# It's cold outside. Have you tried the boiling water to snow trick yet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-cold-outside-have-you-tried-the-boiling-water-to-snow-trick-yet/678085>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 7, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-cold-outside-have-you-tried-the-boiling-water-to-snow-trick-yet/678085 "2014-01-07T00:17:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-cold-outside-have-you-tried-the-boiling-water-to-snow-trick-yet/678085/21 "2014-01-07T20:46:10Z")

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I’m having trouble making this work. After several attempts, all I’ve managed is a steamy wet sidewalk, dirty looks from neighbors, and the groundskeepers are yelling at me in Spanish to knock it off.

On the other hand, I do live in Los Angeles…

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-cold-outside-have-you-tried-the-boiling-water-to-snow-trick-yet/678085/22 "2014-01-07T20:53:23Z")

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[My attempt. Yes, I’m wearing slippers and a bathrobe.](http://s681.photobucket.com/user/kayaker01/media/20140107_081816_001_001_zpsghkgo4ft.mp4.html) (SFW)

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**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-cold-outside-have-you-tried-the-boiling-water-to-snow-trick-yet/678085/23 "2014-01-07T21:24:07Z")

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I was too angry at the cold to try it but I had Facebook friends that said it worked well. We hit about -5 last night.

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-cold-outside-have-you-tried-the-boiling-water-to-snow-trick-yet/678085/24 "2014-01-07T21:28:19Z")

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[You all might enjoy this collection Buzzfeed culled together of people that tried this and hurt themselves and then posted about it online.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/a-whole-bunch-of-people-threw-boiling-water-in-the-air-to-wa)

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