The Gherkin Chandelier
March 22, 2014 7:55 PM   Subscribe

Forgot to stock up on incandescents? Unhappy with CFL's? LEDs too expensive? What you need for internal lighting is the Gherkin Chandelier! Soothing light from pickles!
posted by Chocolate Pickle (10 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad



 
More about it from Ars Technica.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:58 PM on March 22, 2014


sorry to rain on your eponysterical parade, but it's a double
posted by Jon_Evil at 8:03 PM on March 22, 2014


Well, doesn't the Chocolate make a difference?
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:07 PM on March 22, 2014 [1 favorite]


Ah, heck.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:10 PM on March 22, 2014


Double shmubble - can't never not have enough burning pickles!!!
posted by sammyo at 8:11 PM on March 22, 2014


well, considering what a massive electricity sink the Gherkin Chandelier is... I think we're wasting energy just leaving this undeleted for 20 minutes...
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:15 PM on March 22, 2014


My friends and I did this in college. It turns out that in addition to lighting up and buzzing, the wires tends to slowly eat their way through the pickle. We realized that not only do you get a cool light source, but we could also make an electric pickle slicer! We got a piece of PVC pipe, drove a nail through one end, and covered the inside of the other end with aluminum foil. Wire up the nail and foil to 120VAC, drop in a pickle, and in about 5 minutes you've got yourself a nice hot smokey sliced pickle - Yum!
posted by jpdoane at 8:26 PM on March 22, 2014


There was a weird routine I remember long ago from the Johnny Carson Tonight Show about a "professional pickle plucker" whose job it was to remove any excess pickles from a jar before the lid was screwed on. I don't recall who he did the bit with, but the punchline was that he was reassigned... and became a "gherkin jerker"
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:28 PM on March 22, 2014


My roommate and I rigged up a pickle lamp in college. Unfortunately, we were both history majors, not engineers, and damn near killed ourselves. We blew out a couple of fuses and filled the apartment with briny smoke, but by god, we got it to work. While not an effective way to attract womenfolk, for "care to come to my apartment to see a glowing pickle machine" is every bit the sex-repelling phrase you'd think and more, it proved an excellent party stunt. The trick was to keep drunk bastards from touching the damn pickle while it was lit.

The gherkin chandelier is exactly what we would have built had we any mechanical abilities whatsoever and more than about $30 to our names. The device is a glorious achievement in pointlessness.
posted by Harvey Jerkwater at 8:41 PM on March 22, 2014


Aaaaaaaand then the house burned down, right?
posted by limeonaire at 9:00 PM on March 22, 2014


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