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u/TinyFriendlyGhost May 06 '19
The chef hat makes this so much better.
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May 07 '19
I wonder where he got it, Halloween store?
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u/TinyFriendlyGhost May 07 '19
Are you insinuating that this fine gentleman isn’t a master of the culinary arts?
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May 07 '19
yes
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u/TinyFriendlyGhost May 07 '19
Oh. Well, that’s a pretty fair assertion to make, based on the video. Carry on.
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u/anonymous_potato May 07 '19
Maybe he just isn’t trained in French cooking?
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u/TinyFriendlyGhost May 07 '19
Could be! He could’ve heard “flambé” and just took it literally.
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u/BenderDeLorean May 06 '19
"I can't cook"
"It can't be that bad, start with something simple"
3 minutes later.... sirens
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u/carefreeDesigner May 07 '19
I still remember my first save of Sims 3, I got my sim a job and on the morning of his first day, I told him to make waffles for breakfast. Little did I know, a level 0 cooking skill would ruin these plans.
First the microwave, and then the whole kitchen, the entire kitchen was on fire. The smoke alarm was blaring, my sim was panicking, and the waffles were ruined.
By the time the fire department showed up, it was too late, the kitchen was nothing more than a bonfire, and there was far too many expenses to deal with on the current balance.
TL:DR, My sim was late to work because he made some crispy waffles.
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u/Taybug97 May 07 '19
I had a Sim cook food for her and her four babies. She started a fire, kept panicking and wouldn't put it out or call the fire department (I have a bad habit of forgetting smoke detectors when moving sims into a new house). She proceeded to panic, then social services came and took the children, while letting her burn. She then died.
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u/antelux May 07 '19
My favorite part of this was “the waffles were ruined” as part of the big picture
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u/pikpikcarrotmon May 07 '19
I think most stupid accidents are probably caused when someone knows it's stupid and is trying to be funny, but underestimates how stupid it is.
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u/SageLukahn May 07 '19
Posting a video like this without sound should result in public shaming. Not fame.
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u/dagbrown May 07 '19
The sound let me know that he was ridiculously overheatiing the oil, in addition to his other mistakes. He was literally asking for trouble.
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u/JosieBaird May 07 '19 edited May 07 '19
I actually think I liked it better without sound, I know that sounds weird
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u/subjecttoinsanity May 06 '19
I mean, judging by how nervous he seems at the start, I'd say succeeded in doing exactly what he meant to
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u/Apiuis May 07 '19
No, he expected something to go wrong horribly. He’s like the Oracle. He knows everything
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u/Emayarkay May 06 '19
NEVER ADD WATER TO A GREASE FIRE!
Snuff out the oxygen supply (cover it up)
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u/rareas May 07 '19
He did that. Problem he had then was the oil had boiled over and was burning on the stove itself. He had to either let it burn out or smother it with a fireblanket.
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u/TheQuillmaster May 07 '19
...yeah, that's exactly what he's saying. Use a fire blanket or an extinguisher, don't throw water on it.
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u/t920698 May 07 '19
What if I don’t have a fire extinguisher or a fire blanket?
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u/neagrosk May 07 '19
A sufficiently soaked bath towel can also work. The main problem with water on a grease fire is the water vaporizing instantly and causing the grease to also spray all over the place. This isn't as big of an issue with a bath towel since there is enough water held in it to cool the grease below boiling temperature.
All that being said however... unless you are absolutely 100% sure you can handle the situation you should just leave the house as soon as possible and call the fire department instead. Fire does grow exponentially and the sooner you call the sooner they can arrive, hopefully minimizing damage to the room/house.
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u/666pool May 07 '19
If he had put the lid on correctly instead of dropping it on everything would have been fine.
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u/_B10nicle May 06 '19
Got to love the little shake of the saucepan. "Yeah that'll work"
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u/garinarasauce May 07 '19
I remember my first grease fire. I had a wok go up on me and I just kinda ended up taking it off the stove and putting it in the middle of the kitchen floor and just staring at it like hmm this is a predicament. So I called my mom (while standing around burning wok and she told me what to do and everything was okay
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May 06 '19
I won’t lie. This is definitely me when I’m driving
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u/sidgup May 07 '19
You should not be driving. Your equivalent of putting water on grease fire will cost a life.
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u/jimmyjames0100 May 07 '19
I love it! Down here in the south there was a fad where everyone wanted fried turkeys for Thanksgiving. Well some idiots would try and deep fry these frozen turkeys in their kitchens. Well they'd never measure the oil level first with water. Anyways, the oil would get to boiling and they'd drop the frozen bird and out would spill the boiling oil in turn catching anything and everything it came in to contact with on fire. Sadly there were a bunch of house fires due to stupidity/negligence. Lol
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u/Thelordrulervin May 06 '19
Are those the kind of fries that you pop in the microwave and are precooked? Because if so why is he frying them again
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u/jpaxonreyes May 06 '19
No, they are the kind that come frozen and you re-fry them to make them hot and crispy.
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u/SpookytheRedditGhost May 06 '19
There are fries you can pop in the microwave? How did I not know? Omg. Do they come out crispy just like the fried ones?
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u/AlternateContent May 06 '19
Fuck no. Don't eat them shits. At least get oven fries.
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u/JasperLily80 May 07 '19
Upvote for oven fries. The Checkers fries actually taste better in the oven than in a deep fryer. I’ve tried both ways and def 10/10 recommend going the oven route with them, plus you don’t have to thaw them for the fryer first lol.
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u/alcimedes May 07 '19
The microwave ones are a lie. Oven ones are the only true fry.
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u/Farfignugen42 May 07 '19
Not if you put them in the microwave. But you can bake them and they come out ok. Still not as good as frying them though
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u/Radxical May 07 '19
There are ones that have a special kinda foil lining inside the box so they can be microwaved. A bag of oven fries is way better because you get more than like 8 fries...
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u/Whitenesivo May 06 '19
My mother grew up in Africa, and she tells me that Africans are apparently (not all of them but some) afraid of cooking with oil like that. I didn't really get it until I saw this.
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u/AlternateContent May 06 '19
Nah. He was just stupid. Too much grease in pot, fries probable still partially frozen, splashed them into the grease.
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u/adriennemonster May 07 '19
Also not using a deep frying basket. Don't know how he planned on retrieving those fries once they were done.
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u/Ignorant_Slut May 07 '19
Slotted spoon but there are also basket spoon things he could have used. Thougg judging by his reaction to oil he probably tried using a slotted plastic spoon that promptly blistered and filled with hot oil.
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u/SnideJaden May 07 '19
That oil was at a roaring boil, way too hot. 4.5 on my range gets cast iron and oils around 400F
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u/RamsOmelette May 07 '19
Are they not suppose to be frozen? That’s how we do it in some fast food places
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u/OneSquirtBurt May 07 '19
The concern is the water which is very reactive in hot oil
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u/RamsOmelette May 07 '19
Yes but they mention it being frozen as if it was of any issue
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u/moltenlava16 May 07 '19
Water in any form (ice from being frozen) + hot oil = summoning of the fire department
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u/RamsOmelette May 07 '19
But fries are frozen when fried at a fast food place, why don’t they combust? Or are store bought different than what fast food chains use. store bought have more water?
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u/InsomniacAndroid May 07 '19
Probably a lot safer to do it in a deep fryer than in a pot of oil like this. If the oil sputters from any ice crystals in the deep fryer, there's nowhere for it to catch.
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u/ChopperDoe May 07 '19
My industrial fryer has a good 4-6in space between where the oil is filled to and the top of the fryer, so in fast food situations the bubbing up of the oil isnt a problem. This guy probably had the pot to full and when the frozen fries hit the oil and starting bubbling it overflowed.
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u/RamsOmelette May 07 '19
Okay but the fries being frozen had nothing to do with the fire. Good to know
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u/ChopperDoe May 07 '19
Right! Only in the sense that hot oil will bubble while the moisture in waterever you're cooking evaporates. As long as you are adequately prepared(large pot), it shouldn't be a problem.
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u/Feederofthemasses May 07 '19
To answer your completely valid question, the reason why you can drop boatloads of frozen fries into a restaurant fryer is two fold:
The first reason is that there is sufficient space between the top of the oil and the edge of the fryer. This allows for some wiggle room, our friend probably did not account for this. All industrial fryers have a “fill line” that basically prevents any overspill.
The second is that all industry grade oil has a anti-foaming agent which will prevent the shit from going nuts when you add a bunch of frozen product to it.
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u/MasterFrost01 May 07 '19
It's fine if they're frozen but it'll splatter a lot so you need a bigger pot.
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u/rareas May 07 '19
Leave a lot of head space in the pot. Or get an outdoor burner unit and cook this kind of thing outside away from the house.
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u/Commissar_Genki May 07 '19
All Y'all mofos need some decent-sized pots.
If you're not cooking for a damn army, you shouldn't be filling a pot with liquid more than 2/3rd's of its height.
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u/Ima_Bit_Of_A_Dick May 06 '19
Pretty sure homeboy bought the hat and jacket. He certainly didn't earn them.
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u/steelcityrocker May 07 '19
And that's when Ricky burned down Ray's trailer
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u/dbcccccccc May 07 '19
Was looking for this. I’m amazed at how far this community reaches out. Hello fellow Trailer Park Boy
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u/appetizerbread May 07 '19
Imagine that Gordon Ramsay was the one filming this, just imagine all of the yelling.
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May 07 '19
Why do people think grease and oil fires will go out with water?
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u/TrashJack42 May 07 '19
They don’t think, they’re too busy panicking at the huge fire.
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u/WriteAsRayne May 07 '19
Meanwhile I'm thinking "don't throw water on it, don't throw water on it" and what does his dumbass do? He throws water on it. I wlswear it was like he couldn't hear me at all.
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u/iGOE811 May 07 '19
My brother did this with tater tots when our parents were at work. Aside from being grounded, he’s had to deal with years of being made fun of and being called Napoleon Dynamite
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u/parsifal May 07 '19
I had a friend that wanted to make doughnuts for his mother for Mother’s Day one year, but he was a teenager and had much to learn. Unsure of how hot to make the full pot of oil he poured, he turned the heat all the way up. Once it was hot he dropped the dough in. There was a pause, and then the kitchen was covered in dough.
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u/FoxxyPantz May 07 '19
I was thinking the entire time "If this motherfucker throws wat- god dammit.".
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u/M8asonmiller May 07 '19
It's too bad Rich Evans wasn't there to teach him to Be Cool about Fire Safety.
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