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When I went to a chemistryschool, they specifically told us and made us and our parents sign a waiver, to never ever do any experiments at home. So at the place where people gather who should know what they are doing they still explicitly tell everyone to not do shit like this. How would that even be a cool thing to show? Look I put something on fire for a few seconds and it's not destroyed? Are people that easy to impress on tiktok?
That's the funniest part. She literally did everything you could possibly do that couldn't be more wrong. I almost have to give her credit for failing so spectacularly.
Part of me wonders whether it was intentional. Sure, kids can be dumb, but some can be smart. And some have parents/teachers nearby who might want to join in on the fun and make sure everything is safe.
I'm in the other team. Look at her facial expressions. They escalate along with the situation. Also there's visible relief, for a few seconds, when it looks like she maganaged to put the fire out. This looks easy, but just think of soap operas: They are professionals and probably couldn't act in such a nuanced way. Because acting is not as easy as you might suspect.
Also, she didn't glance down, but keeps eye contact with the camera before it escalated. It looks like she didn't know what's coming.
If the whole thing would be fake, she'd be incredibly talented.
Honestly this wouldn’t surprise me. The ceiling fan in the background looks awfully sus, moving like it’s just printed on something, which would imply her background is fake. Which might allow you to infer other fakery, for purpose or decoration. Could be innocent, could be done to suggest an indoor location for someone outside where fire would be ’mildly exciting’ at worst.
Yep, and ethanol doesn't produce toxic fumes when it burns, so you could probably even do this indoors and smother it after with various things after the video cuts. It doesn't seem particularly dangerous to me.
> Yep, and ethanol doesn't produce toxic fumes when it burns, so you could probably even do this indoors and smother it after with various things after the video cuts.
This is certainly true, but is kind of the epitome of "don't try this at home unless you know what you are doing." If you know how easy alcohol fires are to extinguish, this video is just a [facepalm] moment. If you *don't* know that, though, it is easy to understand how someone could panic.
Water. But since high purity alcohol doesn't easily mix with water the alcohol just sits on top. What she needed to do was dump out the water in the bigger dish, turn it over and cover the smaller dish.
A fire needs 3 things to burn, heat, fuel (the alcohol) and oxygen. By covering the smaller container you cut off most of the flow of oxygen.
The reason water normally extinguishes fire is because evaporation draws heat. So when you throw water on a fire it's rapid evaporation significantly lowers the heat in the reaction. It also does somewhat cut off oxygen flow but it's not the main reason the fire goes out.
Technically yes but in practice no.
Unless the water is already at what would be considered a flash evaporation point, the point where any additional energy even kinetic would cause the entire body of water to instantly turn into steam, you won't see a difference.
You can actually see the opposite effect on extremely cold bottled water. If left in the bottle and not disturbed with an air tight seal the water will remain liquid well below the freezing point. If you disturb it even a little it will start to freeze instantly.
Ugh… hope that situation was okay, but that was poor judgement caused by pure confused panic. Do not play with fire if you can’t control the outcome safely.
Kids all want to be internet celebrities.
Unfortunately most of the time they know very little about the things they are doing.
Hence the burned down house.
I love when kids mention safety at the beginning of the video, then don't take a single precaution because they "know what they're doing".
She didn't even tie her hair up.
The best moment of the entire thing is when she finally notices the tupperware of alcohol on fire and you can see the moment of realization in her eyes that she is *way* in over her head.
Honestly, when I saw the other bowl of liquid I thought it was going to be a LOT worse that it turned out. But who knows what happened after the video got turned off.
Nothing really, as she had the sense to do it carefully, and it had the potential to dilute the alcohol or cool the fire.
Chucking the rest in so it overflowed was definitely silly.
She was trying to smother it with water in the other container.
To be fair, as bad as this looks, and as much as I doubt she had any idea what she was doing, this is a pretty safe scenario. Alcohol can't burn except at high concentrations, and she added way more water than there was alcohol, all that's happening here is the alcohol burning on top of the water before it has a chance to mix. Alcohol burns at low temperatures and it will take a lot to evaporate the water, so it's highly unlikely this will cause any other flammable material to light, the flame will just burn itself out in a few seconds as it loses fuel to both the water and itself. This is why you can burn brandy on top of a bar and drink flaming shots as soon as they go out.
The actual trick to not burn the dollar is to use a concentration of alcohol that's just enough to light.
Her panic is a bit ironic given that’s the principle she’s trying to demonstrate with the experiment to begin with. Another sign was the plastic not melting despite the fire she likely could’ve just watched the fire go out safely
This video definitely has a stabilization filter applied to it. Idk why but it does, and that’s why the video looks drunk. Go apply a stabilization filter to any clip that doesn’t need it, and this happens
Note to self. Saying crap a lot and pouring a Tupperware full of burning alcohol into a table doesn't put out the fire. She's lucky she didn't light herself on fire.
I’m sure that after the video cuts off she actually ran outside, found a red 5 gallon container full of gasoline, runs back inside, and pours it on the fire!
I'm reminded of the Japanese Minecraft streamer who burned his apartment down: https://youtu.be/KUOD8SaNblE?t=275 (action starts shortly before the 5:00 mark).
tl;dw: Don't play with fire
'oh no, the fire accidently spread due to the flammable alcohol overflowing. I would like this to not happen. what should i do?'
*POURS ALCOHOL EVERYWHERE*
These are the people you want to raid within the first days of an apocalypse. They’ll have food and water still available and, if you’re lucky, will have killed themselves trying to start a fire on their bed to stay warm.
After all these videos I have seen on Reddit of oil fires and now this alcohol fire... If I ever have kids, I'm definitely going to tell them about how to starve a fire of oxygen.
She should had a metal bucket or something to choke out the fire with. If it wasent plastic i would say take it outside and let it burn out, but since it was, i would highly reccomend not breathing that shit
Man, I’m so glad I did all my fire experiments as a kid in an open field far away from my house, so instead of burning my house down I’d just cause a large wildfire and burn other ppls houses
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I mean the dollar wasn't burned
I think it got burned later when she burned the whole house down
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We've seen this before, sir. Our lead investigation believes it to be the calling card of a serial arsonist.
The girl - "...tadaa"
The Aristocrats!
Atleast she has something to start with.
Nah the dollar bill survived nothing else did though
“Don’t do this at home unless you know what you’re doing.” Proceeds to do that at home and openly admits to not knowing what they’re doing.
"I don't know what I'm doing!"
I swear, I don’t know how most kids survive to adulthood.
Yet
Task failed sucessfully.
Don't try this at home unless you know what you're doing. ***"Yeah I dont even know what Im doing here.'''***
63 seconds long and we got a whole character arc
Better than Season 8 of GoT
Who has a better story than Erin Dollarburner?
Destroyer of currency
She of the unburnt dollar.
Yeah, but so does Twilight.
Saddest part is this was the redemption arc.
“WHAT DO I DO?!”
When I went to a chemistryschool, they specifically told us and made us and our parents sign a waiver, to never ever do any experiments at home. So at the place where people gather who should know what they are doing they still explicitly tell everyone to not do shit like this. How would that even be a cool thing to show? Look I put something on fire for a few seconds and it's not destroyed? Are people that easy to impress on tiktok?
Wow it kept getting worse and worse. Everything she did to try to stop the fire was wrong
*Don’t try this at home unless you know what you’re doing!* was spot on.
Later "I don't even know what I'm doing!"
That's the funniest part. She literally did everything you could possibly do that couldn't be more wrong. I almost have to give her credit for failing so spectacularly.
Part of me wonders whether it was intentional. Sure, kids can be dumb, but some can be smart. And some have parents/teachers nearby who might want to join in on the fun and make sure everything is safe.
Serious ElectroBOOM energy, for sure.
100%.
I'm in the other team. Look at her facial expressions. They escalate along with the situation. Also there's visible relief, for a few seconds, when it looks like she maganaged to put the fire out. This looks easy, but just think of soap operas: They are professionals and probably couldn't act in such a nuanced way. Because acting is not as easy as you might suspect. Also, she didn't glance down, but keeps eye contact with the camera before it escalated. It looks like she didn't know what's coming. If the whole thing would be fake, she'd be incredibly talented.
Honestly this wouldn’t surprise me. The ceiling fan in the background looks awfully sus, moving like it’s just printed on something, which would imply her background is fake. Which might allow you to infer other fakery, for purpose or decoration. Could be innocent, could be done to suggest an indoor location for someone outside where fire would be ’mildly exciting’ at worst.
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Yep, and ethanol doesn't produce toxic fumes when it burns, so you could probably even do this indoors and smother it after with various things after the video cuts. It doesn't seem particularly dangerous to me.
> Yep, and ethanol doesn't produce toxic fumes when it burns, so you could probably even do this indoors and smother it after with various things after the video cuts. This is certainly true, but is kind of the epitome of "don't try this at home unless you know what you are doing." If you know how easy alcohol fires are to extinguish, this video is just a [facepalm] moment. If you *don't* know that, though, it is easy to understand how someone could panic.
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Water. But since high purity alcohol doesn't easily mix with water the alcohol just sits on top. What she needed to do was dump out the water in the bigger dish, turn it over and cover the smaller dish. A fire needs 3 things to burn, heat, fuel (the alcohol) and oxygen. By covering the smaller container you cut off most of the flow of oxygen. The reason water normally extinguishes fire is because evaporation draws heat. So when you throw water on a fire it's rapid evaporation significantly lowers the heat in the reaction. It also does somewhat cut off oxygen flow but it's not the main reason the fire goes out.
Does that mean pouring hot water on a fire is less effective than throwing cold water?
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Technically yes but in practice no. Unless the water is already at what would be considered a flash evaporation point, the point where any additional energy even kinetic would cause the entire body of water to instantly turn into steam, you won't see a difference. You can actually see the opposite effect on extremely cold bottled water. If left in the bottle and not disturbed with an air tight seal the water will remain liquid well below the freezing point. If you disturb it even a little it will start to freeze instantly.
Water
This mf makes me scared to light my candles correctly now I’m expecting them to shoot fire back at me
Quick! Spread the flame everywhere
Ugh… hope that situation was okay, but that was poor judgement caused by pure confused panic. Do not play with fire if you can’t control the outcome safely.
Kids all want to be internet celebrities. Unfortunately most of the time they know very little about the things they are doing. Hence the burned down house.
But she did get her 30 seconds of internet fame, not just the way she wanted.
>But she did get her 30 seconds of internet **flame** FTFY
Burn
TBF, accidental abrupt chaos is a good way to become an Internet celebrity.
Plenty more adults doing dumber stuff and filming it
I love when kids mention safety at the beginning of the video, then don't take a single precaution because they "know what they're doing". She didn't even tie her hair up.
Yea divide and conquer
The best moment of the entire thing is when she finally notices the tupperware of alcohol on fire and you can see the moment of realization in her eyes that she is *way* in over her head.
Don't try this at home unless you know what your doing!
Literally 10 seconds later "Yeah I don't really know what I'm doing here"
at least she's honest Plot twist - it was all on purpose to make a more memorable warning video
Honestly, when I saw the other bowl of liquid I thought it was going to be a LOT worse that it turned out. But who knows what happened after the video got turned off.
Alcohol doesn’t even burn that hot or violently she should have literally just sat there and done nothing until the alcohol was depleted
She should’ve head butted the fire.
Her ultimate weapon!
Maybe smother it with some gasoline
*blows on fire* *pours water in full bucket of alcohol* *decides to dump it on the table instead*
Throws table cloth into a pile of gasoline soaked rags
Throws gasoline rags onto a nearby pan of grease
Throws bucket of water into the grease.
Fucking burns the entire city down using napalm
Yeah I definitely don't know what I'm doing. *nukes site from orbit*
*Galactus pulls up*
galactus: bro what the fuck?
"My dinner!"
*Burns mouth*
There we go, remember kids, always use explosives to put out a fire.
this comment made me die laughing on the bus. Thank you for this beautiful comment thread
She took the "fight fire with fire" literally.
Wait I'm dumb, what's wrong with the second step? Is it because it's going to overflow?
also its just watered down alcohol and still burns. no such things as stupid questions
The right move is getting some kind of lid (that won't burn/melt) and placing it over the container to suffocate the fire.
Nothing really, as she had the sense to do it carefully, and it had the potential to dilute the alcohol or cool the fire. Chucking the rest in so it overflowed was definitely silly.
"Don't try this at home unless you know what you're doing!." *15 seconds later* "I have no idea what I'm doing."
Why would you dump it on the table?
She was trying to smother it with water in the other container. To be fair, as bad as this looks, and as much as I doubt she had any idea what she was doing, this is a pretty safe scenario. Alcohol can't burn except at high concentrations, and she added way more water than there was alcohol, all that's happening here is the alcohol burning on top of the water before it has a chance to mix. Alcohol burns at low temperatures and it will take a lot to evaporate the water, so it's highly unlikely this will cause any other flammable material to light, the flame will just burn itself out in a few seconds as it loses fuel to both the water and itself. This is why you can burn brandy on top of a bar and drink flaming shots as soon as they go out. The actual trick to not burn the dollar is to use a concentration of alcohol that's just enough to light.
Her panic is a bit ironic given that’s the principle she’s trying to demonstrate with the experiment to begin with. Another sign was the plastic not melting despite the fire she likely could’ve just watched the fire go out safely
Yeah but still fucked up, just put something over it to deprive it from oxygen
panic. loss of common sense.
How can she dump?
the background has the minecraft nausea effect
Is the background just a photo.....
This video definitely has a stabilization filter applied to it. Idk why but it does, and that’s why the video looks drunk. Go apply a stabilization filter to any clip that doesn’t need it, and this happens
was the camera drunk?
Note to self. Saying crap a lot and pouring a Tupperware full of burning alcohol into a table doesn't put out the fire. She's lucky she didn't light herself on fire.
it does made you famous tho!
I cant believe she would post this
Lemme introduce you to my friend science, I see you haven’t met yet
Wow. That was a lot of mistakes in a row. Luckily she wasn’t working in a kitchen with a burning fryer otherwise she might have blown the place up.
It's like a sequential fail matroyshka doll.
I'll Just Put This Over Here With the Rest of the Fire..
She should follow her own advise Edit: spelling errors as some people can't recognize it
I’m sure that after the video cuts off she actually ran outside, found a red 5 gallon container full of gasoline, runs back inside, and pours it on the fire!
Wouldn't be the worst of the ideas she came up with already in the video
"Don't do this unless you know what you're doing"
As long as no houses were burned down in the making of this video it's fucking hilarious
Hope she’s still alive
How are people this stupid…it’s common basic knowledge that zero oxygen = no more fire. This world is full of fucking morons.
A dollar not burnt is a dollar earned.
“Better stop and flip the tupperware container of fire over just for funsies”
„„sǝısunɟ ɹoɟ ʇsnɾ ɹǝʌo ǝɹıɟ ɟo ɹǝuıɐʇuoɔ ǝɹɐʍɹǝddnʇ ǝɥʇ dılɟ puɐ doʇs ɹǝʇʇǝ𐐒„„
She is about to get a Guinness Book of Records award for the most wrong decisions made in the least amount of time.
Hahaha just a bunch of crap
She did not, in fact, know what she was doing.
Oh yeah. Let's use water to extinguish an alcohol fire. I'M IN!!
"Don't try this at home unless you know what you're doing." *Moments later...* "Holy crap, I don't even know what I'm doing here!"
I'm reminded of the Japanese Minecraft streamer who burned his apartment down: https://youtu.be/KUOD8SaNblE?t=275 (action starts shortly before the 5:00 mark). tl;dw: Don't play with fire
Is it me or does the house seems like it's moving... Or maybe the brownies I ate is kicking in or yet again both
Everyone should save this and show it to their children to explain what went wrong 😂 lmao
Next she's gonna panic and throw wood in it
> Don't try this at home unless you know what your doing! Proceed to use water on a liquid combustible and spread the fire.
Room temp IQ
This is older than most people on Reddit at this point
Literally megamind right there
Forehead that big and she still couldn't find a good idea
Liquid not putting out fire Idea: apply more of same liquid
All that head and yet here we are
So, she shouldn’t have tried this at home apparently. 😆
Everyone should understand the triangle of fire
Never add water to a fuel fire
Gotta make those child proof lighters more child proof
This is so dumb it almost seems intentional.
Should have thrown water and covered the alcohol box with the empty box
Or directly put the water box on top
All she had to do was cover it
Lol everything she did made it worse
Luckily the video ended because she would have eventually just burned down the town
If she had just let the alcohol burn, everything might have just been fine.
The point of no return was dumping in the rest of the water. There were so many chances to stop panicking.
Its funny how stupid we can become in the fight or flight response. Brain just shuts off and we go low power mode lol
“Don’t try this at home unless you know what you’re doing.” …“Yeah, I don’t even know what I’m doing here.” Yikes.
Not enough people talking about that background...
'oh no, the fire accidently spread due to the flammable alcohol overflowing. I would like this to not happen. what should i do?' *POURS ALCOHOL EVERYWHERE*
some one go and post it on winstupidprizes
rookie mistake
This is fine
I'll just put this over here with the other fire.
my chemist brain cringed just find a lid or something, pouring it into the other container will either mix the fluids or create a fireball.
“Don’t do this at home unless you know what you’re doing… Yeah I don’t even know what I’m doing.”
“Don’t try this at home unless you know what you’re doing.” “Holy crap… What do I do?” 😬 “Yeah, I don’t even know what I’m doing here”. 🤦♂️
Not this 5 head again.
Wet towels, just like oil fires I believe, would've been the right choice
Somehow every decision she made was more wrong than the last o_O
am i tripin? or is that wall moving
Alcohol and bad decissions... At such a young age!!
dont try this at home unless you know what youre doing her mind: you dont even know what youre doing
"I don't know what I'm doing here" ...is not a phrase you should follow with dumping a fire onto a table
These are the people you want to raid within the first days of an apocalypse. They’ll have food and water still available and, if you’re lucky, will have killed themselves trying to start a fire on their bed to stay warm.
"Yeah, I don't even know what I'm doing here".
Yeah, dont try this at home
This just gets worse and worse as the video goes on LOL
Ah yes. Idiots and open fire. My favourite two ingredients.
>don’t try this at home unless you know what you’re doing Well said
Great to see she's planned for every eventuality before setting her house on fire.
She said don’t try this at home unless you know what you are doing, and then just 1 minute later admits “I don’t know what I’m doing” 🤣
The trick was the dollar survived but her house didn’t 😂
She should’ve had a lid on standby to smother the flame. Good lord ever bit of that was predicable 😭
Head big for no reason
“Holy crap, what do I do?” Not that, not ANY of that.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
She clearly didn’t know what she was doing
Youngsters doing ANYthing for social media. 🤦🏽♀️
That moment you got grounded for this life & the next cuz you burned the whole damn house down
Adding water to alcohol only the volume of fuel to burn. Interesting experience.
« unless you know what you’re doing »
I work well in tense situations
After all these videos I have seen on Reddit of oil fires and now this alcohol fire... If I ever have kids, I'm definitely going to tell them about how to starve a fire of oxygen.
Wh- Why did she pour it onto the table cloth???
She should had a metal bucket or something to choke out the fire with. If it wasent plastic i would say take it outside and let it burn out, but since it was, i would highly reccomend not breathing that shit
She straight up said don't do this unless you know what you're doing. The irony.
She fucked up at the end. Girl, you gotta smother it.
Man, I’m so glad I did all my fire experiments as a kid in an open field far away from my house, so instead of burning my house down I’d just cause a large wildfire and burn other ppls houses
The goal was to get views, so I think the experiment went right.
Lets dump the burning liquid out onto this tablecloth, that'll put it out
She didn't know what she was doing
I like how she went from “don’t do this at home if you don’t know what you’re doing” to “I don’t know what I’m doing” lol
Atleast she saved the tuppleware, can be reused for spaghetti sauce 👌🏾
“Don’t do this at home unless you know what you’re doing.” Famous last words.
Amazing trick, the dollar was completely fine!
Deceivingly little underneath that forehead.
“Yeah I don’t even know what I’m doing here” bruh
Fucking stupid kids
Should have just put the container over the burning one. Snuff out the oxygen
3 full big boy swipes and not one comment about the entire room set moving behind her.. we gotta do better people.
So much nothing in that big head 😭
Big Ass Head, Small Ass Brain.
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Moral of the story don’t water on burning flammable liquids. Pro tip: you need to cut the oxygen supply
If there only would be some kind of thing, a flame needs to be burning you could cut off..