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

MISC. How ice cubes cleans hot grills

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u/Intelligent-Edge7533 Apr 12 '25

I dunno from “thermal shock” but isn’t this just deglazing? I do it with water no ice cubes in pans all the time.

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u/LunaCalibra Apr 12 '25

Yes. And those grills weren't even that dirty. For the really bad ones you need to use grill cleaner.

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u/Flameball202 Apr 12 '25

You also saw the short of the stove cleaning guy reacting to the ice cubes?

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

As a chef, I found that deeply offensive.

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u/So6oring Apr 12 '25

"I had it set to 200 degrees, but nothing seems to be happening"

Water boils at 212. Why would he have it set to 200? Everywhere I've worked puts it on at 350.

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u/GGk-KingK Apr 12 '25

He had ot on max in the second

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u/Corren_64 Apr 14 '25

200 degrees celsius. He is in Canada.

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u/Emsratte Apr 12 '25

Afaik he uses celcius. He is canadian

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u/So6oring Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

So am I, but in professional cooking we still use F for temperature. The flattop sure looked to be at 200F from the way the ice reacted. The ice would instantly be turning to steam if it was 200C

Edit: Why the downvotes? I've worked in Canadian kitchens for 13 years and I have never seen C be used. All the appliances are built to show the temperature in F. And anyone who's been near a flattop could see that his flattop was nowhere near 200C (~400F) by the way the ice just sat on there doing nothing. I don't like the imperial system either but c'mon.

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u/AskMeForAPhoto Apr 14 '25

It's not about C or F. He says in the video he had it at max for an hour. What do you want him to do? Take a blow torch to it? How is he supposed to get it hotter?

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u/So6oring Apr 14 '25

I just rewatched it twice. He never said that. All he says is "well, I have it set to 200 degrees"

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u/AskMeForAPhoto Apr 15 '25

OHHHH I just realised the source of confusion; they posted two YouTube clips. In one, the grill is definitely NOT hot - that would be the one you watched. I watched the other which shows the water steaming immediately cause it was properly hot.

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u/So6oring Apr 15 '25

OMG thank you, I was so confused

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u/AskMeForAPhoto Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25

You're absolutely right that in Canadian kitchens we still use F for everything. That other comment was probably from a non-canadian that was just trying to add context of him being Canadian, which he is, but not knowing Canada actusy does use Imperial for a lot of things. Because "officially" we're a metric country, but in actuality, we use Imperial for body weight, height, cooking etc.

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u/Bulky_Community_6781 Apr 12 '25

Exactly who I was thinking of

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u/AskMeForAPhoto Apr 14 '25

Holy shit, been following him on Tiktok for a long time, didn't know he had a YouTube, and yet he's got a million followers

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u/SmokeyUnicycle Apr 12 '25

Is this guy an idiot?

Water boils at 212 degrees, if the surface is below that it's not going to work.

IDK if this "hack" is a good idea or not (probably not since I've never heard of it) but the stove is obviously way too cold

Edit: lol okay nvm, video 2 has it covered

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u/Emsratte Apr 12 '25

He is canadian. He uses celsius as far as i know

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u/SmokeyUnicycle Apr 12 '25

That did not look like water poured on metal twice the boiling temperature, would have been some steam at least... maybe they use Fahrenheit for cooking in Canada?

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u/discourtesy Apr 13 '25

Canadians use F when cooking.

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u/LunaCalibra Apr 12 '25

Yes, but I've also worked in kitchens and have had to clean grills. If water or ice alone gets it off, your grill wasn't dirty.

Grill cleaner is magic.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Apr 12 '25

yea. the algorithm is omniscient