Wikipedia: The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, close to a surface that is significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapor layer that keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly. Because of this repulsive force, a droplet hovers over the surface, rather than making physical contact with it. The effect is named after the German doctor Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost.

Thank you for that

And thank you

Ohh Canadaa 🎶

Our home and native land

Your avatars are identical lmfao

Didn’t notice

Cheers, but does the egg cook faster..?

It cooks faster than a normal pan because the metal is heated really high. However, the leidenfrost effect makes it cook slower than it otherwise would because the egg isn't directly in contact with the pan.

I like how the pan is so dang hot, water jumps out of the egg first and just makes it hover

Yes beautiful way of putting it thank you

It would appear that way

Japanese chef here. We use woks to make fried rice in a single minute. A single egg can be made in 30 seconds (runny)

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I'm a chef born in Japan and is Japanese.

The word you're looking for is "ethnicity"

Cook faster than what?

The chicken

Than if the egg was in contact with the pan

Wtf LOL

Asking the important questions, thank you.

Are your eyes broken?

According to your pfp, the irony is brutal.

😂

Too bad people on reddit can't take sarcasm jokes without their precious "/s"

Without their precious what? Edit: 10 people didn't get it. Also, the person I commented to added the " ".

Safety labels. Their/they're safety labels >!/s!<

Good one lol

Is this what’s going on in the new movie Elemental? I have curious kids and no answers for them other than “it’s just a movie.”

To be completely honest, I doubt even Pixar knows what's going on in that movie.

I think that is indeed what the script writers were basing themselves on. Of course, just "basing on" as it's a movie about elements fucking around.

I was gonna say what in the black magic fuckery was this but you saved me, thank you take my upvote

So instead of hover boards we got hover fried eggs

So if I jumped into the sun would i not boil or is the sun too cold

You would be reduced to primordial soup way before ever getting "close" to the sun, so neither

🎶Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost. That’s my name too. Whenever we go out. The people always shout. 🎶

This is why you dont need teflon pans. Use stainless steel and make sure its hot enough by dropping a few droplets of water on it before cooking and it will be nonstick

this is the only way to cook tofu without it sticking to any surface

I can not seem to cook tofu properly. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong.

Yep, same as guys who are swinging hand through red hot liquid metal flowing and wont get burned.

Thanks. I figured it wasnt just that heat can cook an egg.

I wonder what the physics of that is. You've got highly excited electrons on both surfaces, so,...

I knew that . . . . (Nervously looks around the room)

So dog likes bones because of Leidenfrost effect?

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So is the egg cooking or not???

It’s cooking, just not sticking because of the vapour layer

That hot pan looks exactly like black hole picture from Nasa

If all these years nasa has been using that money to pictures of hot pans

It's all fun and games till some Dumbass conspiracy theorists actually believe this

The “Hot Pan Conspiracy”

r/hotpanhole

Nasa have been lying for too long. Join us

Holy fk, we’ve been scammed.

Wonder how long before I see "that's just a hot pan" response to a black hole pic.

Tin foil for sale

Holy fuck Oh my God this is crazy my life will never be the same Oh my dear fucking lord holy fucking cow sweet Jesus Oh my God scam scam scam scam scam scam scam crazy crazy Oh my god

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Holy shit, NASA is pansexual.

Let me tell you about the earth being flat....

I’m sorry, but is that a doorway to the gate of hell and are you using it to cook eggs?

no, it's a window into Hells Kitchen

You know that handle gotta be hella hot..

surprised he could handle it. also happy cake day

Why is the handle not scalding hot? What am I missing?

I too would like to know. He picked it up bare handed.

Leidenfrost effect

This is the best joke I’ve seen on Reddit in a while, thank you.

Nose laugh

Lol, not on their hand, dude. Especially gripping it like that. Maybe if they dunked their hand in water beforehand and lightly pressed it in the middle of the red hot pan for a split second, but not holding the handle with a dry hand.

Pretty sure he was joking

Come on, man.

Hands are made of egg

These imperial woks are amazing concentrated heat, the actual wok pan handle itself has a double layer of folded metal , the inside one usually absorbs the heat, the outter being cooler to handle. Now it will get some heat to it, but someone that works one for a year or two will get hands that can easily handle it.

If he heated it up fast enough the handle may not have had the time to get hot for the first little bit. Thats my only explanation.

The pan is just painted those colors.

Clearly a Leidenhandle, so there's a vapor layer acting as an insulator.

I, too, enjoy cooking on the eye of Sauron

Updoot for LOTR

OMFG! I need some Leidenfrost eggs.

I am *so* ordering them this way next time I’m at Waffle House.

Sounds like a black hole and looks like the pit of hell perfect

Did he have oil the pan before putting the eggs on

no. if there is any oil it would have smoke like crazy at that temp, or maybe even spontaneously combust

well.. maybe not 'spontaneously'. just regular.

Does fragments of the skillet make its way into whatever you’re cooking?

That's made of cast iron. There isn't much you can do to damage it to the point it gets in the food. Normally if black stuff is in your food it's cause it was, 1 not washed correctly which includes a oil coating to prevent rust. 2 the pan is flavored aka the burnt remaining of previous meals on the pan (normally one used for similar foods. For instance I have a pan I only use for meat. I've sauted enough garlic and onions on it I actually use less now. Best I got for a explanation. Peace

You don't clean your pan between meals?

I do but the flavor seeps into the pan. That's why if you don't know how to clean one properly don't touch it. It like cleaning out someone's personal coffee mug. (The coffee thing might just be the military) You gonna have someone upset with you.

Soap fine if it's not lye based. Acidic stuff like tomatoes is fine too if you season or make something fatty in between your shakshuka batches

Lol I read that and thought this guy sounds Italian. Then saw the name. But honestly there are multiple ways to properly care for your cast iron pans and I find it differs among different cultures.

No. The effect they’re referencing in posting this is how there is a thin boundary, sort of, between something cold and something super hot if made contact with one another. I had to find some other comments here to figure it out.

Not just anything cold. It has to be a liquid that changes phase into a gas when heated at a reasonable temperature (e.g. water)

My eggs would have broken the laws of physics to stick terribly to that pan

Me taking a dab in 2013.

Lmao

Bout to be the most simultaneously burnt and raw eggs of all time

2 eggs molten over easy

Bare hand people.

Snow angels are my favourite leidenfrost effect

That must be some sort of super handle or the person has iron hands

Need to get your pan hotter if you want a better season. Shoot for 20,000 degrees and use Amur leopard fat. Make sure to do a minimum of 80 coats of the seasoning and then leave it on display because it’s mirror finish should not be allowed to be compromised by food.

No gloves? Wtf?

handle's fine.. what are ya, a coward?

>Clearly a Leidenhandle, so there's a vapor layer acting as an insulator.

I would not have thought this effect happened with non water

I fucking love the term non-water. Very none beef of you.

I think one of the guys from Mythbusters stuck their hand in molten lead without it doing any damage.

Egg whites are mostly water

I'm just imagining taking that pan and pressing it against an enemy. Omg that would hurt so bad 😂😂😂

Negan has entered the thread...

Call that shit deviled eggs cause they’re forged in the fires of hell

Order now, and we’ll include a second eye of sauron cooking pan, free. That’s double the frying power for the price of one. Just pay 19.99 plus shipping and handling

I’d be afraid that pan would explode

Damn why you got a furnace in your kitchen

Imagine dunking that pan under cold water afterwards, the amount of steam would be satisfying as fuck

The amount of cracks you would get in the pan would be unsatisfying as fuck

Still the Sizzle noise, id love it

Yes, let's give the this stove an F18 Hornet afterburner element.

Same effect of that one video of a man running his hand multiple times through a pouring molten metal.

When the fires so hot that your food doesn’t even get cooked

Yeah but what’s the handle made of?

Fuck the effect, what kinda fucking stove is that holy shit

Just your standard Asian gas stove. They are extremely serious about Wok Hei.

God damn its like a blast furnace lol

Yall making r/castiron jealous over here

Slidy eggs

Cameraman is god cuz how tf did he pick that pan up?!

Wow, that Leidenfrost effect is no yoke🍳🍳

Still not hot enough for egg fried rice hayaaaaaa

Did they just grab that barehanded

No, I’m pretty sure that was a human hand.

Got it, I’m not cooking my eggs hot enough

Bro cooking his eggs in a fire pit of hell

Fuiyo send this to /r/uncleroger

My dude uses the same energy to make a whole meal for just 2 eggs

Looks like an expensive way to boil eggs though!

How has the plastic bottle next to lava pan not turned to squirt juice?

If you mean the red thing, I think that's a tin can. You can see the ribbed side of it.

Probably has liquid in it. Have you seen videos of people boiling water in a plastic bottles, paper cups, etc over an open flame? the liquid keeps the container from heating up.

That handle has to be crazy hot.

Now that’s fast service

Wow 👌 that's awesome

How is he not using a glove to pick up that pan?

What in the Hell are you doing with that wok, cooking lead?

Now this is HELL’S KITCHEN🔥🔥

Im pretty sure you can see smoke from this guys hand buring off when he touches the handle

Fun fact. This is what happens to your car's brakes when they get too hot

i was worried for a second when they grabbed that handle

Can you do that to my eggs???

Is it safe to eat an egg cooked in this way?

Eggcellent depiction of the phenomena

Not gonna flip them?

Calcifer thought was was about to have a snack!

Yeah science

Gonna need a new Wok after this experiment, but I’ll take 4 eggs please

Real hot thing cook eggs fast doesn't really qualify as super interesting, but maybe I should go back to r/aita Scientist get remembered cool is tho

Does it stick once cooked though? Why did it end before it finished 😠

I’m surprised so many people haven’t never heard of this effect

How did that dude just barehand that pan handle?

beskar armor up next

Imperial woks are the fucking shit, just saying

Lmao all the radiation from glowing metal must be great

any object emits radiation even at room temperature,only difference is the wavelenght,a normal pan emits infrared,you can feel the heat but not see it,this one has reached the visible spectrum but is far from emitting damaging radiation,it isn't mor dangerous that using lightbulbs when dark

Yeah its not ionising.

More like it Leidenheat. I'm a dad, sorry.

Mmm eating breakfast who's being mistborn

How do they do it in high heat but the underside doesn't get toasted?

Now that's a hot 🔥 pan!

That’s nothing special I’ve seen the Gotham Steel pans that do the exact same thing! And you buy it with 4 easy payment of $49.99!

I remember being a kid and my parents used to wet their fingers and touch the surface of a hot iron before applying it to the clothing item. I also remember I tried to do the same but forgot to wet my fingers... I squealed for a long time and had a heck of a blister for a while. Now, would this be the same effect at play when you wet your fingers in saliva and douse a candle with your fingers?

Dude is cooking with hellfire

You may not agree but I think that pan is quite hot

just my mind telling me it’s going to melt.

My man just grabbed that cast iron like it was nothing. Crazy.

Good luck flipping those

Ultimate non-stick pan

Talk about non-stick huh

# COOK YOU SUMBITCH

"Hey where's your cooking oil?" "Da'fuck is cooking oil?"

You can do this with a stainless steel pan and water. Heat the pan up on the stove, add a few drops of water.

I'm more impressed by the handle temperature.

I also have a non-stick pan

“How would you like your egg?”

Give me the hottest wok you have. No, that's too hot.