kakteed
Pessimist
I'm still impressed her esophagus survived the dousing of liquid nitrogen. Instant frostbite! Then it gets to her stomach, and come on, children, what happens to a liquid when you heat it up? It expands. Really, really simple chemistry there.
What I *really* don't get is...why? Did no one else as a kid watch the nifty science experiment of someone taking a bouncy, rubber ball, dunking it in a tank of liquid N2, then shattering it? Nobody?
I did!
The article implies that she drank too much too quickly though, which makes me think that in each individual cocktail, there's only enough liquid nitrogen to create an interesting effect, not cause any sort of damage.
4laugh One time when I was at the science museum (my second home at childhood) and they performed that experiment, I got to keep a piece of the shattered rubber. At first it was too cold to touch, eventually I could, and I felt it go from a brittle shard into the normal rubber.
I don't know about the drink. Liquid N2 is really damn cold. It boils at -196 C. I do not want ANYTHING in my body that is either -196 C or +196 C. But I guess the 'allure', if you want to put it like that, is that it theoretically boils off so quickly that you get a cool vapor look, then a cold drink. Still not something I'm going to do. I remember those demonstrations way too well.