{"id":5996,"date":"2017-01-29T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2017-01-29T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:12:26","slug":"red-hot-steel-vs-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/red-hot-steel-vs-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What Happens When You Drop 20 Kilograms of Red Hot Steel onto a Frozen Lake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know those videos which are strangely satisfying to watch, even though you don&#8217;t really know why? Y&#8217;know, like <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/hot-ball-on-floral-foam\/\">melting floral foam<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/chameleon-popping-bubbles\/\">chameleons popping bubbles<\/a>? Well, we&#8217;ve got another one for you today.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/man-trolls-boxing-ppv-providers\/\">YouTube<\/a> creators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw\/videos\">Hydraulic Press Channel<\/a>, have made a name for themselves on social media for their increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/cash-me-outside-girl-is-going-back-onto-dr-phil\/\">crazy<\/a> videos, where they&#8217;re seen melting things with red hot steel objects. But one of their latest videos has really got people talking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/red-holt-steel-vs-ice-1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5997\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/red-hot-steel-vs-ice-1.png\" alt=\"red hot steel vs ice 1\" width=\"750\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In it, we see the YouTubers heating up a 20k block of steel until it is red hot, and then placing it on a frozen lake in order to see how long it takes to sear through the ice. The result is surprisingly satisfying, and not what I expected!.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/red-hot-steel-vs-ice-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5998\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/red-hot-steel-vs-ice-2.png\" alt=\"red hot steel vs ice 2\" width=\"750\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the crazy video below. 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The Finnish YouTube creators, Hydraulic Press Channel, have made a name for themselves on social media for their increasingly crazy videos,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1966,1973,1975,1976,1977,3438],"class_list":{"0":"post-5996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-hydraulic-press","9":"tag-ice","10":"tag-ice-fishing","11":"tag-ice-melt","12":"tag-ice-vs-steel","13":"tag-steel-weight","14":"post_format-post-format-video"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This is What Happens When You Drop 20 Kilograms of Red Hot Steel onto a Frozen Lake! - Daily Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/red-hot-steel-vs-ice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This is What Happens When You Drop 20 Kilograms of Red Hot Steel onto a Frozen Lake!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You know those videos which are strangely satisfying to watch, even though you don&#8217;t really know why? 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