The behavior of the jet recoil of boiling water discharging through a short cylindrical nozzle into the atmosphere and jet shape under high and limit superheating was experimentally studied. There was a complete breakup of the jet under both the realization of intensive heterogeneous nucleation (explosive boiling-up) in the flow and the presence of an adjacent plane behind the nozzle outlet. The complete jet breakup was accompanied by a sharp decrease of the jet recoil (the crisis of the recoil force). An explanation of the observed phenomena was given with the involvement of the Coanda effect. In both the transient regimes of boiling-up and the transition to the complete jet breakup 1/f fluctuations were observed. They pointed to the instability and possibility of large-scale outburst in the flow. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.