My lemon juice barrel froze solid and now looks like a party balloon

    by Coffee81379

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    1. Paint it red and shoot it so it’ll explode. Problem solved

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    2. Ashestoashesjc on

      I wasn’t sure if lemon juice barrels were commonplace, but the comment section cleared that up. I wonder if the explanation will lean more geographic or occupational.

    3. This is way more than mildly interesting. Why do you have a 55 gallon drum of lemon juice??

    4. Questions…
      1. Why do you have a drum of lemon juice?
      2. Why is it sitting outside?
      3. How/why did it freeze?

    5. To the people wondering why OP has a giant barrel of lemon juice, I don’t know the answer, but I have an educated guess:

      Etching concrete or calcium rich stones. While most people don’t think of lemon juice as a very strong acid, it is absolutely acidic enough to etch the surface of things like some concrete and various stones.

      This will neutralize the citric acid relatively quickly, so it isn’t especially practical for, say, dissolving an entire concrete slab, but can be practical and safer for surface etching (partially dissolving the top layer of the concrete or stone).

      Alternatively, the lemon juice could obviously be used for more intuitive purposes, like making food and drinks, etc. I just lean towards a more obscure usage, due to it sitting outside in the grass during freezing temperatures. Plus, it may well have been cheaper or less prohibitive than buying a large portion of concentrated citric acid.

    6. >Frozen concentrate lemon juice. Product of Argentina

      So… your barrel (!!!) of already frozen concentrate lemon juice… froze again? I don’t get it.

      The contents were presumably already frozen so why did it bulge like that?

    7. If I ever get a fresh one I invite you all over and make lemonade for all of Reddit 😅

    8. idk what kind of giant canister-looking party balloons you buy but if you can get a giant barrel of lemon juice, then i’ll take your word for it.

    9. When your barrel full of body starts releasing gases before you’ve had a chance to bury it in a protected forest.

    10. Where are you from that A. You need and can purchase a whole barrel of lemon juice, and B. Thats what party balloons look like?

    11. v3bbkZif6TjGR38KmfyL on

      ITT a lot of peasants that apparently rent their lemon barrels and don’t own one themselves. 

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