ELi5: does the soda can trick from better call saul actually work? If yes how does it work?
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After some incidents with a carbonized drink in a container, there are many tiny bubbles on the wall and bottom that are inside the liquid. There is also higher pressure inside than outside. When you open it, the pressure falls off and therefore the bubbles expand in size. This has two annoying effects:
– their increased size pushes the liquid higher,
– they dislodge and shoot upwards, spraying stuff around.
Hence the solution should be to get rid of those pesky bubbles _before_ you open the container. The suggested method is to turn it slowly, I guess, and that could work if done long enough. But this sounds not optimal. If you have a aluminium can, tapping all over it should work better. Vibrating the entire container should also help a lot (also makes some interesting excuses if you end up in hospitals due to… certain issues with soda bottles).
Simply waiting also helps, as many bubbles re-dissolve into the liquid over time. This even reduces the overall pressure as well. If you tun it long enough, this surely adds to it. Cooling should accelerate this process a bit, but it will still take time to dissolve; throwing it in ice and then immediately opening it won’t do much.
Regardless of what you do, reducing the pressure quickly also allows new bubbles to form, and if they do, you might be screwed after all. This depends on the exact state and might even be worse in an unshaken drink.
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