Making American cheese to debunk a conspiracy

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

Комментарии • 26 тыс.

  • @mike.hawk_
    @mike.hawk_ Год назад +39073

    NileRed: I’ve filtered out the impurities 5 more times to make the solution as clean as possible
    NileBlue: Close enough lol

    • @LordPenguinVR
      @LordPenguinVR Год назад +411

      true

    • @olasharshar9025
      @olasharshar9025 Год назад +305

      100% true

    • @HanLengLiew
      @HanLengLiew Год назад +1399

      NileBlue is secretly NileRed's engineer alter ego

    • @RajikaAjit
      @RajikaAjit 11 месяцев назад +74

      He runs those both channels u know
      Edit: 70 likes? This is the highest I've got thx guys

    • @mrdoh450
      @mrdoh450 11 месяцев назад +260

      Well, all of the components were Safe to digest so its understandable that he would be more laid back

  • @nuqi
    @nuqi 11 месяцев назад +18283

    NileRed: Performs complex chemical reactions to turn plastic gloves into grape soda
    NileBlue: Takes two slices of cheese and calls it cheeseception

    • @Chocmilk1
      @Chocmilk1 11 месяцев назад +127

      First to reply. This guy might be famous. Idk

    • @ghettobrown209
      @ghettobrown209 11 месяцев назад +40

      CheeeeSheeeeeeesh

    • @AnimeSinister1
      @AnimeSinister1 11 месяцев назад +17

      Cheeseeeee

    • @mybirdsareangry1
      @mybirdsareangry1 11 месяцев назад +57

      @@Chocmilk1 Thank god im not chronically online.

    • @HayItsCJ
      @HayItsCJ 11 месяцев назад +9

      He took the blue pill that day

  • @jarredjones5454
    @jarredjones5454 11 месяцев назад +8919

    He makes cheese out of cheese
    "It just feels unnatural"
    The same man that made hot sauce out of plastic gloves and moonshine out of toilet paper

    • @austinwalden8295
      @austinwalden8295 11 месяцев назад +247

      He made grape soda out of gloves did he also make capsaicin?

    • @steveskouson9620
      @steveskouson9620 11 месяцев назад +178

      Carbonated water, with burnt diamonds.
      steve

    • @simonmarcu01
      @simonmarcu01 11 месяцев назад +69

      ​@@austinwalden8295he made capsaicin too, but I forgot the base object it came from

    • @felipesoto6378
      @felipesoto6378 11 месяцев назад +78

      Wdym, that was NileRed, totally different from NileBlue

    • @jonasholmstad9213
      @jonasholmstad9213 11 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@simonmarcu01think he made it a couple of ways

  • @beefe3194
    @beefe3194 15 дней назад +173

    When Nile said "or is it?" at the beginning 0:15, I heard the vsauce theme in my head.

  • @b_man-25
    @b_man-25 11 месяцев назад +19513

    NileRed: Turning plastic gloves into grape soda
    NileBlue: Turning cheese into cheese

    • @펭순이-t4r
      @펭순이-t4r 11 месяцев назад +64

      lol

    • @ramoth7333
      @ramoth7333 11 месяцев назад +146

      I was literally about to comment, "I thought that this was NileRed?" Lmao. Thank you for your comment.

    • @tarantulamadness6191
      @tarantulamadness6191 11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for the spoiler, fucker.

    • @johnshedIetsky
      @johnshedIetsky 11 месяцев назад

      @@ramoth7333poopy fart

    • @mercenary05
      @mercenary05 11 месяцев назад +192

      Turning cheese into "cheese"

  • @silverymoonthing
    @silverymoonthing 11 месяцев назад +8279

    i unironically love that this channel started as "chemical extractions and waste disposal" and is now well on its way to becoming "nigel learns how to cook"

    • @Shadowswolf9666
      @Shadowswolf9666 10 месяцев назад +243

      Binging With Nile

    • @jakilahmoulien9070
      @jakilahmoulien9070 10 месяцев назад +182

      @NileBlue should try making MSG to make uncle roger proud

    • @meechsanims
      @meechsanims 10 месяцев назад +41

      i thought you meant a different kind of cooking

    • @hydroxyl5130
      @hydroxyl5130 10 месяцев назад +27

      I love that his version of cooking science is all science

    • @korbindallas4552
      @korbindallas4552 10 месяцев назад +12

      IMO he's also becoming more Asian. Anyone else?

  • @Abrogator91
    @Abrogator91 11 месяцев назад +7194

    NileBlue: *has a chemistry lab that would make Walter White blush*
    Also NileBlue: *uses the least accurate scale known to man and a plastic spoon from sonic*

    • @TheRealJakeTremblay
      @TheRealJakeTremblay 11 месяцев назад +456

      And the dollar store / walmart cheese grater. Truly a beautiful insight into the world of fine cuisine.

    • @1tgb4yb25ub5ub
      @1tgb4yb25ub5ub 11 месяцев назад +127

      were chemists not rich people

    • @raijin7044
      @raijin7044 11 месяцев назад +141

      @@1tgb4yb25ub5ub Chemists always has a choice between being rich and being poor. One just has to know how to avoid the eyes if someone chooses the former

    • @Ebani
      @Ebani 11 месяцев назад

      @@raijin7044 Change the word chemists for people and you'll see how dumb your original argument is.

    • @420bongking
      @420bongking 11 месяцев назад

      also also nileblue: doesnt want to get exotic chemical poisoning from eating cheese he made in glassware thats held cyanide mercury and uranium

  • @Viewer4U
    @Viewer4U Месяц назад +35

    Before individually wrapped Kraft Singles, we had to peel a slice off a block of cheese. I recall it was tricky to get one slice without tearing it, so you would peel two or three, then separate them to single slices. One or tow for the sandwich, one directly in the pie hole.

    • @jeffreystreeter5381
      @jeffreystreeter5381 19 дней назад +1

      The pie hole. I thought I was the only one who used that term 😊

    • @xyrkzes
      @xyrkzes 11 дней назад +1

      I remember my parents accidentally got a different brand once and I remember it tasted like what I imagine rubber and cheap plastic would taste like, while also having a slightly waxy consistency. It was disgusting.

    • @JS-ol4dx
      @JS-ol4dx 8 дней назад

      ​@@xyrkzesyou aren't supposed to eat the wrapper

  • @justanotherfangirl8386
    @justanotherfangirl8386 Год назад +38081

    We've been graced with another slightly unhinged upload

    • @gillsejusbates6938
      @gillsejusbates6938 Год назад

      this is disgusting, had to put the video off in the first 10 seconds, americans eat that?

    • @spectoestis3106
      @spectoestis3106 Год назад +627

      "s l i g h t l y"

    • @Not0bito
      @Not0bito Год назад +54

      @@StacheOperator bro hahahahahaha

    • @strombreakr
      @strombreakr Год назад +75

      Only slightly?

    • @LordBloxy
      @LordBloxy Год назад +44

      ​@@StacheOperator we already know that it doesn't matter what profile picture they want it to be

  • @bloxor4483
    @bloxor4483 Год назад +6178

    “It feels unnatural.”
    -Same person who made grape soda from gloves.

    • @Th3BlackLotus
      @Th3BlackLotus Год назад +269

      Or cotton candy from cotton.

    • @mOki.i
      @mOki.i Год назад +180

      Or *more* soda from lead paint.

    • @jonas053
      @jonas053 Год назад +135

      Or cherry soda out of paint thinner. 🤣

    • @khuntasaurus88
      @khuntasaurus88 11 месяцев назад +68

      Those were NileRed not NileBlue

    • @setyourhandle-_
      @setyourhandle-_ 11 месяцев назад

      they're the same people
      @@khuntasaurus88

  • @Juice3521
    @Juice3521 Год назад +3488

    Fun fact: Sodium citrate is a common cooking ingredient and is often used for exactly this purpose - to make cheese sauces more cohesive and melty.

    • @Theepieguy
      @Theepieguy Год назад +150

      Yeah, I was wondering why it was such a nice sauce! I usually combine cheese with some flour and milk, and a little bit of water in different ratios to make a decent sauce but it's always way too thick. Gotta get me some Sodium Citrate (food safe)

    • @NicoNicoNekomancer
      @NicoNicoNekomancer Год назад +173

      its chemical formula (just on the elements) is also nacho

    • @breckr1121
      @breckr1121 Год назад +53

      Adam Ragusea made a video on it.

    • @rook9714
      @rook9714 Год назад +231

      ​@@Theepieguyeven funner fact, you can make sodium citrate in the pan by combining lemon juice (citric acid) and baking soda

    • @fierylightning3422
      @fierylightning3422 Год назад +137

      also fun fact, you can make sodium citrate at home! simply put lemon juice with baking soda (sodium bi/carbonate) and heat them up in a sauce pan, add any cheese/cream/milk mixture you want and now you have very smooth liquid/cream/sauce cheese!

  • @celsogaleno
    @celsogaleno 18 дней назад +28

    12:32 For the FIRST TIME in my life, I'm seeing someone holding a pan this wrong. It is not hard to see that NileRed is not into cooking.

  • @brapptv44
    @brapptv44 Год назад +1877

    nile pouring the cheese directly onto the sheet pan with no parchment paper really did it for me

    • @MaybeMari97
      @MaybeMari97 Год назад +268

      The sharp knife on the cookie sheet did it for me

    • @alantremonti1381
      @alantremonti1381 Год назад +49

      Was gonna say, watching him handle a knife was really something. @@MaybeMari97

    • @JE-nr6xw
      @JE-nr6xw Год назад +155

      the way that he poured it onto a cooking sheet instead of molding it into a block and slicing it is what did it for me

    • @MrHeroicDemon
      @MrHeroicDemon Год назад +113

      He used all his skill points into Chemistry.

    • @nanacue
      @nanacue Год назад +20

      god as a baker that really put it off for me 😭 NILE NOOOO

  • @moonwlf9679
    @moonwlf9679 11 месяцев назад +1168

    Nile red: your average chemistry channel
    Nile blue: your not so average cooking channel

    • @salviafiend7931
      @salviafiend7931 11 месяцев назад +19

      the way he gingerly pinches the lip of the pot for stability and it slides around anyways while he stirs when HE COULD JUST HOLD THE HANDLE OF THE POT

    • @WayStedYou
      @WayStedYou 11 месяцев назад

      almost as if the designer of the pot put a handle on it for some reason @@salviafiend7931

    • @matthew_tall
      @matthew_tall 11 месяцев назад +17

      Nile red isn’t an average chemistry channel bro is peak

    • @Ben01tM
      @Ben01tM 11 месяцев назад +2

      The process was satysfying to watch, but his cooking skills are completely off.

    • @ImCelticlol
      @ImCelticlol 11 месяцев назад +13

      I don't think the average chemistry channel goes around turning gloves into grape soda.

  • @ImplodingChicken
    @ImplodingChicken 11 месяцев назад +1268

    "Cheese alloy" what would we do without you Mr. cameraman

    • @lookoutvideo
      @lookoutvideo 11 месяцев назад +31

      18 karat cheese 😑

    • @Qay
      @Qay 11 месяцев назад +42

      @@lookoutvideo Be careful, he'll make Purple Cheese if he sees this.

    • @dotheflip4706
      @dotheflip4706 6 месяцев назад

      You mean 18 carrot cheese?​@@lookoutvideo

    • @shauryatyagi317
      @shauryatyagi317 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Qayya know blue gold is a thing it’s a alloy of Indium and gold

  • @meinnase
    @meinnase Месяц назад +12

    "we got the cheese" "slams unidentified yellow blocks on the table"
    Literally looks less appetizing than the cheese squares lmao

  • @ZypherRAWR
    @ZypherRAWR 11 месяцев назад +2328

    Science teachers everywhere: “never eat or drink anything while inside the lab.”
    Nigel: *rawdogs chemicals*

    • @cobiandiego5896
      @cobiandiego5896 11 месяцев назад +20

      this is the first time i knew his name!

    • @alexanderscott2456
      @alexanderscott2456 11 месяцев назад +51

      Everything is chemicals

    • @Xxsoda_drinker_pro_fanxX
      @Xxsoda_drinker_pro_fanxX 11 месяцев назад +18

      I mean… the chemicals are already in a thing you eat so it’s probably not harmful (except for the taste)

    • @Merrsharr
      @Merrsharr 11 месяцев назад +48

      @@Xxsoda_drinker_pro_fanxX The rule about not eating in the lab is to prevent accidents in which real food get contaminated with dangerous chemicals, or dangerous chemicals are mistaken for food. Actually, didn't Nigel just recently upload a video on lab safety in which he mentioned and explained that specific rule?

    • @yingx2478
      @yingx2478 11 месяцев назад +8

      @@Merrsharr😂you mean 3 full years ago

  • @BlastingKelvins
    @BlastingKelvins 11 месяцев назад +2568

    Needs 1.2 grams of an ingredient: uses gram scale
    Needs 50 grams of an ingredient: uses 1/100 grams scale
    Refuses to elaborate.

    • @Gameboygenius
      @Gameboygenius 11 месяцев назад +146

      Obviously because the second scale was a food safe, non-trash scale. Measuring chemicals on it would make it a food unsafe, trash scale.

    • @afflict9341
      @afflict9341 11 месяцев назад +26

      NileChad

    • @thetreatment
      @thetreatment 11 месяцев назад +21

      at first im like as if he doesn’t have a more accurate scale.. and then he uses it for the 50g measurement 😂 wth

    • @revengefrommars
      @revengefrommars 11 месяцев назад +8

      SigFigs, who needs 'em?

    • @alcelobo9114
      @alcelobo9114 11 месяцев назад +30

      ​@@GameboygeniusHe literally drunk that chemical, so it's pretty strange explanation. He's probably was lazy and didn't want to go for better scale while filming first part.

  • @methylsky
    @methylsky 11 месяцев назад +744

    You know how characters in cartoons have angels and devils on their shoulders? I love how Reggie is BOTH to Nigel. Like, even in this very video you can see Reggie encourage Nigel to drink the nasty chemical filled water, and then immediately say "are you sure". It's just perfect controlled chaos element

  • @kenancomer4315
    @kenancomer4315 Месяц назад +9

    Watching a very intelligent chemist struggle with the correct way to shred cheese is so much fun.

  • @mileshill7196
    @mileshill7196 11 месяцев назад +2450

    “It almost tastes… sweaty. You want some?”
    “No”

    • @hermi1-kenobi455
      @hermi1-kenobi455 11 месяцев назад +31

      But it sounds so *appetising*

    • @MADPoltergeist
      @MADPoltergeist 11 месяцев назад +45

      That one friend that always does some *super* weird thing then wants you to join in so they don’t feel like they messed up 😅

    • @osnecro
      @osnecro 11 месяцев назад +18

      Bottled chemist boy sweat when?

    • @robertsides3626
      @robertsides3626 11 месяцев назад +8

      I feel like you're pretty much obligated to say no after such a warning. Saying yes on camera would just out you as a really big weirdo.

    • @extone6338
      @extone6338 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@robertsides3626 And that'd be bad how?
      Also, u might think of him as a weirdo if he said yes - which says more abt u than him saying yes would say abt him - but sb else could think he's a curious person who's open to trying new things.
      Btw - going beyond the topic cuz why not - the kind of mindset u described brings nothing but dissatisfaction in life. Whether ur a "weirdo" - or actually eccentric - (and whether in a good or bad way) or not, caring about others' opinions to such extent u feel obligated to hide it when ur not facing some mentally underdeveloped that will physically violate u bc they struggle to process a given aspect of u, is excessive/giving too many fvcks.

  • @MrMikesnowmusic
    @MrMikesnowmusic 11 месяцев назад +4130

    “It’s a derivative of cheese. It’s diluted cheese.”
    “It’s a cheese alloy”
    😂😂😂😂

    • @jimmyzhao2673
      @jimmyzhao2673 11 месяцев назад +27

      Brilliant !

    • @thenthson
      @thenthson 11 месяцев назад +171

      Then that would mean that the blocks are cheese ingots right?

    • @hubristicmystic
      @hubristicmystic 5 месяцев назад +12

      Wow, that "real cheese" looked like rubber. Try some real cheddar from Cheddar

    • @therobloxgroup1262
      @therobloxgroup1262 5 месяцев назад +2

      Nah it looks like butter

    • @rogergeyer9851
      @rogergeyer9851 4 месяца назад +2

      First or second derivative? Partial derivative?

  • @DylanODonnell
    @DylanODonnell Год назад +2832

    I cook cheese sauces with sodium citrate all the time. Instead of using cheap cheddar you can use any cheese. You can make amazing “plastic” cheese from really expensive and exotic cheeses.

    • @13_cmi
      @13_cmi Год назад +56

      Hello Australia man

    • @DylanODonnell
      @DylanODonnell Год назад +116

      @@13_cmi Hello suspiciously astronomical avatar. 🍷

    • @sajbr
      @sajbr Год назад +18

      but why ?

    • @DylanODonnell
      @DylanODonnell Год назад +149

      @@sajbr Because the sauce is stringy and smooth as the protein chains bind together. As mentioned in the video the water can separate otherwise and the sauce just becomes oily and weird. This makes it nice and homogenous and still melty like cheese.

    • @ronhorne4930
      @ronhorne4930 Год назад +62

      I believe it stops or hinders the sauce from breaking. If you've ever made homemade Mac and cheese, the sauce breaking (basically the fats, milk solids and water that are in cheese separate) is a worst case scenario.

  • @barbieblodgett2079
    @barbieblodgett2079 Месяц назад +32

    The first time I watched your video shorts it was for my love of Science.. now I watch for 3 reasons 1. My love for Science. 2. Your Voice. 3. How fun you make Science. Have you ever thought about becoming an Audio Narrator for audiobooks like Audible? I would love to read along while listening to your voice.

  • @OmegaMetorOutside
    @OmegaMetorOutside Год назад +5367

    1:31 queso was way funnier than it should have been

    • @NAdoTEg
      @NAdoTEg Год назад +93

      Lol it really was 😂

    • @nuclearfrog306
      @nuclearfrog306 Год назад +151

      it caught me so off guard I nearly choked on my food. hilarious!

    • @georgelequin5070
      @georgelequin5070 Год назад +12

      Yes!

    • @adub34
      @adub34 Год назад +32

      Almost got a spittake out of me😂

    • @XochiCh
      @XochiCh Год назад +14

      @@nuclearfrog306
      Choked on my drink, hilarious.

  • @dkcrogue
    @dkcrogue Год назад +2792

    4:34 Measures out 1.2g on a scale that goes up in increments of 2g
    10:59 Measures out 50g on a scale that's precise to 0.01g

    • @flowerofash4439
      @flowerofash4439 11 месяцев назад +63

      two different two different digital scales

    • @AyukaAmameth
      @AyukaAmameth 11 месяцев назад +10

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @brendolbreadwar2671
      @brendolbreadwar2671 11 месяцев назад +71

      @@flowerofash4439 yeah but idk why he even has a kitchen scale, its always better to go with more accurate scales. Ik the better ones are more sensitive to breaking, but 1,2 g isnt going to hurt it

    • @randallcraft4071
      @randallcraft4071 11 месяцев назад +28

      Baking has to be more precise than science. 🤣

    • @benjscar1540
      @benjscar1540 11 месяцев назад +7

      Now calculate the significant figures

  • @rdear
    @rdear Год назад +662

    “Before it wasn’t special, now it’s special.”
    The most scientific thing ever uttered in that lab

    • @kenabaloyan8798
      @kenabaloyan8798 3 месяца назад +1

      What do you mean by special exactly?

  • @JakePlaysVR6
    @JakePlaysVR6 14 дней назад +2

    Nileblue's last words: "close enough", "Everything is going perfectly so far"

  • @MistralNorthwind
    @MistralNorthwind 11 месяцев назад +1217

    I laughed way too much with the "Okay, so" with the "Queso" subtitle.

    • @AidanorAJ
      @AidanorAJ 11 месяцев назад +11

      Lol same I can't stop 🤣

    • @dsandoval9396
      @dsandoval9396 11 месяцев назад +7

      That was pretty clever 😂😂😂

    • @Wakawakawakawakawakawakawaka7
      @Wakawakawakawakawakawakawaka7 11 месяцев назад +1

      Same omg

    • @brady5829
      @brady5829 11 месяцев назад +5

      I think that was the first IRL belly laugh I've had from a youtube video all year

    • @lawrencejob
      @lawrencejob 11 месяцев назад

      I honestly think that was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time

  • @LexicographicalPedant
    @LexicographicalPedant Год назад +1280

    0:18 not hearing the VSauce beat drop after the “Or is it” was soul crushing

    • @ebsergent
      @ebsergent Год назад +95

      ... thank you....I couldn't understand the emptiness I felt at this very moment.

    • @magicquest5221
      @magicquest5221 Год назад +21

      I thought i just didn’t hear it the first time 😭

    • @Twargan
      @Twargan Год назад +61

      Especially with that camera switch too. Man knew what he was doing. Lol

    • @droj7
      @droj7 Год назад +9

      Bro same brain cell

    • @stutterpunk9573
      @stutterpunk9573 Год назад +4

      i literally out loud did the thing when he said that

  • @zer0legend109
    @zer0legend109 11 месяцев назад +1523

    *Nile weighing chemicals: use a cheap inaccurate weight scale
    *Nile weighting milk powder: use a professional accurate weight scale

    • @SeanHoltzman
      @SeanHoltzman 11 месяцев назад +63

      Dairy is expensive, the chemicals are usually byproduct of other manufacturing thus cheap. He doing it right

    • @wahzawahzo2949
      @wahzawahzo2949 11 месяцев назад +4

      😭😭i didnt even realize

    • @DerangedPacman
      @DerangedPacman 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@SeanHoltzman well to be fair, hes using sodium

    • @GeneralElectric202
      @GeneralElectric202 11 месяцев назад +2

      I love how he got the professional scale and then just went "good enough" while measuring

    • @Jellybeansatdusk
      @Jellybeansatdusk 11 месяцев назад +4

      It’s also different bc he’s going to consume it so he needs the ratios right lol. It’s going in his mouth.

  • @lechatbotte.
    @lechatbotte. 4 дня назад +2

    It’s been processed with citric acid. Ignorance can be dangerous

  • @ElleDiablo
    @ElleDiablo 10 месяцев назад +2282

    Saying "we need 24g" and the scale jumping from 23 to 25 is peak unintentional comedy😭

    • @KingBobXVI
      @KingBobXVI 9 месяцев назад +145

      And from 0 to 2 when he needs 1.2.
      The scales are straight up comedians.

    • @ElleDiablo
      @ElleDiablo 8 месяцев назад +17

      @@KingBobXVI best comedians of our time

    • @paytonestrada7746
      @paytonestrada7746 7 месяцев назад

      If you have brain damage, then it's funny.

    • @kirbyis4ever
      @kirbyis4ever 7 месяцев назад +44

      ​@@paytonestrada7746Who pissed in your cereal buddy?

    • @DuckoLikesDucks
      @DuckoLikesDucks 6 месяцев назад +2

      I didn’t even realize until u said it

  • @eaglesaurus
    @eaglesaurus Год назад +856

    Nile didn't make a kraft single, he made a kraft DOUBLE

    • @virionspiral
      @virionspiral Год назад +39

      Also upgraded it to the Kraft Deli Deluxe

    • @tinystamp2742
      @tinystamp2742 Год назад +26

      Triple even lol

    • @DragonslayerProd
      @DragonslayerProd Год назад +7

      Double Stuf Cheese Singles

    • @ADBBuild
      @ADBBuild Год назад +7

      Craft Thic

    • @treeaboo
      @treeaboo Год назад +2

      To be fair he didn't make a kraft single, his was mostly cheese and so is a 'cheese food', whereas a kraft single is mostly non-cheese (less than 51% cheese) and so is a 'cheese product'. That's why his tasted better.

  • @christopherharvell7410
    @christopherharvell7410 4 месяца назад +1032

    "It's a cheese alloy"
    You can't forge a blade from it though, because it's not Extra Sharp.

    • @seanjohnisee
      @seanjohnisee 4 месяца назад +19

      I feel like if people actually saw this comment it would have way more likes

    • @NedFlanders612
      @NedFlanders612 3 месяца назад +8

      I hate you for making me laugh at this

    • @l.b8896
      @l.b8896 3 месяца назад +4

      Holy shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @lordpumpkinhead265
      @lordpumpkinhead265 3 месяца назад +4

      Bad pun, take my like and leave.

    • @wuzzle22
      @wuzzle22 3 месяца назад +3

      Take my like and get outta here!

  • @HXN-qk8ff
    @HXN-qk8ff Месяц назад +23

    18:08 exactly. And now you have to ask yourself the question: but why would a company do this? And the answer is, as always: moneyyyy 😂 you are basically paying for the added water. As you said earlier: Those Chemicals are only binding Water. And that's what they want hahaha cheap chemicals for binding water so that you are paying more for less actual cheese.

    • @Avyboy28
      @Avyboy28 Месяц назад +4

      But it actually makes the best grilled cheese 😂

    • @WarpedBlinds
      @WarpedBlinds Месяц назад

      ​@@Avyboy28also goes great on a burger :)

    • @TylerDollarhide
      @TylerDollarhide 27 дней назад

      But it melts much easier.

    • @missmichelle652
      @missmichelle652 26 дней назад

      It also lasts way longer.

    • @noahmcdonnell
      @noahmcdonnell 25 дней назад +2

      It's very cheap cheese it's cheaper than most it makes sense they charge less for a lesser product and it has qualitys that are attractive consumers and business as it lasts long in the fridge. So they provide a cheap product and give you a good price and your getting qualitys you can't get in similar products. So yeah there's trade offs like anything but this being said I still dont eat it 🤮

  • @dogoonubs997
    @dogoonubs997 Год назад +1380

    "so i wasn't planning on adding these extra ingredients"
    *has a commercial sized bag of whole powdered milk on standby*

    • @markhamstra1083
      @markhamstra1083 Год назад +99

      🤣 A commercial/industrial sized bag of milk powder is much, much larger.

    • @te8547e
      @te8547e Год назад +41

      You dont?

    • @ChristofferOrrmalmUtsi
      @ChristofferOrrmalmUtsi Год назад +14

      ​@@markhamstra1083
      It sure is, it was in a regular plastic bag you can use in the freezer too.

    • @BGBTech
      @BGBTech Год назад +36

      @@markhamstra1083 Yeah. As everyone knows, food comes in a natural quanta of 50 lbs bags (or occasionally 100 lbs, or sometimes 33 lbs).
      If larger, it comes as collection of bags on a 1000-2000 lbs pallet with all-natural plastic shrink-wrap (just as nature intended).
      Liquids come as natural sizes of either 5-gallon buckets or 55 gallon drums, potentially also on a pallet.
      Then, maybe before the modern era of forklifts, mammoths had used their paired tusks to move the pallets from place to place; with a bird sitting on their heads to screech at 1 second intervals when the mammoth is in motion. The forklift is merely a mechanical approximation of this natural order.

    • @realtalk13
      @realtalk13 Год назад +6

      i'm pretty sure that's leftover from when he made the "most pure" chocolate chip cookie vid. that, or the lab made chocolate bar vid

  • @MrWilliam932
    @MrWilliam932 11 месяцев назад +1549

    NileRed: I can make Grape Soda and Spicy Sauce out of a plastic gloves
    NileBlue: With Cheese and some Chemicals I made.... Cheese

    • @s1mkash112
      @s1mkash112 11 месяцев назад +7

      @BelieveinJesusChrist3what the fuck are you talking about?

    • @cromefire_
      @cromefire_ 11 месяцев назад +21

      Well legally it's not even cheese. It's something that is similar to cheese.

    • @Nagol93
      @Nagol93 11 месяцев назад +28

      Thinking quickly, Nile makes cheese with water, some crystals, and cheese.

    • @blazingbuizel7194
      @blazingbuizel7194 11 месяцев назад +22

      Thinking quickly, NileBlue constructs cheese using only lab chemicals, a nearby lake, and cheese

    • @santi308
      @santi308 11 месяцев назад +5

      ... Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only some string a squirell and a megaphone.

  • @Xbx0ne
    @Xbx0ne 11 месяцев назад +1629

    I know why NileRed/Blue's videos feel so ethereal; he doesn't have ANY background music, just the raw footage and some editing. Magical.

    • @Thisandthat8908
      @Thisandthat8908 11 месяцев назад +60

      i think he has a LOT of editing.

    •  11 месяцев назад +76

      NileRed does a shitload of editing, but NileBlue doesn't seem so hard, hence the upload frequency. Check out the Trash Taste with Nigel

    • @burnin8able
      @burnin8able 11 месяцев назад +53

      I know you mean well, but the idea of "no background music = ethereal" is so funny to me

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 11 месяцев назад +21

      It's because science is silent

    • @goodshorts
      @goodshorts 11 месяцев назад +17

      It is refreshing.

  • @theninearemine8499
    @theninearemine8499 9 дней назад +1

    If anyone is worried about the emulsifier. It is made with natural ingredients you probably use everyday.

  • @justalittlebawn
    @justalittlebawn 11 месяцев назад +1110

    This channel has taught me that cooking may be chemistry but not every chemist is a cook

    • @Sstandard_
      @Sstandard_ 11 месяцев назад +29

      Walter white quote

    • @Kelanich
      @Kelanich 11 месяцев назад +15

      @@Sstandard_ JESSE WE NEED TO COOK

    • @ethanwatt-dz3xq
      @ethanwatt-dz3xq 11 месяцев назад +2

      That grilled cheese sandwich 💀

    • @mattapropism
      @mattapropism 11 месяцев назад +9

      I was shouting "Use a whisk! Or an immersion blender!" at my screen when he tried to break those clumps with a spatula...

    • @timschommer8548
      @timschommer8548 11 месяцев назад +4

      Those cookies. Not the cookies.

  • @Qualiaddict
    @Qualiaddict 4 месяца назад +641

    At 1:31 when Nile says “Kay so” and the subtitles flash “queso”- that is the motivation behind my thumbs up.

  • @gadgehamilton3134
    @gadgehamilton3134 Год назад +945

    I worked at a cheese factory called ampi we used fresh cheddar, butter, enzymes, and powdered milk. The exact amounts depended on the compamy ordering it. For burger king it was 5 , 500 lb cheese "blocks" they were actually cylindrical. 12 50 lb blocks of butter, 4 50 lb bags of powdered milk, and 1 10 lb bag of enzymes. I loaded the belt and fed it into a mixing machine then it was sent downstairs and heated , extruded and sliced.

    • @DaleErnieMichael
      @DaleErnieMichael Год назад +100

      Fast food places contract out their own blend of cheese? I figured they just bought a standard brand of sliced American instead of specifying their own blend to be made at the manufacturer level, that's pretty cool. I guess if you require all your food everywhere to taste the same it makes sense, but I doubt the Kraft Singles taste different in Kentucky than they do in Oregon so I don't really see why they wouldn't just pick a cheese brand to buy unless it's cheaper to have it made specifically for them. Ether way that's pretty neat, I've worked in some factories where we produced stuff that we'd actually see out in the wild too so that kinda thing really tickles my autism.

    • @cin3859
      @cin3859 Год назад +83

      Damn it’s never occurre to me that fast food chains have their own recipes for processed cheese. I would’ve thought they all used the same generic stuff

    • @tolep
      @tolep Год назад +13

      and W A T E R, because that is the whole point.

    • @davidy22
      @davidy22 Год назад +57

      ​@@DaleErnieMichael Places that buy ingredients in bulk don't need to buy the same off the shelf stuff you do, skip the individual packaging and upsize the deliveries and now you're getting a custom order that the established brand's factory isn't tooled to provide for you

    • @abitofabitofabit4404
      @abitofabitofabit4404 Год назад +40

      ​@@DaleErnieMichael Contract manufacturing means never having to pay for someone else's brand.

  • @screaminggecko7660
    @screaminggecko7660 12 дней назад +2

    Telling someone that something tastes like nasty chemical sweat isn't a strong way to convince them to taste it

  • @JV-md7jn
    @JV-md7jn 10 месяцев назад +867

    The “queso” play on words was chefs kiss.

    • @GuyWhoLikesColombianCocaine
      @GuyWhoLikesColombianCocaine 9 месяцев назад +7

      Nah it was caseoh

    • @LoganHarris-vw3gx
      @LoganHarris-vw3gx 9 месяцев назад +23

      @@GuyWhoLikesColombianCocaine No because queso means cheese. and he said 'kay so

    • @TocsTheWanderer
      @TocsTheWanderer 9 месяцев назад +8

      The chemical formula for Trisodium Citrate, the most commonly used emulsifier for processed cheese, is Na3C6H5O7. Or, without the numbers, NaCHO.

    • @GuyWhoLikesColombianCocaine
      @GuyWhoLikesColombianCocaine 9 месяцев назад

      @@LoganHarris-vw3gx I know I was just joking

  • @mikebrophy
    @mikebrophy 11 месяцев назад +1880

    I've worked in a cheese factory where the primary product was American cheese. The way they get the slices so thin is by using a large rotating chilled stainless steel roller that picks up the melted cheese where it immediately solidifies and is then sliced and peeled off.

    • @jontay4199
      @jontay4199 11 месяцев назад +14

      But is it plastic?

    • @spongeman6559
      @spongeman6559 11 месяцев назад +243

      @@jontay4199of course not, at least not plastic as in a milk jug. It’s plastic in the way it acts as a solid.

    • @mainhalo117
      @mainhalo117 11 месяцев назад +146

      @@jontay4199the only similarity between American cheese and plastic is that both melt easily

    • @AyyDraws
      @AyyDraws 11 месяцев назад +23

      That's pretty cool, actually

    • @R9naldo
      @R9naldo 11 месяцев назад

      yes, we are aiming by 2030 to have all consumables to contain brain chemical altering substances to finally control the people as we have always intended

  • @4D0R
    @4D0R День назад

    Nilered: Absolute precision, safety and determination
    Nileblue: *eats spoon of butter* "I've never done that before"

  • @cuptaincapcake6932
    @cuptaincapcake6932 11 месяцев назад +824

    "K, so" - QUESO. you have officially killed me

    • @bad.D
      @bad.D 11 месяцев назад +43

      that joke was so cheesy.

    • @skybug1706
      @skybug1706 11 месяцев назад +16

      @bad.D yeah i found it a little grating

    • @GladeAir-Freshener
      @GladeAir-Freshener 11 месяцев назад +9

      @@skybug1706wasn’t the best joke but it was gouda-nuff to make me laugh

    • @HeirOfNothingInParticular
      @HeirOfNothingInParticular 11 месяцев назад +1

      😂😂😂

    • @liusilvan
      @liusilvan 11 месяцев назад +2

      yeah it sounded pretty American ​@GladeAir-Freshener

  • @olly123451
    @olly123451 11 месяцев назад +683

    I have a friend who used to (maybe still?) work in a milk processing plant. He said that the cheese that is used to make the ‘plastic cheese’ products was basically any milk/cheese that didn’t meet their standards for their higher quality products. A great use of stuff that would have otherwise been thrown out.

    • @oasntet
      @oasntet 11 месяцев назад +88

      I briefly worked in a cheese shredding plant, where we'd shred 5-10lb blocks of cheese to make the pre-shredded stuff. For any given variety, we'd throw up to 20% other cheeses on the line, just whatever was about to be legally unsellable or which there was a glut of. Anything that couldn't be sold in block form for any reason. One of those reasons was mold; if there was mold visible on the block, we were to cut off any dot of mold larger than a dime. Smaller mold patches went right in, because it'd take too long to cut off all of the mold.
      So shredded cheese is pre-seeded with mold, made from the older cheese to begin with, and not even the variety or brand on the label. And this wasn't for a generic supermarket cheese brand, this was a proper brand.
      I stopped eating pre-shredded cheese after that. Of course, it didn't help that I'd come home each day covered head-to-toe in a layer of cheese mixed with sweat so think I could scrape it off with a knife.
      At least processed cheese is cooked a bit as part of the process. Should kill at least some part of any biological contaminants.

    • @derekw4836
      @derekw4836 11 месяцев назад +66

      Basically the whole point of American cheese was to make the cheapest cheese possible out of cheese scraps and other dairy products

    • @poodledad806
      @poodledad806 11 месяцев назад +27

      @@derekw4836 NileBlue: "Making American cheese to debunk a conspiracy"
      derekw4836: "I wasn't listening and I've learned nothing."

    • @conorstewart2214
      @conorstewart2214 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@oasntet that is pretty disgusting with the mould in the cheese, is that just a US thing?

    • @firuis1
      @firuis1 11 месяцев назад +20

      @@conorstewart2214 for cheddar and hard cheeses you can just cut off the moldy bits and its fine to eat

  • @fayelitzinger9824
    @fayelitzinger9824 Год назад +562

    you can buy any cheese (even extremely fancy cheese), add sodium citrate, and turn it into a velveeta-like textured cheese. this is actually a nice technique if you're not a fan of the flavor of American cheese but need the creaminess of American cheese for a recipe. I think people generally confuse American cheese with imitation cheese but those are very different things

    • @lebakas_peppi
      @lebakas_peppi Год назад

      ​@mirroredvoid8394Based

    • @jishani1
      @jishani1 Год назад

      @mirroredvoid8394 they are european. they have to be ignorant to think they actually still do things better.

    • @Pokemeninblack
      @Pokemeninblack Год назад +31

      Well the myth comes from the fact that American cheese used to be mostly cheese, and does actually have a definition in the world book of cheeses or whatever.
      Cheese product is American cheese that is mostly milk protein(to preserve it). It lost the definition of actual American cheese because of the percentage
      The cheese he showed at the beginning ironically isn’t even true American cheese. The cheese he made was however

    • @HenrikVierulaSweden
      @HenrikVierulaSweden Год назад +2

      ​@mirroredvoid8394 lol.... What every European say about every american 🤣
      ...nah, JK... Some of you are actually like normal people, love ya! 😘

    • @MayorMcheese12
      @MayorMcheese12 Год назад

      @mirroredvoid8394they just dislike anything American because they were left behind a few hundred years ago when we settled here.

  • @bumbum5714
    @bumbum5714 11 дней назад +1

    Nile: There is so much more to life than cheese.
    Me: No.
    Nile: There's more.
    Me: Dear God.

  • @TheJunkyarddawg00
    @TheJunkyarddawg00 11 месяцев назад +579

    Pour it into a block mold and put it in the refrigerator. After the block solidifies, slice it. The top of your cheese is discolored because it dried out in the refrigerator.

    • @alexanderkupke920
      @alexanderkupke920 11 месяцев назад +44

      When they make the packaged slices, where every slice is wrapped in foild, they actually fill the liquid cheese in the foil and let those cool down and set. so the foil package defines the slices.When made it is like plastic welding an endless tube of foil with cheese into pieces.

    • @Woodie-xq1ew
      @Woodie-xq1ew 11 месяцев назад +9

      Or he needed to cover the tray in plastic wrap

    • @OmnipresentPotato
      @OmnipresentPotato 11 месяцев назад +2

      I was thinking the exact same thing. That way you can create as thick or thin slices as you want them to be.

    • @sgtduckduck
      @sgtduckduck 11 месяцев назад +4

      wax paper my dude

    • @Noven30
      @Noven30 11 месяцев назад +12

      @@alexanderkupke920 its so crazy that we use fucking plastic to cover each fucking slice of cheese. This world is lost

  • @Greysona
    @Greysona 10 месяцев назад +1255

    I love this channel because on Red he’s wayyyy more professional and on here he just eyeballs possibly dangerous chemicals and goes “eh good enough”

    • @bygoditsfullofstars
      @bygoditsfullofstars 10 месяцев назад +79

      There actually is a certain point when working in chemistry for long enough leads you to gradually become less and less scared of harmful chemicals…not in the way you aren't cautious still, but in the way where it's like. Ehhhh, If I get chemical burns it's fine I'll deal with it later 🤣

    • @Styrofoam-ee
      @Styrofoam-ee 10 месяцев назад +59

      It also helps that the chemicals aren't as dangerous as stated in the video. It's a channel where he can do more mundane chemistry, having fun and less concerned about potentially dying or getting extremely sick from taste testing dangerous chemicals.

    • @tomlxyz
      @tomlxyz 9 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@bygoditsfullofstarsit's not rare that the most experienced people in a field are the ones who actually get hurt due to complacency

    • @giantsdudeful
      @giantsdudeful 9 месяцев назад +9

      These chemicals aren’t dangerous. Chefs use sodium citrate to make stable queso sauces that can stay liquid for longer and not separate

    • @kristinholcomb5817
      @kristinholcomb5817 4 месяца назад +1

      And he tastes all the chemicals on blue 😅

  • @ZergrushEddie
    @ZergrushEddie Год назад +428

    It is fascinating see Mr. Chemistry-Wizard be utterly baffled by emulsions in cooking. Dude turns paint thinner into candy but queso is a mystery ^_^

    • @jameskirkland3187
      @jameskirkland3187 Год назад +5

      It's like he never cooked or baked once in his life.

    • @gaugea
      @gaugea Год назад +10

      @@jameskirkland3187all his stovetops are probably dedicated to catalyzing reactions

    • @saltoftheegg
      @saltoftheegg 11 месяцев назад +1

      You should see him try to make a chocolate chip cookie

  • @MrAmptech
    @MrAmptech Месяц назад +4

    The funny thing is it is plastic. Because plastic is a quality not an item. Clay is plastic, metal is plastic.

  • @maddie-bw5ue
    @maddie-bw5ue 11 месяцев назад +290

    I enjoy the fact that this is filmed like those unhinged Facebook mom cooking videos with the cameraman commentary and everything

  • @flamingdog9207
    @flamingdog9207 6 месяцев назад +531

    NileRed: the professional stuff you want your boss to see
    NileBlue: What's actually going on in the lab while the boss is gone.

    • @gainer552
      @gainer552 3 месяца назад

      Fuck that boss, we’re doing chem to do whatever the fck we wanna do. 😂

    • @navaxda
      @navaxda 3 месяца назад

      fr

  • @LieseFury
    @LieseFury Год назад +600

    every lab science teacher i've ever had: "don't bring food into the lab, and don't eat anything made in the lab"
    nilered: "today i'm going to synthesize a full three-course meal."

    • @funnyhahaman8302
      @funnyhahaman8302 Год назад +15

      nileblue*

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine Год назад +25

      Cooking is chemistry, and a kitchen is a lab

    • @SlimThrull
      @SlimThrull Год назад +6

      To be fair, cooking is literally just chemistry on food.

    • @FaZekiller-qe3uf
      @FaZekiller-qe3uf Год назад

      @@funnyhahaman8302NigelYellow

    • @calebharper9567
      @calebharper9567 Год назад +3

      On the last day of my high school chemistry class, we made s'mores on the Bunsen burners. That was fun, but also felt really weird.

  • @motina10
    @motina10 15 дней назад

    Decades ago when I was in public school, a girl was bullying my sister who had a cheese slice in her lunch, saying it was one molecule away from being plastic. I said, have you seen the ingredient list for cheese slices? They have over a dozen ingredients and those ingredients had many types of molecule. Plastic is typically made up of one or two different molecules, so how is it anywhere near as being one molecule away from being plastic?

  • @TrashTaster
    @TrashTaster 11 месяцев назад +1728

    "But it is real cheese....or is it"
    'VSauce music plays'

    • @Nymphadora45uvyu
      @Nymphadora45uvyu 11 месяцев назад +45

      Okay, I wasn’t the only one 😂😂😂

    • @RobertMcBride-is-cool
      @RobertMcBride-is-cool 11 месяцев назад +32

      I played that in my head when I heard him ask that question.

    • @no-wi7gi
      @no-wi7gi 11 месяцев назад +4

      Lol

    • @YK-G99
      @YK-G99 11 месяцев назад +4

      4:45 "let's started" and Jerry rig everything intro plays.

    • @jneal4154
      @jneal4154 11 месяцев назад +12

      He even did a 90 degree camera swap and the head snap toward the second camera and everything. Definitely intentional.

  • @ObeyCamp
    @ObeyCamp 11 месяцев назад +894

    1:29 that "Queso" edit absolutely wrecked me. That was such a good catch lmao

    • @tehsingh1
      @tehsingh1 11 месяцев назад +14

      I damn near spat my drink haha

    • @iris-christina
      @iris-christina 11 месяцев назад +9

      Was looking for that comment 😂👌🏻 on point

    • @BigOleCaddy
      @BigOleCaddy 11 месяцев назад +1

      That was funny

    • @JaycobSirduke
      @JaycobSirduke 11 месяцев назад +1

      Hahahah same here. Was looking for this comment

    • @mygghunter
      @mygghunter 11 месяцев назад

      Agreed, just great

  • @乂
    @乂 11 месяцев назад +2423

    Shoutout to NileBlue for finally solving this mystery. NileRed however, could never.

    • @bunghoIio
      @bunghoIio 11 месяцев назад +92

      Hi mr. I bought a youtube channel and sub bots because I have a fragile ego

    • @stephsanteetbien-etre7945
      @stephsanteetbien-etre7945 11 месяцев назад +3

      i tought you were only into minecraft content

    • @FRUITYOCTO21259
      @FRUITYOCTO21259 11 месяцев назад

      Real

    • @JavaMac08
      @JavaMac08 11 месяцев назад +15

      Red would make it from used motor oil

    • @car0lanne.
      @car0lanne. 11 месяцев назад +3

      bro wtf, first 3 videos i've watched today you have a comment on

  • @EternalNetzah
    @EternalNetzah Месяц назад +5

    9:54 this is the moment when the Chemist became a Chef

  • @n_coder
    @n_coder 8 месяцев назад +728

    I love how excited Nile looks while holding the cheese at the beginning, as if he's looking at one of the biggest incomprehensible chemical insanities that humanity has ever conceived inside of a lab

    • @adamstanton5313
      @adamstanton5313 8 месяцев назад +19

      He is-

    • @xanderplayz3446
      @xanderplayz3446 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@adamstanton5313not

    • @DaBogga-op6rs
      @DaBogga-op6rs 5 месяцев назад +5

      To me, he looked like he was resisting his urge to eat it from beginning

    • @rogergeyer9851
      @rogergeyer9851 4 месяца назад

      And he SHOULD be holding chicken nuggets if he wants that.

  • @DastardlyDistaste
    @DastardlyDistaste Год назад +1134

    Sodium citrate for cooking purposes is actually really easy to make at home! Just combine lemon juice with baking soda. It should immediately froth up, even without heat. Once it's nice and frothy, the lemon juice won't taste sour anymore. That's how you know it's ready. Then you just add your cheeses, apply heat, and voila! I use it for a cheese sauce, but by pouring it in a square-shaped container and letting it chill, it becomes very much like a soft cheese spread. I imagine more citrate=stiffer cheese.

    • @chucklebutt4470
      @chucklebutt4470 Год назад +34

      That's really cool, will have to give it a try!

    • @null-pingstr
      @null-pingstr Год назад +12

      Thank you, I'll try it out later

    • @Decinomic0n
      @Decinomic0n Год назад +10

      Commenting to come find this later

    • @ihateithere._.
      @ihateithere._. Год назад +17

      whats the ratio of lemon juice to baking soda ands sodium citrate to cheese?

    • @AngryAlfonse
      @AngryAlfonse Год назад +16

      I'm not a chemist but I think its viscosity is determined by liquid content. As an emulsifying agent, you're emulsifying the fats of the cheese into the water left behind from the lemon juice. If you just mix dry sodium citrate into melted cheese it'll solidify. You could try simmering the liquid content down or adding extra water before adding the cheese to confirm this.

  • @gustavojesusdiazestrada1708
    @gustavojesusdiazestrada1708 3 месяца назад +276

    You have no idea how much I laughed at the "K, so" being subtitled as "Queso".

    • @fredrikjosefsson3373
      @fredrikjosefsson3373 Месяц назад +5

      And still people thing AI will take over the world

    • @DaddyBigMad
      @DaddyBigMad Месяц назад

      same, came to the comments for this comment.

    • @Tylerrawley
      @Tylerrawley Месяц назад

      Came here for this! :-)

    • @lazybone92
      @lazybone92 Месяц назад +4

      @@fredrikjosefsson3373 Well the "ai" we have now isnt actual AI

    • @lazerboteasy
      @lazerboteasy Месяц назад +1

      this is a deliberate joke

  • @ASorren
    @ASorren 21 день назад +1

    Hands down this is my favorite video yet.

  • @nevercertain
    @nevercertain 11 месяцев назад +1287

    1:30 "queso" had me laughing harder than I'd like to admit

    • @arunthebuffoon4554
      @arunthebuffoon4554 11 месяцев назад +30

      Heheh it was perfect lmao

    • @emmacate1343
      @emmacate1343 11 месяцев назад +28

      Paused the video to find this comment, laughed way to hard

    • @dnzl1326
      @dnzl1326 11 месяцев назад +8

      Ok so

    • @lettuce7378
      @lettuce7378 11 месяцев назад +4

      i made a 1 second clip of that to share with friends lol

    • @Chodestick
      @Chodestick 11 месяцев назад +3

      Wow I didn’t notice the first time watching hahahaha

  • @TimpBizkit
    @TimpBizkit 11 месяцев назад +652

    I work at a cheese processing plant in the UK and can confirm that sodium citrate and butter are used. I haven't seen any sodium hexametaphosphate. Also potato starch is used, and palm oil in certain products, and obviously good old fashioned salt, and whey powder. One thing I didn't see was MSG. I'm curious to know what a small amount of that would do.
    Edit: calcium triphosphate I saw in the ingredients to at least some of the products as a second emulsifying agent.

    • @stephanieamare
      @stephanieamare 11 месяцев назад +33

      It would probably just make things even cheesier than without; think about Tangy Cheese Dorritos and how they have msg.

    • @bigchungus3
      @bigchungus3 11 месяцев назад +16

      I was going to say that msg is likely the thing that's missing.

    • @SolarPhantom
      @SolarPhantom 11 месяцев назад +16

      I can't understand processing cheese to be like these squares. Your taking cheese and turning it into.....cheese?? I guess it provides jobs and money for the economy but it seems like such a bizzare and un-needed product

    • @CanIHasThisName
      @CanIHasThisName 11 месяцев назад +39

      @@SolarPhantom Many people prefer processed and it's often used for different applications than unprocessed.

    • @nicholasdavidson1191
      @nicholasdavidson1191 11 месяцев назад +28

      ​@@SolarPhantomit's easier to slap some processed cheese onto a piece of bread than to slice a block of cheese into small rectangles

  • @XxBrMagicxX
    @XxBrMagicxX 11 месяцев назад +880

    NileRed: protective equipment and safety procedures
    NileBlue: tastes the chemical bath

    • @catastrophic_music
      @catastrophic_music 11 месяцев назад +22

      well it should be in theory safe to consume. prob only reason why he did it

    • @2rslvl126
      @2rslvl126 11 месяцев назад

      It's FDA approved.. like a like of horrible shit that should never be eaten by humans.. so you got a good point.

    • @1gient
      @1gient 11 месяцев назад +13

      One does complex scientific procedure.
      The other drinks the lab specimen while in the middle of the experiment that requires said specimen.

    • @porkchop99
      @porkchop99 11 месяцев назад +6

      Wonder what NileGreen’s gonna do

    • @mumfydonut1980
      @mumfydonut1980 11 месяцев назад +4

      turn himself into the chemical bath@@porkchop99

  • @Mrmike843
    @Mrmike843 13 дней назад +1

    When i think of American Cheese, i dont think of government cheese. I think of real cheese

  • @JChilling
    @JChilling 11 месяцев назад +798

    "K, so" being turned into queso made me laugh way harder than it should of.

    • @nidustenebris
      @nidustenebris 11 месяцев назад +9

      Que means what in Spanish. Sometimes, you call out to someone, they ask what it is, you say so.
      "Oye"
      "Que?"
      "So"

    • @Truedoogie
      @Truedoogie 11 месяцев назад +14

      @@nidustenebris What? No, the point is that queso means cheese. Are you trolling?

    • @nidustenebris
      @nidustenebris 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@Truedoogie mfw a foreigner is going to educate me on my own language, the joke is that you can turn the other person's "what" into "cheese" by replying with "so"
      "Qué?"
      "So"

    • @koslova.2151
      @koslova.2151 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@nidustenebrisrra
      *Turns queso into wh**e*

    • @4isbestnumber
      @4isbestnumber 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@nidustenebris i think we all got that...

  • @tormentakid
    @tormentakid 2 месяца назад +329

    i love how the cameraman's work is to reaffirm nile's (probably) bad spontaneous ideas and make him doubt himself immediately after

    • @DulfyBee
      @DulfyBee Месяц назад

      His name is Reggie btw!

  • @StevenS757
    @StevenS757 Год назад +542

    Fun Fact: "Kraft Singles" and similar store brands are classified as "Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product" because it's made partially with vegetable oil, but there is deli-style American Cheese (ex. "Kraft Deli Deluxe" slices) and they are classified as "Pasteurized Process American Cheese". Which means it's a higher quality and has a higher cheese content. You basically made Deli-style in this video because it didn't have oil and fillers. This is why I always will be an advocate for Deli Style American cheese. It tastes so much better.
    You don't even have to get Kraft. Great Value (Walmart store brand) sells their own version of "Deli-style" American Cheese and its just as good.

    • @logangodofcandy
      @logangodofcandy Год назад +16

      Guess I have to buy deluxe from now on. Vegetable oil. Eew.

    • @michaelmoorrees3585
      @michaelmoorrees3585 Год назад +6

      Guess Nigel has to redo this video, and add vegetable oil. The cheapest stuff from Walmart.

    • @WednesdayTheClove
      @WednesdayTheClove Год назад +13

      I recommend cooper cheese. It's basically "sharp american cheese"

    • @KetzerGigant
      @KetzerGigant Год назад

      I didn't have kraft singles until I was an adult. I've only ever had the deli stuff

    • @markhamstra1083
      @markhamstra1083 Год назад +18

      Basically correct, but incomplete. You’ve covered the two highest quality classifications of American Cheese, but there are two more. Find Kenji’s article “What Is American Cheese, Anyway?” at Serious Eats for a more complete rundown.

  • @cgrizzly33
    @cgrizzly33 Месяц назад +2

    The “k so” “queso” joke killed me

  • @kalpersaud9132
    @kalpersaud9132 11 месяцев назад +1189

    Splashing queso on the screen when he said "kay, so" was hilarious

  • @IamSoEasy47
    @IamSoEasy47 11 месяцев назад +1273

    Us: “Feels weird using white powders in food”
    Flour, sugar, and salt; “aight I’mma head out “

    • @dani007a
      @dani007a 11 месяцев назад +82

      *Baking Soda and Baking Powder also leave*

    • @TheDkb427
      @TheDkb427 11 месяцев назад +17

      Lol it's definitely not a cooking channel haha

    • @GradivusAres
      @GradivusAres 11 месяцев назад +45

      ​@inal572what about powdered sugar, literally a powder

    • @TillyCorbin
      @TillyCorbin 11 месяцев назад +6

      @inal572 yeah it is amazing

    • @DarkAttack14
      @DarkAttack14 11 месяцев назад +8

      neither sugar nor salt is a "powder" You can get salt in powder form but the majority of salt used is granulated not powdered. Same with sugar

  • @checkpoint1697
    @checkpoint1697 11 месяцев назад +1194

    0:18 "Or is it?" Vsauce would be proud.

    • @granthazzard5170
      @granthazzard5170 10 месяцев назад +57

      Or would they?

    • @phlosen7854
      @phlosen7854 10 месяцев назад +77

      I was so ready for the Music to kick in

    • @Notsosarcastic_02
      @Notsosarcastic_02 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@phlosen7854me too man , me too .

    • @pineapplef3m0
      @pineapplef3m0 10 месяцев назад +18

      But the music was missing.

    • @edattacks
      @edattacks 10 месяцев назад +24

      I heard the music when that happened 😂

  • @davidellis4084
    @davidellis4084 12 дней назад +1

    When you alter the ingredients, how can you call it a fair test?

  • @Masocherne
    @Masocherne 9 месяцев назад +1234

    "This is a perfectly normal american cheese."
    "...Or is it?"
    *Insert iconic vsauce music here*

  • @CadoFox
    @CadoFox Год назад +271

    "Cheese alloy"
    My vocabulary has been irreversibly altered

    • @mikerich32
      @mikerich32 Год назад +1

      I fuckin died when he said that 😂

    • @everfluctuating
      @everfluctuating Год назад +1

      that means sodium citrate is kinda like flux

    • @sproccoli
      @sproccoli Год назад +1

      @@everfluctuating and the water is like... another weaker cheese

  • @Erhannis
    @Erhannis 11 месяцев назад +677

    5:34
    "Should I taste some of i-" "Yeah!"
    "You want som-" "No."

  • @dariodiluciano9443
    @dariodiluciano9443 20 дней назад +1

    Here from Italy, the problem for us is that cheddar is not real cheese to begin with

  • @jiangyirui6141
    @jiangyirui6141 11 месяцев назад +935

    “Or is it?”
    Vsauce music intensifies

    • @notatxmn
      @notatxmn 11 месяцев назад +10

      pls i wanted to comment that the first time i watched the vid

    • @sushi610
      @sushi610 11 месяцев назад +2

      I thought the same thing

    • @aether491
      @aether491 11 месяцев назад +4

      LOLi literaly commented about it right now!!
      vsauce impactt

    • @Camera_Guy_Gnu9
      @Camera_Guy_Gnu9 11 месяцев назад +4

      as soon as he did that I opened up another tab to play the song when he says that

    • @moistwhereas5578
      @moistwhereas5578 11 месяцев назад +3

      I was waiting for 130 Moon Men to play

  • @NebulaMK
    @NebulaMK 11 месяцев назад +165

    I love that the camera guy is still able to talk in videos. It’s a really small thing but it helps me feel connected. Gives a feeling of two friends filming an experiment and I love it.

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 11 месяцев назад +883

    The way a chemist cooks food is so clinical.

    • @CaptainPupu
      @CaptainPupu 11 месяцев назад

      Israeli meat printing company is approved by FDA to sell fake meat in USA. Of course it's not for Jews. They can't eat bad stuff. Only for non Jews.

    • @moonlitscrawls762
      @moonlitscrawls762 11 месяцев назад +69

      The way a chef does chemistry is sloppy.

    • @christo930
      @christo930 11 месяцев назад +5

      And dishonest. This is not American Cheese. American Cheese is white, not yellow. This stuff is cheese substitute. It's the crap that comes in individually wrapped slices sold in the dairy section of American supermarkets. Actual American cheese comes from the deli.

    • @bleak3304
      @bleak3304 11 месяцев назад +82

      @@christo930 he specifically wanted to make the cheese that looks like plastic, which IS the yellow stuff. It isn't dishonest everyone knew what he meant, grow up.

    • @deansbian5607
      @deansbian5607 11 месяцев назад

      @@christo930 hop off my goat

  • @analisabecker
    @analisabecker Месяц назад

    The fact that there was no music in this entire video. Makes me so happy.

  • @matthewtroscianczuk
    @matthewtroscianczuk 11 месяцев назад +1262

    those slices thick as hell, mans made Kraft doubles

    • @EvanMerritt
      @EvanMerritt 11 месяцев назад +115

      that was funny matthew please edge me

    • @acapybara3032
      @acapybara3032 11 месяцев назад +30

      @@EvanMerritt 💀

    • @MoorSlider
      @MoorSlider 11 месяцев назад +43

      @@EvanMerritt Average pinterest commenter

    • @GavinCodesThings
      @GavinCodesThings 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@EvanMerritt w

    • @Fightanddie
      @Fightanddie 11 месяцев назад

      @@EvanMerritt

  • @terrencedent3071
    @terrencedent3071 Год назад +3342

    Hey! Finally, something I'm an expert in. I'm a food science PhD working in process cheese R&D and I must say you did a great job! Every time I though "He should...", you did the thing I was thinking. Add fat, add shear, etc. The process cheese "product" you showed at the beginning is actually quite different in a lot of ways, though the eating experience ends up being very similar. The formulation and processing have to be developed in such a way that "cheese" has the proper mechanical properties and tensile strength to be cast into a thin sheet and rolled around the factory.. like toilet paper almost.. and into the wrapper. Thank you so much for showing people that food isn't really scary just because there is transformation and processing involved!!! 🙏❤

    • @terrencedent3071
      @terrencedent3071 Год назад +540

      Bonus chemistry for anyone interested: the salts you added are called "emulsifying salts" somewhat erroneously. While they are indirectly responsible for making the stable emulsion possible, they themselves aren't surface active and don't stabilize the oil water interface. They are actually chelating agents that sequester calcium from casein protein micelles. That causes the casein subunits (which are amphiphillic) to disassociate and orient at the oil-water interface, stabilizing the emulsion! Without the emulsifying salts, you would just have an oily, separated mess.

    • @GeologicalNerd
      @GeologicalNerd Год назад +120

      Hey Terrance, you're awesome

    • @ushere5791
      @ushere5791 Год назад +90

      i had a dear friend in college whose major was food science: "i'm turning tallow into gold" was her motto. :)

    • @terrencedent3071
      @terrencedent3071 Год назад +5

      ​@@ushere5791😅😅. My ex called me a food doctor and told people I gave boob jobs to pancakes 👨‍⚕️🥞

    • @budgetcommander4849
      @budgetcommander4849 Год назад +114

      The hate for American cheese isn't because it's processed, it's because it tastes like ass

  • @velvasinn9200
    @velvasinn9200 11 месяцев назад +483

    “It almost taste sweaty”
    “Huh…”
    “You want some?”
    “No 💀”

    • @user-pi7ug4dm6m
      @user-pi7ug4dm6m 11 месяцев назад +4

      First off you're making American singles not American cheese you are making a cheese product not actual cheese there's a huge difference between real American cheese and Kraft singles or American singles

    • @DavidMG99
      @DavidMG99 11 месяцев назад

      😂😂

    • @SHADOW.RIZZARD
      @SHADOW.RIZZARD 11 месяцев назад +1

      ironically i read this at the exact moment 🤣🤣

    • @pinkifloyd7867
      @pinkifloyd7867 11 месяцев назад

      Exactly, just because it smells good doesn't mean its good for the body !!! Jeeezz

    • @EighmyLupin
      @EighmyLupin 11 месяцев назад

      @@user-pi7ug4dm6m No shit. Its the singles everyone who doesn't understand science thinks is plastic. Thats what he was debunking.

  • @Oleksandr-z6g
    @Oleksandr-z6g 11 дней назад +2

    Try putting cheese under pressure of the bottom of the ocean

  • @jarydanderson1400
    @jarydanderson1400 Год назад +416

    I'm beginning to wonder if Nile's only interactions with food are the ones we've seen on the channel

    • @qu4rtz732
      @qu4rtz732 Год назад +27

      the moment i saw him pull out a spatula instead of a whisk for cheese sauce was what did it for me

    • @mikumikuareka
      @mikumikuareka Год назад +8

      @@qu4rtz732 for me it was when he started mixing without even pulling out the thermometer. I can understand, why he would probably not use a whisk, maybe he simply doesn't have it in the lab (yes, turned out he did have it, but I gave a benefit of the doubt at the moment), but damn, you can't mix anything properly with this thing sticking out.

    • @adamgibbons6251
      @adamgibbons6251 Год назад +4

      You must not have seen him grating then?

    • @Soyed_Boy
      @Soyed_Boy Год назад +2

      did yall see how he flattened the bread, it was thinner than the cheese when he was done with it.

    • @jdmr4815
      @jdmr4815 Год назад +2

      @@adamgibbons6251And let's not forget holding the edge of the pot instead of the pot-handle while stirring.

  • @linamiller4208
    @linamiller4208 11 месяцев назад +189

    I love how scared your cameraman is, feels like the little brother overseeing big brother do something really dumb.

    • @SUBHRA38
      @SUBHRA38 11 месяцев назад

      Fr😂

  • @thebbie-phams
    @thebbie-phams 11 месяцев назад +551

    Nigel is slowly becoming a cooking channel and I'm all for it. The next video's gonna be something like making Pierogi from a broken fan blade I swear

    • @ReubenAStern
      @ReubenAStern 11 месяцев назад +1

      Heston Blumenthals new mentor

    • @EVPointMaster
      @EVPointMaster 11 месяцев назад +6

      "Making Glass edible"

    • @toast892
      @toast892 11 месяцев назад +5

      Poland mentioned

    • @Just_Sara
      @Just_Sara 11 месяцев назад

      As a person of Polish heritage, I'm here for the pierogi. @@toast892

    • @LilShepherdBoy
      @LilShepherdBoy 11 месяцев назад +2

      LMAOO
      Jesus Christ loves you, he has a plan and a purpose for your life, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
      Jesus loves you : )

  • @hhhbkid
    @hhhbkid 13 дней назад

    I love how the chemistry show has become a cooking show. Who would think I'd ever see butter melted in a beaker? 😂

  • @IntermissionNovel
    @IntermissionNovel 10 месяцев назад +1313

    Tried to make a Kraft Single, ended up making a Kraft triple

    • @Snezixtyfo
      @Snezixtyfo 9 месяцев назад +39

      Instructions unclear, made a Kraft Quadruplet²

    • @robertsaget6918
      @robertsaget6918 9 месяцев назад +3

      Bro started with Walmart brand cheese it was fake to beggining with from the start

    • @danielflanard8274
      @danielflanard8274 8 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@robertsaget6918
      What is "fake" cheese? I would not be surprised to learn that artificial cheese exists, it must exist out there in some form, but what is it if it does and how do you know that Kroger brand cheese is "fake" cheese?

    • @lordyasha5944
      @lordyasha5944 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@danielflanard8274its not made with the ferment process but instead with a gel that absorbs the ingredients of cheese. Doesnt taste the same and melts differently

    • @heheheiamderpmatter375
      @heheheiamderpmatter375 8 месяцев назад +1

      Nah, that's a Kraft quintuple.

  • @isaarunarom7830
    @isaarunarom7830 11 месяцев назад +356

    hear a chemist say "thats a table spoon right?" has me cracking up

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 11 месяцев назад +7

      Chemists usually measure in grams

    • @isaarunarom7830
      @isaarunarom7830 11 месяцев назад +23

      @@catpoke9557 chemist also don't eye things out, they Measure!
      Regardless of the unit being used I found humor in his nonchalant "that looks about right" kind of attitude.

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@isaarunarom7830 I thought what you were saying was funny was that he didn't know what a table spoon is rather than that he was eyeballing, my bad

  • @ChungusBig
    @ChungusBig 11 месяцев назад +716

    The editor is god tier with that "queso" subtitle

    • @Ueoeae
      @Ueoeae 11 месяцев назад +27

      Yeah I laughed so hard at that, almost ashamed of myself.

    • @mariahcareysbiggestfart
      @mariahcareysbiggestfart 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Ueoeaefor real, I had to pause 😂

    • @ACR_Legends
      @ACR_Legends 11 месяцев назад +4

      Literally saw this comment right before he said that

    • @bartoszpiacko9319
      @bartoszpiacko9319 11 месяцев назад

      ​​@@mariahcareysbiggestfartlook, it's a real fart of Mariah

    • @insectthing3066
      @insectthing3066 11 месяцев назад

      Queeee esooo?

  • @griffinsthunder
    @griffinsthunder Месяц назад +1

    Since there is no cheese that grows in nature, all cheeses are processed.

  • @bonanzaplays
    @bonanzaplays 11 месяцев назад +898

    Chemistry Teacher: no Food in the classroom!
    Nile: grates cheese in a lab

    • @MsDogleaf
      @MsDogleaf 11 месяцев назад +7

      Well did not break the rules

    • @ssjcrafter8842
      @ssjcrafter8842 11 месяцев назад +5

      @@MsDogleaf only because this processed cheese product is so garbage to the point it doesn't count as actual food...

    • @BaileySwartz
      @BaileySwartz 11 месяцев назад +5

      for these videos he has totally separate equipment and chemicals that are all food grade and in a separate area.

    • @baoquoc3710
      @baoquoc3710 11 месяцев назад

      with a fockin Mac Pro aluminum casing cause he's Nilewhatevathafockcolorheis

    • @NachitenRemix
      @NachitenRemix 11 месяцев назад

      No food in the lab* fixed your joke