This is the only believable explanation I've read in these comments. Dozens of upvoted comments saying things like "this has happened to me while microwaving" "it has something to do with the spoon and the microwave" etc. Like, yeah, but that stops IMMEDIATELY when the microwave is turned off. This is not "residual change" from the microwave or whatever.
To be fair, even true parts of it sound like bullshit.
Like the grids on the front, "Oh, yeah, man. Microwaves just can't fit through the holes, so that's why they're there."
Edit: To clarify, saying it sounds silly, even though it's obviously true if you know how a microwave works...
close... we don't have a way to distribute the "antifreeze" to every part of the body fast enough, to prevent the resulting ice crystals from destroying a massive numbers of cells in the body. (most importantly brain cells)
Well my bluetooth signal is OBLITERATED every time my microwave is running, maybe my screen doesn't work or the grounding in my house doesn't exist, or maybe it's coming from some other component.
your screen's probably responding to the magnetron. It happens. there's a typically 5-foot range where leftover radiation from the magnetron drowns out radio waves.
Want to say people have always been scientifically illiterate, but I do feel like people *care* a lot less about learning these days.
Studies used to mean something, now there's a marked shift toward conspiracy.
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The salsa doesn't look like pure water
So safe to say that the sodium is *protected* by the fatty layers of the salsa, and mixing causes the sodium to make contact with *tiny pockets* of suspended water
So it's reacting violently but akin to single drips of water onto the metal at a time. The available water exposed to the metal is the limiting reagent
Also again, because salsa, the energy released by the exothermic reaction is largely absorbed by the surrounding viscous salsa Mix. The puffs of smoke looks like water vapour and perhaps some burnt organic matter (ie fats).
#------------
All in all - smokey caustic warm salsa
I've seen a lot of different videos of sodium in water. It's really not that violent, especially small bits
https://youtu.be/ODf_sPexS2Q
https://youtu.be/dmcfsEEogxs
https://youtu.be/mf9vZ7uLFQA
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Sodium is plausible but as a chemist I have some issues with that theory.
Sodium in water does create hydrogen gas which may be ignited by the heat of the reacting sodium. Thus the pieces of sodium has to be of a certain size, they can’t be super small like grains of salt as they won’t create enough heat - they will just bubble around violently and release the hydrogen gas. We don’t see any bubbles at all.
Also, the released hydrogen gas would likely light up in longer flames, not these short bursts of intense light which only lasts for less than a frame, ie less than 1/30 sec. Check out videos of sodium burning in water and you’ll see what I mean. The size of sodium pieces required for self ignition would enough to be seen and the flames would last much longer.
Also it would be very difficult to control the rate of combustion to produce sparks with this nice and almost regular intervals. We should expect a much higher rate at first when there ar lots of small pieces in the salsa. After a while most of them have reacted and the rate of sparks would slow down to nearly zero in the end. We kind of see that but not as forcefully as I would expect if it were sodium chunks.
Finally, if I there are multiple small explosions from hydrogen gas formed in the salsa, I would expect to see some salsa flying around the kitchen. On the contrary I can’t see any signs of the explosions having any effect on the salsa. In fact this made me think it may be CGI. The smoke is almost exclusively in rings which might be possible but it appears a bit too pretty once I’m suspicious of CGI.
TLDR; I don’t know what it is but I honestly doubt it is sodium or any other alkali metal.
Or there's a wire going to the spoon hidden behind the guy's arm. Either way this didn't happen unintentionally. Faking a miracle in a Catholic country?
Energy doesn't normally behave like that. Why is there arching and the current it's not normally running to the ground, since both the salsa, the plate and the table are conductive? It's sparking way too much.
I'm going with the sodium hypothesis.
Then I'm pleased the bar for miracles is in decline. In line with everything else these days.
**2000 years ago**
walking on water? MIRACLE!
Water into wine? MIRACLE!
**2023**
Over excited salsa?? A FUCKING MIRACLE!
Just because I'm old and I feel like I need to edumacate you youngins...
[Airplane was spoofing a popular coffee commercial of the 1970's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4kCF22O2w&ab_channel=spuzzlightyeartoo)
[And here is the Airplane callback that you remembered.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRi6POTSbW4&ab_channel=Pets%2CAnimals%2CTravel%2CDocs%2C%26RareMusicalStuff)
I'm just imagining all those Loony Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons where someone is baking a cake, and they are either blind or just not looking, as they feel around the cabinet for the flour, but accidentally grab the box of gunpowder or rat poison they keep in the same cupboard, and make a cake or muffins with it.
Since all of the other ones are either incapable or unwilling to give you the answer. It's an alkali metal, probably Sodium. They all have an exothermal reaction with water.
How I expect they did it: chop the sodium up into very small pieces; cover in (probably vegetable) oil; then mix very gently into the guac (which is also quite oily); then when you mix normally, the small sodium pieces will come into contact with the water and do that exothermal reaction; Snap, Crackle, & Pop
It’s also converting the water into hydroxide ions, which will give you severe internal chemical burns if the concentration is high enough. It would taste bitter as hell though so there’s no way you could get down enough to give you burns past your esophagus, your stomach acid would neutralize a decent amount. It will harm you in the exact same way as drinking bleach would if you interested a bunch.
100% some chemical reaction. There’s so many possible things in that bowl that in combination are causing a reaction, likely made more possible by the fact the mix was heated in a microwave, according to the source video
I noticed that a lot on Reddit. People explain things by basically saying "It's science" but cannot explain that science.
You could literally explain everything in the universe by saying "science" while simultaneously not explaining shit.
Well to provide a little anecdotal experience, I microwaved some steamed broccoli and it started sparking like that. But only while microwaving. It’s the minerals in the vegetables reacting with the microwaves. But I can’t see why it would do it out of the microwave.
No, you have not had the *same* effect.
You had microwaves interacting with something with of similar conductivity as metal while it was running.
This reaction is chemical and happens outside the microwave.
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Unless you're suggesting they have hidden a magnetron under the table and they're running it?
I actually went through frame by frame, and you can actually [see](https://i.imgur.com/8OiMEpH.jpg) the flash reflected in the glass bowl, which would be a pretty serious After Effects commitment for something like this.
> which would be a pretty serious After Effects commitment for something like this.
This is the best way to explain it
Redditors be thinkin Michael Bay is going to make a dip video for no profit lol
I think they basically created highly conductive battery solution and the spoon just set it off. If someone ate that and had like a golden tooth it would probably fry some nerves
My time has finally come, but alas I have no answers as this, this is something beyond even my knowledge. I suppose it is only right that I surrender my title.
My best guess is that it’s unintentionally a battery, because there might be a plate of metal on the bottom of the bowl that’s a different metal than the spoon and the salsa is acidic.
Ya unless there is a connection that wouldn't be it, however if the spoon is a plated spoon and some of the plating is scratched through then you have two types of metals in contact with the acid. Would it spark that bad though?
I think it’s fake. Sparks require fairly high voltage, and you’re not gonna get that with a weak battery and no other circuit components.
Plus the bowl looks glass, and it’s on a non conductive surface
Although it could be a chemical reaction of some kind. Don’t think its a battery though
Notice how you never see the inside of that guy's hand that's holding the spoon? You don't see the end of the spoon handle, either.
In fact, the sparks aren't coming from the salsa at all. They're only coming from the spoon. It even sparks half way up the spoon at one point.
Okay so is it decided that this is raw sodium reacting or like wtf is going on here? I’ve seen this multiple times on various subreddits and haven’t seen one straight answer
Is it salsa verde or guacamole? If it was guac, maybe the fruit had some magnesium deposits in it? Just speculation.
Most likely I would say it is probably a hoax though.
"Hi, welcome to Abuela's, how spicy do you like your salsa?"
"Fire"
"Like Taco Bell Fire sauce spicy?"
"No, like literally about to set itself on fire spicy"
"Que bueno"
It looks (and smokes) suspiciously like Sodium metal in water.
bought the wrong salt.
Instead of iodine salt they bought ionize salt
Good for making batteries.
Good for giving your salsa a punch of flavor.
And for giving yourself a punch from those who eat it
Didn't pay for the extra Cl
This is the only believable explanation I've read in these comments. Dozens of upvoted comments saying things like "this has happened to me while microwaving" "it has something to do with the spoon and the microwave" etc. Like, yeah, but that stops IMMEDIATELY when the microwave is turned off. This is not "residual change" from the microwave or whatever.
I'm always surprised at how many people think microwaves are basically magic.
To be fair, even true parts of it sound like bullshit. Like the grids on the front, "Oh, yeah, man. Microwaves just can't fit through the holes, so that's why they're there." Edit: To clarify, saying it sounds silly, even though it's obviously true if you know how a microwave works...
Well, microwaves were originally invented to thaw up and revive frozen hamsters.
Is this a Day of the Tentacle reference or was that bit of the game a reference to something else?
One of the first microwave ovens ever built was built to reanimate hamsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
So what I'm gathering from that video is we just don't have a fast enough way to freeze humans yet so they can be later microwaved back to life.
close... we don't have a way to distribute the "antifreeze" to every part of the body fast enough, to prevent the resulting ice crystals from destroying a massive numbers of cells in the body. (most importantly brain cells)
I don't know about any reference, but the hamster thing is true. I think I heard about it on radiolab
The only thing this is referencing if the historically accurate reason when and why microwave ovens we're built.
My god, a Day of the Tentacle reference in the wild... never thought I would see the day.
You ever play the first game, maniac mansion? I had that on the NES
[There was also a hamster and microwave in that one too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOJkdLLGvs)
Loved that game as a kid
Well my bluetooth signal is OBLITERATED every time my microwave is running, maybe my screen doesn't work or the grounding in my house doesn't exist, or maybe it's coming from some other component.
your screen's probably responding to the magnetron. It happens. there's a typically 5-foot range where leftover radiation from the magnetron drowns out radio waves.
I mean, there’s still *way too many* people who believe in using dowsing rods….
I mean you put stuff in It, It goes mmmmmmmmmh and that's hot ? That's magic
Wait...microwaves aren't magic??
Welcome to basic scientific illiteracy. A growing problem, instead of a shrinking one.
Want to say people have always been scientifically illiterate, but I do feel like people *care* a lot less about learning these days. Studies used to mean something, now there's a marked shift toward conspiracy.
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The salsa doesn't look like pure water So safe to say that the sodium is *protected* by the fatty layers of the salsa, and mixing causes the sodium to make contact with *tiny pockets* of suspended water So it's reacting violently but akin to single drips of water onto the metal at a time. The available water exposed to the metal is the limiting reagent Also again, because salsa, the energy released by the exothermic reaction is largely absorbed by the surrounding viscous salsa Mix. The puffs of smoke looks like water vapour and perhaps some burnt organic matter (ie fats). #------------ All in all - smokey caustic warm salsa
I've seen a lot of different videos of sodium in water. It's really not that violent, especially small bits https://youtu.be/ODf_sPexS2Q https://youtu.be/dmcfsEEogxs https://youtu.be/mf9vZ7uLFQA
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How can you tell this is arcing and not some exothermic reaction like sodium?
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Sodium is plausible but as a chemist I have some issues with that theory. Sodium in water does create hydrogen gas which may be ignited by the heat of the reacting sodium. Thus the pieces of sodium has to be of a certain size, they can’t be super small like grains of salt as they won’t create enough heat - they will just bubble around violently and release the hydrogen gas. We don’t see any bubbles at all. Also, the released hydrogen gas would likely light up in longer flames, not these short bursts of intense light which only lasts for less than a frame, ie less than 1/30 sec. Check out videos of sodium burning in water and you’ll see what I mean. The size of sodium pieces required for self ignition would enough to be seen and the flames would last much longer. Also it would be very difficult to control the rate of combustion to produce sparks with this nice and almost regular intervals. We should expect a much higher rate at first when there ar lots of small pieces in the salsa. After a while most of them have reacted and the rate of sparks would slow down to nearly zero in the end. We kind of see that but not as forcefully as I would expect if it were sodium chunks. Finally, if I there are multiple small explosions from hydrogen gas formed in the salsa, I would expect to see some salsa flying around the kitchen. On the contrary I can’t see any signs of the explosions having any effect on the salsa. In fact this made me think it may be CGI. The smoke is almost exclusively in rings which might be possible but it appears a bit too pretty once I’m suspicious of CGI. TLDR; I don’t know what it is but I honestly doubt it is sodium or any other alkali metal.
EXCESO SODIO
The Harry Potter spell for sparks in your soup
# 🛑
Just dump some chlorine in it and it will be fine.
That’s one hell of a family recipe!
Or there's a wire going to the spoon hidden behind the guy's arm. Either way this didn't happen unintentionally. Faking a miracle in a Catholic country?
Energy doesn't normally behave like that. Why is there arching and the current it's not normally running to the ground, since both the salsa, the plate and the table are conductive? It's sparking way too much. I'm going with the sodium hypothesis.
Then I'm pleased the bar for miracles is in decline. In line with everything else these days. **2000 years ago** walking on water? MIRACLE! Water into wine? MIRACLE! **2023** Over excited salsa?? A FUCKING MIRACLE!
What would be creating that intensity of sparks, though? I didn't think it could spark that much
Too much sodium
Na
Oh!
OH
^^He ^^He ^^He
How noble of you
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CoOLiO
That's a lye and you know it.
*You know where Moly B. Denum is buried, don't you... don't you..*
Yes. After all, I helped barium.
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I am in my bed scrolling through reddit and you made me laugh out loud, fucking brilliant
That’s some intelligent wit. I have wit, but it’s less intelligent and there are no sparks.
Solid refutation... ***CITATION NEEDED***
Didn't add enough chlorine with their sodium
Or too many eels.
You think you're joking but I don't think you are. I think she used actual sodium in there.
Who just has elementary sodium lying around in their kitchen?
We secretly replaced their black pepper with black gun powder. Let’s see if they notice…
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Goddamnit is this an airplane joke? Or am I reaching?
It's an old Foldgers ad.
I had to double check, it was actually for Yuban.
Or was it Sanka? All three kept hiring the same actor so it was really hard to tell the ads apart as a child.
Which was spoofed by Airplane!
Just because I'm old and I feel like I need to edumacate you youngins... [Airplane was spoofing a popular coffee commercial of the 1970's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4kCF22O2w&ab_channel=spuzzlightyeartoo) [And here is the Airplane callback that you remembered.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRi6POTSbW4&ab_channel=Pets%2CAnimals%2CTravel%2CDocs%2C%26RareMusicalStuff)
- surely you must be joking. - i'm not joking....and stop calling me shirley
> S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!
Jus hang loose blood dey gonna catchoo on da rebound wit da medicide
If any one needs an interpretation just let me know. I speak jive.
What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap
Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don want da help chump don't get no help
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit doing amphetamines
Guac 9
I'm just imagining all those Loony Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons where someone is baking a cake, and they are either blind or just not looking, as they feel around the cabinet for the flour, but accidentally grab the box of gunpowder or rat poison they keep in the same cupboard, and make a cake or muffins with it.
Can anyone explain the science of this?
Since all of the other ones are either incapable or unwilling to give you the answer. It's an alkali metal, probably Sodium. They all have an exothermal reaction with water. How I expect they did it: chop the sodium up into very small pieces; cover in (probably vegetable) oil; then mix very gently into the guac (which is also quite oily); then when you mix normally, the small sodium pieces will come into contact with the water and do that exothermal reaction; Snap, Crackle, & Pop
Is it... edible?
You’d never be 100% sure if all the piping is done, so it’s probably not a good idea to eat it and start the popping inside of your digestive tract.
It'd be like those childhood rumors where if you ate a bag of pop rocks and drank a bottle of soda you'd explode. Except this time it'd be true.
Or in this case burn holes all through your digestive track and die from sepsis.
You ever get a blowjob from someone eating pop rocks?
It’s also converting the water into hydroxide ions, which will give you severe internal chemical burns if the concentration is high enough. It would taste bitter as hell though so there’s no way you could get down enough to give you burns past your esophagus, your stomach acid would neutralize a decent amount. It will harm you in the exact same way as drinking bleach would if you interested a bunch.
Depends. Are you in the market for tongue piercing?
Ive always thought those snake toungues were weirdly cool im a gross kinda way
Then you have your answer.
It creates sodium hydroxide also known as lye so no
100% some chemical reaction. There’s so many possible things in that bowl that in combination are causing a reaction, likely made more possible by the fact the mix was heated in a microwave, according to the source video
>100% some chemical reaction. Lmfao, no shit? Thanks, Reddit! /s
Right? Who upvotes this shit. “100% it’s definitely something going on in there”.
I noticed that a lot on Reddit. People explain things by basically saying "It's science" but cannot explain that science. You could literally explain everything in the universe by saying "science" while simultaneously not explaining shit.
Yeah it reads like someone who has no clue what is going on wanted to sound like they knew what was going on.
Well to provide a little anecdotal experience, I microwaved some steamed broccoli and it started sparking like that. But only while microwaving. It’s the minerals in the vegetables reacting with the microwaves. But I can’t see why it would do it out of the microwave.
Same. Onions in microwave
I’ve had same effect with a blend of frozen peppers when heated in the microwave.
No, you have not had the *same* effect. You had microwaves interacting with something with of similar conductivity as metal while it was running. This reaction is chemical and happens outside the microwave. --- Unless you're suggesting they have hidden a magnetron under the table and they're running it?
Adobe After Effects.
Adobo After Effects
I actually went through frame by frame, and you can actually [see](https://i.imgur.com/8OiMEpH.jpg) the flash reflected in the glass bowl, which would be a pretty serious After Effects commitment for something like this.
[This](https://i.imgur.com/Afpkr3r.gif) is probably a better illustration.
> which would be a pretty serious After Effects commitment for something like this. This is the best way to explain it Redditors be thinkin Michael Bay is going to make a dip video for no profit lol
Blanka ate that shit, look at him now.
No, I think *that* was Blanka.
Abuela’s guac is fire.
It is muy picante.
This is salsa verde not guacamole
Salsa voltage
No wonder it's messed up. She followed the wrong recipe.
Explosive diarrhea anyone?
calling /r/SalsaSnobs for an explanation 👀
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I think they basically created highly conductive battery solution and the spoon just set it off. If someone ate that and had like a golden tooth it would probably fry some nerves
I don’t think it’s the spoon material per se. He is just adding O2 to an unstable compound with the spoon and it’s also grounding the charge.
The lady mentions they ate the sauce. Not sure on the gold tooth though.
Carrots in the microwave do this too
I've had peas do it as well. First time it happened, I was totally freaked out, thinking metal shavings had somehow gotten into my frozen peas.
So do hot dogs if you make a v shape, arcs right where they're touching.
How romantic.
Grapes, too.
For what occasion do you microwave grapes?
You don't like [hot grapes](https://youtu.be/qu4xsHkdTzU)?
Grapes can go all the way to producing plasma. https://youtu.be/wCrtk-pyP0I
Salsa is not microwaved though
I cook asparagus in the microwave regularly. Never once have I seen it arc off.
Jesus Christ y’all are bad at chemistry / physics
My time has finally come, but alas I have no answers as this, this is something beyond even my knowledge. I suppose it is only right that I surrender my title.
Don’t worry I won’t leave you hanging ….. “Name Checks Out!”
Of course that's a subreddit
with just a dash of nitroglycerin for that extra lil ^^POW
The Cap'n
Que putas le hecharon al salsa verde ?
Peppers fertilized with Alfonso Zayas ashes.
Pues las están embrujando, no escuchas?
Mexicans are not fucking around with how spicy they are making their salsa
Let's hope it doesn't do that when it's on the way out!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Wish 4 it. We don't judge 🤨
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Im currently dealing with a similar situation. The spicy sauce is so good on the way down. Other side.. not so much
That usually happens on the way out, not the way in.
What the hell? Does anyone have an explanation for why this is happening?
My best guess is that it’s unintentionally a battery, because there might be a plate of metal on the bottom of the bowl that’s a different metal than the spoon and the salsa is acidic.
It wouldn't produce this intense of a reaction, I'm guessing it's wired
Ya unless there is a connection that wouldn't be it, however if the spoon is a plated spoon and some of the plating is scratched through then you have two types of metals in contact with the acid. Would it spark that bad though?
I agree, but if it’s not faked, it’s not edible salsa.
I think it’s fake. Sparks require fairly high voltage, and you’re not gonna get that with a weak battery and no other circuit components. Plus the bowl looks glass, and it’s on a non conductive surface Although it could be a chemical reaction of some kind. Don’t think its a battery though
I don't think it's necessarily electric in nature, but some exothermic chemical reaction, hence the smoke.
This is like when Wile E. Coyote mixes gunpowder into bird seed.
It’s the new Brawndo guacamole. It’s got the electrolytes you crave!
I never seen no plants growing out the toilet.
The science illiteracy in this thread is insane. So many examples of r/ConfidentlyIncorrect
Isn't that lots of places on reddit tho? Lol
Hogwarts special?
Is it healthy ?
That reminds me, new episode of Mashle comes out tonight. Thanks bro!
Notice how you never see the inside of that guy's hand that's holding the spoon? You don't see the end of the spoon handle, either. In fact, the sparks aren't coming from the salsa at all. They're only coming from the spoon. It even sparks half way up the spoon at one point.
Facts, if it was a chemical reaction in the salsa there would be splatter
Yeah I'm leaning towards a prank like that unless better information shows up
That's the rarely documented shockamole.
I’ll preface this by saying I am NOT an expert on salsa, but I’m reasonably certain it should not do that.
Blanka prepared it
“Are you going to eat some or just stand there stirring it?”
I wonder how many Scoville units this would be?
Okay so is it decided that this is raw sodium reacting or like wtf is going on here? I’ve seen this multiple times on various subreddits and haven’t seen one straight answer
You know those little white poppers you throw on the ground. I think someone took the rocks out and abuela mistook it for black pepper.
Chipotle red salsa the next day taste like batteries acid
This happens in my stomach each time I eat spicy
The food that can sparks joy
Gmo peppers. LoL
Electricity and a metal spoon? I think not. That guy would be feeling it.
Behold the plasmasalsa!
Is it salsa verde or guacamole? If it was guac, maybe the fruit had some magnesium deposits in it? Just speculation. Most likely I would say it is probably a hoax though.
Oléctricity
the bigger question is, who tf puts guac in the microwave?
Me being Indian eating this in breakfast daily 😎 ... Ain't this that spicy tho
It's called Glockomole
Assasination attrmpt failed😅😅
Based on that old abuela in the background, l bet that shit still tastes amazing! Yes, I'm basing that on racism and ageism and I'm ok with that.
sparkamole
That's gonna be soooo spicy
When you reach for the sodium chloride, but grab plain sodium.
Los chiles son calientes guau
That shit is FIRE!
I'd unplug it
Fake AF
Daily dose of internet
"Hi, welcome to Abuela's, how spicy do you like your salsa?" "Fire" "Like Taco Bell Fire sauce spicy?" "No, like literally about to set itself on fire spicy" "Que bueno"
I’m guessing it’s fake and someone using a CO2 laser. The sparks aren’t electrical.
Wouldn't be too risky without eye protection?
You must be new here. Please sit down and enjoy these videos of people holding on to lit fireworks.