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So it's that way, is it?

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Each shrimp, Savage.

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Shall we put some of this chaos to work?

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So what's cooking?

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cooking chaos.

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Like what?

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Well, later we're going to be creating some fruit juice using nothing but fruit and explosives.

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We just blow up a tomato, now we're trying to have a drink.

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But first up, we have a viral video.

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Two women are seen loading raw shrimp into what looks like an air cannon.

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Through crowds of flour, egg, breadcrumbs, and eventually a fireball where the shrimp

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Instant tempura.

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Yum!

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For 14 years, the mythbusters have dined.

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You want to try some?

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Oh! Ha ha! You can't!

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Devoured and feasted.

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Red meat and high explosives.

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But in this farewell season spectacular,

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They're going to crank up the cooking chaos to the max with a classic mythbuster medley.

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Ha ha ha ha!

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Like some sort of jet engine.

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Alright, let's start by listing the components. What do we got?

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I think I have just the thing.

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This launcher's been on the show several times before.

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Am I missing an eyebrow?

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Juicing the inside of fruit with an explosion.

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It's a deadly fruit cocktail only the Mithlusters could tackle and they've got just the place to do it.

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When you want to investigate the power of an explosion, we have a place we like to get.

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Actually, we have a lot of places we go.

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But our home away from home and the place we go more than any other is right here at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.

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We've been coming here for more than a decade and we have blown up thousands of things on this property.

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It's like a clown's head exploded.

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This is a polyolefin bag and I can shrink it.

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The fruit is suspended according to the reference, 7 inches from the blasting cap.

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Will the blast wave leave the exterior surface intact and juice the interior cellular structure?

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Fire the hole! Fire the hole! Fire the hole!

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Ha ha ha ha! The whole thing jumped.

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That was awesome.

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Just how awesome is illustrated on the high-speed camera.

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Whoa, look at that beautiful bubble.

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We have this perfect 12-inch cavitation.

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I've got some straws.

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Aaron, do you want to try it?

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Oh, oh, oh, what, what? Hey!

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You're kind of getting some juice there.

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This is so ludicrous.

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We just blew up a tomato. Now we're trying to have a drink.

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the fruit apocalypse continues.

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And cooking shrimp gets a mad max makeover.

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Eat shrimp and die, m****.

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Tenderizing meat.

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to the top of their heads.

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The fosters have put kitchen catastrophes to the test.

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You should never do this at home.

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they're going out with a classic experimental bag.

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Here's what just happened.

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We detonated a blasting cap seven inches away from a tomato,

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and it seems we made a difference in how much juice we were able to get out of that tomato.

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Hey, you're kind of getting some juice there.

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So we're going to do it again, except next time we're going to move the tomato a little bit closer.

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And there it is, exactly six inches, one inch closer than last time.

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Fire the hole!

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That doesn't get old.

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The skin once again survived a blast wave measuring more than 27,000 feet per second.

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And thanks to advances in camera tech, we can see the positioning perfectly matched the clip.

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We're not messing around when it comes to the high-speed footage.

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This camera is state-of-the-art, and it films at a maximum frame rate of 28,000 frames per second in HD.

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But what about the all-important taste test?

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That looks like a lot of juice.

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That was all most a mouthful.

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We're a lot farther along on this than I thought we would be.

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I thought this was that realm of almost total fantasy.

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I have to admit on this one you have to call me totally surprised.

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I was sure our explosive was going to rip apart the outside of our fruit.

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Four and a half.

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Fire the hole!

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And that is how close we can get the explosive to the fruit before we start to destroy the skin.

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That's where we'll get maximum juice.

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This is our cooking show.

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Three, two, one!

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Yep, they want to get as close as they can without rupturing the tomato.

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Fruit is still intact.

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To get the highest juice yield possible.

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That looks amazing.

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He's getting juice out of it.

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Still there.

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I don't know that we've reached the outer skin.

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This is amazing.

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And even at 1.5 inches.

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And most importantly, Jamie seems to be getting more juice each time.

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Look at that, dude.

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That looks like the best one yet.

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When Jamie's people come and invade the earth, this is what they're going to do to our planet.

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I feel like a mosquito.

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Until half an inch proves too close for comfort.

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One!

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Yep, finally!

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We figured out how close you can get and actually herd a tomato.

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Before they quantify just how much juice they're detonating and deliberate on the result,

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it's back to the shrimp course.

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One of the great things about shooting the show in the Bay Area is that we have such a wonderful array of places to run our experiments at.

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This one in particular is going to be perfect for us to run an experiment that involves shrimp, guns, air cannons and fireballs.

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The engineering challenge they're facing to even test this viral video is as tough as it gets.

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A ballistic ballet of perfectly choreographed explosive ingredients.

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We have watched this video dozens of times and looked at every single shot of the rig.

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Oh, beauty.

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And we have measured as best we can the distances between each of the stations and replicated exactly the journey of the shrimp from gun to plate.

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I love color.

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With the system laid out according to the video reference, Jamie hooks up the power source.

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Given that this whole thing is driven by air, we don't want any leaks.

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While Jamie springs into action, unspringing any leaks,

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Lake number three,

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Adam attempts to avoid product placement.

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In the video, the target seems to be a pillow, a bubble.

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So, we're going to try to get a little bit of air in the tank.

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It seems to be a pillow, a bubble.

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So, am I allowed to say bubble?

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The world.

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In the video, the target seems to be a pillow of this bubble packaging stuff.

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You know what it's called.

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I'm going to make a pillow of the same stuff.

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With their trademark target taped into place.

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Time for shooting.

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And the firing squad peeled and prepped.

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They're all set to test the first cog in their multi-part machine, the shrimp cannon.

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After all of our prep work, what remains to be done is to fire shrimp from this gun and see, well, just how accurately it fires.

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Oh, look at those.

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This whole machine depends upon this shrimp firing accurately.

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The shrimp gun is locked and loaded.

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I for one think that there may be a little adjustment after the first time we fire it.

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Here we go.

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In, three, two, one.

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I got shrimp on my nose.

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What happened?

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The first test, well, my face got covered with shrimp guts.

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And that's the best I can say about that test.

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It was pretty much a total failure.

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But we're going to hold down the shrimp cartridge so it doesn't jump like it did last time.

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Okay, so I'm going to hold on to that and see if we can't get the shrimps to hit the target.

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Shrimp cannon test fire number two.

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That's the first test.

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Then the second one is to make sure they hit it consistently.

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In, three, two, one.

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We might have a problem on our hands.

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Shrimp, no.

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Nice.

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What?

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Shrimp, no. Let's go collect the shrimp.

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Right out of the gate, it's not looking too good for this story because we didn't even get to the target and our shrimp basically disintegrated.

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Oh, I graduated by its eyeball.

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There's a little bits everywhere.

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And we can't just add more pressure.

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It's just going to disintegrate them more.

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And that means that we've got to do something to doctor this a little bit.

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And what it would take is what is known as a sabote, which is behind the shrimp and takes the brunt of the force of the air blast, pushing the shrimp out of the cannon without destroying them.

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Things we turn out to get good at that will never be useful again.

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And then that sabote or wadding falls away before it reaches the target.

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Test number three, three, two, one.

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That was a little better.

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That was a lot better. All three of them hit the back target. And if I'm not incorrect, at the same time.

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The sabote was successful. The shrimp stayed intact. And with a small adjustment to the aim.

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Ah, that was perfect.

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That was perfect. I was going to say almost perfect, but that was perfect.

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The guys seem happy.

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Spank right into the pillow.

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Couldn't be better.

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That success means they can go again, this time to measure the flight time.

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For the record, the last one took 392 milliseconds to reach from the end of the barrel to the target.

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And with that, they're ready to coordinate the launch of the shrimp with each ingredient and the final fiery piece of the puzzle.

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Nice.

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That's the coolest toy ever.

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Welcome back. We have been attempting to cook a shrimp in midair.

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So far, we've got the shrimp flying consistently into a target. Spank right into the pillow.

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And now we need to set off each of those elements at precisely the right time.

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For that, we're going to be using these timers, which will allow us to tune everything the way we need it within milliseconds.

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That's the key to this complicated cooking method, the launch sequence.

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Each element has its own trigger, delayed depending on how fast that ingredient reaches its optimum spread.

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And they have to be wired together to fire and sink.

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I love these situations when we've set this stuff up like a house of cards.

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All we have to do is take off one of these and run it to our AC line.

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There's all these switches and solenoids and a bunch of other stuff.

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Activating all at once and it's almost too much to comprehend.

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I don't think you're right. You only have one. The switch only activates one of two legs.

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It's cool.

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The question is, will it work?

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Things are about to get messy.

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Cue a 500 degree fireball.

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Yes, this is what you've been waiting for!

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Like this, cooked shrimp might be next.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this might be the weirdest machine we've built on the shelf.

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It's right up there.

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This one's for the money.

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I'm going to try cooking shrimp in midair.

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In, three, two, one!

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Dude!

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That was beautiful!

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Shrimp are leaving. It's going through the flower.

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Awesome!

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Go to the egg!

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And the red covers!

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Oh my God.

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And the fire!

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It worked! That is awesome!

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It's an astonishing ballet of edible ballistics.

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Each ingredient timed with millisecond accuracy.

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And if the video is to be believed, that means we have a plate full of cooked shrimp, right?

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Here's one here.

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He's not coated or cooked.

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Wrong.

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What?

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Our machine works beautifully.

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The shrimp is flying through clouds of flour, breadcrumbs, egg, and fire.

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But it's not getting coated. It's not getting covered.

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And it's definitely not getting cooked.

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This guy does have what appear to be some breadcrumbs on it, but...

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Like three?

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Yeah.

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Okay, so we need like hundreds more.

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After timing the flight of the shrimp with millisecond accuracy,

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it turns out time was never on their side.

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The problem is that if we slow the shrimp down long enough to allow these processes time to work,

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the shrimp are going to fall short of the target.

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We could make the clouds larger and shoot over a longer distance,

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but that would require more air pressure, which most likely is going to blow the shrimp apart.

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It's a classic catch-22.

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To coat the shrimp requires a much longer flak time, but that would destroy them.

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So that part of the video was clearly faked.

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And then there's the fire.

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For the same reason that flicking your hand through a candle flame doesn't burn you,

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the shrimp just doesn't spend enough time in the fire to get cooked.

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And we can't, for all the reasons Jamie just stated, let it spend more time in the fire,

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but we can make the fire hotter.

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This is a five-burner sword forge running propane.

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It runs about four times as hot as our flame bar.

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2,000 degrees.

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And because it's a sword forge, it's open on either end.

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That means we're going to shoot our shrimp right through the middle of this baby.

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If that doesn't cook our shrimp in midair, I don't know what would.

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Before the shrimp fly through the forge, go!

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Jamie and Adam are facing the far-fetched fact that fruit could be juiced using an explosion.

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Alright, once we figured out that we had the right explosive,

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that putting it seven inches away from our tomato did not destroy it and gave us juice,

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then we figured out that putting it ever closer still didn't destroy the tomato,

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but got us more juice each time.

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The question was, how close can you get to get the maximum amount of juice without destroying the tomato?

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And that distance turns out to be one and a half inches.

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But now it's time to figure out exactly how much juice we can get out of that to actually quantify it.

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How? Well, earlier back at the shop, we quantified the amount of juice that we got from a tomato using an industrial juicer.

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And it was 62%. That means I got 62% of the weight of the tomato out in delicious tomato juice.

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Now we're going to compare that to what we get from a tomato detonated at our sweet spot of one and a half inches.

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Alright, so here's how this is going to work.

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I've got a vacuum pump, a containment vessel, and a straw at the end of a tube.

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The vacuum pump will pull air out of this, which will then come through this straw.

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We stick the straw into the tomato and it acts just like Jamie's mouth, sucking the tomato juice out.

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Oh. That's vigorous.

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That's actually pretty impressive, isn't it? Yeah.

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It's coming.

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Alright, alright, alright, alright. I think that's more than a human could get out.

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Which we then weigh in this cup and determine exactly what percentage of juice we got out by detonating a blasto cap near the tomato.

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60. This works out beautifully. 180 gram tomato, we got 60 grams of juice, that's exactly one third.

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That is 30% of the tomato in juice. That's half of what you get out of an industrial juicer, but that's a lot more than I thought we'd get.

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I actually believe that we are drifting dangerously into plausible territory here.

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In fact, after all this blasting, I'm not sure where we could go from here.

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Yes, using a precisely calibrated explosive charge, it's possible to juice the inside of a tomato.

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And there really is only one place to go from here.

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Impatented Mythbusters style is bigger, better.

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I think we need more explosives.

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Welcome back. All episode long, we've been attempting to replicate a viral video we found, which seems to show that a small amount of explosives can turn a tomato into a tomato juice dispenser.

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That is, that it can turn the inside of a tomato to liquid you can drink while not damaging the outside.

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And astonishingly, we seem to have determined that this is actually true.

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Now, of course, it's Mythbusters, so where a small amount of explosives seems to work pretty well, a large amount of explosives ought to work a lot better.

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This time around, we're going to be using 20 pounds of TNT. Nice.

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It's nice and peaceful out here. At least right now it is.

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And that's going to create a much larger and more powerful pressure weight.

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So in theory, that should do a better job of creating more juice.

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The blasting cap yield was 30%. To attempt to maximize the juice, they're scaling up the explosion energy by a factor of 10,000.

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All right, let's double check our supplies. We've got mesh bags, check oranges, check cucumbers, check tomatoes, wrapped, check pineapples, check 20 pounds of TNT.

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Let's make some fruit juice.

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While Adam and Jamie know a tomato works, the video also shows a variety of fruit and veg being satisfactorily slurred.

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So to find out if this juicing technique really is that flexible, they're covering their bases.

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Let's start attaching them to the buoys.

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Finally, without knowing the ideal distance for this sized explosion, each bag is placed under the surface at staggered intervals.

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There's the 10.

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The blasting cap is an explosive energy of 3,640 joules, 20 pounds of TNT as 37 megajoules.

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Will the larger amplitude blast wave be more effective? We're about to find out.

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Does it look beautiful?

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Yeah, it's perfect.

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All right, Captain, back to shore. Let me explain our methodology, although I think it's pretty straightforward.

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Three orange buoys at the end of that line. We're going to hang 20 pounds of explosives 10 feet down.

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At each of the numbered markers is hanging a bag of fruit about 5 feet down.

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Okay, large scale fruit smoothie.

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We're going to set off those explosives.

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In three.

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Retrieve what fruit we can.

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Two.

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And find out how juicy the explosives made it.

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One.

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Uh-oh.

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Yeah.

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That was a little more energetic than I thought.

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More energetic at 8,000 frames per second. It's also beautiful.

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You can see the original impulse of the explosive starting to expand.

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And then you can see a set of different speed shock waves emanating out from that center.

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Then you can also see some of the reflected waves, which are bouncing off the bottom of the lake.

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Also interrupting and creating secondary artifacts around the primary shock wave.

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This is one of the loveliest shots of an explosion I think that we have ever got.

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Extraordinary footage.

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That's 40.

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But did they get any juice?

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That's 30.

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This is actually pretty darn cool.

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We were afraid when we first saw the explosion go off that we'd lost like most of our fruit.

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But it turns out it seems that we have lost our 2, 5 and 10 foot bags,

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which we kind of expected because they're so close to the explosion.

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We got them from 15.

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Awesome.

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But we have 15, 20, 25, 30 and 40.

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Now it's time to inspect and see just how juicy our bouquets of fruit and vegetables are.

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The initial signs, oh man, are not great.

483
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Okay, I'm just going to go on a limb and say cucumbers do not like explosives.

484
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Searching through the debris, many of the victims are ruptured, but luckily not all.

485
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,000
This one's been compromised.

486
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,000
There is evidence of tenderization.

487
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000
It's definitely softer.

488
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,000
At 40 feet?

489
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000
No, so I'd say that orange is not a fruit juice dispenser.

490
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000
30.

491
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Nope.

492
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Nope.

493
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000
25 and 20.

494
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Tomatoes, that one's dead.

495
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000
The kind of carnage that can only be yielded by the episode of McBusters.

496
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,000
But by the time all survivors have been examined, the results are definitive.

497
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Well, the same thing as before.

498
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Not juice.

499
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Tender.

500
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000
So, seems like bigger is not better in this case, huh?

501
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,000
No, no, we found at least one thing for which more explosives do not get the better results.

502
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,000
But why didn't it scale up?

503
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,000
Whoa!

504
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000
We know that blast pressures can bounce off of surfaces.

505
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000
They can reflect.

506
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:15,000
And so that small container caused the blast pressure to go back and forth and back and forth through the fruit a bunch of times,

507
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
each time breaking the cell walls a little bit more.

508
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,000
So that may actually have been the ideal situation, even though the amount of explosive was very small.

509
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,000
If you remember, we started out with a viral video that seemed to imply that with a little boom in a box,

510
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000
you could generate sweet juice out of something like a tomato.

511
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000
In that scale, we actually succeeded in getting some lovely gulps of juice out of a tomato.

512
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Now, it didn't work when we scaled it up, but I have to say, given how well it worked in the scale that the video shows,

513
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000
I think that we're going to have to call this one plausible.

514
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Coming up.

515
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Welcome to Jamie's Temporar Kitchen.

516
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000
This season's spectacular signs off with a sword forge fried shrimp.

517
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Like some sort of jet engine.

518
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:20,000
To celebrate the final season, this is the Mythbusters number crunching countdown.

519
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Over the last 14 years, the team has tested tasty beverages and crazy explosive cuisine

520
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,000
in a gut-busting, calorie-counting 71 story.

521
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Their Epicurean curiosity has guzzled 240 gallons of cola and 14 kegs of beer.

522
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000
It's a delicious memory.

523
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000
Behind and for the camera, they've devoured 1,500 donuts.

524
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000
On seven occasions, they've raised the stakes with exploding steak.

525
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Maddie, tasty meat.

526
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Lath 5 Salamis and imbibed alcohol for science 23 times.

527
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Cheers.

528
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000
What?

529
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000
We've been trying to cook shrimp in mid-air and so far we've got buckets.

530
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:28,000
We were able to exactly replicate the process as we saw in that video.

531
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000
But the problem is we weren't able to replicate any of the results.

532
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:40,000
And when you think about it, it's not really surprising because all of these activities are occurring in the course of milliseconds.

533
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,000
So there's not really any time for coding or cooking anything.

534
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,000
We have no choice therefore, but to conclude that those results were faked.

535
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Of course, we're not done yet.

536
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Yep, in this final season food challenge.

537
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Yeah, I like it further away.

538
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Me too.

539
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,000
They have to exhaust all reasonable possibilities.

540
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:09,000
With the ingredient clouds busted as a possibility, it boils down to heat.

541
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,000
It's going to get hot in here.

542
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,000
A sword forage.

543
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Welcome to Jamie's Temporar Kitchen.

544
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000
Versus a single pre-prepared shrimp.

545
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,000
I'm a student of shrimp.

546
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:30,000
Science is often about refining questions and removing variables and we have done both of those here.

547
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,000
I'll turn on the gas.

548
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Shrimp, gun, furnace.

549
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
It's going to take a few minutes to get hot.

550
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Hopefully cook shrimp on the other side. We are soon to find out.

551
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000
I'm getting about 2100 degrees.

552
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000
That's five times hotter than we were getting in our fireball.

553
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:05,000
750,000 British thermal units of heat energy are generated by this propane powered forge.

554
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
It's like some sort of jet engine.

555
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Each of those BTUs can raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.

556
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,000
Woo hoo hoo hoo.

557
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Dude, that is one hot oven. Here we go.

558
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,000
But is there enough time for that energy to cook the pre-prep shrimp?

559
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,000
I'm feeling good about this.

560
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Here we go, fire and shrimp through a forge.

561
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
And three, two, one, go.

562
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
The shrimp fired through the forge accurately.

563
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
But did it fry?

564
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Does it seem at all cooked to you?

565
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
Are the breadcrumbs crispy at all?

566
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,000
No.

567
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000
We upped our fire game significantly in this last experiment.

568
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Where formerly we had a fireball that was about as hot as a consumer oven.

569
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,000
500 degrees.

570
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
This forge was 2000 degrees.

571
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000
We fired the shrimp through it and we ended up with a room temperature shrimp.

572
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
And I can feel this is cold.

573
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,000
It's cold. Oh, right. 67 degrees.

574
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Yeah, room temperature.

575
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Room temperature. That's not a cooked shrimp.

576
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Despite frying several times.

577
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000
It hit the plate.

578
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000
The flying shrimp shows no sign of warming to the occasion.

579
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Dun dun dun. Stop right there.

580
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,000
66 degrees.

581
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Most people would give up at this point, but come on, we're not most people.

582
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,000
We're going to continue.

583
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
How about instead of three feet of sword forge, 12 feet of sword forge?

584
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Yeah, evil laugh.

585
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000
We're going to set this up and try it again.

586
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Using all of their 14 years of experience, this is the very cutting edge of ramping it up.

587
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000
For reference, a typical kitchen burner is putting out 10 to 15,000 BTUs.

588
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,000
This setup right here, 3 million BTUs.

589
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,000
All in case in one long square tube, that's pretty extreme heat.

590
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
You ready to fire it up? Let's do it.

591
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000
This is it.

592
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
It's looking pretty good.

593
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000
One final fry on the fly try.

594
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Whoa!

595
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000
One last chance.

596
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,000
I'm going to love this shrimp. Okay.

597
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000
To cook a cannon fired shrimp.

598
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Man, I've never seen anything like that before.

599
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,000
No, no, no. This is an insane thing.

600
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:49,000
We have 12 feet of sword forge putting out 3 million BTUs of heat.

601
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
If this doesn't cook it, nothing will. Nothing.

602
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Okay, maybe something, but not something we can build here.

603
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Are you ready?

604
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Ready to fire.

605
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,000
Fire your shrimp in midair.

606
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:09,000
3, 2, 1, fire.

607
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,000
It made it through.

608
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Ha ha! You hit the plate. Fire.

609
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,000
The shrimp flew successfully through all four sword fortresses.

610
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Okay, here we go.

611
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
And hit the target, ready to be served up and eaten. Right?

612
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,000
Still raw. That is still a raw shrimp.

613
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000
That is not cooked. The breading has not been set.

614
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,000
It's room temperature.

615
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,000
Well, there you go.

616
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
There you go. No shrimp for you tonight.

617
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,000
Well, you can't fault us for not trying.

618
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:53,000
You can have all the heat you want, but if there's not enough time, you're not cooking.

619
00:41:53,000 --> 00:42:03,000
Looking at it from a physics perspective, the limiting factor is not the amount of heat or even necessarily how long the meat is exposed to the heat.

620
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:11,000
It's how fast the heat can move through the meat. You can't cook a shrimp until you've got the outside hot and the inside not raw.

621
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,000
This was just not enough time. This was on the order of milliseconds and you need at least a couple of minutes.

622
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000
No, I'm not eating this at the end of this take. It's disgusting.

623
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000
I'm not eating this at the end of this take.