Spam vs 240V - Still trying to clear the smoke!

You should sell this to nightclubs everywhere - spam powered smoke machine

Raven Luni

like the one photonicinduction has :p

Raven Luni

Excellent. This asks for a variable power source, I think.

2 ronnies: L O. L O. FUNEX? S,,VFX. FUNEM? S,VFM. FUNE SPAM? NOOOOOOO!

Ymir the Frost Giant

Now I want to get some but I think I'll cook it slightly differently and follow your suggestion to NOT try this at home. Thanks Big Clive - Now I'm hungry.

Dave Frederick

Love SPAM.

Dave Frederick

Well, SPAM is a bit salty.

Johnson Lam

"Delicious and elecro-hot". My new favorite Cliveism!

This video will be hugely popular in Hawaii for creating near instant musubi. I wonder what is the perfect voltage for doing this? 110?

Chris

What about only one type of food? We're all capacitors. That's how voltsticks work.

Mike Page

I wonder if you could make a functional capacitor using only two types of food?

Mike Hanley

A recipe for demonetization.

tim1724

Great fun. Before you release this to the YT masses Clive, can I suggest a small modification? Get a soft toy bunny, remove its fluffy filling and replace it with a block of Spam. Then repeat your experiment but don't let on about the Spam.

Ymir the Frost Giant

Did show the other half as a cookery video her answer was no f****** way. 😂

N. Shaun Tremayne

Not surprised as seeing how much water, salt and nitrates they pack in. Not been the spam factory but to a competitor of similar brand. Just like bacon and other pork where they inject so much in, also same with chicken but no salt to keep fresh longer and stop drying out in cooking. They say about Co2 shortage but this along with nitrogen is in anything that is bagged and sealed that's why you should take your food out the bags as soon as seal broken to stop products sweating with mould living on. Working in food production prefer to get food off farmers direct or proper butcher.

N. Shaun Tremayne

I wasn't aiming for subtlety here. I was hoping for smoke, flames and loud parping noises.

Big Clive

yum, you can't beat that meat :-)

I would like to see this done to a spammer please. Ideal punishment for filling my inbox with junk. Stick two forks in the spammer and plug him in.

The canned meat was a great choice for the effect. Since it has a decent moisture level and sodium that will give it a low resistance.

Charles Bruckner

Given it used something like 16A at 250V do you think it would be a good idea @120V - it would suggest that you would need a 32A circuit.

Fascinating - I wonder if using 110V would be a better option? I'm currently reading a book called "Prisoners' Inventions" where a number of McGyvered cooking methods are presented - mostly using DIY heating elements (called stingers) are used to prepare food. The book itself covers many inventive ways prisoners in the US penal system have found to make life a wee bit better for themselves.

Rik Kershaw-Moore

Such a nice spam moment in time. I enjoyed every bit of it 😊

Elim Garak

I saw it at about 1:40 at 18 Amps!!

Mike Hughes

I bet if you left it the fat would actually ignite at the arcing electrode. (Not a suggestion you should do this, but if you insist, please film it). Speaking of film, perhaps this could be used as a film or stage effect for someone being electrocuted? On stage you would actually get the smell of burning flesh too!

Dr Andy Hill

You need a giant dimmer switch so you can set the power to the spam accordingly.

evilution

SPAM can't take high voltage but how about lower voltage PCBs with SPAM traces? Pork Circuit Boards

CasualKitty

Time to clear out the smoke- by spamming that "like" button!! The forks burnt a hole through it... I'm curious to know what would happen with plate-shaped electrodes, that have something to keep them pressed (to avoid arcing).

I saw the current peak at 19A the second time that you zapped the Spam!

Michael Dunn

I particularly like the bespoke leads. imagine going to dinner and the cutlery is plugged into the mains 🤣 no coincidence that spam is an anagram of amps.

Mark Holder

Uh oh ........ watch out for bad meat in the can.

This is gonna be great to watch in school!

Basti Elektronik

Activated a strong Spam craving at first - until I read about the stink in the video description. When I cooked hot dogs this way as a kid, I just wrapped long stripped ends of a lamp cord around some ordinary forks. I need to get a properly wired pair of forks like Clive's. On second thought, maybe I will get some Spam tomorrow . . .

Yeah. It seems to be random, but once it starts it continues burning on that electrode.

Big Clive

- "Honey, our lights are flickering again" - "Oh, it's just Clive, cooking Spam."

Interesting that the fork that starts arcing first changes with each go (same as in a couple other instances in the food electrocution series). Enjoyed the video as always!

Nick Loh

YouTube may flag this video as spam! Lol

Gadgetman

I'm seriously tempted to try this at 120v.

Szzzzzzpam!

Wim