Can A C4 Be Used As Cooking Fuel? | MythBusters | Season 8 Episode 13 | Full Episode

[@benmaynard3059]

I missed a chunk of these when they aired so I truly am grateful and lucky to have the gift of these episodes ✌✌

[@fartsparkle]

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[@geekimusprime]

Grant’s design was way too dangerous! Spring-loaded knives that spring OUT toward the user? What?? No way I’d go anyway near it, let alone actually arm it! Grant, you truly were a daredevil.

[@yomama269378]

2:14 "when in doubt C4" XD XD one of my favorite Jamie quotes. That laugh XD XD

[@Kiwi.Rascal]

Oh Grant - you are missed.

[@teamcyeborg]

Such a shame, his own decapitron got him

[@devoncantrell3311]

He is the only celebrity death that has actually had me bent up.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Cooking with C4 & building a flying guillotine. It doesn't get more Mythbustery than this!

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Their theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, their methods are sloppy and their results are questionable. They are poor scientists.

[@crackerjaq9974]

The only thing i never liked about their testing of flying guillotine is that it was never meant to be a direct combat weapon. It was meant to be an assassin's weapon. It was meant to kill someone when they had their guard down, not during an actual fight. The target would likely already be stationary and would be dead or at least gravely injured by the time they realized that a hat with a blade in it was thrown on them.

[@cameronwise-maas5610]

I mean they basically say that at the end. They can’t do better than plausible without historical confirmation.

[@terrydarhk]

I love all the engineering in this one. Typically, it’s some trivial wooden box or a bit of welding.

[@nbbran]

Grant you were so awesome, wish we could have seen more of you. Rip my man

[@AkiSan0]

i love the difference: mythbuster: these are highly controlled chemicals, we dont always name, you need to mix them perfectly to get termite. codyslab: heres some black sand, aluminium cans and some foil i had laying around. boom termite foundry!

[@dominomon7117]

congratulations, this is the definition of KZbin

[@Lilly_the_Snek]

Heh, termite. I didn't know you could make a bug using aluminum, and sand

[@demomanchaos]

Mythbusters originally aired on Discovery Network, aka televsion. YT and TV have different regulations.

[@dirtydan9785]

Closed-source vs. open-source science

[@austins.2495]

“termite” stay in school, kid…

[@Megoover]

As usual Grant's design is overengineered, Tori's brutally straightforward and simple

[@gabrielv.4358]

Bro, that profile picture is so suspicious

[@IDuBStepSZ]

Tori understands how a knife works, lol.

[@matheusfiorelli8829]

32:10 Mythbusters in a nutshell 😂

[@hanbill]

well said xdd

[@rettbull9100]

In afghanistan the locals would remove C4 from munitions and use it to make fires. I worked with EOD and went on a trip where they recovered some shells that had the explosives removed from it.

[@fredsorre6605]

one of my favorite Episodes but it has one dumb ending the flying Guillotine is supposed to be an assassin's weapon meaning it is mainly used for ambush attacks not in actual combat.

[@Gamer3427]

Not to mention that realistically, if you were going to use such a specialized weapon to begin with, you'd probably have spent a long time training with it, rather than just the presumably few throws they had done all in all while testing. It's still highly impractical in general unless you just *really* need to bring back someone's head and can't risk leaving it behind, but like anything highly specialized, it'd be more usable once you were more experienced with it. All that said, I'm fairly certain that bit at the end was just for the sake of entertainment and padding out the runtime a bit.

[@austins.2495]

Can you say, over analyze? It’s an entertainment television show… chill.

[@DracoTheDragonVR-mh2ti]

Grant just about got spring locked!

[@DinobotTM2]

18:47 That's not Grant, that's MELONLORD!

[@XXhite]

10:48 Grant getting closer with his God... after realizing he almost Disemboweled himself for a tv show🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯💯💯

[@hizzy70]

How Grant could be holding that thing all proud of it while the thing could easily cut off his fingers even from the outside of the ring

[@BadwolfFPV]

Tori's feinting goat impression just might be my favorite mythbusters gag ever.

[@polarknight5376]

I think a hollow point might've detonated it. If you've never seen slowmo footage of them, they actually make a small explosion when they hit something soft, like ballistic gel. Hollow points are banned in warfare though, so I don't know why c4 could logically get shot by one.

[@Eleni_E]

I do appreciate that they just had a gong laying around. I too keep finding weird stuff in supply closets at work.

[@JoCaTen]

When you mix fuel, metal oxide and metal powder in just the right way, it burns at 2000 degrees Celsius. Hot enough to cut through nearly any barrier known to man. Throw some C4 into the mix, and you've got one hell of a combination. or so i heard...

[@ryadramirez4948]

ik your main

[@JoCaTen]

@@ryadramirez4948 no you don't

[@generalmcterror2718]

Someone likes to blow things up as everyone’s favorite hard breacher in Siege

[@Blackpheonix99]

13:40 .... To answer the question... We eat it cold... Usually we eat it cold anyways... Don't have time to sit and wait for food to be all hot and enjoy the meal lol

[@dakarpsi]

The problem is that rdx(the explosive in c4) is very toxic, you wouldn't want the residue in your food

[@jarrodbright5231]

Tori getting ready to throw that hat looks so much like Kung Lao from Mortal Kombat

[@rjspires]

I watched the UK version of recently. I'm surprised that cuts were still being made this late into the shows run. They cut the choosing the meal eat and the a few of the sound effects from the UK version.

[@reddiz]

well tory,s devices looks best but grants is the scariest,,

[@szwolinski4587]

Ask any combat veteran from Vietnam. We used C4 to heat our meals all the time. It was so common that Claymore mines had to be inspected before being used to ensure that the C4 had not been removed. Everyone said to be careful not to drop anything heavy on flaming C4, but I have seen people stomp on small chunks of burning C4 without incident. That being said, I never knew anyone foolish enough to smack it with a hammer.

[@BlackSoap361]

Love the use of a power strip as a safety switch. “We know what we should do for safety, but we’re prop-makers.”

[@pirobot668beta]

Copper oxide/Aluminum thermite can explode, even when unconfined! Much faster release of energy than iron oxide thermite..not slag, all vapor! Makes a pretty orange cloud of copper-vapor.

[@grahck4391]

I know that the c4 to cook with is a viable option. My dad swore by it and claimed to have a block or 2 on him at all times in Nam for cooking because it was fast and more efficient than what was provided.

[@SyntheticFuture]

26:13 camera man just standing there hoping his insurance covers this bullshit xD

[@dylan6366]

10:46 BROOOOO 😭 PLEASE

[@josephtortona824]

the grill was set too high in camping kits with heating tablets/bricks the distance between the fire and the cooking container is less than 1.5 inches high

[@GeneralWeirdness]

25:01 The ladder says Dookie Waggon lolol!

[@fartsparkle]

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[@fartsparkle]

NOT A REAL LINK... just messing around haha1 !

[@gabrielv.4358]

10:08 That is cool, they had their own folders

[@ArtThingies]

I remember the flying guillotine part; but not the C4 part of the original episode.

[@DaniTheNachoPirate]

6:15 god, I love how that sounds.

[@IronPhysik]

TNT is also very stable, infact when people first discovered it they used it as paint pigment to make yellow paint only much later it was found out that the stuff can detonate.

[@bachvaroff]

The same is also true for TNP (picric acid), though both TNT and TNP are quite toxic and it's not a particularly good idea to use 'em as pigments…

[@WalkerRileyMC]

@@bachvaroff If you do some research on various toxic materials we've used as pigments over time, you'll be impressed at how we managed to survive as a species into the modern age.

[@jayrock4ya]

"That's the safest place to be"🤣

[@Lagbeard]

It's the Brainiac Slow Release thermite garden pot.

[@bruhpopoppoop2759]

Thank u myth busters for being my childhood

[@tristindurocher-batley4780]

Tori’s salad bowl of death might not have been what the device actually looked like (then again no drawings of the real deal are accessible in the modern era and the only designs come from kung fu movies) but not only was it simple enough that it could’ve been the real deal in the era it supposedly existed in but was also the safest because Kari’s and especially Grant’s designs were more likely to Seaver their hands off considering Grant’s almost bore a deep gash on his belly. Ps I this makes me wonder if Tori’s salad bowl of death worked better with a saw edge wouldn’t the Chakram be deadlier if it had a saw edge

[@thijsdeboer389]

Saw blade on a throwing weapon like a chakram would lower the cutting ability because you wouldn't get enough rotational force because of the increased friction. Which would probably leave a nastier cut but a way more shallow . The same goes for the salad bowl but with some very small blades it worked because the user can still apply more rotational force after throwing it by pulling on the chain.

[@occasionalart7597]

​@@thijsdeboer389 Not mention the saw teeth could get stuck on the spine in the neck while the smooth edge can just slice through.

[@RaginKavu]

They should have tried a small, tactical poket-nuke, to see if it would ignite C4...

[@EZ2BCHEEZY36]

21:24 Enemy De-Feeted

[@tsutl84]

C4 is just playdough without an electrical charge. You use a blasting cap set off by an electrical charge.

[@brycelynch2138]

12:16 - MRE: Meals Rejected by Everybody.

[@fraaggl]

they should update this myth to "can you cook your meal with Liion 18650 batteries ?"

[@peatmoss4415]

MRE stands for Meals Refusing to Exit ....

[@HiramJonesjr-dx8tl]

Mortal Kombat Raiden uses a hat with a razor edge

[@hizzy70]

When Adam said "its stuck to his shoe" made me laugh 😂

[@hrodga]

That's the real reason you don't want to stomp out a C4 fire.. I think the myth comes from senior leaders just telling the lower enlisted not to do it and not _why_ not to do it.

[@hizzy70]

@@hrodga ohh true that's a good point

[@HiramJonesjr-dx8tl]

C4 with a little bit of wax added to the mixture to burn longer

[@dustinmeek4032]

You have to keep adding more c4 when the fire dies down

[@patrick1020000]

They only have a piece of plywood overhead during the thermite test. If the C4 had sprayed thermite everywhere, they would have been totally screwed. Something similar occurred during the thermite and ice episode

[@andrewmangini9004]

Personal experience…. Yes, yes it can.

[@Treviath]

Wait what is this intro music? I could have thought of one more scenario for the C4: What if there's contaminant explosives that explode within the C4?

[@Magmafrost13]

Yeah so far season 8 on this channel has had different intro and outro music for some reason, not a fan of that

[@neonnerd1364]

I blame Mythbusters for my love of fire, explosions, and destruction.

[@reyalPRON]

as it is flammable, yes.

[@lektik2941]

I'm pretty surprised by all the ways you've discovered to NOT make c4 explode.

[@Dzokhar]

I cannot believe they let Grant make that.

[@lektik2941]

The movie version of the flying guillotine looks like it can fold up really small and slip into a sleeve or a pocket.

[@terryenglish7132]

A blasting cap is twice as fast as a meteor.

[@esquad5406]

Not just C-4. But Amatol TNT Dynamite Comp-B PTX and Torp-X just about all of it but not PETN. You light PETN with a match your going to be sorry, but not for long.

[@amyjojinkerson-b6o]

shock is what causes the bang

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

They're completely clueless about anything that has to do with explosions or guns. They actually thought a rock from a lawnmower had as much power as a .357 Magnum 🤣🤣🤣

[@DylanDraper1]

I heard of LRRPS doing this in Vietnam to boil water in the field

[@messybe]

The chaffing dishes are meant to keep food warm in a buffet, not cook the meal

[@JoonatanRydenfelt]

Fun now that one army dude can drop his pan without stress

[@Jadiaz-ev9hm]

Tory's would have worked with a head giving resistance.

[@jeffrey778]

c4 kinda perfect for controlled destruction

[@josephtortona824]

a really BIG OPTICAL APERTURE (camera aperture) can do the trick!

[@TheFireMaker117]

Cooking with c4 is just about as bad for you as smoking a steak with Styrofoam

[@abrafkalif]

I know the Show is old, i am still interested to see a control about C4, dropping and shooting without fire etc.

[@Tezz42]

Gea teen it's guillotine 😂😂

[@HiramJonesjr-dx8tl]

Heads may not roll

[@philipzielinski]

So, Grant is the origin of Jigsaw?

[@waffleMccoy]

"nice clean cut" lol yeah sure

[@kylelawson91]

so if you use the firing cap from a shell. will it blow up the c4. basically can you use it as gunpowder. and if you cant use c4. what about tnt.

[@MoisesGarcia-sp7rm]

Damn i didn't knew they still made videos I would watch them at age 16 now I'm 28 rhey are the prodigy 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Diesel-bj8xe]

Who sings first you need to recognize that that’s a small anvil compared to the bigger sizes different types of sizes they go up into 2000 pound. Shit is slow chunk of steel or cast-iron and their normally are in a workshop that weighs over 250 pounds or they’re in the steam hammer and that steam hammer is so much more heavy so yeah, amble has actually in a medium range

[@_pitaph_6392]

Did you know they use thermite to create pure metals?

[@avus-kw2f213]

10:03 LOL

[@mikeflake7401]

Why would you need that for it comes with heating packs which you can make bombs out of that too

[@smoothdonkey4205]

Mre have there own heat source it's a clear bag that comes with a mre you only need to dump water inside it and the it heats up and cooks the food

[@TylerDollarhide]

According to IMBD this is season 9 episode 17. Not season 8 episode 13.

[@avakining]

Mythbusters didn’t really have seasons. The seasons used by IMDB, the official DVDs, and (iirc) Wikipedia are all different.

[@CSGATI]

Nitroglycerine or dynamite burn

[@jankyhitbox1050]

How tf they getting away with using the pokeball sound

[@catman2278]

I think that the flying Guillotine myth is true because you have to keep in mind the MythBusters are not trained assassins so they wouldn't be good at hitting moving targets

[@asafpelleh7594]

Can you mix C4 as fuel additive to your car?

[@hrodga]

Why would you want to? Aside from the difficulties getting it and the licenses you'd need to get to buy it, it's pretty expensive, and you'd almost definitely have to retrofit your vehicle to get any real use out of it.

[@asafpelleh7594]

@@hrodga It might get more power and be good for drag races?

[@Buych778]

I was today years old when I realized that the dummy they have is named Buster because he's the real Myth Buster on the show...totally have been watching this show for years and just figured this out 😂

[@Foul_Quince]

The pot existed in two simultaneous, superimposed states, exploded and not exploded. the MythBusters changed the outcome of the experiment by observing it. It's Schrodinger's pot.

[@HiramJonesjr-dx8tl]

Wouldn't try cooking with nitro

[@uselessDM]

Does the fire even matter in the drop and stomp test with the C4? It's obvious that fire doesn't set it off and if hitting it makes it explode it would most likely explode when it's not on fire as well.

[@dirtrider88]

38:35 i wouldnt call shooting c4 an extreme impact. why not use a hollow point?

[@charlesmaurer6214]

Just a detail C4 is the class of explosive not a set formula, so various formulas my behave in other ways.

[@amyjojinkerson-b6o]

saw tooth inside the ring would be faster

[@OutletVibes]

How do we have 1/4 million followers yet we don't know proper grammar? A c4? What is A C4?

[@meaamick7926]

31:04 me when I’m Wile E. Coyote

[@LoggSmiddYT]

Yes

[@acdcone12]

Um on the assassin's weapon one id say confirmed cause assassins kill in shadows and it's not like the targets know the assassin is there so could they be moving yes but at some point they have to stand still therefore making the myth confirmed

[@jddisanto34]

i swore I read about cooking with C4 in nam it might work or it might ruin your canteen cup or pot or helmet either way

[@JPREEDY77]

Mantis Shrimp ignite it?