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I made indigo in a previous video, but it was almost insoluble in water. So, what I'm going to do, is chemically modify it to make it soluble. This new dye is called indigo carmine, and it's commonly used in foods, in both Europe and North America.
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Not gonna lie, I find the idea that you can't cook very funny. I love cooking/baking because it's the only chemistry I do that isn't dangerous XD
I could see Nile making it dangerous. 😂
The only chemistry I do is FPS chemistry. (Testing what my FPS is on different games)
@@nodnarbthegreatest That's not chemistry. That's computer science.
*lights kitchen on fire*
Watching his videos, he definitely can cook. He just doesn't know it.
All chem is edible chem if you're brave enough.
Stef2 OK try to replace you table salt by mercury salt
Ant0ine64 xD
hay... he said nothing about *living* he just said you could eat it
It depends on how you define the term "edible" Which normally means things that you would put in your mouth, and it won't make you sick or die. Which normally would get rid of a lot of chemicals from the entire list. But due to the principle of "Dose", you can technically eat every single chemical in this world, like one molecule of it, and not suffer any major consequences from it So.... not only if you are brave enough, you can also be very smart... sort of smart atleast...
Quoting the late Terry Pratchett: "All mushrooms are edible. Some mushrooms are only edible once"
The final yield of the scrambled egg was about 50% The theoretical maximum is 100%
Holy shit us ur pfp chaotic?? That takes me back
@@fardinmahid3881 I thought I was the only one who remembered that show!
I love how calmly and neutrally he describes how grossed out he was
That is the normal human behaviour. No need to exaggerate things, even on video. In contrast, I really hate the youtubers who just constantly scream and shout about everything they feel. OMG This milk is SOOOOO FLIPPIN' GOOOOD!
@@diynevala I would not be THIS calm and neutral, though. It's just... Eurgh
@@mimisezlol when you say "Eurgh" what do you mean by that? i'm not trying to be mean or witty it's just a question.
@@unoreverse-qe5dkits a common exclamation used to convey cringe or disgust sounding somewhat like a groan, though the spelling they used is uncommon. It would normally be *ugh* but it seems they changed it to specifically convey disgust to show their discomfort. :)
Where's the HAM? that's all you needed! You had the Green Eggs...
Seuss FTW
wizkid723 miss opportunity there
"As usual I forgot to put the ham in the shot, so you'll just have to pretend it's there"
"❤Sam-I-Am Sempai..." (😂🤣😅😆😂😄)
I thought the exact same thing! Lol I'm surprised he didn't mention it. Maybe Dr. Seuss isn't as popular in 🇨🇦?
I remember watching these videos when you first started and thinking 'wow I want to be a chemist' Then I got to college and took organic chem and now I study finance
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19:05 Its a natural instinct. Blue (especially light blue) nearly never means food in nature, instead it means mould/decay and other unpleasant things. This is also why car coolants are often blue. It doesnt help that the food took on the exact hue of blue usually associated with mould. Funnily enough our instincts run in the opposite direction when it comes to orange/reds, cuz those usually mean ripe, sweet fruit.
Have you thought about getting a microscope for some extreme close ups of some of the crystals and products you end up with? I'd really like to see them.
Electron microscope on green eggs.
I haven't even thought about the lack of microscopes, but now that you've pointed it out, it's an appalling oversight amid all his other equipment.
I died laughing when you mentioned the toaster tutorial 😂
TheGinginator14 same
RIP in Peace TheGinginator14 ?¿?¿ - 2018 Died laughing at a toaster
Mars is bright tonight.
Cooking chemistry tip: Don't salt your eggs until after you've cooked them. You'll get better texture.
A KZhead tutorial told me to salt it just before! Lol
Well, Gordon Ramsay says to salt after cooking. I've personally found that it doesn't quite taste as well, though and I always salt it before cooking.
As a cook, if you're going to salt eggs, do so right before they go on to cook if you are following a batch recipe (like when you're making them in an industrial kitchen, like a cafeteria or hospital) but, when making them individually, salt them afterwards. In the former case, consistancy matters more, and with a large batch method properly seasoning all the eggs individually isn't going to be easy, either; the process of cooking large batches of eggs in industrial kitchens differs anyways, usually involving an oven and a deep tray. When making them individually, you want to salt them afterwards so that the salt doesn't interfere with the protein bonding and allows it to bond properly, creating a firmer texture, rather than a soggy one. Some people prefer to mix in the salt beforehand because they actually prefer the softer, mushy texture, or because they prefer to have the salt mixed in consistantly rather than simply sprinkled on top. For the latter case, I'd rather recommend sprinkling salt on when the topmost layer is just about to finish congealing, so you get overall firmer eggs with a more consistant saltiness throughout.
Alton Brown taught me to add the salt right before they go on the heat for the same reason the above comment lists.
I prefer the uneven flavor that happens when you salt cooked food, but cooking with salt will result in a smoother flavor and texture.
18:05 “I actually have no idea how safe it is to eat its thermal degradation products... In any case, I added the eggs” 😂 ARE YOU OK??
"Making an edible blue dye" e a t m y s h o r t s .
19:30 that's why when Heinz came out with purple and green ketchup, it failed. The green I couldn't do, but lived the purple, go figure. It has to do with the psychosomatic reflex, and how humans are program to avoid bad food. This is also why when LED lights first came out a lot of restaurants had the swamp back to incandescent bulbs because of the color change of the food making people angrier and disliking their food even though it's the same exact dishes they always eat color perception plays a huge part in our lives
tek413 How deep are green eggs to you?
and why Sarafem for PMS is just Prozac (fluoxetine, for depression) repackaged into a tiny pink pill edit: also the name is a play on "Seraphim" which means "angels"
Looking at the purple Cadbury's packaging while eating the chocolate makes it taste better.
Nicely explained. As a chef, I can attest to the fact that food is seen as more appealing under warmer tones of light. I once ran experiment with store bought food similar to what would have been found in a 90/00s high school cafeteria. Using the same cream colored plates and light blue tablecloth, the food was voted as more appealing in the photos taken under incandescent, warm LED and halogen bulbs VS the florescent and white/daylight LED. Oddly enough, people even preferred stage lighting (filter gels of either cool or warm colors) to the florescent lighting. School lunches were horrible, but the schools could have quelled a LOT of the disdain simply by changing the lighting for the cafeteria.
neat! I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me, though - I've never had an issue with oddly colored food, despite being a super picky eater, and I've never noticed lighting when eating. this may be that I've had to eat 'off' food in my life and not get sick from it when growing up, so maybe I literally trained it out of me. I tend to rely more on my sense of smell and taste when eating, so... man, brains are weird.
In one of Oliver Sacks' books, he describes the case of a man who was in a car accident and sustained an extremely rare brain injury. It caused a lesion in a particular place in his brain, resulting in total loss of color vision. He saw everything in monochrome. One of the things he mentioned was a consequence of that was that it became very difficult for him to eat. He saw most food as black, and it disgusted him. We're quite sensitive to both the appearance and the context of the things we eat. Almost none of the subjective experience of taste we have is driven by objective factors. It was originally thought that we kind of lied to ourselves about our taste experience, that we would make up stories we told ourselves about how we felt about the things we ate, and that explained why professional sommeliers will drink the same wine out of a paper cup and out of a wine glass and describe them as tasting like completely different wines. But, then they did more research. It turns out, they weren't lying. fMRI brain scans showed gigantic differences in the parts of the brain that register taste. Things literally taste different based on seemingly irrelevant details like how expensive we think something is, how we think it is going to taste beforehand, etc.
easier study, ask any kid to identify which glass of water came from the bathroom faucet and which came from the kitchen one.
Thats surprisingly interesting
I remember my mother picked up someone's else's cup at a party accidentally, took an absent-minded sip, then spat it out, yelling "What the hell is wrong with this water??" It was Sprite.
@@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice i mean water and sprite have two different tastes. i too would spit out my water if it tasted like my second favorite drink.
I feel like that is still kind of us telling ourselves a story, it’s just a more complicated one that we don’t realize we’re doing. Like, what I mean is that the wine is stimulating the same taste buds in the same exact way both times, and it’s not until it gets to our brain that it decides it must taste different. It’s kinda like the taste equivalent of those chess board illusions where a square in shadow and a square out of shadow are the same color despite looking different, we’re not literally seeing it be darker, our cone cells are receiving the same photons, but our brains are interpreting it based on our understanding of shadows and color to make us think that must be different
Rewatching this 5 years later: I'm so glad you leave in your mistakes and discovery process. It's really important and entertaining to see what real chemistry is like.
18:57 wait... I think I can hear Gordon Ramsay crying.
So much drying. I didn't expect you to be bad at cooking, considering you have to be good at temperature control.
He's probably better at cooking than he says he is
I mean I bet he's good at "cooking"
Cooking is just organic chemistry after all.
he need to cook on a hotplate with magnetic stirring
Benjamin Miller organic/inorganic Don't forget all the salts :)
All the coolest chemistry is illegal. Drug synthesis is pretty cool but restricted for obvious reasons. Explosives are REALLY cool, and again for obvious reasons restricted. But damn Nile you bring to the table some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen that I may be able to do myself. Thanks for all of your hard work and congratulations on your new lab!
DoingStupidStuff explosives are kinda boring, they just explode.... Drug chenistry and ghetto tips and tricks are the best tho
Maybe you only see it as cool because it's illegal.
Wolfin Maybe it is illegal because its so cool
@The Chemical Workshop: If you think explosive chemistry is boring. try reading up on compounds like hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane.
Benjamin Miller that's unrealistically cool unfortunately.
This video is the living embodiment of "You eat first with your eyes." I don't think I could've gagged those eggs down. Props to you for managing even one bite.
NileRed: *chem officianado* also NileRed: "I'm not very good at cooking."
I've actually wondered why water doesn't quickly wash the indigo dye from blue jeans. Now I know :)
HOW COULD YOU NOT MAKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM WITH THIS!!!
HE WAS RIGHT THERE!!!
I haven't encountered wherever the meme comes from, so for clarification, does the green eggs and ham thing mean (green eggs) and ham or green (eggs and ham), because if it's the latter, then he would need to dye ham
Late response, but it's a Dr Guess@@Anonymous-df8it
@@Anonymous-df8itIt comes from a Dr Seuss book. Both the eggs and ham are green in the illustration on the cover.
I like how you ended up explaining in your usual way how to make a breakfast
>"I'm also horrible at cooking" >Spend most of his time cooking some grade A chems yeah
For future, cook scrambled eggs slowly on low heat to get a better consistency 😜
Anyone else wondering why this is the top comment?💀
@@brookepalmer5729 kinda? Only cus you said something tho
Depends on if you want American or European style eggs
Cook on medium while constantly whisking with a wooden fork
@@rustyshackleford1910 a year late but- *yall have wooden forks??*
Right away, before even watching the actual video: I absolutely love your series on pigments and dyes!
Thanks!
Cooking is also kind of chemistry as well
19:04 dude seriously those eggs look rotten but without the smell 🤣🤣🤣 guess I'm not eating eggs for a while 😂😂🤔
I like literally stopped eating my food to see this video
Txryllest I like literally stopped saying "like" when I was 10
same
Why not just watch it while you eat it?
For non-iodized salt I buy kosher salt or rock/ice cream salt. They're typically readily available.
A lot of places are only selling iodized salts in general, these days, unfortunately. Iodized sea salt, table salt, coarse salt. You generally have to go to a superstore if you want to find anything else.
Kosher salt is in my regular grocery store.
Never thought I would see "edible" and "methanol" in the same video...
I find it interesting how the blue dye makes it really easy to see how easily the materials in use end up getting spilled, spattered, smeared, dripped, etc.
you did the chemical stop light!! i love your explanation :-) also, thanks for keeping the troublesome synthesis. chemistry is really beautiful that way.
Kosher salt isn't iodized, and easy to find.
@@trashgarbage7234 so it's more like koshering salt
Maybe kosher salt has other chemicals that he didnt want or need who knows
Dakota Blaylock No? Kosher salt is just regular salt, it just has a bigger grain size.
@@olpizl kosher salt is apparently less salty than regular table salt
@@dewybunny kosher salt doesn't have iodine like table salt dose its actually more pure or salty
You really missed out on not serving your eggs with a side of ham, Nile-I-Am
I, for one, would love to see some videos where you do two passes; the first where you learn the pitfalls, and the second where you do a more polished version. It would be cool to see how the yield improves once you apply what you learned from the first attempt.
Can: Make edible indigo Turn diamonds into soda water Make homemade uranium glass Can't: Cook scrambled eggs
this wouldnt be a NileRed video if he didnt spill something.
I think the video should be re-titled to "Indigo: The Filtering". Haha. Always glad you include the 'mistakes' and showing the real path to experiments. Love the videos, man.
The number of times I've accidentally made my eggs vibrant blue because they've come into contact with red cabbage.
I’m so excited to see another NileRed video! Congrats on the new lab! Glad to see your videos becoming even more professional (if that’s possible).
I think it is great that you don't make a polished version without all the issues you run into. I want to get into chemistry and seeing it being practiced, with the issues and how to work around them, is really making it more interesting to me as does it help me pick stuff up. Seems to be a lot of cool "tricks" also that you don't get taught in grade school but that people into chemistry knows =). Great channel!
this is bringing a new meaning to "eat my shorts"
The color altered your EGGspectations... Thank you for your wonderful chemistry videos, I watch all of them as soon as I see they are uploaded and have time. Keep 'em coming!
You're my favorite chemistry teacher by far, but I'll take my kitchen classes from another instructor. Thank you.
I laughed until I cried when you were describing trying to eat that at the end 😂
Wow, your video quality has improved significantly. Both audio and video. I'm loving it.
Well done, Nile. This is yet another intensively educative video. I admire you for your ability to choose interesting topics as hybrids of educative approach and just cool stuff.
Green Eggs and Ham Book by Dr. Seuss
But there's no ham here, just blue toast. Maybe that's why the guy was reluctant on trying it.
For good scrambled eggs, use butter, and season them after they're cooked. Adding salt to them can cause the end result to be watery. Also, when you take them out of the pan, add some creme fraice or some cheese (basically something cold) to stop it from getting overcooked.
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i like when videos show problems that pop up or mistakes, i admire the people who include that in their videos because not many people do that.
Good thing you didn't decide to make waffles!😂
I tried to make purple scrambled eggs once and they ended up GRAY. They looked like wet shredded newspaper. They tasted the same, but the color was definitely off-putting.
Seeing your mostly green eggs made me really nostalgic because when I was a kid my family used to love Dr. Seuss so every year on his birthday my mom would make us green eggs and ham for breakfast
Watched this over lunch, and I'm definitely glad the video was long enough that I'd finished eating by the time the "product" was ready!
19:08 ''I think it just altered my EGGSpectations...''
Moldy toasts with scrambled lung mucus. Yum. Hahahahaha
i love your videos a lot! not only do you have some really interesting content, your voice is also very soothing
I love how your channel is so "breadth first" in computer science speak, where you explore the space of educational reactions somewhat all over the map. Sometimes the videos have a semi sequential ordering, such as making precursors, as in this excellent video. In this case, can I request what I think might be a first for your channel? Please post the video of you reattempting the synthesis using what you learned from this run. I agree that your reason for posting the video is you are capturing the essence of laboratory experimentation. Repeating the procedure with different details is itself educational for the audience. Thanks for your channel! About the thermal breakdown products. Since it's Blue 2, it would be really interesting to know more about what happens if you heat dyed food, like cereal made into butter cookie bars. (E.g., "Rice Crispie Treats")
“Was the surgery successfully?” “Yes but we have a question.” “What is it?” “Why was your stomach blue?”
"When I was done looking at it" YES the whole point of playing with a dye is the observation of the colour! And it is indeed mesmerising!
Aw man, where was this video when I was teaching about electrophilic aromatic substitution last week? Awesome job!
Why did I think of green eggs and ham when he made the breakfast? Amazing vido as always, keep up the great work!
Chemistry based on a single forum post. Sketchy.
Well, he knows what he is working with and his theoretic knowledge probably tells him that it's supposed to work, so it's not that sketchy. Researchers do experiment based on their theories, not even post forums :P
The thought just always brings to mind 4chan's "DIY crystals" post
Ehhh, he knew the product, he knew the base materials, so he knew the general steps involved in producing what he wanted. The forum post was basically just a "this is what I know to corroborate with what you know" deal.
Even a hobbyist with a little chemistry experience knows exactly what 4chans crystal recipe actually makes, so surely anyone with more advanced chemistry knowledge has a similar sense for more advanced forum posts.
❤❤ Thanks for loving my last comment on the lead sponge vid!
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I was having my lunch watching this. And at the end of the video, I am glad that I finish my meal before the video end lol.
Absolutely LOVE the ending!
Hey Nile! I wanted to ask you one thing... A week ago I mixed vinegar, water and sodium bicarbonate to try to create sodium acetate. I mixed them up and it strangely turned red. It smelled like wine. After letting it sit for about 3 hours, I boiled it off. It turned out like a thick brown liquid, that smelled disgusting. I let it sit and some strange patina came out on the surface. I put it in the microwave for like 2 minutes and it all became some kind of pinkish hard powder. I powderized it with a spoon, and it became a fine pink powder. I thought that being sodium acetate with some kind of impurities, and wanted to wash it off, but I didn't really know how. I wanted to use rubbing alcohol but I can't find it here in Italy. I let the powder sit for a few days and it became liquid again, just like before the microwave. I think it absorbs humidity well. Was that sodium acetate? Thank you!
You missed the perfect opportunity to add ham to your breakfast! Green eggs and ham!
19:07 "I think it just altered my egg-xpectations of what it would taste like"
Totally agree of showing when things don't go perfectly. I much prefer those as I know that there are challenges that exist and not as easy as shown.
some high quality disgusting blue food cinematography :D I loved it
Colors and appearances are super important in food... even more than the smell and taste
Yeah, no. Color and appearance are important, but to say more so than smell or taste is just flat wrong.
How things look is the most important, then smell, before you ever try anything... I'm a chef and so to get someone to the awesome taste, you must make it look pretty for pics and smell is second
Chef or not you are objectively wrong and you live in a fantasy world.
VGMajor when you order food... you look at the pictures in the menu right? Not saying the word descriptions aren't important but statistically the things that get ordered more are the ones that have pictures...you can't smell or taste those...
@@Drummerchef13 you said that visual perception is more important than smell or taste when it comes to food, which is wrong. If you had said that visual perception is more important when it comes to getting people to order food or consider eating it, then that would have been a different statement. But you didn't say that, so youre original comment is incorrect.
11:27 exactly. your videos really brought that to my attention more than a semester of lab work did. i particularly enjoyed it during this video. got the product, and its all salty, like wtf! "ok, fine, lets wash it in... methanol?" ... "ok, methanol wasnt the right choice." "neither was using a vacuum filter, it seems. "
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>Considers tasting diabetic friend's urine >Eats product made from own urine >Nauseous from blue eggs Oh Nile. I love you.
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Oh baby I hear the blues a callin, Nile Red making scrambled eggs. Have mercy!
2:54 I don't think so. Sulfonation is generally quite difficult to do, let alone disulfonation at 90°C without oleum. Even if it occoured, there would be a nearly undetectable amount. I would be more concerned about the orto isomer (orto to the nitrogen of the amine, of course). Sulfonate group is quite bulky and therefore para is more favoured, but with heating the kinetic of the reaction becomes really messy and weird things happen. I'll see later in the video though.
Is it just me or it looks like it's moving when I move my phone at 13:00
Scrambled egg cooking tip. Heat until the bottom layer just starts to solidify. Then stir by poking the edge of the flat forward into your eggs like you would to loosen a stuck meat product. Only stir enough to churn everything around, give it a few seconds and repeat. This will produce fluffy scrambled eggs very quickly.
Have you ever considered doing a video on isolating alkaloids and other compounds from plants? I'd love to see Paclitaxel isolated from yew seeds or digitalis isolated from foxglove.
Why does the indigo carmine powder at 12:56 have that brown-shiny tint? (I noticed the same effect when synthesizing Rhodamine B, but it had a golden tint)
My theory would be some impurities that floated to the surface that then oxidised or crystallised to give that colour
wilkins1952 actually pure, so it crystalized. thats how the crystals reflect or break light and give them their shine
same with pure crystal violett. looks bronze to green
wilkins1952 Could be.I found it was quite an interesting coincidence that the shiny tint appeared in both cases only at the end of the synthesis (In my case, I left the Rhodamine B for an hour to cool down after the reaction, but there was no golden tint even though it was solid and unpurified).
CSGO Clips So it's just a light effect?That would make sense...
Earth: gets nuked NileRed (setting up timelapse) haha this is great
Blue Eggs and Toast, my favorite Dr. Seuss book!
Just an idea for a video is to go over the concept of "seed crystals" and how they are produced and made... you see it all the time in chemistry write-ups but rarely do they go into much detail about how the seed crystal was obtained. Also Oxalyl Chloride would be interesting to a lot of us still.
Can you make a Video: How make you your videos?
I might do that
Maybe make you your English first =D
HEY NILE :)
Hello
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I found a food dehydrator works pretty well for drying stuff in petri dishes. It has a bottom fan with so there is no danger of blowing the dried material off.
In regards to the color changed food seeming inedible there are quite a few shows and papers on the topic. Yay psychology!
your voice sounds different
You are a biochemist, why the hell do you use margarine to cook and or eat!?
Seba Manriquez have you seen the video where he makes his own "margarine" then eats it?
I like the history behind it, basically invented for the French army and labourers so the aristocracy could keep all the real butter for themselves. Plus they needed something that wouldn't spoil and spread easily in the field.
Absolutely true, I repeated this part few times to understand correctly, why the hell didn't he colorize usual butter
how are you guys regular viewers of him but still this ignorant about margarine
because higher education actually makes people less susceptible to fear mongering. You cn't scare someone by talking about how margarine is "loaded with chemicals" or anything like that, when they know that statements like that are just as descriptive as saying it's made of matter.
Non-iodized table salt is easy to find. It's commonly labeled 'pickling salt'.
Bart Simpson: eat my shorts Nile Red: hold my chemicals
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Is there a problem with NordVPN?
JuryDutySummons no but your attitude is
Jet Addict yuh like wth i just said i got the ad..
NO! Don't add salt BEFORE you cook the eggs you savage! The salt ions denature the proteins in the egg before you even cook it. The proteins coagulate even more strongly than just cooking them and give you a tighter, tougher protein network that squeezes out any water, making it dry and hard and gross.
REBEL!!! NOW!!
I've been looking for a not sketchy VPN service, thanks mate.
I don’t know why I was expecting this video to be different since all of your videos are so complex