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Registered: 07-31-08 | If you tap on the top of a shaken soda can, does it help? |
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Registered: 06-30-07 | No, I'm afraid not. Or I would have had less to clean today after my 7 year old had a soda. |
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Registered: 06-12-08 | yes it does help, and the reason it does is because when you tap on the top you knock the bubbles off the top of the can and allow the gas to ecsape without pushing soda bubbles out of the pop top. |
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Registered: 08-01-08 | this question has waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to many variables |
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Registered: 07-27-08 | It would depend if the soda is in a can or a bottle. |
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Registered: 08-19-08 | This MYTH drives me nuts. I see people taping on the top of the can all the time and there is no way this can work. The CO2 is in the fluid in the can the only way it would help is if you could bleed off some gas. The can is air tight. I wish they would bust this one. |
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Registered: 08-19-08 | i do not think it would make it on the show though because it might not intrist everyone |
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Registered: 08-19-08 | You must ask yourself "what does waiting 5 minutes do to a can that is shook?" It releases/dissolves the CO2(fizz) back into the soda as a liquid. I think the tapping may disrupt or pop bubbles in order to speed up this process. It would infact, be nice to see a clear soda cylinder to see what happens. |
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Registered: 08-19-08 | mabe you should try it |
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Registered: 07-27-08 | It might have to do with the type of soda. |
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Registered: 08-20-08 | I don't know if that works but I do know slightly opening the can/bottle works |
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Registered: 09-07-08 | In my experience it has worked, but I think it is mostly a 'feel-good' thing or a 'just-to-be-safe' precaution. |
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Registered: 02-15-08 | |
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Registered: 09-12-08 | I have found this works. it only works with soda cans (I have had no luck with bottles)and I would love to find out why. |
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Registered: 01-21-07 | I'm not sure if this is a fact but this is my opinion. When you shake up a can the bubbles increase and therefore increase the pressure. But when you tap on the top all the bubbles move to the top and come out as just air |
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Registered: 01-01-08 | I would like to see this myth addressed on the show. I do it out of habit, EVERY TIME I open a can of soda, if it has been recently shaken/tranported or not. I would also like to see if it works the same with 2 liter bottles, because in my experience, nothing seems to help a 2 liter bottle from foaming out the top, unless you do a really slow release of gas. |
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Registered: 11-27-08 | The only reason it appears to work is that in the time that you take to tap the top the carbonation settles down, think about it where does the gas escape to? NOWHERE!!! If you just open it it releases and spills it does not matter! |
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Registered: 11-27-08 | This is one of the pranks described in Penn and Teller's "playing in traffic".
It works because the pop has time to settle. Invariably when people see me tapping a can as if it does something, they open it prematurely. (Presumably because they know the other half of the gag: you get better spray if you squeeze the can.) |
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Registered: 04-18-10 | I wonder if the soda can has a different affect if the can is larger or smaller, depending on the ammount of "taps". I have tried before and it works for sure but I wish the Mythbusters could look at this a little bit closer. |
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Registered: 04-09-09 | Maybe it is anecdotal, but my uncle told me about it when I was ten. Going on fifty-four years now, and I have never had a can spew, and I tap every can. |
