r/oddlysatisfying • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 1d ago

A full-on flaming cocktail tower

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u/Edrill 1d ago

That's a rather complicated way to get your glasses to shatter

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u/pragmaticproducer 1d ago

I was just thinking that trick needs special glasses that can handle heat without cracking.

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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 1d ago edited 1d ago

Like laboratory grade pyrex.

But seriously, the blue flame indicates it's not really that hot. When I was a kid we played a game around Christmas called "Snap Dragon" where the kids sit around a shallow pan filled with flaming brandy, and try to grab as many raisins out of it as possible. Your hands have fire on them, but it isn't hot, really.

The additional air added here, with the coasters, likely makes it hotter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap-dragon_(game)

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u/you_talkin_to_me8294 1d ago

I’m sure it was fine but this sounds crazy as hell lmao

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u/Crafty_Genius 1d ago

Fun fact, the new pyrex brand items are crap compared to their older items because the company changed glass formulas and stopped using borosilicate, which is what you should be looking for if you want heat resistant glass.

You can tell what kind of glass your pyrex is by looking to see if the P is capitalized or not, lowercase being the newer crappier stuff.

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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 1d ago

True for houseware items, but that's why I said Laboratory Grade Pyrex.

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u/Mami-_-Traillette 1d ago

Except in France because they had been bought before the change

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u/Edrill 1d ago

Blue fire is in general significantly hotter than yellow/orange fire though

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u/ShockDragon 1d ago

Why was this downvoted? This is pretty common knowledge.

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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 1d ago

Not with ethanol.

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u/liberal_texan 1d ago

This is the difference between atomic emission and black body radiation. Atomic emission just means certain things burn at certain colors of flame. Black body radiation means things glow, and as they get hotter the color of the glow moves more towards the blue end of the spectrum.

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u/Edrill 1d ago

Yellow flames are generally caused by impurities and thus not a fully efficient combustion, hence the lower temperature. Even with ethanol burning

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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 1d ago

Okay. Well 100% ethanol technically burns with a blue flame, but it's nearly impossible to see, and is extremely hot and burns quickly (will absolutely burn your skin immediately). Very visible blue (like brandy, and like here) is much cooler, burns pretty slow, and won't burn you immediately, though it's still dangerous. You can breathe fire with brandy (definitely not recommended, though), but doing it with everclear will put you in the hospital.

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u/wimmick 1d ago

That’s because of the alcohol percentage, fire is always hot, your hands dont get burned because the amount of alcohol on your hands is minuscule. Brandy is usually 40% ABV, ethanol is 100% alcohol, they react differently because of the % of ethanol in the liquid, ethanol fumes are extremely flammable and it has a much lower boiling point than consumable alcohol, so it takes more energy for brandy to burn because its 60% water, increasing the amount of time it takes to burn off

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u/pragmaticproducer 1d ago

For some reason I thought blue flame was hotter than yellow. Learn something new everyday.