Experiments | What happens when I mix water in hot oil

What happens when I mix water into hot oil.

starring: 1 drop of water

& cooking oil under low heat.

Oil is less dense than water, so it forms a layer on top of water droplet.

Nothing much happens when the oil is cool.

Background noise of me beating eggs, this was filmed by accident.

As the oil heats up, water starts to boil.

Water droplets boil releasing tiny stream of gas bubbles.

When it becomes too hot, gas bubbles pushes its way out with tiny explosions.

with every tiny explosion, tiny droplets are projected to another location.

New explosive spawns.

Heat & pressure building up in this droplet.

Another new explosive spawn.

As the oil gets hotter, pressure builds up in each island of droplets.

boiling with tiny gas bubbles.

smaller droplet of water vaporises so fast with enough heat, it pushes its way out in one tiny explosion.

Another tiny explosion.

gas released in tiny bubbles, oil not hot enough to boil this larger droplet.

gas released in tiny bubbles, oil not hot enough to boil this larger droplet.

I move the droplet to the center of the pan where it’s hotter.

A large gas bubble pushes itself out,

the whole process repeats itself until there are no water left.

This is why you never mix hot oil and water.

Let’s just fry eggs shall we?

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