The Backyard Scientist put some high voltage to a fruit and got lots of pink mist and over a million views in return. Success!
“After trying to blow up a watermelon with a smaller capacitor, my friend coyt brought over 4 capacitors rated at 20kv and 25uf each. They came from a lab that used to them to simulate the effects of lightning on materials, so this is basically like what would happen if a lightning bolt struck a watermelon!”
