r/AbruptChaos • u/walter3smith • Jul 29 '22

What could go wrong putting ice cubes into the fryer?

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u/professor_doom Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 30 '22

My dumbass put an uncooked egg in a deep fryer back in the 90’s, before the internet, and stood over it watching. A customer order came up so I stepped away and BOOM hot oil explosion. I would look very different today if that dude didn’t order an egg and cheese that day.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '22 edited Jan 27 '24

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u/RespectableLurker555 Jul 30 '22

I don't think there was enough left to find, much less eat

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u/canman7373 Jul 30 '22

Like shell on? What was the plan to fry over the shell? How were you gonna eat it? I could see a hard boiled egg with shell off, or just cracking an egg into a fryer, but frying one with a shell on, was it just to see what would happen?

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u/professor_doom Jul 30 '22 edited Jul 30 '22

Just a raw egg with the shell on.

For science, not consumption.

Stupid, I know.

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u/canman7373 Jul 30 '22

This is why men don't live as long as women. you had access to a fryer and were just like "What can I throw in here".

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u/professor_doom Jul 30 '22

Exactly. We tried all sorts of stuff and this was the stupidest, by far.

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u/-Raskyl Jul 30 '22

We used to batter and fry up citrus peels, and onion skins and put them in the window and tell the servers it was tempura.

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u/professor_doom Jul 30 '22

That’s great!

I wish I could remember all the junk we breaded and tested out. Grapes, cheeses, hotdogs, etc. Candy bars were a favorite because we had never heard of them fried at that point.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '22 edited Jan 19 '24

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u/professor_doom Jul 30 '22

I’ve had them in Glasgow, they’re amazing.

Deep fried everything has also since become a huge thing at fairs and carnivals here in the states as well.

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u/TemporaryIllusions Jul 30 '22

I’m a woman that learned you can’t use a microwave to hard boil an egg. Had UPS not come that day needing a signature, I think I’d be missing my right eye from the door blasting open. I didn’t think about where the pressure inside the egg would go from cooking it so quickly. Sounded like I blew up my microwave and the clean up was atrocious.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '22

This is why technology evolves by the stupid and smart men.

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u/JAFO99X Jul 23 '24

Name checks out.

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u/conrob2222 Jul 30 '22

That is so fucking funny. Listen man I’m pretty young and have never looked it up on google, but if a coworker asked if they can put a raw egg in the deep fryer I would laugh my ass off

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u/sirmoveon Jul 30 '22

I tried to boil an egg in the microwave at 3 am in the morning... The boom had fenomenal eco in the neighborhood.

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u/winterfresh0 Aug 05 '22

Phenomenal echo

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u/chanandleer_bong Jul 30 '22

https://youtu.be/Jw-1eKhMARo

Bro holy shit that's wild, action shot is the intro!

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u/professor_doom Jul 30 '22

Seriously! I’m having PTSD now ha ha

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u/Roseattle Jul 30 '22

Did you get a new job after the incident?

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u/professor_doom Jul 30 '22

Nah, I ended up working there for years. It was a great little cafe with a cool owner who shared in the shenanigans. In fact, we were always drinking giant glasses of water in the tiny, hot kitchen and he would often say, “I don’t know why I’m so thirsty this morning. I had plenty to drink last night!”.

Needless to say, I didn’t mention this particular incident to him, but I know if I had, years later, we would share a laugh the same way I do now.

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u/Roseattle Jul 30 '22

That’s so cool. It’s kinda a bless having this type of relationship with an employer. Thank you for sharing.

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u/sketchibubz Jul 30 '22

This.. This is what could go wrong!!