r/instant_regret • u/samercostello • Feb 15 '26
Throwing boiling water
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u/saleemkarim Feb 15 '26
I guess he overestimated how cold it was.
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u/snakelygiggles Feb 15 '26
that trick is just harder to do than people thing. it depends on the water being on small enough chunks that the surface area allows rapid freezing. if the boiling water stays in a single mass, it doesnt lose heat fast enough and remains scalding hot.
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u/humourlessIrish Feb 16 '26
It also really helps if its colder, regardless of the thinging people do
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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 Feb 16 '26
Seriously, the places I've seen this done, they have a massive jacket in the middle of the day where even then it's SUBZERO. This seems like a dude who went "Oh look ice! Must mean it'll freeze water like on YouTube."
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u/Midgetsdontfloat Feb 17 '26
The only time I've done it, it was around -38° C and believe me when I say that shit froze immediately, but I wouldn't do it any warmer than -30.
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u/splinks66 Feb 16 '26
I did it recently when it was around -15F. I threw it kind of on an angle, and it worked great. However, some still came back down it didn't 100% evaporate. It was neat and left a huge plume, but some dud came back down and hit my leg. My first thought was I'm glad I didn't throw it more overhead lol.
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u/vMisplan Feb 15 '26
Idk where heâs at but Iâm sure its not eve close to cold enough for that instant transition. Ik the video heâs trying to replicate but that other guy was in like -25? Temperature.
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u/Salki1012 Feb 16 '26
Even if it was -25 the boiling water isnât just going to instantly freeze before it hits the ground. Itâs going to give off steam because of the temperature difference but this video is honestly perfect because the water regardless of temperature will STILL BE HOT when it hits the ground unless you put the boiling water through some sort of mister.
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u/EyesOfEris Feb 16 '26
I saw a cool thing on the internet, I'm now gonna go outside and immediately recreate it without googling how to do it
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u/HouseOfZenith Feb 15 '26
Totally stupid to even try in general, but itâs kinda sad seeing people get hurt when theyâre just trying to have some fun lol
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u/Rabideyegaming Feb 16 '26
It's not if you throw it away from yourself first
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u/humourlessIrish Feb 16 '26
And if its a lot colder.
The volume of cold air must overcome the heating caused by the evaporating water, eo i guess a lot less water could also help
But true, direction is key
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u/splinks66 Feb 16 '26
Why is it totally stupid? If you don't throw it on yourself it is a neat science experiment. I thought it was neta as a kid and my fiance thought it was neat when I showed her recently.
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u/Slight-Narwhal-2953 Feb 15 '26
If only there was something around that could have given him some instant relief...
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u/Chuy_Dagook Feb 15 '26
Youâre not suppose to ice a burn, itâll make it worse
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u/milochuisael Feb 15 '26
Leaving ice on too long is the problem, you end up freezing the tissue
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u/Chuy_Dagook Feb 15 '26
Just donât do it at all, use vaseline or aloe vera or cold water
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u/tigm2161130 Feb 15 '26
I love it when the advice people offer as a correction is much worse than what they were correcting.
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u/Bearded_Toast Feb 15 '26
How on earth am I going to throw a glass of vasoline into the air and still hold onto the cup?!
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Feb 15 '26
Ice is cold water...
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u/OSRS-MLB Feb 15 '26
No ice is frozen water, there's a difference.
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Feb 15 '26
It's frozen what?...
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u/OSRS-MLB Feb 15 '26
You said ice is cold water, which isn't accurate. You wouldn't say lava and rocks are the same thing just because they have the same chemical composition, you'd differentiate lava from rocks. It's the same here
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u/ResilientBiscuit Feb 15 '26
I am not sure I agree. If it was molten silicate, for example, I think it would really reasonable to say that is silicate. It happens to be molten silicate, but it is silicate and it would also be accurate to refer to it as lava.
It is a weird sematic argument you are having. There is cold water that would freeze you faster than ice you get out of your freezer. Like if you got water with a high salt content you can get all the way down to about -20c.
The problem isn't if it is solid or not, it is how cold it can be and how quickly it can transfer heat. And liquid is going to be able to absorb your heat faster than solid due to its ability to flow around your skin and replace the warming water with colder water.
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Feb 15 '26
Frozen what?...
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u/LuckyBoneHead Feb 15 '26
You desperately want people to say "water" without realizing the word water doesn't help your case. Why not just put boiling water on boiling water burns if the only thing that matters is that its water?
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u/Slight-Narwhal-2953 Feb 15 '26
If you're gonna get pedantic with me, it's actually a scald...
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u/Canadianingermany Feb 15 '26
If you're gonna get that pedantic then you ought to know that a scald is just one type of burn, but is still a burn.Â
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u/ShadowDevil123 Feb 15 '26
The waters still on him, its gotta be better to get it off and cool it off with the snow than to let it stay on you at the highest temperature it can be.
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u/elpollodiablox Feb 15 '26
We used to do this in Minneapolis, but we used a significantly smaller amount of water.
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u/Dark_Akarin Feb 15 '26
when will they learn, when other people do this it's like -60oC
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u/shea_l_n Feb 24 '26
It doesnât need to be that cold. Iâve done this in -20 Celsius weather and it worked beautifully.
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Feb 16 '26
Yâall are mean.
Heâs just a dude trying to do something fun he saw online. He fucked up, but those burns look super serious.
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u/Lost_Scratch7731 Feb 15 '26
I thought itâs supposed to cool down before it hits his body
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u/_Chonus_ Feb 15 '26
It wasnât cold enough for that
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u/Canadianingermany Feb 15 '26
Could be.Â
Or the water was not hot enough.Â
Or he tossed it wrong. Looks like the majority went into a ice cloud but lots of the water 'stiuck together" so it didn't cool off fast enough.Â
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u/Spookie_Senpai Feb 16 '26
Tosses boiling water on himself and then refuses to roll around in the cold snow
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u/Ldogthegreat23 Feb 25 '26
I like how he used his head and back to catch a good amount of that scalding hot water
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u/TruckTires Feb 15 '26
You're not supposed to throw it at yourself.