Ever fry pork chops and get a flash fire?
Same thing happened in a Crematorium with a rather obese lady. Interesting that the article mentions some countries have special crematoriums for the extremely morbidly obese.
Ok, it’s the Daily Mail. But who would dream up a story like this? The dead cat helicopter was real.
dead Cat helicopter thread. Geez this is a week full of weird news stories. 
And to think they said you need to exercise to burn fat.
This could be a great solution to the energy crisis though - I bet burning her body could have powered a small village in Africa for a year.
I had to do a double-take when I read the title, since a crematorium is supposed to be on fire, so to speak.
Also, the article is sort of confusing with regards to the temperature; 300C isn’t that hot at all when you are dealing with burning a body (in the heading; the article itself says it was the filter/exhaust temperature).
My first thought was those disgusting diet infomercials where they show you a 5 lb block of fat. Or worse the fat container after liposuction. Yeah, that would make one heck of a heat source in a furnace. You could burn a candle off that block of blubber for years. Now, imagine the fat in a 400 lb human. That’s like throwing a whole case of motor oil in there. The fire will be intense.
Maybe a switch to an outdoor pyre would be warranted, for people over the weight limit. That’d be kinda cool. I’m fat and I want to be cremated, but I don’t want to burn down a building in the process.
Or incinerated it.
Of course the flaming Halo-jump might have been problematic…
“Gaaaaaaaaaah…!”
Thud!
FWOOSH!
I feel sorry for the firefighters, who were all covered in nasty greasy soot. Getting dirty is part of the job, but it’s not usually a person that’s the source of the soot.
Crematorim fires are unfortunately not rare with the “first world” epidemic of obesity, but some newer cremators are designed to handle bodies up to 800 pounds without incident. :eek:
Well, the fat’s in the fire now…
I will selflessly volunteer all my excess body fat for energy production purposes, but I know it’s a drop in the bucket compared to our energy usage. Maybe if we liposuctioned out the fat and annihilated it with antimatter… that would be pretty cool, too. I’m willing to volunteer my fat, all I’m asking is that whoever wants it pay to get it out of me and to them. And that, if something cool like antimatter or black holes is involved, I get to watch (with suitable radiation protection, of course).
I meant that as a joke. Interesting column though.
If I get too fat to be cremated in one blow, I authorize them to cut me in pieces first.
The only way human fat is going to solve the energy crisis is if it is burned while walking or riding a bicycle.
You could arrive at the funeral in a collection of mini-coffins, linked together like jigsaw puzzle pieces.
Perhaps, but the sound of a chainsaw coming from a funeral home at night might upset the neighbors…
Not the proper tool for the job.
Be professional about it.
Imagine the stench.
Man, the Nazis thought of everything, huh?