The Flaming Bacon Lance of Death

by Sara Bonisteel, Posted Apr 15th 2009 @ 2:00PM

Scientists like to play with their food, too, as evidenced by this hot new video of Theo Gray demonstrating his "flaming bacon lance of death." The author of "Mad Science" crafts his lance with tubes made of bacon that -- when hooked up to oxygen and set aflame -- can cut through steel.

"It turns out that ordinary American bacon does not have the structural integrity that's necessary for this application," he says. "So I'm using an engineering grade of bacon which is known as prosciutto."

Gray has you vegans covered too. His "Vegan Thermic Lance" -- made of cucumber and breadsticks -- is a great destroyer too.

What do you think -- delicious fun or waste of precious prosciutto?

[via Boing Boing]

Filed under: Science, Food News, How To
Tags: bacon lance, BaconLance, prosciutto, theo gray, TheoGray

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4-15-2009 @3:29PM Teresa said... And the reason for all this is...
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4-15-2009 @3:55PM Sara Bonisteel said... Science! And bacon!
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4-15-2009 @4:00PM Culatello said... It's OK, he's using the crappy prosciutto that Sam's Club sells. Setting it on fire it it's best usage.

Soap masquerading as ham...
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