Nitrate Free Hot Dogs

so which would you rather have?fire powers, or cryo powers? - oh, fire powers.- why is that? - absolutely. firestarter?- yeah, but you would burn everything down. - yeah, exactly.- i could blast crazy ice everywhere in this, and it would be fine tomorrow. therewould be no house if i was blasting fire.

Nitrate Free Hot Dogs, - some men just want to watch the world burn.- okay. that's not the only batman quote i have ifwe're going to be playing with cold things. oh just all mr. freeze? [schwarzenegger voice]everyone chill!

[synthetic voice]the modern rogue acts super cool. [vhs ejection sound] so everything we're using, we got at the local grocery store. yes, we're going to be making supercooled cryofluid. now, with liquid nitrogen, obviously it's colder but when it hits skin it immediatelyboils and falls off. - right.- this stuff is going to stick to the body if it gets us, right? it is a completely different chemical. you don't want to touch this, at all!

uh here, yeah. pop it up. all right, so dry ice is- i know it's carbondioxide, and i know that when it warms up it sublimates. it turns directly into co2gas. but who figured out how to make it? it was a company in 1925, dry ice wastheir trademark, now it's commonly regarded as any compressed carbon dioxide. yeah, oh you can feel it through the gloves even. yeah, the glove... i used to have scars right here from dry ice. yeah. - why would you? you were a burner?you were an icer when you were a kid?- exactly.

it was for a halloween party and i was carryinga bunch of stuff. feel how quick the rubber gets totally stiffon here. whoa there we go.oh my god, look at it. it worms around, like ants. dry ice is actually kind of pricey compared to regular ice.- how much was this? this was like thirteen bucks for this block.i mean, it's not bad. all right, beauty!okay so we got our cold source, what are we using for our fuel? rubbing alcohol.

so you want as pure alcohol as you can get,because otherwise if there's lots of liquid in there, it's going to get what?- it'll get viscous, if it's like seventy percent isopropyl alcohol it'll turn intoa sludge. - isn't this what you've always wanted to do?- it really is. this is in every way a childhood fantasy. now this is where we want to be real careful not to let anything splash on us, becauseat this point it's now supercool. it will give you immediate frostbite. we're talking about freezer burning your body. i guess we test it out, right? at this point...shot. shot. shot-shot-shot. shot!

oh god damn, don't-- no yelling, no yelling.sorry! i want to do that thing with the flower. thatone always blew my mind. - what do you want to do next?- i want to get that, ooh marshmallow! - marshmallow?- throw a few of them in there. - what now?- let's grab a hotdog. a hotdog, yes!we're going to make the world's worst soup. it's another really depressing meal at modernrogue headquarters. should we cast a spell, should we say somethingin latin? what is this?flarp! noise putty.

it's flarp! copyright-free gak!â„¢yeah. - eeeh, okay.- want to take just part of it? yeah, i'd feel better.because it would be legitimately bad if something had a big burst air bubble or something likethat. actually, i don't think that's how it's goingto work. i think it's going to contract, that's why you can actually put blown up balloonsin liquid nitrogen and they'll shrivel. they'll just go shhhhheeeewww.yeah. what about a stick of butter?so right now it's spreadable, right? just hold that down.

oh my gosh! [leaves crunching] it's brittle! hahaha, you want to do another one? it's awesome, yeah yeah yeah. so just hit it with a hammer. all right, ready?it'll be a little bit better. oooooooohhhh!yes! yes it worked! success!

can you squeeze it? - no.- okay, all right. yeah let's give it a try. ready? no, see i think it's insulated. i think the outside freezes, but the inside maintainsits sponginess. see now this one i feel like is ready because,finally see how much smaller it is? - so gooooood!- yes! listen even to the sound of the cutting board. this is all frozen straight through.

here we go. wuuuhhhyup, we're all right. we're good. we're good. hotdog certified! all right. [laughter] it's amazing to me that we have to go throughso much dry ice, because i guess it's all sublimating but also the alcohol is evaporating. yeah, alcohol has a really low evaporation point. well, and the water that's in the rubbing

alcohol, you can see is starting to get ita little bit viscous. - do you want to do the honors?- sure! wow! holy cow!it shot across the room like an atomic fireball, that's amazing!here, i'm going to hold it in place. that's like a jawbreaker.yeah! there we go.[laughter] oh yeah. wow!here, give it a try. - hit it hard?- yeah.

[gasps]ooooh. showtime you little scamp.one, two. i'm hit!whoa! i took a big chunk of it to the stomach. jeez louise! you know what's really gross?huh? that.eeeeehhhhhhh, yeah. yeah, this is the part they don't show youafter all those demonstrations. so i think this might be the most legitimatelyscientific episode that we've done.

sure, if not the safest episode.it's certainly not the safest. here's what scares me about this, is the quantitythat we're using. because in order to get enough of it to immerse something in, thiscould mess you up forever if somebody were

to grab it and fling it over your body orwhatever. you would not be able to warm your body up fast enough.we're not doing that? oh no no no no.i thought we were going to coin toss for it? okay, i don't- see this is, i don't. makesme uncomfortable.