Max Fosh Jet Engine Barbecue Sausage Sizzle, Digi Mart USA News: English YouTuber Max Fosh and Australian creator Alex Apollonov of I Did A Thing turned a homemade jet engine into a barbecue that charred four sausages in 32 seconds.
Fosh got the idea on a visit to Australia, where the sausage sizzle is close to a national institution. “They have them at Christmas, they have them at Easter, they even have them at funerals,” he says in the video, which has passed 2.1 million views since Nov. 1.
So he went to Apollonov, whose channel has already bolted homemade jet power to a boat and a swing. Apollonov’s engine is a pair of rust-brown steel tubes fed from a gas bottle, and it sits in his garage workshop.
Asked how dangerous it was to stand near, he answered, “It’s not that dangerous.”
The pair settled on two modifications. Welded steel “Wolverine claws” would hold sausages right in the exhaust, and a backup grill would sit on top of the hot chamber.
Fosh had a problem with the first part. “Never welded before in my life,” he said, so the plan gained a new step.
Apollonov’s crash course opened with, “If you do it wrong, you can die. But, you won’t.” Fosh’s edit points out the live sparks and a “highly flammable gas tank” a few feet away.
Testing it at home was off the table. “Police told me I cannot turn it on here ever again,” Apollonov said.
They strapped the engine into the bed of his black Ford Raptor pickup and drove it to a friend’s workshop in a quieter industrial area, where the first burst still brought a neighbor over to ask what was going on.
Their first real attempt launched sausages off the claws. The ones that stayed on barely warmed up, and a fresh gas bottle didn’t help.
The grill was no better, though the drum beneath it browned a few from the outside. “I would be very happy with that sausage if it wasn’t raw,” one of them said.
The fix came from getting closer to the fire. A sausage on a length of wire, tossed straight into the flames, came back nearly done.
Then they threaded four onto a long rod, pushed it inside the engine and pulled it out 32 seconds later.
The winning method was four sausages on a long steel rod, pulled back out of the engine. They came out black.
The verdict on the spot was, “Oh, perfectly cooked. Actually really nice on the inside.” Fosh agreed: “There is nothing wrong with that sausage.”
All that noise had drawn a crowd by then, so they opened for business, billing it as “the world’s first jet engine sausage sizzle.” Customers got free sausages on bread and an offer of earplugs. One sausage shot back out of the engine at the cook, and the sales pitch stayed honest to the end: “Might be some heavy metals in there though.”
