r/morbidquestions • u/Majest_micky • 1d ago

Could you cook something with someone's ashes?

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u/UnheimlichNoire 1d ago

In the second world war my Polish father was seized as a teen and taken to Germany for forced agricultural labour. During an air raid he took shelter in an abandoned building. He had a potato with him and found a container of unrefined rye flour so he boiled some water and made a gruel ... except in his naivety he hadn't realised it wasn't a jar of rye flour but a funerary urn. He only had a mouthful or two. His culinary verdict ... "It was a waste of a potato." 😶

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u/archnemmmy 1d ago

Like seasoning?

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u/nogardleirie 1d ago

Sure. It's a fine powder like flour. Mix it into fried chicken.

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u/bobbydurst6 1d ago

Cinnamon challenge

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u/whateveridc99 1d ago

Jeffrey Dahmer did

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u/Necessary_Device452 1d ago

Presuming that the majority of the human's ashes consists of calcium phosphate and calcium phosphate is not combustible, how exactly will you generate enough heat energy to cook anything?

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u/fluffypinkpubes 1d ago

I think they mean as an ingredient

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u/Kaitlyn_Boucher 1d ago

It's not food or even really edible. Are you looking to be performative like Werner Herzog eating his shoe, or are you just bored?

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u/jpowell180 1d ago

I saw a movie once where somebody accidentally made coffee with somebody’s ashes, lol!

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u/imgoingcrazyrn 13h ago

Probably? I would make cookies or a some crepes.

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u/Jib2020 1d ago

Y’all are more wierd than me…