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JonL

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Nitrous oxide as an anaesthetic or for whipping cream?
 
Anyone else sad not to be at boomtown? (just got back, although, im being a pussy, iv seen worse than this)
 
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Nitrous parties existed as far back as the 1840's before they realized it's anesthetic potential. I'm sure they ate scones and cake before this but they had a slave to hand whip that shit so probably didn't care too much for needing bulborators.

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Twas I.

Upon further investigation you can get canisters of the food grade stuff if you're a registered company in the catering industry.
Know anybody that owns a cafe? Or maybe setting up an actual trading company isn't too much hassle.

Probably only requires a company bank account anyway
 
I think probably anaesthetics before whipped cream. but yeah recreation has been going on for ages!

Do you think suppliers of nitrous for whipped cream plan to sell to abusers and that other gases are possible (and cheaper) but they'd lose out on the extra profit?
Do you think you could 'use' nitrous for keeping pressure in on-tap drinks?

At work they have these HUGE tanks so the beer moves from cellar to tap when needed (it's about 40m though) but as far as I can see they only use CO2 (probably because it's cheap) but surely any gas under pressure would do it?
 
Yeah, I don't think nitrous would make anything effervesce, as you'd have fizzy whipped cream.
 
Treacle said:
Yeah, I don't think nitrous would make anything effervesce, as you'd have fizzy whipped cream.
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It's all about pressure. Carbon dioxide only dissolves in water under pressure. So when the pressure is reduced, you get the bubbles, as the gas comes out of solution.

Maybe you could dissolve N2O in cream under pressure!

This thread wants me to buy a Soda Stream to fuck about with, but the manufacturer warns you not to use it with any liquid other than water :( why not?

It's fascinating! But I'm supposed to be getting ready for Barcelona!

Actually it is the same principle:

wiki said:
When the cream dispenser's valve is opened, the cream is forced out of the nozzle by the high pressure. However, when the pressure is released, the dissolved gas turns to bubbles and comes out of the solution — just as opening a soda bottle results in the formation of a head of bubbles. These expanding bubbles instantly transform the cream into a frothy, whipped state.
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It is effervescence! Since cream is a complex, thick, fatty liquid, it doesn't effervesce in quite the same way as a fizzy drink.

right. Barca.

I wonder if you could use a whipped cream charger to load N2O into some other liquid like fruit juice, then as you sip the juice you could inhale the nitrous being released? :D

FINAL EDIT: Ok. I know what I'm doing when I get back from Barcelona :D
 
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Haha, fair dos. However, I'm sure CARBON dioxide carbonates drinks better. Have you ever breathed in the gas, from a fresh bottle of Coke, as a kid? It makes you cough like fuck, and makes your lungs feel fizzy. I'm probably totally wrong, but it sounds right. My bird said she once put milk in a Soda-Stream. Awful. Enjoy your holiday!
 
knockando said:
I wonder if you could use a whipped cream charger to load N2O into some other liquid like fruit juice, then as you sip the juice you could inhale the nitrous being released? :D

FINAL EDIT: Ok. I know what I'm doing when I get back from Barcelona :D
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Load any liquids into a dispenser and they go FLYING when you pull the trigger. Super-soaker style!
 
knockando said:
This thread wants me to buy a Soda Stream to fuck about with, but the manufacturer warns you not to use it with any liquid other than water :( why not?
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They put that warning there in case someone is daft enough to make fizzy Buckfast. Trust me, it is one of the most vile things I've ever tasted.

I wonder if you could use a whipped cream charger to load N2O into some other liquid like fruit juice, then as you sip the juice you could inhale the nitrous being released? :D

FINAL EDIT: Ok. I know what I'm doing when I get back from Barcelona :D
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I can answer that for you now - No, you can't.
 
Agreed... I wonder what the symbolism of the skeletal portraits is. Do you think that the artist is hinting that this is an unhealthy activity or is it something else? Is he saying that they may as well be having a ball as they'll die soon anyway? (I think not, the participants are not very sympathetically portrayed).

It's curious looking at old cartoons and seeing symbols which may have been instantly understood by the cartoonist's contemporaries but which we don't get because we're immersed in a different culture.
 
jancrow said:
Agreed... I wonder what the symbolism of the skeletal portraits is. Do you think that the artist is hinting that this is an unhealthy activity or is it something else? Is he saying that they may as well be having a ball as they'll die soon anyway? (I think not, the participants are not very sympathetically portrayed).

It's curious looking at old cartoons and seeing symbols which may have been instantly understood by the cartoonist's contemporaries but which we don't get because we're immersed in a different culture.
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At the same time though do you think the artist is suggesting that Nitrous Oxide breaks down social barriers in some way? The gentry seem to be having a knees up with the staff.
 
I hadn't thought of that. Then you've got to ask yourself if the cartoonist or his audience would have seen that as a good thing or a bad thing!
 
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