Exploding Ketchup

[WETWRKS]

Sorry but I had to laugh at this. If anything can go wrong with condements it probably has happened to me. In one trip to Wyoming and back I had something like 4 different things like this happen including having a 2 or 3 year old throw a glass bottle of ketchup and hit me in the back of the head with it. I wore ketchup at least twice that trip and had one flow out of a bottle like a volcano. Sat there and watched it flow most of the meal.

[Clint45]

The baking soda makes sense.

Only if it was done in the kitchen by an employee. That reaction takes place in about 60 seconds.

[Byte Stryke]

Only if it was done in the kitchen by an employee. That reaction takes place in about 60 seconds.

being the geek I am, if you place the baking soda in an open ended packet, open end up. The Process will not start until someone inverts the bottle.

party one sets it up, leaves the table. Wait staff cleans up the table and puts everything up. You come along, get the bottle and SHAKE IT, starting chemical process.

Seriously, subconsciously we always shake the condiment bottles.

[Guylee]

That is in no way absolutely hilarious and I am not laughing hysterically.

[battle_sight_zero]

being the geek I am, if you place the baking soda in an open ended packet, open end up. The Process will not start until someone inverts the bottle.

party one sets it up, leaves the table. Wait staff cleans up the table and puts everything up. You come along, get the bottle and SHAKE IT, starting chemical process.

Seriously, subconsciously we always shake the condiment bottles.

I appreciate jokes at work or by family members, but putting something in someones(someone you dont know) food before they eat is not cool. If that stuff would not have exploded my son may have ate it on his hamburger. Thinking about it now: watching the bottle expand in my hand for those seconds should have prompted me to toss it.

[SouthPaw]

The vinegar in the ketchup plus the baking soda makes a mess. Always check the salt, pepper, parm cheese lids, etc before shaking them on your food. Kids will put the lid on just enough so when you tip it over the lids falls off. Another thing they used to do in high school was put a bunch of salt in the parm cheese shaker. You can imagine what your pizza tasted like once you put it on your food.

This is probably a dumb question but did you shake the ketchup bottle and then it started to expand or were you handed an already expanding bottle? I am almost wondering if it was an employee there that did it.