Theodore Gray revels in borderline catastrophic chemical reactions, at least when he's not building a wooden Periodic Table Table that has compartments filled with pure samples of each element (where possible). His latest sodium-fueled stunt? Salting popcorn by bubbling chlorine gas through liquid sodium. The smoke is pure, fresh table salt, but this is hardcore lab work, not like the relatively banal liquid-nitrogen ice cream.
I'm waiting for El Bulli or Alinea to replicate this as the molecular gastronomy equivalent to Cherries Jubilee.
via Ed
