Molten Copper Being Caked Over a Big Mac at McDonalds

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A video supposedly showing molten copper being caked over a Big Mac at McDonalds published on 10^th March 2016. This video allegedly professed the everlasting properties of food circulated on most of the social media websites. More of the viewers were amazed that molten copper rolled off the meat patty initially and this reason found behind the sharing this video with epithetical remarks regarding the food’s quality of McDonalds. This video was shared with various articles and most of them claimed it was a proof of everlasting and poisonous properties found in Big Mac at McDonalds. This video was uploaded on YouTube account Tito4e by a filmmaker who captured the scene of pouring molten copper over a Big Mac by McDonalds.

It is important that posted video is real, but it doesn’t indicate any reinforced aspects of a Big Mac. Originally, the video is showing just experiments with assumingly non-rotting hamburgers and it is most often replicated with similar food item or any type of burger without mentioning a specific brand. This video is considered an example of the Leiden-frost effect and it was defined by Engineers Edge. They presented a phenomenon that close contact of liquid to a mass element can make it hotter than boiling point of liquid and the vapor generates an insulating layer that prevents liquid from rapidly boiling. It is also said that moisture in the Big Mac rapidly boils when it made contact with molten copper, as a result steam generated from insulating layer that protected the burger initially.