Behold: the Leidenfrost Maze

December 8, 2017 4:53 PM

Making water run uphill.
posted by Sebmojo (14 comments total)

Fascinating—starts out interesting, gets better and better. Thanks for the post!
posted by languagehat at 5:27 PM on December 8, 2017 [4 favorites]

Cool!
(Or do I mean hot?)
posted by carter at 6:34 PM on December 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

Cool!
(Or do I mean hot?)

It depends on which way you want to go with it, I suppose...
posted by mcrandello at 7:13 PM on December 8, 2017 [4 favorites]

I wasn't going to watch this but then I did and I'd known about the Leidenfrost effect for a while, but hadn't seen the uphill thing before and that maze is just ridiculous. So much fun! Thanks for posting!
posted by hippybear at 7:23 PM on December 8, 2017

And who says that there is no purpose to pure science research, intelligent steaming water droplets!
posted by sammyo at 7:28 PM on December 8, 2017

As anyone in the kitchen could tell you, when the water beads and dances about you're ready to sear that meat...
posted by jim in austin at 7:31 PM on December 8, 2017

For your weekly dose of pedantry, I'll point out that those are labyrinths not mazes. But yeah, really cool stuff.
posted by euphorb at 7:39 PM on December 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

Loved the dramatic Hall of the Mountain King soundtrack! It really made the maze labyrinth traveling seem much more dire, like they were fleeing a dread Steam Beast or something.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:51 PM on December 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

That was interesting and delightful.
posted by gwint at 8:52 PM on December 8, 2017 [1 favorite]

TIL that the Leidenfrost effect has nothing to do with frost!
posted by chavenet at 2:31 AM on December 9, 2017

I'll point out that those are labyrinths not mazes

Huh? Oh!

I learned a thing today.
posted by device55 at 5:54 AM on December 9, 2017 [1 favorite]

Very neat. Thanks for the post.
posted by james33 at 5:59 AM on December 9, 2017

TIL that the Leidenfrost effect has nothing to do with frost!

I've always encouraged people to call it the Floatensteam effect, but nobody seems interested in listening to me.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:05 AM on December 9, 2017 [3 favorites]

Great, great. Can you make my cheeseburger now?
posted by Splunge at 7:54 AM on December 9, 2017