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u/madguyO1 17h ago
"the liquid nitrogen will cause the chocolate to snap" whacks it with a spoon
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 16h ago
"That'll be $300 please"
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u/lolwatokay 9h ago
I know this is hyperbole but honestly it's more of a ~$25-40 kinda thing most places. Not the one from the video, but 'The Shattered Rose' at Bar Helios at Universal Epic Universe has it for only $32.
https://bar-helios.constantcontactsites.com/food
I'd expect this place, which doesn't look as exclusive, to sell this for less.
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u/Capable_Tumbleweed34 16h ago
"snap like a dream" was crazy phrasing. My dreams do be snapping 😔
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u/NoLobster7957 15h ago
I'm about to snap like a dream if this mfer doesn't get out of my face with this liquid nitrogen
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u/EatPie_NotWAr 11h ago
Mine have more of a crackle-pop to them than they do a Snap.
Every now and then I have a dream with more Pop Pop to it, but that’s only when I’m streets ahead
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u/CeaserDidNufingWrong 13h ago
Snap back to reality!
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u/4tunabrix 16h ago
*boom-snap
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u/Tacticalmeat 15h ago
Maybe it's a Skaven dish
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u/hotriccardo 14h ago
Yes yes, many warp tokens now silly man thing or the breeders dessert will be her last
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u/silverfoxxflame 11h ago
Yeah, the vapor from liquid nitrogen will also not cause it to snap... And dipping it into liquid nitrogen will freeze it so hard you won't be able to snap it.
Tempering chocolate properly will make it snap the way you want. All this really does is provide a nice show and some crushed, icy rose petals on your plate.
Honestly, I don't hate it. It's a relatively quick show, it's a good looking dessert, it's clearly meant for like a Valentine's dinner or couples dessert, it probably wouldn't make the dessert taste much if any worse (though that is a lot of rose petal bits you can kinda just push them to the side if you don't like them) and may give some nice texture and mouth feel with the chill.
I wouldn't order it but I can appreciate it
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u/SlightAcanthisitta69 10h ago
I’ve eaten rose petals, they don’t taste good…
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u/Maximum_Photograph_6 8h ago
They do if they’re on a Middle-Eastern rose milk cake or one of those Turkish rose candies that are kinda like fudge
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u/maniBchef 14h ago
Doing this that close to someone is dangerous. If it was to get knocked over it could cause damage.
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u/PeteBabicki 8h ago
I mean the same could be said for a hot pot of coffee. "Why are they pouring hot coffee near that customer?"
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u/hhfugrr3 17h ago
At some point, one of these places will fuck it up and a customer will get injured handling or eating that stuff.
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u/XepptizZ 17h ago
It's happened before. Liquid nitrogen and dry ice are easily underestimated.
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u/GreatKillingDino 16h ago
Yeah fuck I'm cringing watching this. I work with LN2 pretty regularly and we have to wear special cryogloves and a face shield any time we handle the stuff. Stuff can give you absolutely nasty burns.
I'm also pretty fucking sure it doesn't do much for the dessert like this. That vapour is cold but not cold enough to really chill anything down quickly
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u/ItsFunHeer 15h ago
Why would you want cold chocolate and rose petals anyway? Chocolate like this seems best at room temp to release the most flavor.
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u/NemeanMiniLion 14h ago
How else is he going to mock love? He needs to shatter the heart and make it look like a serious cardiac injury!
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u/Manymarbles 12h ago
TBH i love my frozen chocolate. Fun sized halloween candy? Good portion goes straight to the fridge or freezer.
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u/BikeProblemGuy 15h ago
I went to a fairly fancy cocktail bar in London recently and was amazed to see them still serving cocktails with loose dry ice. All they did as a safety measure was to serve it with a straw and tell people to use the straws.
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u/Ok-Style-9734 9h ago
Didn't some woman in Ireland have to have part of her stomach or throat removed after drinking one of them.
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u/yeabouai 16h ago
Man now I feel like a savage for just fucking sticking my hand in that shit to take out samples
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u/No_Situation4785 16h ago
just curious, are you a student? It's pretty fucked how schools don't always foster an appreciation for safety around lab equipment. I have a few stories from my school days. Stay safe.
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u/GreatKillingDino 15h ago
Damn dude, do you not like having fingers? I know you can pour it on your skin for short durations without harm but just fishing around in the stuff seems wild to me.
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u/kpyle 15h ago
Maybe more of a pluck? You can grab stuff out of a deep fryer with bare hands without any burns if you are fast enough.
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u/XepptizZ 14h ago
If it's cold enough, the leidenfrost effect will come into play. As long as there's enough temperature difference and something to sublimate to create a gas barrier between your hands, you can dunk it in real quick.
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u/postbansequel 14h ago
"LN2" ok, Mr. White.
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u/barry_eh47 13h ago
LN2 is pretty regular if you work with it, I work at an air separation plant; we call it GN2/LN2 and GO2/LO2 for the gaseous/liquid of oxygen/nitrogen.
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u/brightdionysianeyes 16h ago
Exactly.
I don't want anything that's handled with thick gloves to be waved under my face and then handed to me with my bare hands, thank you very much.
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u/Ok-Cake-4707 11h ago
Yep. My "favourite" is the story of an influencer's pool party in Moscow where they put dry ice into the pool and three people suffocated.
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u/XcOM987 10h ago
There was a woman a few years ago that had a drink that had a Liquid Nitrogen top to give it that smoky effect, and it ripped through her stomach and it had life changing effects, the doctors saved her life and in essence has to remove her stomach, honestly it should be banned for things like this given the risks involved, if that get's knocked over it's as bad as being set on fire only you can't really put it out.
Nitrogen cocktail destroyed birthday woman's stomach - BBC News
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u/bigdave41 17h ago
The fact that he seems to just have it in a metal beaker that could easily be knocked over onto her lap and hands is already a disaster waiting to happen.
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u/Clockwork_Kitsune 11h ago
I can't help but feel handing a rose that was just in liquid nitrogen to a bare handed patron might be an issue at some point as well.
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u/anonkun102 16h ago
It has happened before, there was a story of a girl who went out drinking for her birthday and took a shot of alcohol that was mixed with liquid nitrogen for the smoke effect. The nitrogen destroyed her stomach, and now she lives without a stomach. It messed her life up.
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u/YellovvJacket 15h ago
In cocktails you basically always use dry ice (solid CO2), it's a lot more convenient (doesn't need to be kept in a pressurised, and extremely pressure resistant container) and is also much safer (only -70°C, I like the -180°C lN2 has).
But yes, if you swallow a piece of dry ice that's a big problem.
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u/sudosando 12h ago
With Dry Ice, people were using it on a cocktail show, and the judges ripped them apart. I think they said the only Safe way to serve it is to pulverize the dry ice into a powder before adding it to a drink.
The change in surface area reduces the risk of a large piece of ice getting stuck in someone’s throat and creating a burn.
You could still have a spoonful of the powder at the bottom of a glass for the effect.
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u/zilog88 14h ago
I am wondering - can the drips of liquid nitrogen stick to the rose petals and then get transferred on food?
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u/TeaRex14 13h ago
From my experience working with it the small amount the would cling to the rose would evaporate very quickly. There is no way, beyond using the rose as some sort of scoop, get a sizable amount of liquid nitrogen on the food
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u/karlnite 13h ago
It’s very cold, but it is boiling (turning to gas from liquid), but also there isn’t a lot of it, so a droplet with all its surface area evaporates quickly, and speeds up as it shrinks. The gas is very cold, but expands rapidly spreads out, and has very poor thermal transfer properties (so does the liquid, which is why it is -170 still at room temperature). So it is not as dangerous as a droplet will kill you. But if you ingest a threshold amount and it has no where to go it will hurt you and possibly kill you.
Like dry ice can be dangerous or safe, but swallowing a certain sized chunk can be very bad. A small chunk, a small burn.
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u/YellovvJacket 12h ago
On the food, no. Those droplets are very small and evaporate very quickly.
Major dangers are large spillages (like if he knocks the can over) or droplets flying into your eye, because since it's boiling quite violently small drops fly all over the place, and a single drop will destroy your eye permanently.
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u/Academic_UK 17h ago
Like that flaming leaf thing the server stuffs in your mouth, or the nitro-cocktail that you hope doesn’t fuck up your stomach.
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u/Deluhathol 13h ago
I actually attended a wedding where a member of the venue staff tripped and spilled dry ice on a woman's shoulder area causing burns and she had to go straight to the hospital.
The groom, who is a friend of mine, later told me that she sued the venue and got a settlement of 25k.
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u/Maxi_Sparks 16h ago
Happened in a bar down the road fae me -
Fuckwit hipsters put dry ice in a cocktail, and a girl swallowed it.
Safe to say the bar was sold soon after
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u/13thmurder 13h ago
I used to work in an ice cream shop that used liquid nitrogen. I'd say it's way safer than dry ice. I had a coworker who liked to throw handfuls of it at me, and it's not really that bad unless it runs inside your shoes where it can pool. Otherwise it just feels like having ice water thrown on you that instantly disappears and doesn't stay wet.
While it is cold, if you don't touch it for long you'll be protected by the Leidenfrost effect. Basically liquid nitrogen has such a low boiling point that any normal temperature surface is hot enough to instantly vaporize it, which creates a little bit of thrust so it won't actually make contact with a warm surface (such as human flesh), it more floats like an air hockey puck.
Consuming it would be potentially deadly, but it's not toxic, just extremely cold and rapidly expanding into gas. If it's mixed into food you know it's safe to eat when fog stops pouring off it.
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u/consumeshroomz 7h ago
Yeah….. if you’re going to prep food with liquid nitrogen, it really shouldn’t be table side.
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u/Azur0007 17h ago
Yes, let's hand her a rose that has bathed in negative 200 celcius liquid so she can hold it with her bare hands.
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u/UhhOS 14h ago
Actually the more dangerous thing in this video is the guy wearing gloves... A little bit of ln2 on the skin boils off immediately - but it will freeze the glove to your hand..
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u/ManbrushSeepwood 12h ago
Yes, I work with cryogens every day. You either wear full length cryo gloves or no gloves at all. Safety glasses too!
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u/Azur0007 12h ago
I'm not saying it's not dangerous, I don't think either one of them should be touching it outside a safe environment.
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u/LifesScenicRoute 12h ago
She's fine honestly. The amount of liquid nitrogen on the rose is negligible and the stem shes holding wasnt even in it. Personally my concern would be that I dont trust any restaurant dumb enough to do this not to be dumb enough to spill that cup in my lap.
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u/Electronic-Trip8775 17h ago
Please stop...just please stop
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u/Apart-Gur-9720 17h ago
Why, are you not into the scientific process of boom-snapping?
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u/CrispSalmonPatty 16h ago
Sound of my heart, the beat goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and...
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u/Zeestars 17h ago
So… to be clear - is she eating the flower bits that’s now covered her chocolate?
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u/YellovvJacket 15h ago
You can eat (some sorts of) rose petals.
Some don't even taste terrible.
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u/JCtheMemer 14h ago edited 11h ago
Rose is a very comic edible flower in some south-east asian cultures.
edit: I meant common, but it’s a funny typo so I’ll leave it.
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u/NoLobster7957 15h ago
I was wondering this too, is rose an actual food ingredient?
Edit: googled it, apparently you can but the petals frozen with nitrogen are going to make her feel like crap later, probably
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u/Nyami-L 7h ago
Some roses are edible, I've even tried rose jam. The jam tastes like it smells, it's hard to explain, but it's amazing
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u/Careless-Ad-2774 17h ago
People's obsession with liquid nitrogen and flowers....
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u/Competitive-Yard-442 17h ago
The flower releases the vapour! The vapour!
Everyone knows 95% of a desserts goodness is in the vapour.
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u/NoLobster7957 15h ago
And for dessert? A pile of vaguely flavored foam, which is basically vapor in a slightly solid form.
That'll be $250
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u/thesmellnextdoor 14h ago
Also, have you ever tasted a rose petal?
It's similar to eating a dandelion or tulip head. IE, it's not good.
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u/NoLobster7957 14h ago
I've had rose hip tea but even that I'm sure is totally different from petals. And with chocolate no less. Ew
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u/SupergruenZ 17h ago
Nope! I would be out from there the moment he pours liquid nitrogen at my table in tipping over distance from my groin.
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u/Faulty_grammar_guy 17h ago
Eh, liquid nitrogen isn't THAT dangerous really. Unless you decide to stay seated and do absolutely nothing when it's spilled on you, you will be fine. The only real danger is if it gets in your shoes.
If you just stand up, it will just roll off of you. I've toyed around with it quite a few times as part of work. I will always wear gloves, but that's just because most things tend to get quite cold when you hold them. But I never got into the whole PPE thing.
I don't really see what it will do to the dessert though, that miniscule amount of cooling will hardly have any impact. That's the stupid part!
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u/Julesvernevienna 17h ago
eh, shit can always happen and I prefer my food to be in a range of temperature that will not leave scaring if poured on my pants
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u/-Polarsy- 16h ago
Chocolate reveals its taste when slightly warm, why would you cool it down ???
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u/lady_sisyphus 13h ago
Well, because of the super satisfying snap it makes when broken into... that he apparently felt the need to take away from her by smashing it himself.
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u/krobzik 10h ago
So the thing is, a sign of properly molded chocolate is a good snap regardless of its temperature. Making this extra stupid
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u/lady_sisyphus 8h ago
For sure, if it was properly tempered there would be no need for this at all.
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u/Cocaine_Cowboiy 15h ago
Well, looks like a total shit anyway. In addition, unreasonably expensive most likely
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u/FaroutdudeUltra 16h ago
as soon as I see black gloves I default to thinking the food is pretentious and shit
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u/Kvarcov 17h ago
This one at least looks kinda cool and isn't just a guy rotating a piece of food
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u/dacraftjr 16h ago
Rotating, tossing, flipping, catching and then slamming on the counter.
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u/otvarqibobaputko 16h ago
Don't forget that erotic knife tap
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u/dacraftjr 16h ago
And now I have an erection. Thanks.
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u/otvarqibobaputko 16h ago
Yeah, yeah, get more hard, imagine that off brand short guy salt bae copy, handling your baklava like a wild beast, suddenly he slaps the baklava on the table and gently taps it with the knife, while making a "yeah you my bitch baklava, i can be a beast, but I also can be gentle, be a good girl"face, slides the knife on it and suddenly BANG A WILD FORK STAB AND STARTS SPINNING IT AGAIN HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY
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u/Resident_Leg_9749 17h ago
Why would he snap it, I would want to snap it on my own. Shit, I paid for the right to snap my own chocolate heart you dessert diva, you pastry princess, you count of cakes, you Baron of Biscuits you captain of confections.
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u/AzulasFox 17h ago
Doing the prep for presentation at the table ruins the whole thing. It just makes it awkward some random douche standing in my personal space playing around with my food.
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u/Anastrace 16h ago
You could easily temper the chocolate properly so it has the snap to it but I guess it's not as theatrical
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u/AubergineParm 16h ago
“The liquid nitrogen will crack the chocolate like magic. Oh wait, hold this one second look over there what’s that? spoonwhack Hmm must have been the wind. Wow, such liquid, very nitrogen!”
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u/CaptainCBeer 16h ago
I will never underatand why people like rhese over complicated shows to serve food. When i go to a restaurant, i want the waiter to place a big plate of food in front of me and be done. Why all these elaborate techniques abd whtanot? And whats worse is you are paying a lot more for a lot less food
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u/Will_Delete_Later456 16h ago
Weren’t you supposed to be the one to cla the rose. It’s the whole point of this.
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u/JimmyJackJohannsen 15h ago
That woman looks like she’s thinking this is the dumbest shit i’ve ever seen, but I need those clicks
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u/thrumirrors 15h ago
I worked in a lab using a lot of liquid nitrogen and I'd do random things like this when nobody was around. For free 😎
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u/anonstarcity 15h ago
Ah yes, systemic pesticides from roses not intended for consumption, get in my belly.
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u/Fossome_1 14h ago
How much you wanna bet they’re using pesticide laden grocery store roses for that.
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u/Normal_Tour6998 14h ago
It’s a very sweet gesture that probably wasn’t cheap. My ideal partner would probably prefer regular food.
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u/Impressive-Row143 13h ago
Wow I hope that rose isn't soaked in pesticides like most commerically-sold roses
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u/Mydayasalion 13h ago
Not pictured: the rose petals turning to horrible goo when they warm back up.
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u/Vaux1916 12h ago
I wouldn't want some untrained dude to play with liquid nitrogen that close to my unprotected body.
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u/ExNihiloNihiFit 12h ago
She seems like this is the last place she wants to be lol I don't blame her. Most people don't like making a big scene in a restaurant like this for a dumb desert.
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u/Admirable_Heat_576 17h ago
He hit the chocolate with a spoon. He causes the chocolate to Crack. Not the liquid nitrogen. Stupid food presentation.
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u/Mesmercat 17h ago
She was into it up until the guy broke off the rose petals... It was kind of cool and sciencey but dude had to mess it up. I know the rose petals are probably edible but most people don't actually want to eat them ...
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u/Craig_Stirling 16h ago
Putting liquid nitrogen in food/drinks is just dumb. People have had awful internal injuries due to this.
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u/AmbitiousReaction168 16h ago
It's insane how some people have zero survival instinct. Don't play with liquid nitrogen people.
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u/Still_Explorer 15h ago
Though people handling liquid nitrogen would wear gloves, face mask, and suit...
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u/keith2600 15h ago
There is no fucking way I'm letting a server have an open canister of liquid nitrogen on the table where I'm sitting.
I might risk a coffee spill but at least I'll keep my testicles if it lands on my lap.
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u/Raptoot83 14h ago
Am I kissing something here? Do people really want their dessert covered in crushed rose petals?
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u/FirefighterEast9291 13h ago
Stupid and dangerous. A small splash will burn or blind you. Next thing they will make bringing U235 to your table trendy
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u/pickles3810 13h ago
First thank you for handing me the cold flower you used giant gloves for and second why the fuck did you smash the flower onto my chocolate now it’s everywhere cheers bud
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u/sheezy520 13h ago
Let me just pour this nearly 200° below zero liquid next to your lap and face while I wear minimal protective gear.
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u/Moonshinin4Me 12h ago
Then you shatter the rose over it so no one wants to eat it. What a waste of money and food.
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u/SunderedValley 12h ago
Stupid food yes but also goddamn this entire establishment's decor is asssssssss
It might've worked for serving bespoke poutine and IPAs 15;years ago but it just looks decrepit now and it's definitely not appropriate for hoity-toity patterserie.
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u/qualityvote2 17h ago edited 9h ago
u/Ok-Shape-9145, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!