Who knew that the most important ingredient in your favorite cookie can kill you — and this is not about diabetes — by melting your face off? Flour burns easily. During the baking process, do not flick on a lighter or start a fire when there are billows of flour dust in the air. Otherwise, your kitchen could go kaboom!
Aerosol cans or any flammable cans exposed to strong direct sunlight can spell disaster. Gas inside the cans will expand once heated and could explode, hurting innocent bystanders. Keep this in mind and store your cans in the shade. After all, safety first!
Don’t you hate it when you open up a can of soda, and to your surprise, you’re instantly soaked in carbonated spray? How embarrassing. Once shaken, the carbon dioxide in a soda can or bottle lines the inside walls. When the seal is broken (such as removing the top), fizzy excess gas escapes explosively. However, if you want a real volcanic experiment, add Mentos to your soda and step away as fast as you can.
Water heaters in your home can become a ticking time bomb. Because of the inside of the tank is highly pressurized, any gas leaks or fire flickers can turn this machine into a makeshift rocket ship. Who needs the Kennedy Space Center? Kablooey!
There is no way to predict if your light bulb is about to explode since it’s highly dependable on manufacturers to properly insulate the bulb. But if a bulb ruptures and causes damage, you’ll be pleased to know that you might have a winning lawsuit at hand.
When pouring ice cubes in a scalding hot drink, you run the risk of an explosion that could leave your face looking like a bad science experiment. When icy cold cubes are placed in boiling hot drinks, the cubes can melt so fast there is no time to contract, leading to an explosion. So much for amateur iced coffee.
When methane gas builds up inside a septic tank by bacterial breakdown (that’s human waste), a small fire can easily ignite the whole plumbing system like a stinky fourth of July. Pee-ew!
It’s important for your pressure cooker to be in tip-top shape. Any dented or aged pressure cooker can become a fatal household item since it can no longer be reliable to be air-tight and not…well, explode on your face.
You think if you ignore that moldy leftover lasagna that has been sitting in the back of your fridge in a container for months, it’ll all go away. Wrong! When rotten food is decaying in an airtight container, it can emit gas and spontaneously explode its lid off. And who wants a home that looks like Garfield just regurgitated lasagna all over the place?
Exploding potatoes? Spud-gettabouit! Listen to your mother when she tells you to poke holes in your potatoes before baking them. Once baked, the heat inside the potato builds up pressure and the punctured holes provide a way for the potato to literally let off some steam. Trust us, having a molten hot potato splattered all over your face is no picnic.
Gas leaks are the most obvious way for your house to go boom. If you’re at home and you smell rotten eggs with no eggs in sight, get out of the house fast!
Not even the Energizer Bunny can escape this explosion. When overheated, batteries can result in a chain reaction of exploding cells. If you ever feel your laptop overheating, you should probably stop looking at Facebook for awhile. Otherwise, prolonged exposure to heat can make your laptop go kaput (if it doesn’t burn your thighs first).
Putting a beer bottle in the freezer for a few minutes for a quick cold brewski is fine, as long you don’t forget that it’s in there. And we all do. When frozen, water expands and glass bottles are not flexible to make room for more space. You could find yourself picking up shards of glass in your drunken stupor. Total buzz kill.
When long-time smoker Dave Aspinall switched to e-cigarettes to strive for a healthier life in 2014, little did he know he was about to make a big mistake. When his new smoking device overheated, Aspinall set his cigarette aside only to have it explode right next to his leg. He was so badly injured that doctors likened his wound to a bullet entry and said that Apsinall was lucky to be alive. So next time you’re toking on your “healthier” alternative, keep it far away from your face as possible. Oh wait…
