It's been cold around here. Very cold. Cold enough that boiling hot water seems to instantly vanish into clouds of steam when thrown into the air. So I did. Just to be clear - do not throw large volumes of boiling water directly into the air over your head. The risk of scalding is real. I used heavy welding gloves to protect my hands and used a squirt bottle to turn the water into small droplets so that any water that would have landed on me would be a small, rapidly cooling droplet. I also aimed the stream of water away from my body.
Dispatches from the Dirt Lab #3: Tea Time and the Polar Vortex from Matt Kuchta on Vimeo.
Where I demonstrate what happens when really hot water meets really cold air.
Although it was only about -14°F (about -26 C), the effect is pretty obvious. Huge billowing clouds of steam. In slow motion it looks pretty freakin' awesome.
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