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chip (fries) oil = water = fireball
this is why if you have a pan of cooking oil on fire, you never add water to try to put it out
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Knew a gal that had a grease fire going, was out of baking soda, so flung flour at the stove (hey...it's powdery and white)....the ensuing fireball was stupendous...
Grain dust explosions have taken down quite a few grain elevators. I bet the fireball from the flour being thrown at the grease fire was exciting! :tooth:
When that water hit the hot oil, the resulting steam explosion made an aerosol oil vapor that caused the hot oil to really burn. But you know that; exposing maximum amount of fuel to oxygen to make a fireball. Kind of like a BLEVE, without the explosion bit.
That's why turkey frying should be done outdoors with a turkey that has been toweled as dry as possible. That water to steam expansion thing can get out of hand quick!
― Douglas Adams
Sugar will do the same thing.
George Carlin
And, like a tornado and an Arkansas divorce, someone's going to lose a trailer.
(Let it be known that I fry turkey and love it. But I do it safely)
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
I bet that was rather exciting. Used to know a guy whose college dorms had a stairwell that was open from the ground floor to the fifth. He and a buddy bought the biggest container of coffee creamer that they could find. One at the top dumping and shaking, the other at the bottom with a lighter. By his report it was awe inspiring. They managed to escape before campus security and the fire department arrived.
Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.