Dropped my phone in melted goat fat, will it fail to work?

[dessiato]

I was just eating some tapas of deep fried goat, which was swimming in melted goats fat, and dropped my mobile in it. I got it out very quickly, and have cleaned off as much as possible. The phone is working, seemingly, normally.

Is it likely that my phone will fail?

 

[Pickman's model]

yes

 

[dessiato]

yes

How soon, do you think? It seems fine at the moment, and I got out as much fat as I could.

 

[Fez909]

 

[dessiato]

That's not very helpful. But I suppose it is typical of the sort of accident only I could have.

 

[Voley]

Early contender for thread title of the year.

 

[DotCommunist]

Wolves will steal it

 

[Fez909]

That's not very helpful. But I suppose it is typical of the sort of accident only I could have.

I'm sorry.

I know it would be extremely annoying had this happened to me. And it's not even the act that I was laughing at. Just the thread title is pure comedy.

I think your phone will be OK, for what it's worth. Fingers crossed for you

 

[Pickman's model]

How soon, do you think? It seems fine at the moment, and I got out as much fat as I could.

it will deteriorate over time

 

[Addy]

Get a tin of Isopropyl alcohol.
Take the battery out and squirt the alcohol into the phone and allow it to rinse the fat out.
Leave for 12 hrs to allow for the alcohol to fully evaporate then reassemble the phone.

 

[dessiato]

I've got some ethanol, I guess that would work as well as propan-1-ol

 

[Ax^]

Did you not also burn your hand fishing it out of the goat fat

 

[dessiato]

Did you not also burn your hand fishing it out of the goat fat

No, I used a fork.

 

[Mumbles274]

are you kidding?

 

[Treacle Toes]

You clearly just wanted to show off the fact that you have been eating Tapas...

 

[dessiato]

You clearly just wanted to show off the fact that you have been eating Tapas...

I live in Spain, tapas is the norm for me in the evening. At least I didn't drop it in my beer. And I'd eaten most of the goat.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I live in Spain, tapas is the norm for me in the evening. At least I didn't drop it in my beer. And I'd eaten most of the goat.

See!

 

[DotCommunist]

dropping my phone in the tapas is one of them things that really gets my goat

 

[dessiato]

Dropping my phone in the tapas is one of them those things that really gets my goat

Corrected for you.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

No, I used a fork.

I was sure you were going to say you'd taken it out with your hand, and found that rather than goat fat it was actually napalm. And then the restaurant exploded.

 

[Fez909]

droppin me fone in tapaz is 1 ov dem fings dat really get's me goat

 

[kittyP]

You didn't burn your penis trying to retrieve the phone?

Or am confusing you with another urb?

 

[dessiato]

You didn't burn your penis trying to retrieve the phone?

Or am confusing you with another urb?

Last time I burned my penis was with a cigarette, and the time before that was with the hairdryer. So it might have been me.

 

[kittyP]

Last time I burned my penis was with a cigarette, and the time before that was with the hairdryer. So it might have been me.

Yes it was you I was thinking of then

 

[dessiato]

I would like to thank Addy for the only useful answer on this thread.

 

[Mumbles274]

"i'm just disappointed there aren't enough goat based puns that this thread deserves".. he said gruffly

 

[Pickman's model]

Get a tin of Isopropyl alcohol.
Take the battery out and squirt the alcohol into the phone and allow it to rinse the fat out.
Leave for 12 hrs to allow for the alcohol to fully evaporate then reassemble the phone.

or if you're cheap pour vodka on it

 

[Mumbles274]

you have got to be some sort of jerk though

 

[twentythreedom]

How is it dessiato - working ok? It's gonna fucking honk for a while though

 

[8ball]

Was the value of your phone perceptible in the goat?