12 Consumer Products That Should Not Have Exploded But Did
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49 Responses
4.6.2009
Doesn’t seem too far-fetched. Those iPods do get terribly hot if you play them too long.
4.6.2009
I have explosions in my pants quite often.
4.6.2009
iPow
4.6.2009
This is a common problem with Lithium Ion batteries. They’re actually pretty dangerous.
4.6.2009
my vacuum cleaner is always on a jihad…
4.6.2009
My dogs seem to agree with you.
4.6.2009
Shiiiiit, remind me to pick up my consumer grade Russian Nuclear Ship next time I go to Costco
4.6.2009
But you gotta buy 3 of them at a time. Mine usually go bad before I get to the last one, so it isn’t as good a deal as it seems while you’re there.
4.6.2009
Post pics of your nuclear ship with the Kirkland logo on the side, I want to see.
4.6.2009
I thought the article was going to be listing products that had become very popular.
4.6.2009
I thought this was going to be about products that got really popular (exploded) but shouldn’t have cuz they sucked… lol
4.6.2009
Yeah, that picture of vacuum cleaners was very confusing. I was like, "what, these people don’t like clean floors?"
4.6.2009
these list topics are are becoming more and more absurd.
4.6.2009
Soon there will be a list of the 10 Worst List Ideas Ever.And it’ll probably be better than half the lists around.
4.6.2009
Already done, but it’s pretty stupid. davesite.com/humor/top10/000.shtml
4.6.2009
My vote goes for those laptop batteries from around 2006 that had to be recalled.
4.6.2009
"If I wanted to kill somebody without destroying the body, I’d use a hammer."Ew.
4.6.2009
No wonder his nano exploded it was fake.
4.6.2009
Dugg for Couscous. I always knew they were dangerous.
4.6.2009
How the hell does pasta explode?
4.6.2009
couscousis not just any pasta.
4.6.2009
What about the older Ford Exploder and their exploding tires?
4.6.2009
wow…i love the sneaky ONN video in there! Good stuff!
4.6.2009
Nonsense, everything should explode at the appropriate time.
4.6.2009
IMO no consumer goods should explode.
4.6.2009
I am sure that there are some that should; fireworks come to mind, and I suspect that there are others.
4.6.2009
What about the poor kid who’s chair exploded into his ass and killed him in the middle of class? That one should be #1 on that list cause I don’t know too many people who don’t sit.
4.6.2009
i once had a toaster oven explode.being that they dont use an ignitable substance of any kind, i don’t know how it’s possible. all i know is i put something in and a few minutes later i heard an explosion and my kitchen was showered in bits of glass. good thing i was in the living room
4.6.2009
You put a plate in your toaster oven?
4.6.2009
Forgot to stab your potato with a fork?Sometimes they become self mashing.This hard won knowledge cost me a microwave oven once
4.6.2009
Darn you. I’ve never baked a potato without stabbing it, and now I’m horribly tempted.
4.6.2009
a plate in my toaster oven? i don’t even know what that means.and though it wasn’t a potato i was cooking, i believe you’re thinking of a *microwave*, as a toaster oven cooks with actual heat, from the outside of the food. microwaves cook from the inside out.
4.6.2009
So what are the details smog?I hypothesis that not venting the potato skin is what caused the event regardless of the heat source. I will try to duplicate the event in my toaster oven and report back.If the old lady doesn’t shot me for destroying yet another innocent appliance.Godspeed
4.6.2009
haha.. it was about 5 years ago so i dont remember what i was cooking. im sure it was nothing out of the ordinary and i have no idea what happened.my only hypothesis is that since it was a new toaster oven,.. maybe the glass door had a small crack in it from shipping or whatever, that shattered when it got heated up.. hell if i know.
4.6.2009
Serves him right. Everybody knows iPod Nanos are for girls.
4.6.2009
"… per Daily Mail…"
4.6.2009
I have that Electrolux vacuum, and one thing it does not do well is suck. It’s completely useless.
4.6.2009
Sucks.
4.6.2009
How the hell does a PAN explode?
4.6.2009
E=mc²(or something like that…)
4.6.2009
Exploding Pintos. Classic.
4.6.2009
The Chicken Fryer pan sounds suspiciously like the Cornballer. The Bluth Co. must have changed the name to be able to market it in the states.
4.6.2009
"Come ON!!"
4.6.2009
A nuclear military vessel is a consumer product?
4.6.2009
… I think it would be easier to make a list of "consumer products" that -should- explode.
4.6.2009
love the last product… ONION!
4.6.2009
I wish that they had included explanations. What caused the Couscous to explode "like a small bomb" and how in the hell does a Frying pan explode? The Toy Aromatherapy kits sounded like an annoying $30 accident waiting to happen anyway.
4.6.2009
The fry pan looks exactly like some I got from JC Penny a few years ago on a rebate (which of course they never did pay on, but thats a different story).They are in storage now, but the few times I used them the glass cover would make strange sounds when removed from the pan and set down on the counter or when the heat was turned on or off. Evidently, the glass was expanding and contracting from the temp change. They have a screw holding the knob on through a hole drilled in the glass and a metal ring all the way around the edge of the glass cover. Different materials, different expansion rates and a big highly stressed piece of glass spells trouble.No doubt if you were to have oil at 350 degrees going in the pan and any bit of water or oil splashes up on the cover a large uneven stress can easily happen and the glass can fail rather suddenly as in… Boom!I stopped using them because having to handle the glass covers gently all the time was a pain. I prefer to just toss stuff in the sink not gingerly handle it like a prized piece of antique lead crystal. (so i’m lazy).There is no reason to have glass covers or cookware in the first place. It all should be illegal. Cooking food is going to fog up the glass and your still not going to be able to see through it and you still have to remove the cover to see what is going on, just like any metalic one.That may be why the toaster oven mentioned earlier exploded too. If that glass cannot expand as it heats due to being mounted too tightly or with any pressure on it the stresses build up and that can cause it to fail. Good story, now if I use them again I will be much more careful around them.