What happens when you pour beer onto a frying pan? It boils and evaporates, right? Not exactly. The beer sort of turns into this goopy blob that looks like some alien amoeba. Look at it go and tell me you’re not going to do this the next time you’re drunk (don’t do this while you’re drunk).
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When a drop of water hits a hot enough pan, it doesn’t instantly boil away. Instead, the drop’s outer layer vaporizes, producing an insulating effect that causes it to skitter across the hot surface. This is known as the Leidenfrost effect, and it can be harnessed for some neat tricks, like the Mythbusters being able to stick their hands in molten lead, or this wonderful science experiment from the University of Bath.
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