Blogger killed by exploding gadget

Speak for yourself. Yum yum /s :wink:

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But… but that’s… That’s not the same thing!!! Pressurized to 90 psi, shooting out of a fine nozzle, those would be practically weaponized

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It was the best offensive cottage cheese in a can i could find in. :slight_smile:

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That siphon image didn’t appear to have an outgoing nozzle for yum to come out of, so I’m guessing that’s the part that broke off the canister at high speed.

I’ll just keep my soda siphon pointed away from me to be on the safe side. (though mine is a respected brand, so I won’t lose any sleep over it)

edit: the post reply button should be better labeled.

Yeah, I think so. It’s definitely not your typical kitchen accessory.

Pardon my French non speaking or reading, but does it mention the brand? I have a Isi brand I have used over 20 years and during that time replaced the seals. Should I worry more about Isis than Isi?

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Unless you want carbonated whipped cream, yes.

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Come on y’all geeks : the point is she should have manually whipped it. The secret lies in the temperature of the cream ; it must be COLD, almost freezing.

I suspect that a person’s physical condition and body-build also plays a factor.

Ha! I laughed so hard I almost blew a gasket! ( too many blew a seal jokes )

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Isi what you did there. Thanks for the set-up.

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I think it was the plastic cap that goes over the cartridge that broke. If it’s too thin near the threads, it’ll crack, and both the cap and cartridge will go flying off. Either that or the whole top came off the container, but that’s a lot more mass to accelerate and people aren’t as likely to have that part pointed at themselves.

And the fat content. If that’s too low, you can whip it until your arm gets tired and still end up with a totally unsatisfying result.

I’m thinking this was like a soda bottle rocket, where the compressed gas is above the liquid and uses the liquid as a reaction mass as it is expelled. The metal base of the can could easily accelerate to 70mph+ if pressurized to 80psi or more, if my rockets are anything to go by. There’s an estimate that uses the ideal gas law to calculate that a whipped cream dispenser could get to 80psi using 8g NO, and as a chemist the math looks right to me. I seem to remember from the news a kid dying after getting a baseball to the chest, so I was thinking it would be the base of the can hitting the chest at fastball speed. So the gadget cap would actually be pointed away/downish from the victim in this scenario.

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to die, yes, it’s tragic, to die and be remembered as a ā€œbloggerā€, unbearable.

Brightness falls from the air,
Queens have died young and fair
Blogger killed by exploding gadget
I couldn’t rhyme and had to fudge it.

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