Could mustard be used instead of thermal paste?

[rewdmister4]

So in conversation with some of my tech friends, I brought up how no matter how hot a hot dog is, the mustard always seems cold. Then we asked if mustard could be used as thermal paste on a CPU heat sink.

 

Edit: Effectivly used as thermal paste

Edited May 3, 2016 by rewdmister4
forgot to specify that

[clarkmcc]

Yes

[clarkmcc]

it could..

[berderder]

4 minutes ago, rewdmister4 said:

So in conversation with some of my tech friends, I brought up how no matter how hot a hot dog is, the mustard always seems cold. Then we asked if mustard could be used as thermal paste on a CPU heat sink.

Make sure you apply mayonnaise to the system fans to lock in the flavor. 

[DioOmicida]

Big Mac sauce works a little better. 

[drc00k3]

The reason mustard is always cold is because it is put on after the hot dog has been cooked so less heat will get to it. Mustard is probably not a good heat conductor so most of the heat will stay on the CPU. Although, anything canbe used as thermal paste just with varying levels of effectiveness.

[TetraSky]

Yes, but also no.
It will work temporarily, make your entire room smell like mustard and then it will harden up, no longer functioning as a "thermal paste".

[clarkmcc]

Technically speaking a more thermally conductive substance would be warm if it was on something warm. If mustard is always cold on a hot dog it doesn't conduct heat well enough.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

Cum is better.

Please do not do it, it would smell like shit

[DXMember]

could it? - yes

should it? - probably not

 

but if your reasoning is that mustard always stays cold, then by that property alone it would make mustard horrible at thermal paste job,

because the reason we use thermal paste is to increase the thermal conductivity, it's not supposed to cool things or insulate them - what you observed there with a hotdog shows insulating properties of mustard.

[Boobies Sprinkle]

Put some mc nuggets onto mustard and then apply it to the CPU. 

[samcool55]

Yeah you can, in the end the goal of thermal paste is transferring heat from A to B, and mustard can do that, it's probably horrible at it but you can.

Tooth paste is actually a decent ghetto thermal paste in an emergency.

[vanished]

Yes (see near the bottom)

 

You'll notice it is actually better than some commercial pastes (like, better than things that are actually designed to be thermal paste )

The thing is, it will probably not stand up well over time, unlike other pastes (I mean, just look how butter degraded 2 degrees in just 12 h)

I believe it is also acidic so it might slightly eat away at the metal over time.  Not good