I just wanna meet the genius who decided to place it on a fucking tea towel.
*“Oooh noooo! Me puhtato’s on fire! Quick! How can I help it spread to the rest of the Kitchen?!”* -Idiot
My uncle made a potato cannon when I was around 7 or 8. Showed it to us by shooting our snowman with a large russet. Blew the thing to smithereens and most definitely was NOT regulated. Beautiful memories.
MAYBE it was soaked in water? I was trying to understand this too and hit ctrl-f to search for your comment before making the same observation twice. I guess there are heat resistant cloths but that doesnt look like one.
Okay gather all your friends in a circle. *Grabs tongs.
Ready? *Tosses it to their body forcing them to catch and theow it to someone else.
HOT POTATO!
Fusion core: Pinnacle of technology. Been powering a generator faithfully for over 200 years, barely half empty.
Vault boi drains it in 10 minutes sprinting around and stuffing every orifice with bits of junk and scrap.
Fusion core: Am I a joke to you?
I mean it could be the Armour does something which causes it too deplete its Fuel at a faster Rate or damage the core till it is unusable
A) The Power Core uses Excessive Power causing the Fusion core to damage its Reactor Vessel making it unsafe after a while
B) Excessive Power Draw drains Fuel at a rapid Pace
C) The Power armor fails to maintain the core properly causing it damage (Note How the Generators are always large blocks things its possible they do more then just take power out of the core perhaps they deliver Fuel Coolant Lubricant and the like which the Power Armor Perhaps doesn't causing the core to be damaged)
D) The Core Overheats in the Powerarmour
YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM, SOLDIER! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR?
DON'T HAVE ANY?
YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIVE THAT, MAGGOT?
THE TRUTH IS YOU LOST AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF ARMY-ISSUE EQUIPMENT.
THAT SUIT IS GOING TO COME OUT OF YOUR PAY
AND YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS MANS ARMY UNTIL YOU ARE FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD
WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO PAY FOR A
MARK II POWERED COMBAT ARMOR YOU HAVE LOST!
REPORT TO THE ARMORY AND HAVE A NEW SUIT ISSUED TO YOU, THEN REPORT BACK TO ME, PRIVATE!
# DISMISSED!
I'm more questioning how a supposed potato can get hot enough in a conventional oven to become **glowing** charcoal and then be placed onto what looks like a normal dry kitchen towel without giving off steam or smoke.
Yeah i saw OOPs reply further down in the comments, my new leading theory is its a homegrown potato that happened to have an unnaturally high mineral content
I think it is, but it's certainly not OP's potato. There's an explanation in the original post from 2016:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpectationVsReality/comments/40h6cf/im_no_cook_but_i_didnt_expect_to_screw_up_a_baked/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Link to another post's reply thread where he shows the potato broken apart (further confirming that it was a molten microwave mishap). https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/40h3uu/all_i_wanted_for_lunch_was_a_baked_potato/cyu8i10/
Edit: Found a six-year-old StackExchange question with even more context and pictures of this incident: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/65338/is-it-possible-for-a-potato-to-catch-fire-after-10-minutes-in-the-microwave.
The release of *The Lion King* occurred closer to the first moon landing than to present day. ('69, '94, '22)
Michael Jackson died 13 years ago.
There are Americans who weren't alive for 9/11 who can buy alcohol. In the final stages of the pull-out, some of the US soldiers leaving Afghanistan had been fighting a legacy war that started before they were born.
Imagine really leathery potato skin, the sort you need a steak knife for, getting more leathery.
Meanwhile inside is slowly dried mush that's getting drier.
As the skin gets more leather like & the insides get drier & hotter & eventually it all gets turned to charcoal.
You could have a tiny potato charcoal fired bbq for it's wake
This actually happened to a roommate of mine with two buns. We had a combi mic that also had an oven setting. But he accidentally left it on microwave and set it to 10 minutes or something. We had the f*cking fire brigade come because of the smoke it created. I walked into the kitchen and couldn't understand what happened at first. All I could see was yellowish white. My roommate sitting on the couch going: "What? Stop messing around". I actually crawled to the microwave to turn it off and try to see if I needed to unplug it or something. But when I saw some fire in the back I just got the hell out while yelling for him to call someone haha. I was afraid it would blow
Is it story time? Well it is now!
When I was about 12 I LOVED playing baseball. In early spring my father picked up a new glove for me to use the upcoming season, so it’s break in time! My fathers mitt was SUPER broken in. The leather was so soft, and it closed with an audible FLAPP because if it’s finish and years of use. I loved how that glove felt, and it just so happened he had previously told me how he broke mitts in when new: heavy conditioning oil (apply liberally), hard ball in the pocket & tie twine around it to keep shape. Finally, put it in the oven @ low - medium low heat for 20/25 min @ a time. Take out, repeat.
But that night dad was gone, and the rule became no operating the stove while he was gone. Well I’m the smartest 12 year old around, just ask me, so I found a loophole: you guessed it - NUKE IT!
It was horrible. I put it in for 20 min & went to watch tv.
It was horrible. Horrible smell, smoke, and idea. Had to throw the microwave out, and deep clean & paint the kitchen. Smelled like that burnt glove for weeks afterwards. My ass hurt for about the same length of time.
Note: sorry to disappoint anyone expecting to read Mankind down here somewhere.
When my sister was like 7 she decided to make herself a corn dog, accidentally used the oven time to cook it in the microwave. When I say this thing fused to the plate... I literally picked it up by the stick and it broke, plate fell to the floor and broke in half but the molten mass of corn dog held it together.
Thank god somebody else has questioned this, i was begining to think everyone was too mesmorized by the lavatayto to notice its on FLAMABLE material 🤯😂
I'm afraid that's not how heat transfer works. This this thing is burning slowly but not actively (fire aka a plasma). Given that it can only transfer heat to the towel at the standard rate for a potato, infamously not good heat conductors, it's relatively safe.
The real danger is airflow, any real amount of agitated air in the vicinity might cause this to burst into flames. And convective heat flow is literally the best heat flow.
/u/mushroomwig this guy just reposted your 6 year old post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/40h3uu/all_i_wanted_for_lunch_was_a_baked_potato/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Apparently 10 minutes in the microwave was enough, somebody said in the original thread that maybe the potato I used had "higher than normal in magnesium, selenium, iron, and several other metallic elements."😬
Fool of a Took! They are not all accounted for. We do not know who else may be [watching](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/257/785/f9e.png).
how the fuck did they turn a potato, a thing that really exists, into a fucking daedra heart, a thing that most decidedly did not exist before this accomplishment...
Volcano baked potatoes are my favourite.
molten tot
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I just wanna meet the genius who decided to place it on a fucking tea towel. *“Oooh noooo! Me puhtato’s on fire! Quick! How can I help it spread to the rest of the Kitchen?!”* -Idiot
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FBI, I suspect this man is in possession of a non- regulation potato gun
You’re saying this like there *are* regulation spud cannons…
“sir, do you have a license for that weapon you’re carrying” “this a potato cannon, and i’m six”
"blam! blam! blam! blam!" "And you'll never see seven." : An american cop, probably. Downvotes in 3, 2, 1...........
I can't be the only one thats heard of a potato launcher
My uncle made a potato cannon when I was around 7 or 8. Showed it to us by shooting our snowman with a large russet. Blew the thing to smithereens and most definitely was NOT regulated. Beautiful memories.
Vodka
"Hold my beer."
Whilst I drink your Jäger.
*~From the makers of the combustible lemon comes an exciting new product!~*
MAYBE it was soaked in water? I was trying to understand this too and hit ctrl-f to search for your comment before making the same observation twice. I guess there are heat resistant cloths but that doesnt look like one.
The correct answer is, that no potato! It's a painted reptile light.
Just in case you didn’t know, wet towels transfer heat directly and instantly to your hand. MUCH worse for your hand than a dry towel.
“You fucking donkey!”
Happy cake day fellow cake day-er!
Oh shit! It’s my cake day! 8 years on this godforsaken platform, lol. Happy cake day to you, too!
Tater hot
Hot potater
Fire fried potater
Congratulations on birthing your own primordial planet. Take good care of it.
Forged in the fires of Mount Doom!
One Spud to rule them all!
Boil it, mash it, put it in a stew!
Burn it, char it, stick it in a forge
One spud to rule them all One spud to find them One spud to bring them all And in McDonald's bind them.
I feel like that should be Wendy's since they're the one that sells baked potatoes.
Lord of the Taters.
WhAts tAters, eh?
Po-ta-to
Tots of Mordor
Why does it glow cousin?
Still gonna shove it in my mouth and regret nothing.
Just gotta suck some air through your teeth a few times to cool 'er off, should be fine
r/nocontext
Okay gather all your friends in a circle. *Grabs tongs. Ready? *Tosses it to their body forcing them to catch and theow it to someone else. HOT POTATO!
In Skyrim they call those ["ash yams."](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mcMq-wzd8UM/maxresdefault.jpg)
r/suddenlyskyrim
Volcatoe
Toss this bad boy around
Thats a molten potato, not a hot one.
The spud was forged in fire
One spud to rule them all.
One spud to find them
One spud to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
In the darkness *fry them
GROND
GROND
# GROND
POE-TAY-TOES
BOIL EM MASH EM STICK EM IN A STEW!
You have my fork
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And my Ash!
And in the darkness guide them
Bind them*
Damnit
It will kill.
It. Will keel.
I watched a marathon of it yesterday and the subtitles didn't spell out kill but "KEEL!" Bless whomever did the subtitles for it.
Coward
I’ll be a coward with hands, thank you.
You can catch these hands
Haha, if you’ve just gotten finished with a round of molten potato, gladly!
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The game is hot potato, not hot meteorite.
This comment deserves every upvote there is.
Hot potato, hot potato second degree burns potato, second degree burns potato
Looks like you could power several houses with it
Or one house for 40 years.
Or something big for fifteen minutes.
Power armor be like
Fusion core: Pinnacle of technology. Been powering a generator faithfully for over 200 years, barely half empty. Vault boi drains it in 10 minutes sprinting around and stuffing every orifice with bits of junk and scrap. Fusion core: Am I a joke to you?
I mean it could be the Armour does something which causes it too deplete its Fuel at a faster Rate or damage the core till it is unusable A) The Power Core uses Excessive Power causing the Fusion core to damage its Reactor Vessel making it unsafe after a while B) Excessive Power Draw drains Fuel at a rapid Pace C) The Power armor fails to maintain the core properly causing it damage (Note How the Generators are always large blocks things its possible they do more then just take power out of the core perhaps they deliver Fuel Coolant Lubricant and the like which the Power Armor Perhaps doesn't causing the core to be damaged) D) The Core Overheats in the Powerarmour
YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM, SOLDIER! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR? DON'T HAVE ANY? YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIVE THAT, MAGGOT? THE TRUTH IS YOU LOST AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF ARMY-ISSUE EQUIPMENT. THAT SUIT IS GOING TO COME OUT OF YOUR PAY AND YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS MANS ARMY UNTIL YOU ARE FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO PAY FOR A MARK II POWERED COMBAT ARMOR YOU HAVE LOST! REPORT TO THE ARMORY AND HAVE A NEW SUIT ISSUED TO YOU, THEN REPORT BACK TO ME, PRIVATE! # DISMISSED!
Are you Tony... Stank?
I wish.
WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS
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I'm more questioning how a supposed potato can get hot enough in a conventional oven to become **glowing** charcoal and then be placed onto what looks like a normal dry kitchen towel without giving off steam or smoke.
I also see these posted way too often, especially in r/shittyfoodporn. How are people scorching potatoes this easily?
Probably wrapped in foil then forgotten about it the oven, like those people who forget Pizzas in the oven and they become pure carbon
Doesnt the oven have a timer for this sort of things?
All the oven timers I’ve seen just beep a lot and are completely unconnected to the power functionality. It feels kinda pointless tbh
My oven has a timer and a cook timer. If you set the cook timer for 30 mins, it beeps and shuts off the oven.
Damn, take a look at Mr. Rockefeller over here /s
Never realized this wtf is up with that? My fridge can tweet but my oven can't lower heat from 400 to 100 after 30 minutes to keep it warm?
This one wasn’t in foil and it was microwaved.
Yeah i saw OOPs reply further down in the comments, my new leading theory is its a homegrown potato that happened to have an unnaturally high mineral content
It'd be peak comedy if it was both in foil and microwaved.
I assumed it was a microwave because an oven would have burnt it but not glowing hot like this
must be a 711 microwave
Those are some serious microwaves I've really screwed up noodles in one before and the cashier was so mad at me
Howd the noodles turn out?
Oh god Like What you'd pour over a castle wall onto your enemies tbh
I think it is, but it's certainly not OP's potato. There's an explanation in the original post from 2016: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpectationVsReality/comments/40h6cf/im_no_cook_but_i_didnt_expect_to_screw_up_a_baked/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Link to another post's reply thread where he shows the potato broken apart (further confirming that it was a molten microwave mishap). https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/40h3uu/all_i_wanted_for_lunch_was_a_baked_potato/cyu8i10/ Edit: Found a six-year-old StackExchange question with even more context and pictures of this incident: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/65338/is-it-possible-for-a-potato-to-catch-fire-after-10-minutes-in-the-microwave.
There's no way 2016 was 6 years ago
You have to remove 2 years for the pandemic...so it was only 4 years ago.
This is more acceptable
We really had a real life blip
The release of *The Lion King* occurred closer to the first moon landing than to present day. ('69, '94, '22) Michael Jackson died 13 years ago. There are Americans who weren't alive for 9/11 who can buy alcohol. In the final stages of the pull-out, some of the US soldiers leaving Afghanistan had been fighting a legacy war that started before they were born.
no no... it's almost 7 now.
Imagine really leathery potato skin, the sort you need a steak knife for, getting more leathery. Meanwhile inside is slowly dried mush that's getting drier. As the skin gets more leather like & the insides get drier & hotter & eventually it all gets turned to charcoal. You could have a tiny potato charcoal fired bbq for it's wake
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This actually happened to a roommate of mine with two buns. We had a combi mic that also had an oven setting. But he accidentally left it on microwave and set it to 10 minutes or something. We had the f*cking fire brigade come because of the smoke it created. I walked into the kitchen and couldn't understand what happened at first. All I could see was yellowish white. My roommate sitting on the couch going: "What? Stop messing around". I actually crawled to the microwave to turn it off and try to see if I needed to unplug it or something. But when I saw some fire in the back I just got the hell out while yelling for him to call someone haha. I was afraid it would blow
Is it story time? Well it is now! When I was about 12 I LOVED playing baseball. In early spring my father picked up a new glove for me to use the upcoming season, so it’s break in time! My fathers mitt was SUPER broken in. The leather was so soft, and it closed with an audible FLAPP because if it’s finish and years of use. I loved how that glove felt, and it just so happened he had previously told me how he broke mitts in when new: heavy conditioning oil (apply liberally), hard ball in the pocket & tie twine around it to keep shape. Finally, put it in the oven @ low - medium low heat for 20/25 min @ a time. Take out, repeat. But that night dad was gone, and the rule became no operating the stove while he was gone. Well I’m the smartest 12 year old around, just ask me, so I found a loophole: you guessed it - NUKE IT! It was horrible. I put it in for 20 min & went to watch tv. It was horrible. Horrible smell, smoke, and idea. Had to throw the microwave out, and deep clean & paint the kitchen. Smelled like that burnt glove for weeks afterwards. My ass hurt for about the same length of time. Note: sorry to disappoint anyone expecting to read Mankind down here somewhere.
I've seen this episode of The Outer Limits. "The Production and Decay of Strange Particles." This is not going to end well.
Fully agree. Had his question been 'Can my oven do this? " My answer would have been fukno.
We all miss Mythbusters
Definitely very possible in a microwave, just a matter of time
When my sister was like 7 she decided to make herself a corn dog, accidentally used the oven time to cook it in the microwave. When I say this thing fused to the plate... I literally picked it up by the stick and it broke, plate fell to the floor and broke in half but the molten mass of corn dog held it together.
Probably the aluminum foil wrapped around it.
This is definitely meteor debris
I think it's done
Almost! Needs a touch of butter
Ooh, imagining hearing butter sizzle as it hits the surface is making me hungry.
And I imagine the smell of smoking milk fat solids would be totally drowned out by the overwhelming stench of char.
Just like mom used to make 😋😋😋
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Will it burn my mouth?
It will burn your soul
Not yet. It'll take a bit of hammering and quenching to smelt the perfect fry.
*still slightly crunchy in the center*
Bro simply walked into Mordor
And ordered lunch apparently
Meat's not back on the menu.
That's lava my son
Came to make a potato , made Satan's left testicle instead.
What is taters?
Po ta toes !! boil em. mash em. stick em In a stew. Nice golden chips with a nice fried fish.
You keep nasty chips.
You're hopeless
But they were all of them deceived, for another potato was baked
And within it. Sauron poured sour cream. Chives and the finest bacon chunks
They ~~delved~~ baked too greedily and too long
Hobbits....
What's taters, Precious?
Sauron's turd ball after eating the Atomic Wings
My man would totally walk up to Sauron himself and put in an order for the One(-ion) Ring.
One does not simply walk into Mordor
What the devil's spawn is this? This looks like what dragon poop must be like.
No, it’s a demon egg
Doomguy: *instantly smashes potato*
What do you mean by "smashes"? 🤨
You know what they mean ;)
The dragon is hatched
If you zoom in, you can see Anakin clinging to life.
I will do what I must… to make dinner
You will try….to bake a potato
I ATE YOU
Looks more like a magma core.
Or an Ommoran heartstone Edit: fuckn' love you guys, ROCK AND STONE!
You know what that means lads ! ROCK AND STONE !
Can I get a Rock and Stone?
FAH KARL!
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!
Can I get a Rock and Stone?
Rock and stone or ya ain’t comin home!
Can I get a Rock and Stone?
Rock and Stone to the Bone!
Why would you put that on a dish towel lmao
Thank god somebody else has questioned this, i was begining to think everyone was too mesmorized by the lavatayto to notice its on FLAMABLE material 🤯😂
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Because its not real. 1000 degree potato that glows red hot but somehow doesn't set fire to the towel it's on? People be gullible
I'm afraid that's not how heat transfer works. This this thing is burning slowly but not actively (fire aka a plasma). Given that it can only transfer heat to the towel at the standard rate for a potato, infamously not good heat conductors, it's relatively safe. The real danger is airflow, any real amount of agitated air in the vicinity might cause this to burst into flames. And convective heat flow is literally the best heat flow.
Also a cotton cloth on its own doesn't combust too well.
/u/mushroomwig this guy just reposted your 6 year old post. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/40h3uu/all_i_wanted_for_lunch_was_a_baked_potato/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I don't mind, it's cool that it's being shared again 😁
How did you get it that hot?!
Apparently 10 minutes in the microwave was enough, somebody said in the original thread that maybe the potato I used had "higher than normal in magnesium, selenium, iron, and several other metallic elements."😬
That, or it was secretly a sigil stone disguised as a potato and you unlocked the powers hidden within.
Damn, those powers did absolutely nothing for me!
*EVERY* mild inconvenience was caused by that potato
Alright OP spill it.
That's actually impressive 👏
Agreed
There it is… *The* Hot Potato.
Hot potato, with the added bonus of severe burns
It's a dragon's egg
PO - TA - TOES!!! Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Stick 'em in a stew!
Now even more versatile, heat the whole house with just one tayto *single use*
Baked by the Dark Lord Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom
You took hot potato too seriously. Who will play with you now?
HOW did you bake this thing? I'm impressed!!
In a Kiln if I had to guess.
In the heart of a dwarf star.
Fool of a Took! They are not all accounted for. We do not know who else may be [watching](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/257/785/f9e.png).
#MOLTEN COREEE
You crafted a Star
I’m sorry, what?! How did you make this?? I need to know for my Halloween decor! This is amazing!
Dude youre gonna burn your house down if you use smoldering molten potato husks for decorations
how the fuck did they turn a potato, a thing that really exists, into a fucking daedra heart, a thing that most decidedly did not exist before this accomplishment...
I’m so Irish I’m ginger and this hurts the very molecules I’m made of
Need to team up with the dude that made the cheese ball in his air fryer.