A 24-year-old German man experimenting with molecular gastronomy caused a large explosion that blew off one of his hands and left the other so badly damaged that it required amputation.
The young cook was using liquid nitrogen to prepare a dish at his girlfriend’s mother’s house in Stahnsdorf near Berlin, when he accidentally triggered the explosion. He was rushed to hospital, where he remains on artificial respiration in a critical condition.
He initially claimed that he was refilling a lighter, which might suggest that the liquid nitrogen was illegally obtained. His girlfriend, however, informed authorities that he had been using liquid nitrogen, and police recovered remnants of the flask that contained the chemical as a part of their investigation.
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[The Age]
