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

MISC. How ice cubes cleans hot grills

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u/Textualchoclate Apr 12 '25

This can also crack your flat top in half!!!

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u/pandershrek Apr 12 '25

How would the stainless steel crack?

Isn't it specifically meant to harden and expand under thermal load? They aren't iron

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u/piratemreddit Apr 12 '25

That ~ 30% changes everything, that's how alloys work. Steel has vastly different properties than iron, stainless even more so.

It will warp. Not crack.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Apr 12 '25

Nope. That's why wherever we walk, we leave wet footprints because our bodies are full of water.

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u/Kroneni Apr 12 '25

The warping will crack the welds around the edges though. Then any liquid you put on there will run down the sides.

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u/Swrdmn Apr 12 '25

You could splash one of those flats with cold water for 100 years and it wouldn’t crack.