Woman With A Bowl Of Ramen Steps Outside In -40 Degrees Celsius, This Happens Next

Enjoying a hot bowl of ramen or a cup of coffee out in the crisp snowy weather sounds very comforting but this is not an option for those who live in sub-zero temperatures. As temperatures are plummeting several degrees Celsius below zero, people are sharing videos that show how a piping hot bowl of noodles or a hot mug of coffee instantly freezes out in the open. Some people have begun experimenting with foods and drinks in cold weather to see what type of ‘food art’ is made when food is left out in the open. Many of these videos and photos are coming from places like Alberta in Canada or Yakutsk in Russia where temperatures are below 0 degrees Celsius.

Here are a few such videos:

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While many people find the above-mentioned videos fascinating, many people are also calling out the ‘frozen food art’ videos for promoting food waste. Making this point, an Instagram user commented, “Can we please stop wasting ramen." Another wrote, “I realise you can reheat & eat but I’ve really been bothered by food art in the midst of cost increase & shortages. Can you distract the masses with something else yet."

In 2019, Cyprien Verseux, a glaciologist and astrobiologist who is stationed at the Concordia Station in Antarctica, posted several photographs of various frozen foods on Instagram. His photos showed how honey would freeze mid-air just as he would try to put it on the toast or how even cracked eggs would freeze suspended in the air.

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In February 2016, a video went viral that showed a man throwing a bowl of boiling water into the air in sub-zero temperatures. Just as the water hit the air, it instantly turned into snow. This video was posted by David Freiheit, who was vacationing with his family in St-Donat, Quebec, Canada, in mid-February when he decided to demonstrate the Mpemba effect, in which warmer water freezes faster than colder water.

According to National Geographic, the reason why boiling food such as noodles or hot tea freezes instantly is, “Because they’re so hot, those tiny water droplets start to vaporise. But since cold air can’t hold as much water vapor as warmer air, the water condenses. Extremely cold temperatures quickly freeze the water droplets, which fall as ice crystals."