Our obsession with deep frying everything edible is getting a bit out of hand. Sure, we get it, you might want to deep fry meat and vegetables, but when we start deep frying things like watermelon, ice cream, and chocolate bars (those deep fried mars bars are so heavenly!), maybe that’s when we know we’ve gone too far, or have we?

Turns out maybe not because during the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas hackathon in San Francisco, a man by the name of Jonathan Marcus managed to successfully deep fry water. Wait, how does that work? Basically he used calcium alginate which basically gave the water a shape and a container to hold itself in.

He then rolled it in flour, dipped it in an egg mixture, and then breaded it before dropping it into a deep fryer. It was successful as what emerged was a perfectly round ball of breaded, deep fried water. When it was cut into, the water just spilled out and according to Marcus, it tastes just like water, while the breading was admittedly bland.

Now you should definitely not try this at home because if you’ve ever cooked before, you know that even a few drops of water in hot oil will send it spluttering everywhere, but hey, at least know that if you ever wanted deep fried water, it is possible to get some.

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