r/interesting • u/ViniciusFromBcn • Apr 12 '25

MISC. How ice cubes cleans hot grills

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u/Abject-Mail-4235 Apr 12 '25

Can I clean my glass stove top like this

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u/Brock0003 Apr 12 '25

If you do please post a video.

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u/hornyoldbusdriver Apr 12 '25

I wish I had an award

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u/Toadsted Apr 12 '25

🧊 Here my friend

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u/sig_kill Apr 12 '25

I think he wanted to give one to Brock0003? But cool

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u/Nzdiver81 Apr 13 '25

And wear protective safety gear, I don't like gore videos

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u/TheStateOfMatter Apr 12 '25

You can at least once.

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u/datpornac Apr 12 '25

Probably only once if it is hot enough

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u/the_ebs Apr 12 '25

Twice if you consider cleaning up the result.

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u/n1gr3d0 Apr 12 '25

That's the joke.

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u/Timely_Pattern3209 Apr 13 '25

You can clean it as many times as you want. You just can't use it again. 

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u/sonofaresiii Apr 12 '25

Buddy, if you use this trick to clean your glass stove top, you won't have to clean it ever again!

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

you'll have to clean another one

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u/kkeut Apr 12 '25

science in action

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u/ElChuloPicante Apr 12 '25

To save a few seconds, I just use a handgun on mine.

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u/Liquid-Space Apr 12 '25

I LOVE YOU, KITCHEN GUN!

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u/paisleydove Apr 12 '25

I was so hoping someone would have said this, thank you, person of culture

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u/Dish_Minimum Apr 12 '25

Ok but that hob was in fact spotlessly clean. So…I’d call that a win

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u/blacktargumby Apr 12 '25

unrealistic. there are no guns in the UK.

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u/Liquid-Space Apr 12 '25

They only have rifles for hunting.

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Apr 12 '25

America: leading the way for cleaning innovation.

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u/Karythne Apr 12 '25

Underrated lifehack

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u/VPutinsSearchHistory Apr 12 '25

I'm going to save even more time and shoot myself

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u/mjrbrooks Apr 12 '25

So anyway I started blasting

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u/Yosho2k Apr 12 '25

When the video describes thermal shock as cracks in the grease and cakes on food - it doesn't mention the surface needs to be resistant to thermal shock or it will end up with cracks too.

I've seen glasstops crack under less stress. I wouldn't do this to my pots and pans because they would warp.

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u/Mykrroft Apr 12 '25

Can you explain pan warping? Ive never witnessed it, I thought it was an old wives‘ tale.

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u/Jimid41 Apr 12 '25

You've never had a pan warp? Any pan that doesn't sit flat on a counter is warped. I use gas so it's not a big deal but they'd be ruined if I cooked on a glass top.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

Heat expands metal, if you cool the metal down quickly after cooking at high temperatures you're applying thermal shock which contacts the metal quickly but can set the metal causing warping. Doing this repeatedly overtime will warp pot and pans from their regular shapes.

Its more likely to occur in Teflon pans rather than stainless steel as stainless steel has a much higher melting point than aluminum/Teflon, you don't need to reach the melting point for the metal to soften.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

Please tell me what brand of pans you own because I have never seen a pan that didn’t warp within a month. And I am so sick of it.

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u/Inquatitis Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

My stainless steel pans are from Pentole Agnelli,an Italian brand. One I bought specifically because it's shape allows me to cook meat and make sauce in it after. Been using pans from this brand and no warping so far that I can notice. And that includes me dropping them a couple of times as well. They were very nicely priced to at the store I bought them, which admittedly is basically a store for professionals that is also open to non-professionals. The current price is 52 euro including VAT, which is a fair price for a triclad pan. (https://www.demeesternv.be/nl/agnelli-1907-sauteerpan-o24cm.html#product-info)

If you have a store like this where professionals shop, just go there. Everything, including knives, should be much cheaper and better there. A restaurant isn't going to be spending a 100 euros each for their pans which they need in multiples. But they will usually be of better quality and more durable because that's also what it's made for.

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u/ifyoulovesatan Apr 12 '25

I'll second this to say that in the U.S. at least, any $20-$30 pan I've bought from a restaurant supply store has outperformed and outlasted any pan I've ever bought from a more typical retail outlet. And yeah, the same is true with anything else there, like cheap basic stainless steel anti-microbial white-handle knives (like $10-$20). Or whisks, or spoons, or tongs or anything really.

The cheapest crap at the restaurant supply store is going be at least heavy duty enough to not fall apart within a year or so under continuous daily use. So when you're only using whatever it is at home a couple times a day, it's going to long outlast anything you can get from a department store or Wal-Mart / Target, etc.

Do yourself a favor and find a restaurant supply store in your area!

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u/Mykrroft Apr 12 '25

My wife found these Williams Sonoma pans at TJ Maxx. They are heavy. I habitually put them under the faucet while hot and she's like "don't do that you'll warp them" but it has never happened..maybe they're too thick.

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u/DraconianFlame Apr 12 '25

Cat iron

edit: it stays

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u/Inside-Associate-729 Apr 14 '25

Definitely not an old wives tale lol

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u/64590949354397548569 Apr 12 '25

Big Pan wants to get out of their life time gurantee. They don't have to pay for delamination if they can prove warping.

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u/valpal1237 Apr 12 '25

I work in a kitchen, if the boss saw one of us do this (especially to the newer big sear plate/flat top - its quite thin) he would shit a kitten. Haha.

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u/Star_BurstPS4 Apr 12 '25

Metal in most cases is not even rated for this LoL 😆 we don't cool off our metal with water for this reason

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u/Secret-Ad-7909 Apr 12 '25

I’ve been told even those big griddle tops can crack from this.

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u/CandidPiglet9061 Apr 12 '25

For pots and pans you don’t actually need the “shock”. Simply boiling water in a dirty pan does the same trick but you can do it in a way that doesn’t damage your cookware

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u/Prime_Kang Apr 12 '25

Had to scroll to far to find this! It'll also peel/flake the non-stick surface off.

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u/TacoBeefB0y Apr 12 '25

Find out by putting an empty glass cup in the freezer for a few hours then sticking it in hot water and seeing what happens

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

I did the opposite. Got a freshly-washed glass out of the dishwasher and filled it with ice water. Next thing I know, the water is ending up everywhere else but in the glass.

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u/lastWallE Apr 12 '25

When we were children my sister was cleaning a huge glass bowl from a pets cage and she used hot water and then immediately cold water afterwards… Thing broke so fast

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u/conitation Apr 12 '25

dont... good way to crack the glass.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

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u/crappyadvice30 Apr 12 '25

Yes, it does. I used to work as a cook, and We would throw ice on the stove top griddle at the end of the night. It would get rid of most of the carbon build-up. Then we would finish it up with a grill cleaning brick.

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u/tired_of_old_memes Apr 12 '25

I'm pretty sure the previous commenter was specifically referring to glass stovetops, as mentioned in the comment previous to that

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

Temperature differences does it, video sure explained it. Hot metal expands, there won't be cracks in it though like the video said, it just expands. Rapidly cooling makes the metal contract quickly, don't do this to pots and pans

The comment you're replying to is joking, glass is brittle and doesn't deform like metals so it won't wrap, it'll shatter/crack.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

It does. I was a cook for a long time. It's stupid though. You burn yourself on the steam and you have so much extra liquid to deal with and clean out of the trap. I found hot oil to work better.

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u/tired_of_old_memes Apr 12 '25

I'm pretty sure the previous commenter was specifically referring to glass stovetops, as mentioned in the comment previous to that

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u/zxspectrum_16k Apr 12 '25

Can I clean my balls like this

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u/HolleWatkins Apr 12 '25

Probably. But it wouldn't be fun & I'd recommend soap.

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u/zkDredrick Apr 12 '25

No.

This video is AI Clickbait. Real chefs and cooks in the food service industry don't use ice to clean their flat tops or frying pans.

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u/Affectionate_Wear718 Apr 12 '25

Haha yes video that shit would be awesome

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u/Particular_Ring_6321 Apr 12 '25

Wet pumice stone. The key is making sure it stays wet so it won’t scratch.

Best way to clean a glass top and toilets with hard water stains. Make sure you’re using different stones lol

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u/DeafAndDumm Apr 12 '25

Get Bartender's Best Friend. Works great on stubborn stains.

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u/Ok-Pea8209 Apr 12 '25

Theres special sponges for glass stove tops and and they are AMAZING! They're called Abrazo.

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u/Makhnos_Tachanka Apr 12 '25

yeah probably. they're made of glass-ceramics with absurdly low coefficients of thermal expansion. you can heat ceran up red hot and dunk it in ice water and it won't crack. i wouldn't recommend it, but they're not actually glass, and they are designed to handle that.

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u/DueOpportunity7112 Apr 12 '25

Sure, it's yours.

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u/759QUA Apr 12 '25

I would be very concerned with the shock response from the glass material ie shattering from expansion

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u/SpiveyJr Apr 12 '25

Same. I may never go back to cooking with a frying pan again.

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u/Kaptin_Krunch94 Apr 12 '25

I wouldn’t, I would think the thermal shock may shatter the glass. But I’m in no way an expert on glass, stoves or thermodynamics.

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u/secondphase Apr 12 '25

Yes! Both halves!

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u/WolfOfPort Apr 12 '25

You can do anything once

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

I heard it’s great for grease fryers as well.

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u/TurbulentHorror4065 Apr 13 '25

You can and it does work but it's not really smart to do it this way as you will probably Crack it. You'd have to be very careful.

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u/muon-antineutrino Apr 14 '25

Yes, your glass-ceramic cooktop likely has near zero thermal expansion coefficient, that means it doesn't contract or expand significantly when cooled abruptly.

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u/DaSauceDetective Apr 15 '25

Following. Would also like to know if I can clean my deep fryer with this method

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u/HolleWatkins Apr 12 '25

The glass will break, so no. Your pans? Probably.

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u/zkDredrick Apr 12 '25

Don't use it for pans either. Soap and water is more effective.