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| Ram Babu dips his hands into boiling oil a thousand times a day without every getting hurt. (video below) |
November 17, 2015, NewCrunch
A roadside vendor in Allahabad, Ram Babu, deep fries pakoras and lifts them off boiling oil with bare hands.
People throng to see him plucking pakoras directly from the hot frying cauldron without suffering any burn.
As he says in the video below boiling oil feels like water for him.
He also adds that the feat has given him an identity besides roaring business as many loyal customers swear that pakoras fried with bare hands taste better.
Ram Babu says he dips his hands into boiling oil a thousand times a day without every getting hurt. And he has been doing this for decades.
He says he discovered his unique capability quite accidentally. To save time, during a rush hour, he once picked the pakoras from oil with his hands, only to pull them out in panic.
He was surprised that he was not hurt and tried a reenactment tentatively with the same result. And as they say the rest is Allahabad history.
Local doctors have reportedly studied his act and taken samples of his skin. Their conclusion: There is nothing in Ram Babu that sets him aside from you and me.
While his feat is impressive, he is not the only one with this capability. A hotelier in Karol Bagh, Prem Kumar, has been documented deep frying fish with his bare hand for decades.