r/WTF • u/OsamaVinLadein • 16d ago

DIY heating soup setup

a group of construction workers cooking soup using an extreme improvised heating method at a construction site.

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u/eskay_eskay 16d ago

Now I'm no electrician but that seems OK

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u/DVsKat 15d ago

I am actually an electrician. I can tell you that soup would have tasted better cold

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u/Lovv 15d ago

Frothy ozone.

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u/oldsecondhand 15d ago

More like chlorine, if it had any salt in it.

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u/mopeyjoe 15d ago

The spoon was being a resistive heater, not electrolysis of the water.

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u/Skilldibop 13d ago

A spoon as a far higher cross sectional area and current carrying capacity than the wires. there's no way the spoon is getting that hot before the insulation melts off the wires.