The name says it all.
Here is a link to a list of great things to do with liquid nitrogen. My favorites are:
- Freeze a can of shaving cream and then peel the can away from the
cream. Put the canless cream into someone’s car. Let the oven-like heat
from the car’s sitting in the sun defrost the shaving cream. 2 cans
will fill an entire car. - Overclock your processor
- One of my favorite liquid nitrogen demonstrations is to place an
egg (raw in shell)in a container and cover with liquid nitrogen. After
the nitrogen has evaporated, take the egg out smash it with a
hammer,
it appears to be hard boiled. As it cools it returns to white and yolk. - Get a couple liters in a container, and dump it on the floor in the
direction you want the debris to travel. It picks up everything in it’s
wave and if it hits a wall, the wave will boil off and deposit the junk
there. Now all you have to do is go around the perimeter and sweep up
the clutter. - Take a ping-pong ball and poke a small hole in it. The hole
has to be tangental to the sphere of the ball. When poking the hole use a
pin and the pin should be almost flat agianst the ball. Basically you
want a hole in the side of the ball that will cause the ball to spin.
Submerge this ball into the liquid nitrogen and let it fill up. Place
the ball on a table and watch it spin. As the nitrogen goes back to a
gas it will rush out the hole and presto!! It’s pretty cool. If it does
not spin try placing your hand on it to warm it to get it started. - Sometime you may not have the time to cool the bottles in the
fridge before serving. In this case, fill all the glasses with warm
champagne, add a few ml of LN2 to each glass and serve immediately,
while the LN2 is still steaming. This one is really cool.
