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Why does adding oil to cooking water keep it from boiling over?

April 26, 2017boiling Cooking Oil water

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Why does adding oil to cooking water keep it from boiling over?

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) Root beer can also foam over if a scoop of ice cream is added, for essentially the same reason. The surface tension of the root beer is lowered by gums and proteins from the melting ice cream, and the CO2 outgassing from the root beer blows the foam.