Melting Steel With Bacon!

Thanks to the elaborate hydrocarbon chains in pork fat, there’s enough chemical energy stored in bacon to melt steel. You just have to find some way to get at all that energy.

Theo Gray uses prosciutto to construct a “thermal lance” in the video above. Normally, this is a tool that uses intensely-burning iron rods to cut through other metals.

By using pure oxygen to power the combustion reaction, nearly all of the chemical energy in the bacon’s bonds is converted to heat. He’s literally running the oxygen through the meat like a flaming hose of delicious thermal destruction. It goes to show you how much chemical energy is wasted in normal combustion (also known as “burned bacon”).

Non-meat-eaters, rejoice. He also tests out a vegan version made from a cucumber and breadsticks. As for me, I think it’s the second-best use of bacon I’ve ever seen, next to eating it.

So cool.

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    THIS IS SO AWESOME.
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    Science is delicious!
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    when I say I need...reasons… this may be one
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    Bacon. As a blowtorch. Awesome.
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    yeeeaaahhh bacon XD
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    Flaming Bacon Lance of Death, from Theo Gray’s book “Mad Science” via
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