Sep 17 2009How To Light A Grill With Liquid Oxygen
First of all, I'm not convinced liquid oxygen is real because, if it is, why can't I breath underwater? I want a merman, damnit. But if it is real, this is a video of Theo Gray lighting a charcoal grill with the stuff. Apparently it's dangerous, but I find it hard to believe. I mean, it's just a liquid. Jesus, it's not like I just ate and wanna go swimming in the stuff.
Lighting a Grill with Liquid Oxygen Is the Opposite of Safe [gizmodo]
Thanks to Van, who may or may not house a real husky bastard down by the river.
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Reader Comments
1. Johnny B - September 17, 2009 12:31 PM
I think they used liquid oxygen while making the movie the Abyss.
2. Leo - September 17, 2009 12:32 PM
FARTS!!
3. ham bone - September 17, 2009 12:32 PM
LAST!!!
4. naas - September 17, 2009 12:33 PM
haha, that's awesome
5. Johnny B - September 17, 2009 12:35 PM
So liquid oxygen does exist, but not what was used in the Abyss.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071215185300AAbqNWe
6. naas - September 17, 2009 12:35 PM
he should've lowered the camera a little so we could see the burnt lawn under the grill
7. Hawk - September 17, 2009 12:36 PM
Effective. I approve!
8. Johnny B - September 17, 2009 12:36 PM
A good trick for getting a charcol grill lit, is to use a lighter fluid soaked egg carton at the bottom of the grill, and place the coals on top of that.
That has always worked for me.
9. Korbak - September 17, 2009 12:37 PM
Am i the only one who read "how to light a GIRL with liquid oxygen" ?
10. ciao - September 17, 2009 12:43 PM
@ korbak it can be both if you want it to be....it does deem to entice the ladies ;)
11. naas - September 17, 2009 12:43 PM
@9 yes
..is anyone else getting those disgusting toenail fungus ads? wtf did I search online to see these, my toenails are fine
12. naas - September 17, 2009 12:43 PM
@9 no then
13. Cubicleboy04 - September 17, 2009 1:03 PM
Yo, man. You light a grill really well... And, I'ma let you continue... BUT BEYONCE LIT ONE OF THE BEST GRILLS THIS YEAR!!!
14. Kanye Westicles - September 17, 2009 1:07 PM
that grill burns like my rhymes fast times ridgemont highsticle
15. Jiakasuma - September 17, 2009 1:08 PM
This is nothing... I use my laser eyes to lit up a grill
16. Pat - September 17, 2009 1:13 PM
Is it just me or is the charcoal still not lit afterwards?
17. FreeDummy - September 17, 2009 1:14 PM
(Wear welding shield)
I'd maybe recommend pants next time...
18. ham bone - September 17, 2009 1:17 PM
Thats the same way i trim my pubes
19. pedo pedro - September 17, 2009 1:19 PM
Is his lawn burning ? And i bet he's got a special face, cause his body can burn (he's only wearing shorts!? ), he only cares about his special face.
20. pedo pedro - September 17, 2009 1:20 PM
AND HE'S SURROUDED BY EVIL RATTLE SNAKES !!!!!!!! HIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS HIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSS HISIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS '! or are those cockroaches ??
21. Mr. cow - September 17, 2009 1:58 PM
Moo
22. Spikey DaPikey - September 17, 2009 2:08 PM
seen better...............
23. john - September 17, 2009 5:09 PM
@17 LOL
24. RK - September 17, 2009 6:56 PM
i would have liked to see him try that with liquid hydrogen.
25. Jolie Rouge - September 17, 2009 7:15 PM
I worked with LOX every day for seven years. That was extremely stupid and dangerous of him. Of course, I've done my fair share of stupid and dangerous things with LOX too.
Even though it is stored at -180 degrees F, it will make heavy carbon items, organic material, and petroleum based products ignite.
I was once venting a 250-gallon dewer and spilled about 10-gallons of LOX on an empty parking lot. The asphalt ignited and burned. THE ASPHALT BURNED.
Dangerous stuff.
26. Shandar - September 17, 2009 9:39 PM
One of the first videos I saw on the Internet ( this was mid 90's, dunno if it's still available anywhere) was a group of engineer types doing this at a campground somewhere.
..There really wasn't much left of the pan they used.
27. MattS - September 18, 2009 12:58 AM
what 25 said.
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9sIT6P_05I
the man from lox...classic.
28. Jaded Icon - September 18, 2009 6:43 AM
I heard this was the stuff that Chuck Norris takes a bath in.......awww..too soon? Wait, he's not dead.
29. nawyl - September 18, 2009 7:32 AM
Totally mad
30. Fade - September 18, 2009 11:03 AM
@17 LOL was thinking the same thing... "Least my face is not damaged!"
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32. konstantinos - October 6, 2009 8:51 PM
I thought this site was somehow for geeks who at list know the procedure to make liguid oxygen, sad...(7th grade chemistry), by the way it's very toxic and the temperature is more than minus hundred of Celsius and definitely you can not swim in it :)