Teen Drinks Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail, Has Stomach Removed

[Ben]

When the hell did N2 laced drinks become a trend with the hip and stupid crowd?

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/10/08/surgeons-remove-teen-stomach-after-drinks-liquid-nitrogen-cocktail/?test=latestnews

[Tallpine]

Won't have the guts to do that again 

[MechAg94]

Won't have the guts to do that again  

I name you winner of the thread!  Congratulations.  

My first thought was that she got frostbite in her stomach, but nitrogen has a big volume ratio from liquid to gas.  1 gallon expands to over 93 cubic feet (scf) of gas.  

[BlueStarLizzard]

When the hell did N2 laced drinks become a trend with the hip and stupid crowd?

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/10/08/surgeons-remove-teen-stomach-after-drinks-liquid-nitrogen-cocktail/?test=latestnews

I doubt most of them know what gives the drink the fog effect.

(I've seen those kind of drinks on TV, and I wouldn't have know it was liquid nitrogen. I would of guessed something to do with dry ice, and I'm not any sort of chemist, so if it was a stupid guess, oh well.)

[mtnbkr]

I've seen such drinks on cooking/food shows, but have never run across them "in real life".  However, being a 39yo married father, I don't tend to frequent bars and fancy restaurants often.  I was always under the impression that the N2 had dissipated by the time the drink was served, or that it was used to super cool other components of the drink to allow for physical characteristics not otherwise possible.  I wonder if the drink was mixed incorrectly or served too soon.

Chris

[Harold Tuttle]

I had an atomic slushie at a Pa street fair last year

Dry ice in a drink with a domed lid

IMHO, It was a huge liability to let nimrods buy dry ice in a drink.

[Ben]

Ah, I didn't even think about it being for some "drink effect". I was thinking it was part of some new health fad or something.

[MechAg94]

I've seen such drinks on cooking/food shows, but have never run across them "in real life".  However, being a 39yo married father, I don't tend to frequent bars and fancy restaurants often.  I was always under the impression that the N2 had dissipated by the time the drink was served, or that it was used to super cool other components of the drink to allow for physical characteristics not otherwise possible.  I wonder if the drink was mixed incorrectly or served too soon.

Chris

The more I think about this, if you saw liquid nitrogen in water or on the ground, it would just look like clear fluid that is furiously boiling with cold vapor coming off it.  To affect the stomach, I can only imagine they would have dumped a bunch in the top of a glass and the person just chugged it really fast.  I think the expansion would be a bigger issue than the temperature, but it still just seems improbable.  I guess my imagination doesn't quite stretch to some of these fads.

[zahc]

You can stick your hand in liquid nitrogen; I've done it. The boiling vapor forms a barrier that keeps you from getting frostbitten. If you pour it out on the ground, it kind of bounces around just like water on a hot pancake skillet. We used to dip marshmallows in it and give them to kids.

Drinking sounds like a bad idea.

[Hawkmoon]

Drinking sounds like a bad idea.

Quod erat demonstrandum

[RevDisk]

IMHO, It was a huge liability to let nimrods buy dry ice in a drink.

 

[grislyatoms]

Won't have the guts to do that again 

Nice.

[kgbsquirrel]

Quod erat demonstrandum

Petite et accipietis.

http://youtu.be/wV7g8L633Sg

[brimic]

You can stick your hand in liquid nitrogen; I've done it.

I've done that one too.
Used to go through 200L dewars of the stuff every shift doing low temp chemistries.

[Balog]

I've done that one too.
Used to go through 200L dewars of the stuff every shift doing low temp chemistries.

That's a lot of whiskey...  

[gearedforwar]

I believe that cocktail is called "Darwin's Delight" !

[MechAg94]

I wouldn't stick my hand in it.  You only get away with it until your skin cools down a little more. 

[280plus]

Must have been a helluva brain freeze. 

[Terpsichore]

There's two chefs that make their living off using electrical pulses and N2 and such to make their food.

Example:  Jamming an instrument into an orange that shoots pulses into said orange to liquify innards, pour into bowl, add a little N2 and tada!  End result is something along the lines of a sorbet. 

Seems interesting.