Making French Fries — Potatoes, Oil, Old Motherboard… What?

By Uncle Dave Tuesday April 3, 2007

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Put that heat generator to use!

13 Comments

John C Dvorak says:

4/3/2007 at 4:12 pm

Uh…
John says:

4/3/2007 at 4:21 pm

Uh…is there a story associated with this pic or are we supposed to use our imagination?
Angel H. Wong says:

4/3/2007 at 4:26 pm

He’s lubing that motherboard for some Cybersex :p
B. Dog says:

4/3/2007 at 4:29 pm

Perhaps I can help. Some guy used his computer to cook fries. Everything fried.
Uncle Dave says:

4/3/2007 at 4:30 pm

#2: You could try following the instructions and clicking on the picture.
BubbaRay says:

4/3/2007 at 4:36 pm

Umm, Uncle Dave, when I click on the picture I get — another picture !!

[Uncle Dave: Sorry, link fixed]
Raff says:

4/3/2007 at 5:46 pm

Does oil conduct electricity? Wheres all the ram and cards?

An oil cooled motherboard would be cool if it would make my frame rates and action faster on my video games.

What temperature does plastic melt at?
evan says:

4/3/2007 at 5:55 pm

Following in the spirit of PCs cooled by submerging their electro guts in oil, Sc4freak over at Hard OCP’s forums took an aluminum tray, filled it with 12 liters of canola oil, and dropped in an old Pentium II 266 with Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra. Nothing a geek ain’t see before.

Then he played Quake III booted up on Windows 98. But the dude got hungry, so he decided to install an electric heater, julienne some potatoes, and make some deep-fried french fries.

The computer crashed, after sitting at 130 degrees C for awhile, but jump to see how golden and crispy those potatoes ended up. –Brian Lam
evan says:

4/3/2007 at 5:57 pm

@7:

Try http://www.google.com, it’s great and free. Or yahoo answers. Or Wikipedia. Or Howstuffworks. Or answers.com. Or about.com. Or encarta.com. Or…
Michael Tourigny says:

4/3/2007 at 6:07 pm

I have a cheap multimeter and I did a little test. I set it meter to resistance and tested water and Canola oil and the oil did not conduct electricity.

I searched on Google confirmed my results.

Have a nice day 🙂
OmarThe Alien says:

4/3/2007 at 8:16 pm

Some years ago i read an article where somebody oil proofed a case, filled it full of oil and fired up his computer. The article claimed the oiled cooled rig ran cooler than the air cooled. I just wonder where you put the dipstick.
Jeopardy says:

4/3/2007 at 8:32 pm

Alex, I’ll take stupid ass posts for $100, please…
Jonas Åström says:

4/4/2007 at 1:54 am

Nice! “bara skit” is swedish for “just crap” (or “just shit”). There. Who said DU can’t be educational? 🙂