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Italians offered liquid nitrogen in their favourite scoop
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| 10.30.03
Posted on 10/30/2003 6:59:19 PM PST by mhking
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To: mhking
This sounds like an urban legend (remember the 'hydrogen beer' one?) but Snopes does not list it.
Put LN2 on your tounge and you'll be minus one tongue.
--Boris
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posted on
10/30/2003 8:59:28 PM PST
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boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
To: July 4th
I worked for a pharmaceutical company that sold cryac units. We carried a demo model around and I used to do 'magic' for the neighborhood kids (freezing flowers, making instant ice cream out of Eagle Brand and sodas, etc). Back then, if you had an approved container, you could buy liguid nitrogen without any special licensing.
Actually, making quick ice cream is more fun with dry ice, since you actually get a minute or two to 'form it up'. Never make direct contact between the CO2 and the cream ... it will make it taste bad. Use double stainless mixing bowls, one inside the other. Liquid Nitrogen imparts no flavor to the cream even if in direct contact for freezing.
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posted on
10/30/2003 9:01:03 PM PST
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MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Why not make a sardine sundae with pickles and strawberries on top? Now that would be a taste treat! You're pregnant, aren't you?
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posted on
10/30/2003 10:31:20 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(Founding member of the Freerepublic Beer Drinking Team)
To: Hell to pay; MHGinTN
Thanks for the tips. I just went to a few of the websites of the chem supply stores I used to buy stuff from, and it looks like the real dewars are still expensive. However, I noticed Nalgene now makes temporary storage containers, good for a few days. That's all ya need.
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posted on
10/30/2003 11:44:34 PM PST
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July 4th
To: July 4th
Don't have an accident with liquid nitrogen.
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posted on
10/31/2003 12:19:58 AM PST
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fire_eye
To: July 4th
I have a chemistry-teacher friend who freezes a rose with nitro and shatters it for her class. Let me ask her. (She's a rockin' teacher. On the first day of class, to demonstrate the value of safety goggles, she dons a pair and has a student pie her in the face.)
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:55:24 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: mhking
The article is wretchedly written. Liquid nitrogen isn't IN the ice cream/gelato. It's used to flash-freeze it. The line about a drop of liqnit on your hand is totally irrelevant to the ice cream, and thus the story.
To think that someone actually performed the act of striking a keyboard to produce this drivel for money is appalling.
Michael
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10/31/2003 8:04:12 AM PST
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Wright is right!
(Never get excited about ANYTHING by the way it looks from behind.)
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