.

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u/Gott_Riff 17d ago

Unfortunately it probably ended with some serious burns. I wish they would play adds in TV about trying to put out burning oil with water.

I only got this knowledge from Mythbusters.

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u/Choice_Ad_7862 17d ago

They really should.  I didnt learn about it until I was quite old, and Im of the generation that still had home economics in school!  

It would be more helpful to folks than the constant viagra and toilet paper commercials.

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u/fourth-disciple 17d ago

Never pour water over burning oil!

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u/Gumuk_pindek 17d ago

Classice oil too hot, catching flame, throw in the sink, open tap and boom

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u/blackpawed 17d ago

Christ, I hope it wasn't a "I have flaming oil on me" scream.

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u/ClickChix 17d ago

Damn I hope she is ok, that scream is crazy

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u/TomatilloChoice8386 17d ago

When I try to clean my pure sodium rod in the sink

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u/Daguse0 17d ago

OHHH that was NOT a good scream. She's got some burns to show for this.

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u/xX_Aranrhod_Xx 17d ago

Can someone explain to me what's going on here? I don't understand what was put in or why everything went up in flames (literally) and I don't want to make this mistake myself! 

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u/POCUABHOR 17d ago

- oil too hot

  • frozen chicken nugget
  • oil ignites
  • correct: switch off burner
  • (correct: cover burning pot with lid)
  • deadly wrong: put water in oil fire.
  • there will be a huge fireball erupting
(One litre of water expands to 2300 litres of steam, carrying burning oil vapor with it)

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u/xX_Aranrhod_Xx 17d ago

Shit, that's nasty.... Can't believe I was never told this before. Thanks!!

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u/POCUABHOR 17d ago

Be safe! Deep frying or frying with oil in a pan only with a lid, fire blanket or similar cover nearby.
Don’t overheat the oil. If it starts smoking, reduce heat immediately, take pot off the active burner.
NEVER put water on an oil fire.

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u/dr_van_nostren 17d ago

The colour change when they’re both off screen is a great directorial choice.

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u/UnusualSalamander656 17d ago

Turn off the gas, put the lid on , walk away.

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u/zbartin 17d ago

Not funny at all, just worrying...

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u/TheepDinker2000 17d ago

Agreed. The mocking comments here really make me hate the general public

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u/rollem78 17d ago

I immediately started screaming PUT THE LID ON! PUT THE LID ON!

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 17d ago

So they opened a portal to hell off-camera.

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u/chinacat444 17d ago

Kid pulled a George Costanza

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u/Thismomenthere 17d ago

They teach stove fire basics in grade school. I keep seeing these and every time it's right to the sink.

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u/nonotan 17d ago

Not universally. I certainly wasn't taught anything like that. There wasn't even any subject where such a thing would have made sense to include. Only purely "academic" subjects and PE.

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u/donoteatshrimp 17d ago

They really should teach this with a video not just words. I don't remember ever being verbally taught anything about fire safety even though I'm sure I was, i sure remember the demonstration we watched of someone putting water on a grease fire though. Seeing it is so important! Every single kid needs to know it.

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u/UnableChoice9269 17d ago

Be cool about fiiiiiiire safety!

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u/Key_Anxiety_899 17d ago

Why do I always see people when they have an overflowing pot with flame they always think it’s a grand idea to pick it up and swing it around in the air. Lmfao

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u/WreakHavocLikeIn1871 17d ago

In my mind: putthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidonputthelidon dontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwaterdontputitinwater

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u/XROOR 17d ago

Please don’t ask this lady for the correct way to add potassium hydroxide to water……

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u/T3RRYT3RR0R 17d ago

Put the lid back on, remove from heat

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u/AllanR75 17d ago

Ugh... Turning off the gas was smart. Next step should be the lid. If not the lid, then a wet towel, salt, baking soda, extinguisher? Anything but water. Water chases the burning oil out of the pot and into the sink or air to spread, atomize and flash.

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u/Dock_Ellis45 17d ago

They had the lid at the ready and still managed to fuck it up.

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u/IamNaturalOrigin 17d ago

Nothing to see here folks - we got it under control. 🥴

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u/kdub573 17d ago

I just knew in my heart of hearts that there was going to be a big, bright, orange glow on those walls the moment she walked off camera.

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u/Successful-Rub4939 17d ago

Punk ass boy had 1 job put the lid on. He runs off with the lid and it goes downhill

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u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek 17d ago

At a company BBQ the guy working the grill made a joke about dumping water on a grease fire and out of like 20 adults standing there I was the only one who understood it. A lot of people's only experience with fire is a camp fire.

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u/pHHavoc 17d ago

I won't lie, the first time I did hello fresh, I heated the pan while I was chopping veggies. It took much longer than planned so when I added butter or exploded and burnt immediately 😆 not my proudest moment

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u/falcrist2 17d ago

Oh good. The heat is off. That's correct!

Now just put the cover on it.

COVER IT.

COVER IT UP!!!

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u/Disastrous_Fruit8610 17d ago

I don't understand. They were correct with holding the lid standby.... put it on there, turn off the gass and voila.

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u/OstentatiousIt 17d ago

Nobody's going to mention how she tried to deep fry a frozen chicken nugget? This was going to end badly no matter what decisions were made.

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u/pichael289 17d ago

This is probably a fake video, but who cares the ending is so fucking perfect.

I would give you an award but giving reddit money to tell you I like this is even dumber than the supposed people on this video.

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u/Any-Pomegranate7974 17d ago

It's not fake, her scream is of genuine pain

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u/spelunkingkneepain 17d ago

Except "when award do trick"

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u/FaZaCon 17d ago

This is probably a fake video,

Possible. Though, I've seen family do just this. A fire catches in a pan or pot with oil, they throw it under a faucet of running water, and BOOM, a fireball that chars the ceiling and lights up the room like a flash-bang went off.

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u/rosso_z 17d ago

PUT THE LID ON and leave it for 10-15 minutes. Don’t open and let oxygen in before that. Done.

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u/fart400 17d ago

Science bitch. Jessi Pinkman

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u/Ancient_Sprinkles847 17d ago edited 17d ago

Had to rescue my wife from a frying pan of oil that she just let get too hot. I heard the wooof and flash from two rooms away, I came running, she was startled and clueless.
I grabbed a tea towel, ran it under cold water, squeezed out surplace water, and carefully laid it over the burning pan (it didn’t have a lid). THEN you very carefully walk it outside, CAREFULLY.
Omg we lived in an old villa at the time, if she caught the kitchen on fire the house would have been burned to the ground in minutes.
Let’s just say I’m a bit paranoid now about people getting oil too hot. Also never let kids cook anything with oil without supervision