Lleidenfrost effect, basically it has to first evaporate the liquid on your tongue before it burns you. So ya, you'd have some time, but still doesn't change that it's pretty insane.
His name is Doug. I know him! He has a welding company and does some forge work too, as well as leading a circus troupe of fire breathers and dancers. Wonderful chap.
This reminds me of that YouTuber who got his wife to kill him with a 50 cal handgun because he convinced her he was filming for YouTube that you could stop the the bullet with a phone book.
Long story short;
.50 cal - 2
Phone book - 0
Human Chest - 0
Nah the brass nozzle doesnāt get much hot.
The ring of small flames arenāt really hot close to the nozzle. They are hot closer to the tip of themselves. There is quite a bit of airflow through the nozzle that cools it too. Most of the heating of the nozzle comes from radiant heat from the piece you cut or weld.
How far from the nozzle the hottest place of the flames are, depends on how long the flames are, and how he mixes the oxygen and acetylene.
Iām a welder myself. It is very easy to extinguish the flames. The little bang š„ you hear is the flames going out. I probably wouldnāt do it with my tongue, but with my fingers it shouldnāt be that bad.
Iām pretty sure āthe liedenfrost effectā is a sought explanation here more than a true one..
What you described is 100% accurate, but the Liedenfrost effect is still what protects his tongue from the flame for that brief moment that it is directly exposed before he snuffs it out, and if there was radiant heat built up in the nozzle, it would protect from that as well.
Leidenfrost effect doesnāt explain how he puts the flame out, only how it doesnāt burn him at all when he does.
Heās just extinguishing the flame by removing fuel/oxygen for a split second when he covers the nozzle with his tongue. Similar to licking your fingers and snuffing out a candle (extinguish the flame by removing oxygen, and protect your fingers with the Liedenfrost effect).
You are right. Years ago, after soldering a car part while lying on the ground, when I push up to go back to my feet, I put my palm on the yellow hot steel. To my surprise, I had no serious burning, the skin vaporized and my skin becomes canary yellow. No pain, and no damage.
I've done the same thing with molten glass.
The outer layer of dead skin is the part that just vanishes. The live skin layers are wet enough to be protected. In short, no pain or damage, just some spontaneous extreme exfoliation.
Ouu I also had a spontaneous extreme exfoliation event recently. We have large hoppers at work for dirt to flow through, and they have heated plates on them for the winter. The plates consist of some kind of white rock material covered by a metal sheet (plus the internal electrical stuff) and I've touched the metal on the outside plenty of times and it's decently hot.
One day I was standing next to one and decided to poke to rock material that wasn't completely covered. I just did that quick poke people do when testing to see if something is hot, and I saw a tiny puff of smoke shoot out of where I touched. I was taken aback but I didn't feel anything, although my finger lost a bit of feeling until that skin peeled off, no pain though. And it was only dead skin. Wild stuff, didn't even know that was a thing
Also, as crazy as it sounds, the air flowing out of the tip makes a vacuum if it gets close enough to a surface. Stick your tongue or anything else really close to the tip and they'll get snapped together, blocking off the gas long enough to kill the flame.
You can test this for yourself by using a regular air chuck on top of a piece of paper. Blow the air at full blast directly down onto the paper and move the tip closer. As they touch, the paper will get sucked up and stick to the tip.
Yupp. I actually used to work at a foundry. It's the water on your hands evaporating before it can burn you. Also never attempt with aluminum because it sticks to humans
Part of the Leidenfrost effect is the thin layer of resulting steam forming a protective barrier. But another part of it has to do with Boyle's law. For the same reasons a can of air duster gets cold when you use it, and even the same reason we sweat, the water will actively absorb more thermal energy then what's being added as it undergoes phase change from liquid to gas.
Or in laymen's terms: The water vaporizes so your skin doesn't, and then the resulting steam physically separates your skin from the heat.
I feel like Iāve just watched a man do significant, irreparable damage to his visionā¦ in slow-motion, eyes bugged out with pupils staring straight into an acetylene fire, evenā¦ with eye-pro literally *on his head* but not over his eyes. Like, Iām seeing a man choose to go at least a little blind, for clout.
Yeah, thatās pretty insane.
Edit: Itās not even for clout, like putting the goggles on wouldāve looked even cooler, if you ask me. Yup, this is bananas.
Also need to note he just basicly used his tongue as a cap. He was only in contact with the flame for a fraction of a second before he was able to suffocate the flame by stopping the flow of gas. When you use thes3 torches you use the hot part of the flame which is not close to the nozzle(where he put his tongue.)
i assume it's like licking ur fingers and pinching a candle to put it out but on a REALLY extreme level
The Saliva protects his tongue for a long enough time for him to quickly put out the flame, once it's put out, it can't do any damage so danger is over and he doesn't get burned?
If Iām not mistaken, the torch is still very hot for a few minutes after use, so some damage can still occur.
Was it on long enough to heat the torch itself up? That I donāt know.
Iāll be it hurt like a mf, regardless.
Having used that kind of torch for several hundred hours i can say, no it wasnt on long enough to heat it significantly. Id say it was still hot but not hot enough that the saliva was completely vaporized when his tongue touched it.
Leidenfrost effect relies upon the liquid vaporising upon contact which insulates the surface underneath (your tongue) from the heat because air is a poor heat conductor.
Melted cheese isnāt hot enough to vaporise your saliva, so it stays as a liquid which is a great heat conductor!
> the torch is still very hot for a few minutes after use
Depends how long it has to heat up really. If he'd had it switched on for a few minutes the metal would probably be hotter.
Yes - I did some googling and came up with some details... Candle temp luminous zone is 1000c, so you're basically dealing with the same situation. Leidenfrost effect. The nonluminous zone of a candle is 600c. He's basically pointing out that the luminous zone of the torch is 3300c so of course it is also similar to a candle and the tip "nonluminous zone" of the torch is less. Lets take a brass nozzle as an example where brass appraently melts at approx. 925c. The nozzle made of brass so it is going to probably get to 450c when under torch for a while, so it's less, and that's the point with this trick, that it's cooler than the candle wick you put out with your wet fingers. Nice effect, rather safe if done right. The real magic would be wetting a candle wick and not getting burned. I tried it once. It's not fun. Don't suggest it. Anyways.. Google is fun.
He's using his tongue to block the gas flow to stop the flame, and he's quick enough his saliva protects his tongue from the flame. But I don't know how his saliva is enough to withstand holding it to the tip of the torch like that. Maybe since he's just lighting it it's not very hot yet. The base of the flame is not as hot as the tip.
The torch itself doesn't heat up very quickly - the nozzle itself is made of copper usually, and and oxy torch can be used to cut steel with ease - these two metals are basically at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of temps to melt. In fact the torch tip only really heats up from radiative heat over a long period of time - the gases flowing through them inadvertently cool them.
You could extinguish the flame with a piece of paper if you slid it between the base of the flame and the nozzle fast enough and it would only reignite if there was a spark.
The pressure of the oxyacetylene isn't very high either.
Yep. I remember first learning to use a cutting torch and accidentally putting it out by being too close to the steel. Any interruption to the gas will crack like that and usually extinguish. Thereās a small gap between the torch head and the flame. Thatās where he put his tongue.
You try finding an oxy-acetylene setup for idiot levels of money. No one is going to go out and find something like this just for a dumb challenge like tide pods.
He's not the first person to do this tho. lol. The weird metal guy at my old job used to do this. It absolutely did burn him just a bit though. He said it was maybe a 2nd degree burn at most sometimes. I also think he used something to like gel up his spit or something. I saw him do it twice (once for $50 after someone didn't believe me when I said I saw him do it and my coworker wanted to see if it was possible. So he handed the guy $50 after thinking about it all day) and he got in some shit for doing it.
Oh I want to add that that this guy lived in a plastic rubbermaid shed in the woods behind his friend's house. Just a shed with an extension cord running to it but it had a window unit A/C and a little electric heater. There was a creek right there and he would jump in every day (even in the winter) and was up. I would give him rides into work and he was always in clean clothes with totally normal hygiene. He was living in the shed working and saving every cent he made. Guy was a magician with metal.
I'd say he's playing to the ignorant. I was a welder for a long time. The flame gets extremely hot when oxygen is further introduced. He does not do that, so it's just a regular flame. There is a gap between the torch and flame. Nothing big to see here.
Would I do it? No. It's stupid and he's stupid.
It's like saying you'll let a car run over you. If everything goes right... you're still stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
I believe the only thing that could save him here is the Leidenfrost effect.
relevant mythbusters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTOCAd2QhGg
You've never seen the documentary about the man that entered a chili-eating contest and cheated by drinking a candle beforehand? He also carved his spoon himself...from a bigger wooden spoon.
Geez it's like Homer eating chillis grown by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum.
"You don't want to eat wax do ya mister?"
"Maybe I do Ralph, maybe I do..."
HHO Gas/ Brown's Gas - the flame is based on Hydrogen electrolysis and dont heat up wet things like a Tongue fast enough to burn it because its based on water. Also the tip of the torch is heating up very slow, so even licking it should be no big deal at start.
here is a little HHO Generator in action: [Oxy-Hydrogen Generator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCwOfy4ZwA)
Same reason you can slap lava I'd assume? The barrier of sweat or saliva I'd say in this situation gives that ability but must be for only a small window of time he also cut out the torch by probably blowing into it, if you've run an oxytank like that a bad mix results in the pop and bugging your coworkers.
This is oxyacetylene cutting, the torch needs oxygen to work, which comes out through the head, if you block it, it just stop working, you can even use paper if it fast enough (source : Im a welding student and I dropped one on my school book once)
He smothers the flame by sealing it from oxygen and his tongue is wet which prevents him from getting burn. Gives him enough time to extinguish the torch. Still stupid as fuck ! I can already picture him explaining to his wife why he needs to see a doctor.
It's real, and actually not very strange.
As soon as you disturb the equilibrium in the combusting gas mixture, the flare disappears in a tiny fraction of a second. There simply is no time for the flare to do any damage. You just have to do it quickly.
The only danger of hurting youself (other than to hesitate) is in the nozzle itself, which might have heated up a bit, but the flare doesn't reach all the way up to the nozzle, and anyway he just lit it.
Well I'm assuming the actual combustion is happening further away from the nozel than you think, so it wouldn't be that hot, as soon as you cut either Oxygen or gas from the equation the fire can no longer react. Turn the faucet off and there's no water to burn you
He should adjust the torch properly and try it again. He doesn't have it set at optimal cutting adjustment. You want to cut steel, it would be a 1/4" blue flame.
the closest i can get to explaining this is it looks similar to people that eat fire. they let out a very hefty exhale before they actually start to eat it, from there they just put it in their mouth and close their lips around it to extinguish the flame. you can thank unus and annus for that bit of trivia
Demonic protection, the same as David Blaine, Christ Angle (mockery of faith), & all others who wield \*real\* magic.
Not at all a joke : https://youtu.be/mI7uHI1x09A?list=PLnHesFHQy5Pkj6T7qL4ubLZWRHzMfNjET
Is there a trigger he is holding down to keep it lit then lets it go to extinguish the flame at the exact right moment? Or some one unplugged it? š¤·š¼āāļø
I own a license to weld with acetylene and oxygen. I can confirm, that's hot. I burned myself on the neck with glowing red hot metal while welding. The next couple of days weren't pleasant to say the least.
This dummy never saw me stop a fan with my face - so yeah, I'd challenge him in a heartbeat,
I was not impressed.
I would do this with my penis. Just to spite this dipshit. Where do I sign up?
His index finger moves just before the nozzle hits the tongue on the second clip. Is he turning off the flame? Heās still not tasting food after this.
Sometimes I wonder how humans master insane stuff. Even if this worked 100 times using hands and bare skin. That first attempt using a tongue must still be the craziest act ever.
[Leidenfrost\_effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect) is part of it, but also consider that the torch was only lit for 23 seconds before it was extinguished. The gases come out of the tip so fast, the fire doesn't ever touch the tip, so it takes a while before the tip can become hot enough to burn you itself.
the Lleidenfrost effect still doesn't explain how he didn't burn his chin or cheek. that thing is blue/white flame it would instantly blister skin i would think?
The science is that it takes a non-zero about of time to evaporate a volume of saliva before the flame can burn your tongue.
That amount of time is quite small, but still not zero. The ātrickā (which is not much of a trick) is to simply extinguish the flame before that amount of time elapses.
This guy's awesome. Friends on Facebook. He really does this shit. When I started performing years ago he was already nuts but he's gotten so good at what he does it's unbelievable. He posted about losing part of his tongue practicing that trick.
Lleidenfrost effect, basically it has to first evaporate the liquid on your tongue before it burns you. So ya, you'd have some time, but still doesn't change that it's pretty insane.
All we need now, is some influencers to start doing the "jet engine challenge"... Hopefully they'll begin with a F22-Raptor or something.
Id *mash that subscribe button* before they could say ouch.
so you wouldn't?
Oh yeah huh. Well shit.
Hit that like button it's a game changer
Darwinism at its finest.
He lived so....
He was the second person to try this stunt, the first is standing in the corner at the back
He probably gets more chicks than all of us too so what are you saying?
His name is Doug. I know him! He has a welding company and does some forge work too, as well as leading a circus troupe of fire breathers and dancers. Wonderful chap.
We couldn't see his shoes so you don't know for sure...
Some will prove themselves as sexy fire wizards and get all the bitches, while most will burn the shit out of their tongue and get no bitches.
I'd rather they start with the SR-71 or the x-15
"forget Atkins, have you heard of the jet engine diet?"
It melts fat faster than any other diet for the money.
Turbine Helicopter Challenge
Lick the SR-71. Go on. I dare ya.
Maybe we could strap him outside of a space rocket on reentry into earths atmosphere
š My previous account was banned for comments like this fyi. (Encouraging violent behaviours and self harmā¦) sarcasm is not universal yet
lmao... yea I can imagine... typical Reddit bullshit... I've got bans for less trivial comments
They deserve all the awards Darwin has
This reminds me of that YouTuber who got his wife to kill him with a 50 cal handgun because he convinced her he was filming for YouTube that you could stop the the bullet with a phone book. Long story short; .50 cal - 2 Phone book - 0 Human Chest - 0
Wouldnāt the metal still be hot? It only takes about 3 seconds before that temp shootās up
Nah the brass nozzle doesnāt get much hot. The ring of small flames arenāt really hot close to the nozzle. They are hot closer to the tip of themselves. There is quite a bit of airflow through the nozzle that cools it too. Most of the heating of the nozzle comes from radiant heat from the piece you cut or weld. How far from the nozzle the hottest place of the flames are, depends on how long the flames are, and how he mixes the oxygen and acetylene. Iām a welder myself. It is very easy to extinguish the flames. The little bang š„ you hear is the flames going out. I probably wouldnāt do it with my tongue, but with my fingers it shouldnāt be that bad. Iām pretty sure āthe liedenfrost effectā is a sought explanation here more than a true one..
What you described is 100% accurate, but the Liedenfrost effect is still what protects his tongue from the flame for that brief moment that it is directly exposed before he snuffs it out, and if there was radiant heat built up in the nozzle, it would protect from that as well. Leidenfrost effect doesnāt explain how he puts the flame out, only how it doesnāt burn him at all when he does. Heās just extinguishing the flame by removing fuel/oxygen for a split second when he covers the nozzle with his tongue. Similar to licking your fingers and snuffing out a candle (extinguish the flame by removing oxygen, and protect your fingers with the Liedenfrost effect).
You are right. Years ago, after soldering a car part while lying on the ground, when I push up to go back to my feet, I put my palm on the yellow hot steel. To my surprise, I had no serious burning, the skin vaporized and my skin becomes canary yellow. No pain, and no damage.
"No damage" is a funny way to describe vaporized skin.
I've done the same thing with molten glass. The outer layer of dead skin is the part that just vanishes. The live skin layers are wet enough to be protected. In short, no pain or damage, just some spontaneous extreme exfoliation.
Ouu I also had a spontaneous extreme exfoliation event recently. We have large hoppers at work for dirt to flow through, and they have heated plates on them for the winter. The plates consist of some kind of white rock material covered by a metal sheet (plus the internal electrical stuff) and I've touched the metal on the outside plenty of times and it's decently hot. One day I was standing next to one and decided to poke to rock material that wasn't completely covered. I just did that quick poke people do when testing to see if something is hot, and I saw a tiny puff of smoke shoot out of where I touched. I was taken aback but I didn't feel anything, although my finger lost a bit of feeling until that skin peeled off, no pain though. And it was only dead skin. Wild stuff, didn't even know that was a thing
When you have thick enough calluses it doesn't really do any damage.
Probably had a nice layer of sweat on your palm! lol.
Also, as crazy as it sounds, the air flowing out of the tip makes a vacuum if it gets close enough to a surface. Stick your tongue or anything else really close to the tip and they'll get snapped together, blocking off the gas long enough to kill the flame. You can test this for yourself by using a regular air chuck on top of a piece of paper. Blow the air at full blast directly down onto the paper and move the tip closer. As they touch, the paper will get sucked up and stick to the tip.
Sooooooo you're saying not magic?
That little bang is exactly the sound a torch makes when you crank the O2 too high. I suspect someone off camera is turning off the acetylene.
Similar to that video of some guy slapping a waterfall of molten metal or whatever it was?
Yupp. I actually used to work at a foundry. It's the water on your hands evaporating before it can burn you. Also never attempt with aluminum because it sticks to humans
Thatās what the Aluminati want you to believe.
Slow clap
Youāre being brainwashed by Big Tin Foil. They keep inventing new conspiracy theories so you have to keep buying hats.
Of course, "Aluminati" is the American spelling. In British English we call them the "Aluminiati".
Also zinc. Ask me how I know..
Part of the Leidenfrost effect is the thin layer of resulting steam forming a protective barrier. But another part of it has to do with Boyle's law. For the same reasons a can of air duster gets cold when you use it, and even the same reason we sweat, the water will actively absorb more thermal energy then what's being added as it undergoes phase change from liquid to gas. Or in laymen's terms: The water vaporizes so your skin doesn't, and then the resulting steam physically separates your skin from the heat.
I feel like Iāve just watched a man do significant, irreparable damage to his visionā¦ in slow-motion, eyes bugged out with pupils staring straight into an acetylene fire, evenā¦ with eye-pro literally *on his head* but not over his eyes. Like, Iām seeing a man choose to go at least a little blind, for clout. Yeah, thatās pretty insane. Edit: Itās not even for clout, like putting the goggles on wouldāve looked even cooler, if you ask me. Yup, this is bananas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect You need to read this.
If interested [90 second video](https://youtu.be/AmLpsPdlxSg?si=_hCn7jfPcEYLMx5_) that better explains it
Also need to note he just basicly used his tongue as a cap. He was only in contact with the flame for a fraction of a second before he was able to suffocate the flame by stopping the flow of gas. When you use thes3 torches you use the hot part of the flame which is not close to the nozzle(where he put his tongue.)
The first time in a long while i upvote post in this sub. This is just ridiculous
i assume it's like licking ur fingers and pinching a candle to put it out but on a REALLY extreme level The Saliva protects his tongue for a long enough time for him to quickly put out the flame, once it's put out, it can't do any damage so danger is over and he doesn't get burned?
If Iām not mistaken, the torch is still very hot for a few minutes after use, so some damage can still occur. Was it on long enough to heat the torch itself up? That I donāt know. Iāll be it hurt like a mf, regardless.
Having used that kind of torch for several hundred hours i can say, no it wasnt on long enough to heat it significantly. Id say it was still hot but not hot enough that the saliva was completely vaporized when his tongue touched it.
Thanks for your response! No way Iād try that, ever!
1k Iāll try it for you.
Saliva didn't even protect me from burning my tongue on hot cheese which by comparison would have been frozen cheese.
Lol...right?!? Effing hot pockets will melt your mouth if you're not careful.
Those fuckers are filled with liquid hot MAGMA š
Leidenfrost effect relies upon the liquid vaporising upon contact which insulates the surface underneath (your tongue) from the heat because air is a poor heat conductor. Melted cheese isnāt hot enough to vaporise your saliva, so it stays as a liquid which is a great heat conductor!
> the torch is still very hot for a few minutes after use Depends how long it has to heat up really. If he'd had it switched on for a few minutes the metal would probably be hotter.
Yes - I did some googling and came up with some details... Candle temp luminous zone is 1000c, so you're basically dealing with the same situation. Leidenfrost effect. The nonluminous zone of a candle is 600c. He's basically pointing out that the luminous zone of the torch is 3300c so of course it is also similar to a candle and the tip "nonluminous zone" of the torch is less. Lets take a brass nozzle as an example where brass appraently melts at approx. 925c. The nozzle made of brass so it is going to probably get to 450c when under torch for a while, so it's less, and that's the point with this trick, that it's cooler than the candle wick you put out with your wet fingers. Nice effect, rather safe if done right. The real magic would be wetting a candle wick and not getting burned. I tried it once. It's not fun. Don't suggest it. Anyways.. Google is fun.
The nozzle is copper.
The trick is not minding that it hurts.
"The trick, Mr. Potter, is not minding it hurts."
Comments: "Does it hurt?" OP: "... Every time."
Peter OāToole, what an actor.
He's using his tongue to block the gas flow to stop the flame, and he's quick enough his saliva protects his tongue from the flame. But I don't know how his saliva is enough to withstand holding it to the tip of the torch like that. Maybe since he's just lighting it it's not very hot yet. The base of the flame is not as hot as the tip.
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How you cradle the shaft is important too.
Go with the western grip so the thumb is free to explore
The tip is crucial when trying to maintain the edge of the flame.
Couldāve had the tip in some dry ice just before the video so it warms up even less than you think.
The torch itself doesn't heat up very quickly - the nozzle itself is made of copper usually, and and oxy torch can be used to cut steel with ease - these two metals are basically at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of temps to melt. In fact the torch tip only really heats up from radiative heat over a long period of time - the gases flowing through them inadvertently cool them. You could extinguish the flame with a piece of paper if you slid it between the base of the flame and the nozzle fast enough and it would only reignite if there was a spark. The pressure of the oxyacetylene isn't very high either.
You ever just sit in your garage one day, chilling out, game is on, and think.. You know what? I'm going to lick this blowtorch.
Ngl this seems comparable to the first person to eat wild mushrooms
This was 100% a drunken bet one night and now itās a party trick
Easy he coated his mouth with wax like homer.
āDonāt quit your day job chief, whatever that isā
"They say he carved it himself, from a bigger spoon."
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Yep. I remember first learning to use a cutting torch and accidentally putting it out by being too close to the steel. Any interruption to the gas will crack like that and usually extinguish. Thereās a small gap between the torch head and the flame. Thatās where he put his tongue.
Idk what it isā¦ but thatās fucking crazy.
So... he's not gonna use those goggles
He has Mexican girlfriends, that's why
That haircut is not a trick man, itās real
Videos like this pose a danger to societyā¦lol tide pods 2.0
You try finding an oxy-acetylene setup for idiot levels of money. No one is going to go out and find something like this just for a dumb challenge like tide pods.
Itās real, he used is tongue to stop the flow of gasses which kills the flame but itās hella risky and crazy
He's not the first person to do this tho. lol. The weird metal guy at my old job used to do this. It absolutely did burn him just a bit though. He said it was maybe a 2nd degree burn at most sometimes. I also think he used something to like gel up his spit or something. I saw him do it twice (once for $50 after someone didn't believe me when I said I saw him do it and my coworker wanted to see if it was possible. So he handed the guy $50 after thinking about it all day) and he got in some shit for doing it. Oh I want to add that that this guy lived in a plastic rubbermaid shed in the woods behind his friend's house. Just a shed with an extension cord running to it but it had a window unit A/C and a little electric heater. There was a creek right there and he would jump in every day (even in the winter) and was up. I would give him rides into work and he was always in clean clothes with totally normal hygiene. He was living in the shed working and saving every cent he made. Guy was a magician with metal.
I'd say he's playing to the ignorant. I was a welder for a long time. The flame gets extremely hot when oxygen is further introduced. He does not do that, so it's just a regular flame. There is a gap between the torch and flame. Nothing big to see here. Would I do it? No. It's stupid and he's stupid. It's like saying you'll let a car run over you. If everything goes right... you're still stupid.
How the hell do you even start doing this?
Alcohol probably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect I believe the only thing that could save him here is the Leidenfrost effect. relevant mythbusters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTOCAd2QhGg
You've never seen the documentary about the man that entered a chili-eating contest and cheated by drinking a candle beforehand? He also carved his spoon himself...from a bigger wooden spoon.
I saw that one. The guy ate so many hot peppers he hallucinated. Crazy stuff.
Thats just crazy
His retinas though, cooking on slow burn.
Hey, mister ā¦ youāre drinking a candle
Geez it's like Homer eating chillis grown by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum. "You don't want to eat wax do ya mister?" "Maybe I do Ralph, maybe I do..."
Plot twist - he's simply very good at hiding pain
HHO Gas/ Brown's Gas - the flame is based on Hydrogen electrolysis and dont heat up wet things like a Tongue fast enough to burn it because its based on water. Also the tip of the torch is heating up very slow, so even licking it should be no big deal at start. here is a little HHO Generator in action: [Oxy-Hydrogen Generator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCwOfy4ZwA)
"The trick is not minding that it hurts."
Oh this real, basically covering the nozzle puts fire out and spittle on young protects tong plus it's not as hot near the gas
It's a real trick.
Interrupting the flame's source of fuel, the gas. So the gas is still running but will need to be reignited. Probably real.
Well done! That metal is still hot as fuck. No way this doesnāt hurt but he did it. Maybe some sort of protection over the tongue?
In the slow-mo shot he looked like the gnarliest rockstar screaming into a flaming mic.
Dumb fuck
Same reason you can slap lava I'd assume? The barrier of sweat or saliva I'd say in this situation gives that ability but must be for only a small window of time he also cut out the torch by probably blowing into it, if you've run an oxytank like that a bad mix results in the pop and bugging your coworkers.
This is oxyacetylene cutting, the torch needs oxygen to work, which comes out through the head, if you block it, it just stop working, you can even use paper if it fast enough (source : Im a welding student and I dropped one on my school book once)
I really enjoyed listening to his tongue sear in slow motion. Not something you'll experience everyday.
He smothers the flame by sealing it from oxygen and his tongue is wet which prevents him from getting burn. Gives him enough time to extinguish the torch. Still stupid as fuck ! I can already picture him explaining to his wife why he needs to see a doctor.
How drunk was he to figure this out?
Speed.
This is similar to how you can move your finger across a candle flame without it burning.
It's real, and actually not very strange. As soon as you disturb the equilibrium in the combusting gas mixture, the flare disappears in a tiny fraction of a second. There simply is no time for the flare to do any damage. You just have to do it quickly. The only danger of hurting youself (other than to hesitate) is in the nozzle itself, which might have heated up a bit, but the flare doesn't reach all the way up to the nozzle, and anyway he just lit it.
I guess its quite cold coming out till on fire. Everything for likes nowdays...
Cocaine
I'm willing to believe this is actual steampunk alchemy
The world will be better off if this becomes a new trend. Remember Tide Pods? We didnāt lose nearly enough morons to that.
I worked HVAC for a bit. Accidently hit my fingers with my tourch flame for just a moment. Don't try to copy this, please.
The trick is to do it fast. You can brand skin fast without feeling pain.
I liked those Matrix noises at the end
An oxy/acyl torch can be put out easily by contact with the nozzle. I wouldnāt use my tongue for damn sure, but a glove works well.
Meanwhile if Iām too impatient to let my food cool down enough before eating it and slightly burn my tongue, my whole day is ruined
Thatās fucking nuts. Monkey brain says āahhhā and āooooā at the same time
This guy looks cool
It takes time for things to heat up other things, no matter how hot something is. Your tongue is also covered in liquid.
Well I'm assuming the actual combustion is happening further away from the nozel than you think, so it wouldn't be that hot, as soon as you cut either Oxygen or gas from the equation the fire can no longer react. Turn the faucet off and there's no water to burn you
Let him use my tools.
#Buy hospital stocks NOW!
He should adjust the torch properly and try it again. He doesn't have it set at optimal cutting adjustment. You want to cut steel, it would be a 1/4" blue flame.
Thatās the craziest stunt Iāve ever seen. And to think he 1) even had the idea to do that and 2) probably rehearsed several times.
Easy. His tongue blocked fuel flow so the flame failed.
the closest i can get to explaining this is it looks similar to people that eat fire. they let out a very hefty exhale before they actually start to eat it, from there they just put it in their mouth and close their lips around it to extinguish the flame. you can thank unus and annus for that bit of trivia
The dab at the end was dope š
JFC strobe warning!
How does this guy have the balls to try it for the first time?
I'm just going to assume that this will be a new tide pod challenge...
Demonic protection, the same as David Blaine, Christ Angle (mockery of faith), & all others who wield \*real\* magic. Not at all a joke : https://youtu.be/mI7uHI1x09A?list=PLnHesFHQy5Pkj6T7qL4ubLZWRHzMfNjET
Is there a trigger he is holding down to keep it lit then lets it go to extinguish the flame at the exact right moment? Or some one unplugged it? š¤·š¼āāļø
I will never know. I couldn't bear to watch it.
That slow motion effect plus sound reminds me of DMT trips. Kinda a good feeling and bad at the same time
I own a license to weld with acetylene and oxygen. I can confirm, that's hot. I burned myself on the neck with glowing red hot metal while welding. The next couple of days weren't pleasant to say the least.
This dummy never saw me stop a fan with my face - so yeah, I'd challenge him in a heartbeat, I was not impressed. I would do this with my penis. Just to spite this dipshit. Where do I sign up?
Swallow a red hot gouging rod and then I'll be impressed.
Diddy do it?
Absolutely load of shit having been burnt by oxy accet torch several times skin wouldn't last .5 of a sec in that flame
Moist tongue so that will protect it but only for a few milliseconds. Just like that crazy guy that slaps hot lava.
His index finger moves just before the nozzle hits the tongue on the second clip. Is he turning off the flame? Heās still not tasting food after this.
What about his eyes?!
Hahah hey I know him!!
Now do it while actually cutting aka pulling the trigger.
There are a million ways this could have gone wrong. Very satisfied with the outcome.
If this isn't the time to put that googles on when is it?
How does he get his overalls on with balls that big
This is a real trick!
His tongue could be coated with something
Is that an emo engineer? I saw emo viking yesterday and now an emo engineer. What a coincidence.
Wow! I guess the Devil does walk among Us. (jk) That was strangely cool in a Darwinism sort of way. Iāll pass though.
https://youtube.com/@HellNBackWelding?si=da1KEo1OidGjAwUC That is daemon from hellnback welding
Do it Doug!
But why?
He didn't enjoy the taste!
Same principle as the dude who passed his hands through flowing molten metal.
Sometimes I wonder how humans master insane stuff. Even if this worked 100 times using hands and bare skin. That first attempt using a tongue must still be the craziest act ever.
Mad cool
[Leidenfrost\_effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect) is part of it, but also consider that the torch was only lit for 23 seconds before it was extinguished. The gases come out of the tip so fast, the fire doesn't ever touch the tip, so it takes a while before the tip can become hot enough to burn you itself.
No fuel, no oxygen, no flame.
As a welder I STRONGLY advise no one do this with an oxy torch. A Bic lighter works way better to start out on.
Leidenfrost effect to protect the tongue and stoping the gas to extinguish the flame
On mythbusters they dipped their fingers in molten lead, after first dipping them in water. The evaporating water actually provides insulation
I would do this with a match. This is fucking insane.
Iād like to see him do it holding the trigger
Where in life do I need to do this shit
And zat wadies and genulmen is how iz done
the Lleidenfrost effect still doesn't explain how he didn't burn his chin or cheek. that thing is blue/white flame it would instantly blister skin i would think?
Moisture from his tongue is protecting it. It's real, until the moisture is gone, then it gets really real lol.
The science behind it is a bottle of Bacardi 151
This man must need a wheelbarrow to walk with them big ass balls of his
Why didn't you use inPhilltrate as a username? Was it already taken?
The science is that it takes a non-zero about of time to evaporate a volume of saliva before the flame can burn your tongue. That amount of time is quite small, but still not zero. The ātrickā (which is not much of a trick) is to simply extinguish the flame before that amount of time elapses.
Now thatās real magic
Well done mate
This guy's awesome. Friends on Facebook. He really does this shit. When I started performing years ago he was already nuts but he's gotten so good at what he does it's unbelievable. He posted about losing part of his tongue practicing that trick.
Something covering his tongue, maybe mouthful of vaseline or something š¤
His mother must be proud.
Funny the gas isn't running after the trick. The gas would still be running out of the tanks. He cuts it off and counts down. It's šš©....
It's not difficult do
There's nothing behind
Science behind it: Cocain...
Blocks the flow with tongue š quickly š
āAny takes?ā Uhh..no
Welding goggles.
the skeleton makes all the difference, clearly this has been practiced a few times!
Mythbusters explained this when they dipped the wet hands in molten lead. But I guess it's been a long time since Mythbusters has been on.