keeping goldfish in a deep fryer

[wijnands]

How's this for a tank idea?

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[Chrona]

Lord, now I've seen everything :rolleyes:

[wijnands]

What I still don't understand is how they can keep the oil at 160C and still not boil the goldfish. Then again, I barely scraped by on high school physics.

[crackatinny]

Gives a new meaning to freshly cooked fish'n'chips:hmm3grin2orange:

[Chrona]

I'm a bit skeptical about that part. The oil would give off heat and eventually the water would be the same temperature as the oil. If that wasn't so, then deep fryers wouldn't deep fry :rolleyes:

[Chrona]

And I HIGHLY doubt a goldfish could live in that area with no filtration and source of oxygen for more than a few days regardless of temperature, not to mention deep fried leftover crumbs aren't exactly healthy (and are at 160 degrees C to boot). The whole article is just stupid. Bad science at it's worst. Something is rigged. And even if it did work, why the HELL would you keep goldfish in a deep fryer? lol

As someone pointed out, Japan exports 79% of the world's weird sh--

[Drumachine09]

Something is rigged.

Im Calling Shenanigans!

And even if it did work, why the HELL would you keep goldfish in a deep fryer?

maybe some people want a functional fish tank huh?




In japan, they actually eat goldfish. True story, i red it on the internet

[Chrona]

Well it IS a fish. I've eaten snake and turtle before, so it's always amusing when I see them kept as pets ;)

By the way, learn to use quotes k thx ;)

[xoolooxunny]

Yeah I'm gonna have to say there's more than meets the eye. No filtration? No aeration? Diet made up of oily bread crumbs? Arent they cold water fish? There has to be at least some kind of coolant in the bottom of that thing, since the heat rises and the cooler temps would stay down below...I wish that was subtitled.

[crackatinny]

[quote=Chrona]Something is rigged. [quote]

Im Calling Shenanigans!

[quote=Chrona] And even if it did work, why the HELL would you keep goldfish in a deep fryer? [quote]

maybe some people want a functional fish tank huh?




In japan, they actually eat goldfish. True story, i red it on the internet

Each culture to there own.

But have you ever seen a documentry called shocking asia, if not, worth a look, on it you see them preparing the likes of, bat, dog, and there are resturants that they can go into, choose a snake, the snake is bled into a glass then cooked, they wash it down with the blood.

[Chrona]

Aha, notice how the burner is in between the top frying vat and the goldfish holding area. The bottom tank is a resovoir for oil and is probably not heated. Most likely they just dropped in crumbs while the camera was zoomed in :rolleyes:

Also note how a few of the fish breach the surface of the water. If a fish got hit in the mouth with 160C water, you'd think it would show some kind of reaction :P

[kenyth]

Oh look! It's stupid human trick #456987302394858830203012

Only on the internet! :ezpi_wink1:

I'm no scientist, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's a combination of factors. The thermal coupling between water and oil is fairly poor. The fryer is VERY deep. I'm guessing that the heating element is close to the top of the fryer and the oil at the bottom is much cooler than the oil at the top.

All said and done, I think he must still have some way to help keep the water cool. I also fail to see how the water is oxygenated, or how he cleans the tank, or properly feeds the fish.

I think it's an inhumane way to keep animals. I also don't think it would pass a health department inspection here in the US. :ezpi_wink1:

[kenyth]

Aha, notice how the burner is in between the top frying vat and the goldfish holding area. The bottom tank is a resovoir for oil and is probably not heated. Most likely they just dropped in crumbs while the camera was zoomed in :rolleyes:

Also note how a few of the fish breach the surface of the water. If a fish got hit in the mouth with 160C water, you'd think it would show some kind of reaction :P

Good eyes!

[wijnands]

Well, that certainly got a conversation going. Don't we have any japanese speaking members?

[jweintraub]

Maybe theiy can take the grill piece out that is near the seperation point (oil/water) and pray the goldfish swim into the oil... dinner is served!

[crackatinny]

Well, that certainly got a conversation going. Don't we have any japanese speaking members?

hon'in, warawa, watashi, watakushi, ore, ware, en, gozen, nicchuukantougou, houjin, nicchuukan

[Lady Hobbs]

I just bought my granddaughter a potty chair but my daughter already had gotten her one. Perhaps I can use this potty chair for a goldfish bowl. LOL

[jweintraub]

I took Japanese for 4 years in school, I can only remember the basics... good morning, night... oh and how to ask to use the bathroom!

[Chrona]

I took Japanese for 4 years in school, I can only remember the basics... good morning, night... oh and how to ask to use the bathroom!

lol, it's always amusing to look back and realize what a waste half of your education was ;)

I'm going into engineering and I can't remember ANYTHING from 6 years of spanish....lol

[kenyth]

I found this quote:



"You guys got it all wrong. I just showed this to my Japanese friend and she told me that this fryer was made not as a novelty, but to fry frozen food safely. (Think about thanksgiving turkey accident.) They merely used the fish as demonstration to show that cool water and hot oil can coexist. Those fishes are not in there for eating of crumbs or cleaning at all. In no way did the video suggest that. In a working machine there will not be such fishes. It's hilarious that hundreds of people on #### will just go ahead and be misled by the submitter of this article, who apparently did not understand the video either."

and this:

"They were saying that the reason the oil and water in the goldfish fryer don't react the same way the water and oil did in the wok is that they have a mechanism inside the oil, at the bottom where it contacts the water, that cools the oil. That's probably why the fish can come up and peck at the food floating in the bottom of the oil without getting fried as well.

They also explained that developing this fryer took over 10 years of research."

[Chrona]

That's.......stupid lol. So now they have a deep fryer that has hot oil, but it doesn't heat up anything? So how the heck are you going to fry stuff if theres a mechanism in the oil that prevents it from heating up water? Maybe I'm just missed something....lol

Silly Japanese.

[xoolooxunny]

Dude, I definitely missed something too! So...what the heck is the point???

[fishy_sarah]

There is a lot we aren't getting here- there must be some invention that uses this new type of oil in a way we aren't seeing. After all, the whole point of this experiment is to demonstrate a new way to cook frozen food. It's hard to make sense of when we are only seeing a little and that little is also in a foreign language.

I'm sure there is a purpose and an explanation. You don't spend ten years developing something for no reason. The Japanese aren't that silly :-)

[cocoa_pleco]

thats one weird idea. The oil floats, so its not harmful, but weird idea.

[Severus]

That has to be rigged.

[secretman_z]

This is sick man...Poor little things

[Incredulous_Ed]

Maybe he changes the water by taking all the oil out, and then he proceeds to change the water. After he is done he slowly pours the oil back in. Just what I think...