Great spatchcock chicken and a Horrible accident

DaveRichardson

Eggdicted_Dawgfan said:

Darby_Crenshaw said:

Eggdicted_Dawgfan said:

Sorry I'm new (and confused) to exploding concrete. Can anyone enlighten me on how this happens? Google search doesn't bring back much either.

Spalling

water entrained reaches boiling point and flashes to steam, expanding 1:1700

BOOM

(think popcorn)

caliking said:

This was recently discussed in a recent thread ( started by @Judy Mayberry , I think).

Water in the cement changes into steam and causes the cement to explode like that. So always set your chimney on a grill, or have something between the concrete and the chimney.

Put a potted plant over that circle and chalk one up to experience.

Learn something new every day. Spalling search brought back much better results than exploding concrete. So if you set the chimney on a concrete block could this still happen?

Even a paver stone will explode. Tile will, too. I've blown up both before I switched to the Papertowel lighting method. 

stichrunner

yes please learn from my mistake  

dldawes1

I heard that this lady had set a chimney on a log table beside the egg. I am guessing she forgot about it and suffered the ultimate consequences.

http://www.lex18.com/story/29944904/cause-of-fatal-henry-co-fire-under-investigation