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What happens in the early stages of jet impingement quenching, when the surface temperature remains well above the thermodynamic limiting temperature for stable solid–liquid contact, is not clearly understood yet. The footage of the boiling and flow phenomena of this period of quenching reveals that the jet impacts on the surface due to hydrodynamic force and immediately splashes away violently, because of explosive boiling or boiling explosion that leaves the surface dry again. It is speculated that, a repetition of wetting and drying of the surface continues until the surface is cooled enough down to allow stable solid–liquid contact. However, neither high speed visual observation nor temperature measurement can help us to find out any concrete and quantitative explanation of the above mentioned wetting and drying phenomena of the surface as it takes place within a very short time. In the present study, we …