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  • @maxboskeljon6440
    @maxboskeljon6440 Год назад +54108

    This man has pretty much every type of equipment he needs for chemistry but has to cut pizza with a spoon.

    • @jadaz5818
      @jadaz5818 Год назад +1184

      Spoon the pizza 'cause no knife

    • @KainYusanagi
      @KainYusanagi Год назад +1037

      He definitely has knives, too.

    • @v.t.3064
      @v.t.3064 Год назад +318

      @@KainYusanagi that caught me so off guard 😂

    • @chillydickie
      @chillydickie Год назад +110

      Because science!!!

    • @Spencerlayne
      @Spencerlayne Год назад +212

      Either that or he's lazy like me some times where I can't be arsed to wash up a knife 🤣

  • @swaydoo
    @swaydoo Год назад +2893

    I sort of feel like the cracked and broken pizza is a pretty nice visual metaphor for Nigel trying so desperately to preserve his memories of childhood.

    • @TheJunnutin
      @TheJunnutin Год назад +163

      The harder you grasp....

    • @halomika4973
      @halomika4973 Год назад +235

      ​@@TheJunnutin ...the harder your pizza cracks. So true man

    • @nuclearcatbaby1131
      @nuclearcatbaby1131 Год назад +29

      Good thing for me my childhood was too traumatizing for me to want to eat anything I ate as a child.

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад +19

      @@nuclearcatbaby1131 my one is a mixed experience.
      Crunchy noodles I had with my grandma? Yes ofc
      Broccoli omelette? F*ck no.

    • @nuclearcatbaby1131
      @nuclearcatbaby1131 Год назад +8

      @@PhantomGato-v- The foods I hate most are the foods I hated as a kid. I don’t hate any new foods as much as those.
      As for foods I liked as a kid... like McDonald’s, I don’t like it anymore. Tastes a lot blander than it used to. Not sure if they changed the recipe or if my tastebuds just evolved. But apparently they stopped using lard when I was just a baby.

  • @buggibii
    @buggibii 10 месяцев назад +4595

    I like how his solution to food chains no longer selling his favorite food was not to learn how to make them, but to freeze a finite amount indefinitely.

    • @angmaraboli6511
      @angmaraboli6511 9 месяцев назад +10

      * infinite

    • @Silver-2802
      @Silver-2802 9 месяцев назад +283

      @@angmaraboli6511 very much still finite

    • @absolutemaniac7368
      @absolutemaniac7368 9 месяцев назад +144

      ​@@angmaraboli6511 It definitely is not infinite

    • @danielcurtis1434
      @danielcurtis1434 9 месяцев назад +150

      You see the pure cookie video??? The guy can’t cook. He cut up unsweetened baking chocolate for the chocolate chips!!!
      Dude needs some cooking therapy bad.
      I’m no chef, but I try…

    • @jeremyr3029
      @jeremyr3029 9 месяцев назад +30

      ​@danielcurtis1434 I came here to make the first point, why not learn how then as soon as I saw your comment I remembered exactly why it's a bad idea lmao

  • @twotendj
    @twotendj 7 месяцев назад +416

    NileRed: That would be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS...
    NileBlue: *casually walks through liquid nitrogen*

    • @dragons_of_magicgirl368
      @dragons_of_magicgirl368 7 месяцев назад +5

      He didn't touch the liquid nitrogen at all, it was just nitrogen gas

    • @Fluctlight15
      @Fluctlight15 3 месяца назад

      Im pretty sure you can touch liquid nitrogen, its only dangerous if you pour your fingers in for a long time.

  • @nelsoncapehart1659
    @nelsoncapehart1659 Год назад +4904

    as informative and polished as the content on NileRed is, i genuinely enjoy the unhinged, fuck around and find out direction NileBlue has taken. NileRed is what you publish to a scientific paper, and NileBlue is what you actually did in the lab screwing around while you waited on reactions and instruments to finish running 😂

    • @abhisheksinha3361
      @abhisheksinha3361 Год назад +17

      Woah you're lucky dude

    • @cparks1000000
      @cparks1000000 Год назад +58

      I strongly prefer NileRed, but I also understand how hard it is to produce that content.

    • @l-l
      @l-l Год назад +141

      Just wait till you hear about NileGreen

    • @Someone-sq8im
      @Someone-sq8im Год назад +134

      And NileGreen is when you end up drunk in the lab

    • @itsteebz484
      @itsteebz484 Год назад +109

      NileRed in the streets
      NileBlue in the sheets

  • @rachelgilyard3430
    @rachelgilyard3430 Год назад +4425

    Because of how Nile reacts to horrible smells, I don't trust him at all when he says, "It actually tastes fine".

    • @blazey8283
      @blazey8283 Год назад +166

      @@TippyHippy how many calories?

    • @Rituraj-cp8qn
      @Rituraj-cp8qn Год назад +31

      @@blazey8283 27

    • @randomclips42069
      @randomclips42069 Год назад +32

      ​@@Rituraj-cp8qn nah man it was atleast 28

    • @notnobody762
      @notnobody762 Год назад +37

      This comment section is just 😘😘

    • @l2gabb738
      @l2gabb738 Год назад +29

      ​@@TippyHippy double it and give it to the next person

  • @medwedscreepytrash6020
    @medwedscreepytrash6020 Год назад +5366

    Reggie serves a critical function not only as the cameraman, but as the man who goes outside regularly enough to recognize a sin against nature while it is in progress.

    • @pedroarjona6996
      @pedroarjona6996 Год назад +298

      But He wouldn't stop it, no matter what. He is even willing to partake.

    • @sh3ikmustafa428
      @sh3ikmustafa428 Год назад +47

      LMAOOOOO IM DEAAADD

    • @delskif1425
      @delskif1425 Год назад +24

      ​@Pedro Arjona anything for science

    • @Qubanlink.
      @Qubanlink. Год назад +15

      So…. basically Skips from Regular Show? 🤣

    • @REDDMAN1996
      @REDDMAN1996 Год назад +1

      ​@@Qubanlink.😂

  • @BanditLeader
    @BanditLeader 6 месяцев назад +258

    This is why NASA has a test kitchen to R&D the best way to maximize flavour (and texture) for rehydrated freeze-dried food because no astronaut wants to eat terrible food while in space.

    • @alexc3504
      @alexc3504 Месяц назад +13

      morale when you're in space is very important!

  • @CheesiX8
    @CheesiX8 Год назад +9261

    NileRed is calm and collected, NileBlue is flash freezing a hole in your floor.

    • @beingsactual
      @beingsactual Год назад +754

      "Nice objective opinion. One small issue: I am flash-freezing your home."

    • @ianmcgregor576
      @ianmcgregor576 Год назад

      NileGreen puts you into the liquid nitrogen

    • @chongyunmain
      @chongyunmain Год назад

      ​@Maria CANCER nice pfp ovarian cancer maria

    • @Yusni-bc2cm
      @Yusni-bc2cm Год назад +92

      More like a NileGreen video

    • @Coyote0874
      @Coyote0874 Год назад +100

      NileRed is Gus Fring and NileBlue is Lalo Salamanca

  • @kit4206
    @kit4206 Год назад +1709

    "Pizza time" he whispers to himself as he puts a freeze dried, crumbled mess that once resembled a pizza in a steamer to rehydrate it, like its not the most unhinged and insane thing someone ever did.
    Love it

    • @travv88
      @travv88 Год назад +104

      you won't call it insane when he is eating pizza crackers and you're eating crickets

    • @kit4206
      @kit4206 Год назад +17

      @@travv88 touché

    • @Mink_Tracks
      @Mink_Tracks Год назад +26

      18:46 for anyone who wants a time stamp

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад +15

      This is Nigel; it's not even the most unhinged and insane thing he's done this month.

    • @lambda_calc
      @lambda_calc Год назад +2

      ​@@Mink_Tracks when he said "this will work perfectly" and set the lid down I just burst into laughter

  • @ok_ok.
    @ok_ok. Год назад +2882

    Nile is the only person who can say, ‘that’s the worst thing I’ve ever tasted’ with a straight face and continuing to chew.

    • @mikedrop4421
      @mikedrop4421 Год назад +123

      I gotta give the man credit, he always willing to taste whatever travesty he makes

    • @thisiscait
      @thisiscait Год назад +5

      He really isn't...

    • @Kuli24000
      @Kuli24000 Год назад +8

      Me too. I take it as an experience instead of spitting out bad food.

    • @Lee-One
      @Lee-One Год назад +25

      @@thisiscait then you literally have watched none of his videos

    • @Lee-One
      @Lee-One Год назад +28

      @@thisiscaitjust look at the worst smelling video, he didn’t even care, he’s like hmmmm smells like like throw up and continues to smell it

  • @casey6556
    @casey6556 5 месяцев назад +78

    The fact that there are no Taco Bells in all of Quebec is the origin of a running joke in my group chat where whenever one of us is out of town we “flex” by grabbing Taco Bell and Baja Blast

  • @shimpers
    @shimpers Год назад +9336

    he’s getting closer and closer to becoming a real life flint lockwood

  • @lavender3609
    @lavender3609 Год назад +793

    For the entire video, I genuinely thought that they'd just written NileBlue with a marker on top of some masking tape and just stuck it on a normal black shirt for the humor of it.
    That is beautiful. It fits this channel perfectly

    • @romangiertych5198
      @romangiertych5198 Год назад +22

      Wait, did they not do that?

    • @sscswimmer1
      @sscswimmer1 Год назад +19

      I'm pretty sure they did, but it's swapped out at the end

    • @danielmantell8751
      @danielmantell8751 Год назад +15

      I was totally fooled. Was planning to comment how funny the masking tape was the entire time.

    • @atriyakoller136
      @atriyakoller136 Год назад +4

      I didn't even notice it until I read the comment hahaha

    • @lavender3609
      @lavender3609 Год назад +3

      @@sscswimmer1 Ohh, maybe. Well, regardless, good shirt.

  • @Hzul_
    @Hzul_ Год назад +2050

    nigel is deffinitely the guy that would do all this instead of just learning how to cook the food yourself

    • @saywhoamiimanobody.freeasa3782
      @saywhoamiimanobody.freeasa3782 Год назад +24

      @Hzul _ * that is his idea, but the idea of food rations is not bad especially nowadays for canning. And our upcoming food shortage.

    • @Sandux930
      @Sandux930 Год назад +6

      for real. uber eats is a thing in Canada too

    • @enisra_bowman
      @enisra_bowman Год назад +19

      i would laughed SO hard if the Video would have been a factor sponsorship video :D

    • @nintando
      @nintando Год назад +10

      he even has the entire metal pot right there

    • @crowdemon_archives
      @crowdemon_archives Год назад +22

      To be fair, cooking is just another form of chemistry.

  • @ShadowTheCoyote
    @ShadowTheCoyote 7 месяцев назад +51

    I love that he did all this work just to reinvent the MRE

    • @giygasness7646
      @giygasness7646 7 месяцев назад +2

      SteveMRE moment

    • @bbgun061
      @bbgun061 7 месяцев назад +2

      MREs aren't freeze dried. But backpacking meals are. They're pretty good. But the way you rehydrate them is by adding boiling water. So I doubt pizza would work.

    • @giygasness7646
      @giygasness7646 7 месяцев назад +3

      @bbgun061 some mres used to be freeze-dried, things like muesli and some entrées were freeze-dried before they switched over to the flameless ration heaters

    • @BanditLeader
      @BanditLeader 6 месяцев назад

      No, he reinvented astronaut food. This is literally what NASA does

  • @alloounou6900
    @alloounou6900 11 месяцев назад +1294

    This guy's commitment to recipes in labs and shear avoidance of recipes in kitchens is commendable.

    • @Jase_LV
      @Jase_LV 9 месяцев назад +42

      That's normal. Because in chemistry you have strict weights and exact steps which taken will produce the same result with 99.9% accuracy. In kitchen, most people go by feel and taste, and when I ask how much eaxtly is spoon full of stuff, I get weird looks (with big hill? Small hill? Level with spoon edges?)

    • @alloounou6900
      @alloounou6900 9 месяцев назад +9

      @@Jase_LV Fair. Stovetop and grilling can be that way. Breads and desserts tend to be fairly specific and precise.

    • @julie-18
      @julie-18 7 месяцев назад +21

      considering what he did with the cookies he can’t be trusted with making food

    • @Dctctx
      @Dctctx 7 месяцев назад

      For good reason. He should be kept away from any kind of kitchen

  • @leosmith5209
    @leosmith5209 Год назад +695

    Here is a thought. Measure the weight of each item before and after freeze drying, then you will be able to calculate how much water is needed to rehydrate. Smaller chunks rehydrate better. Separate the rice and other items so you can rehydrate separately. I am interested in freeze dried foods because of backpacking.

    • @kevinroscom
      @kevinroscom Год назад +16

      I thought about that and also rehydrate inside of a pressure cooker. Just a guess but maybe it'll push the water inside of the food? Idk

    • @MonsterUpTheStairs
      @MonsterUpTheStairs Год назад +28

      @@kevinroscom sadly, pressure cookers doesn't use pressure in that way.
      What I think could work better is to fill a plastic bag with the food and the exact amount of water needed, seal the food in a vaccuum bag and then extract the air without extracting the water. That way the water can be "pushed" against the food, which then has the time/space to absorb it. Of course, that's not a practical solution, but it would work in the way you wanted it to with the pressure cooker.

    • @haoyu53
      @haoyu53 Год назад +17

      @@MonsterUpTheStairs One problem I can think of is that with something like bread the outer parts would absorb too much water and become soggy while the inner parts are still dry

    • @Zero_2558
      @Zero_2558 Год назад +6

      Actually if the rice texture is pasty which means it actually got too much water but while the chicken needs a bit more, Is actually quite close already as reheated chicken will be tougher and harder to chew to start with usually. So they can try separating the rice and chicken and add different amounts of water to make it better, but hey that’s a very good first try I would say but need some refinement to make it actually reversible

    • @tomshotdogs6645
      @tomshotdogs6645 Год назад

      @@MonsterUpTheStairs Honestly.... that actually sounds pretty viable and a half decent way to do it. Leave it to reconstitute in the fridge for a day or two, most home vacuum sealers have a setting to do exactly that these days; and then sous vide to cook it right in the same bag.

  • @destros6576
    @destros6576 Год назад +772

    I thought something you might want to consider is weighing the food before and after to know the amount of moisture that was lost in the process. That way, when rehydrating it, you won't do so with too much or too little water. Sorry if someone has already suggested this.

    • @Aera223
      @Aera223 Год назад +7

      Great idea!

    • @hed420
      @hed420 Год назад +44

      This is what everyone in the freeze drying / prepper community does.

    • @Charlie.Fraser
      @Charlie.Fraser Год назад +2

      Great idea 👍

    • @sauravayyagari7606
      @sauravayyagari7606 Год назад +3

      don't be sorry mate, what r u also a flipping canadian?

    • @destros6576
      @destros6576 Год назад +2

      @@sauravayyagari7606 nah from Hawaii so.. Basically the same thing in that aspect.

  • @specialk082599
    @specialk082599 8 месяцев назад +26

    “Water the general Tao” had me rolling

  • @tonymorris3935
    @tonymorris3935 Год назад +430

    Generally, when reconstituting freeze dried food, you want to weigh the food before and after the drying process and add that much water back, usually by pouring hot water over the food and letting it stand for 10 to 15 minutes. Reconstitution also works better on smaller pieces or powderized food, as the water is able to penetrate faster and allows for more even hydration.

    • @sootikins
      @sootikins Год назад +53

      Agreed. And trying to reconstitute several things together (meat and rice) is destined to fail because one requires more water than the other (thus the before & after weighing you described). Pizza is probably hopeless because of this - soggy crust, partially rehydrated pepperoni, etc. Also I won't even get into what a ghetto freeze drying cycle he ran. No temperature control much less temperature ramping, etc.

    • @tsawy6
      @tsawy6 Год назад +45

      @@sootikins I'm living for the term 'ghetto freeze drying'

    • @jono6379
      @jono6379 Год назад +3

      I was thinking similar with the weighing but for reheating maybe sous vide would work better? If you vac sealed it with the water lost it should force the water back in I would think

    • @restingsleep
      @restingsleep Год назад +9

      GHETTO FREEZE DRYING LMAOO

    • @AlbatrossCommando
      @AlbatrossCommando Год назад +9

      @@sootikins Yeah it took the US military literally four decades of R&D to come up with a shelf stable freeze driable pizza.

  • @jablue4329
    @jablue4329 Год назад +1887

    My man is grieving this chicken chipotle wrap more than I've seen people grieve family members

    • @generalrubbish9513
      @generalrubbish9513 Год назад +137

      I know, right? At first, I got worried that he's about to talk about something really sad and serious, and then he goes "cHiCkEn cHiPotLe wrAP". I love this dude.

    • @AGenaille
      @AGenaille Год назад +58

      I get it. McDonalds is such a source of reliability, change is shocking. I have a friend who went on a killing spree after McDonalds changed dollar drink days to "summer drink days".

    • @seanshomeshop325
      @seanshomeshop325 Год назад +41

      to be fair i dont think it'd be good to make a video on freeze drying family members, thats reserved for Walt Disney

    • @Rainkit
      @Rainkit Год назад +30

      The stresses of life get infinitely worse when your comfort food is gone lol

    • @bobdancebobdance9456
      @bobdancebobdance9456 Год назад +3

      @@Rainkit fax

  • @samisheikh6213
    @samisheikh6213 Год назад +2033

    Nile literally had a Heinz Doofenshmirtzin moment explaining the sad problems he is facing and used the power of science to solve it

    • @frostbitedragon9
      @frostbitedragon9 Год назад +113

      Welcome Reggie the Echidna, as you have fallen in to my trap and shall now serve as my camera man for this commercial im making for my new
      ' *Food Preserve-inator* '
      incredible i know, well you see Reggie **input Niles story about the food he likes not being available** . And so i figured why not make my food last forever.

    • @luckyabdurrahman1085
      @luckyabdurrahman1085 Год назад +39

      @@frostbitedragon9 I actually read that with doofenshmirtz voice

    • @tomvesely4008
      @tomvesely4008 Год назад +33

      Behold, my Nostalgicfoodinator!

    • @advmx3
      @advmx3 Год назад +14

      While all he needed to do was to learn how to make the food he loved and that would essentially deal with the problem.

    • @frostbitedragon9
      @frostbitedragon9 Год назад +1

      @@luckyabdurrahman1085 as you should ;D.

  • @Dawn_AS
    @Dawn_AS 9 месяцев назад +9

    26:39 “I did not like this objective opinions.” Nile i love you

  • @kaliditzy
    @kaliditzy Год назад +800

    NileRed is the chemistry channel while NileBlue is the alchemy channel

    • @insertnamehere9200
      @insertnamehere9200 Год назад +17

      I fully agree with this statement

    • @theredvelvetyfox8814
      @theredvelvetyfox8814 Год назад +34

      Alchemy is just chemistry but 90% more unhinged, so yes

    • @lemons1559
      @lemons1559 Год назад

      @@theredvelvetyfox8814 seeking enlightenment and immortality through chemistry. Basically medieval crackheads.

    • @osterlaich6395
      @osterlaich6395 Год назад +2

      Oh really?

  • @georgejanzen774
    @georgejanzen774 Год назад +3698

    Nigel: Disappears to build his fancy new lab.
    Also Nigel: Proceeds to ruin his lab with liquid N2.

    • @rkirke1
      @rkirke1 Год назад +124

      Yeah, from memory the floor was some kind of elite ultra chemical resistant stuff, wasn't it? Or am I thinking of Breaking Bad.. Either way, I'm surprised that LN2 killed it so easily, over the years I have seen plenty of school and college teachers dump buckets of it on floors and carpets to no ill effect..

    • @mariomario5234
      @mariomario5234 Год назад +154

      @@rkirke1 I may be completely wrong with this so take it with a grain of salt, but I assume the floor cracked because the liquid nitrogen was concentrated in a container on the floor. When you pour it directly on the floor, it spreads out, so it's more likely to pretty much immediately evaporate.

    • @rkirke1
      @rkirke1 Год назад +41

      @@mariomario5234 Yeah, fair point. I guess being poured on a (relatively) warm floor would boil a lot of it away before the floor lost too much heat + also have some leidenfrost bounciness going on

    • @definitelynotyourdad6333
      @definitelynotyourdad6333 Год назад +15

      You don't eat pizza with a spoon?

    • @rkirke1
      @rkirke1 Год назад +8

      @@definitelynotyourdad6333 Only when all the forks are dirty..

  • @Einstein-wasnt-all-that-smart
    @Einstein-wasnt-all-that-smart Год назад +2437

    I like to think that Nile's weak sense of taste and smell come from his childhood chemistry experiments in his parents' garage

    • @Nick-hm9rh
      @Nick-hm9rh Год назад +214

      Remember when he did the bad smelling stuff and was unfazed while his cameraman was dying? Yeah

    • @Takoala
      @Takoala Год назад +69

      Like, taste is still highly related to smell, so it's kinda expected his sense of taste would be lessened

    • @rylenstuffsv2
      @rylenstuffsv2 Год назад +37

      ​@Nick Even The Unstopable Camera Man was dying, how's that possible that's against all rules we've understood

    • @Zeemas
      @Zeemas Год назад +46

      His sense of smell and taste buds are definitely toasted

    • @charliewilson8782
      @charliewilson8782 Год назад +67

      He's talked on the Safety Third podcast before about accidentally smelling something like nitric or sulfuric acid (or maybe ammonia?) so yeah he's definitely fried his sense of smell several times with chemistry

  • @Pinky-kc8go
    @Pinky-kc8go Месяц назад +13

    3:12 underrated transition. 10/10

  • @cliffritch7304
    @cliffritch7304 Год назад +951

    Additional change that could help with the rehydration step: Since adding heat cooks the food, you could use a piezoelectric transducer to create a fog without any heat, allowing you to reintroduce moisture without cooking the food. Joelcreates made a video with that idea changing toast back to standard bread (the reverse toaster)

    • @aerostatikk297
      @aerostatikk297 Год назад +53

      Or just use a humid box (like a dry box but with water instead of desiccant) instead of getting so fancy.

    • @lilganja1337
      @lilganja1337 Год назад +95

      Additionally calculating the weight with and without the water to not under or over moisturize

    • @AURESHION
      @AURESHION Год назад +10

      I was gonna suggest something almost exactly like this, just put the food in a box with a humidifier on the highest setting and heat it to around 60C (so it doesn't cook further)

    • @dancampbell5068
      @dancampbell5068 Год назад +5

      When I was working in kitchens we used to concentrate the flavours of certain foods such as watermelon and cucumber by vacuuming it which served to ‘force’ the juices back into the food after breaking down the cells. I wonder if there’s a machine that will allow you to do this whilst introducing a water vapour

    • @RaptorNX01
      @RaptorNX01 Год назад +6

      @@lilganja1337 I would wonder tho if you would have to do each part of the food separately. the pepperoni, cheese, crust and sauce all would have different moisture levels. would they absorb back just what they had, or would it be evenly distributed, leaving parts too moist, and parts too dry?

  • @erohwnaibsel
    @erohwnaibsel Год назад +2108

    regular people: gets the recipes for their favorite foods
    neil: imortal food

  • @GoHerping
    @GoHerping Год назад +186

    "I'm worried the pizza is gonna explode" is how I'd summarize nileblue in one sentence

  • @Phant0m0321
    @Phant0m0321 Год назад +5195

    NileRed: Takes all precautions to make sure there are no accidents
    NileBlue: Directly pours liquid nitrogen into a plastic bin

    • @abdjahdoiahdoai
      @abdjahdoiahdoai Год назад +386

      NileGreen: let’s nuke things

    • @Havinghard
      @Havinghard Год назад +176

      NileWhite: tictok dances when mixing combustible chemicals

    • @coolicie
      @coolicie Год назад +129

      NileBlack: is literally just depressed

    • @ishaanharry8995
      @ishaanharry8995 Год назад +132

      Nilepurple: just Nilered but stoned out of his mind

    • @Chrax131
      @Chrax131 Год назад +64

      NileBrown: you know whathe will do

  • @MadeThisStuff
    @MadeThisStuff Год назад +514

    Picturing Nigel just watering his chicken and rice as part of his daily routine just cracks me up

    • @paulkanja
      @paulkanja Год назад +8

      I swear watering them for slightly less quantities for a longer period should actually work

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад +1

      I'm imagining a postapocalyptic bunker where there's no plant life to be seen, just a watering can for the food.

  • @MrGeorgeFlorcus
    @MrGeorgeFlorcus Год назад +318

    Nile breaking his bucket AND his floor with liquid nitrogen, continuing the streak of NileBlue videos being the most haphazard science videos on RUclips

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard Год назад +2

      Explosions&Fire would be a channel you'd love. He made liquid oxygen and dropped white phosphorus on a stick into it

  • @memington420
    @memington420 3 месяца назад +7

    bros going thru all stages of grief for the mcdonalds chicken chipotle wrap😭

  • @bopsop2246
    @bopsop2246 Год назад +578

    i genuinely thought he'd learn food chemistry. Not in a million years would I expect him to do this

    • @alanbockelman
      @alanbockelman Год назад +38

      This isn't food chemistry, it's just chemistry and food.

    • @xBINARYGODx
      @xBINARYGODx Год назад +6

      @@alanbockelman looks like neither to me kek

    • @CubicalLaboratory
      @CubicalLaboratory Год назад +6

      Lol this is Nile Blue, not Nile Red, so no rule chemistry

  • @gwencatz2483
    @gwencatz2483 Год назад +1286

    There's something horrifying about Nile pouring water onto the chicken and commenting, *"It's so thirsty"*

    • @I_am_high_as_the_flipping_sky
      @I_am_high_as_the_flipping_sky Год назад +23

      Even after death...

    • @bananawitchcraft
      @bananawitchcraft Год назад +29

      For a Halloween special he could feed it drops of his own blood and watch it resurrect into Count Squawkula. I mean Chickenstein's monster. Night of the Chicken Heads?

  • @firekeeper4632
    @firekeeper4632 Год назад +1461

    Nigel:
    "Putting food in the freezer gives it freezer burn and I think that's bad"
    Also Nigel: *busts out liquid nitrogen*

    • @gilded_lady
      @gilded_lady Год назад +90

      Liquid nitrogen makes amazing ice cream because it's flash frozen.

    • @OpreanMircea
      @OpreanMircea Год назад +50

      Different size ice crystals from liquid nitrogen or your home freezer

    • @polarknight5376
      @polarknight5376 3 месяца назад +6

      What's funny is that freezer burn is basically freeze drying. He literally just gave it the worst freezer burn food can get.

  • @sleepyvalley2577
    @sleepyvalley2577 Месяц назад +3

    8:37 bro that pizza got an aura

  • @liamday7795
    @liamday7795 Год назад +1108

    Man Nigel needs to hang out with US military food scientists. They've spent decades trying to get shelf stable pizza right and achieved "basically edible".

    • @gabrielfraser2109
      @gabrielfraser2109 Год назад +108

      Don't ask them about Omelettes.

    • @bren007pie2
      @bren007pie2 Год назад +45

      Right? Really happy to hear they cracked pizza but he also needs to hang out with the people at NASA who've been doing this since the 90s.

    • @kutsumiru
      @kutsumiru Год назад +113

      That browning of the cheese was apparently their biggest hurdle
      The pizza MRE almost got axed because they could keep it shelf stable, maintain its taste and nutritional value, but could not keep the color right
      For what was supposed to be a morale oriented MRE meal, no one wanted brown pizza

    • @ssun9074
      @ssun9074 Год назад +13

      @@kutsumiru I think if they did the slow rehydration method then popped it in an oven for a couple minutes you could get pretty close to the real thing. Obviously a 12-hour rehydration isn't very useful in the field but it's interesting to see the developments going on here

    • @capitalinventor4823
      @capitalinventor4823 Год назад +7

      Why hang out with US military food scientists when there are food scientists in Canada, where he is from, working on similar problems for military, space, and civilian applications. Of course the point of the video wasn't to come up with a version of pizza that's capable of being freeze dried. The point was to take their favourite take away food and try to freeze dry it with the hope that they could reconstitute it successfully.

  • @mundolukas
    @mundolukas Год назад +2372

    Nigel and his cameraman's interactions are my favorite part, they have such good chemistry

  • @Wiggywatup
    @Wiggywatup Год назад +419

    I send my deepest condolences to you and everyone affected by this. No one should have to suffer a loss so dire as this. Great to see you persevering through this chickens wrap catastrophe

    • @Deses
      @Deses Год назад +12

      Chicken wrap apocalypse, even.

    • @neilgerace355
      @neilgerace355 Год назад +2

      I send my deepest condolences to the pizza, the poor thing.

    • @somemusicfan01
      @somemusicfan01 Год назад

      snack wraps the real mvp o7

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад

      @@somemusicfan01 snack wrap is the savior of humanity.

    • @somemusicfan01
      @somemusicfan01 Год назад +1

      @@PhantomGato-v- snack wraps could have prevented covid

  • @smixxYT
    @smixxYT 8 месяцев назад +5

    Every video I've seen on this channel has made me question existence.
    keep up the good work :)

  • @christophermarin9125
    @christophermarin9125 Год назад +497

    Problem with the steamer was the temperature, you might try just keeping the food further from the boiling water. You also might try a ultrasonic humidifier for hydrating the food slowly to a specific % humidity (with distilled water to prevent molding over time) and follow that by cooking it without the microwave (which makes general tso's rubbery even when it hasn't been freeze dried).

    • @nuclearduck13
      @nuclearduck13 Год назад +10

      This is what I was thinking. Joel Creates made an un-toaster using the same thing and it worked pretty well

    • @brutuslugo3969
      @brutuslugo3969 Год назад +10

      Vacuum seal it with the exact amount of water he lost and cook it sous vid style

    • @shawnalfaro6943
      @shawnalfaro6943 Год назад

      instant pot hello

    • @BooBaddyBig
      @BooBaddyBig Год назад +1

      Yes, rehydrating it above ~70C water should work reasonably well. 70C water has a reasonable vapor pressure and would warm it, and wouldn't overcook it.

  • @Mis7erSeven
    @Mis7erSeven Год назад +2635

    NileBlue in the future: "I don't want to lose anymore of my friends, so I found a way to preserve them."

    • @alkeryn1700
      @alkeryn1700 Год назад +254

      "hmmm, he's like 90% of what he once was"

    • @matthewwriter9539
      @matthewwriter9539 Год назад +40

      ...which is actually why A.I. girlfriends were created.

    • @matthewwriter9539
      @matthewwriter9539 Год назад +28

      @@alkeryn1700...yeah, but that last 10% is really important.

    • @alkeryn1700
      @alkeryn1700 Год назад +7

      @@matthewwriter9539 kind of my point haha.

    • @aerospherology2001
      @aerospherology2001 Год назад +13

      Flash freeze your best friend!

  • @ragingwillie483
    @ragingwillie483 Год назад +1797

    nigel: makes grape soda from gloves
    also nigel: cuts pizza with a spoon
    smh

    • @danisyx5804
      @danisyx5804 Год назад +37

      i was surprised it wasn't a hammer.

    • @Elitaria
      @Elitaria Год назад +30

      ​@@danisyx5804 I was surprised it wasn't hydrochloride acid.

  • @shashankyadav5703
    @shashankyadav5703 6 дней назад +1

    the opening is so emotional

  • @SadeN_0
    @SadeN_0 Год назад +2550

    Honestly I love how NileRed is the channel for very dry, tedious and meticulous general chemistry..
    And then you have food chemistry with Nile Blue, which is just a non-stop slapstick tragicomedy of finding out

    • @Xenothios
      @Xenothios Год назад

      like the experimental philosophies of post and pre dark ages science. on the one hand is a caveman eating the shit he found growing on a log, on the other hand is someone carefully redistributing atomic bonds

    • @alexia3552
      @alexia3552 Год назад +140

      "Non-stop slapstick tragicomedy of finding out" what a great sentence

    • @bakto2122
      @bakto2122 Год назад +78

      to be fair this video was also pretty dry. At the end they did try to hydrate it but the results werent all that good

    • @decrepitdebauchery
      @decrepitdebauchery Год назад

      @@bakto2122 LOLOLOL

    • @bakto2122
      @bakto2122 Год назад

      @@decrepitdebauchery XD

  • @spiinniing
    @spiinniing Год назад +946

    Finally... Nile has turned "uncooked" from an adjective into a past tense verb.

    • @LordLongHands
      @LordLongHands Год назад +17

      with his infinite knowledge he has uncooked the entire world

    • @shounakhinge8
      @shounakhinge8 Год назад +4

      Underrated comment.

    • @ShihammeDarc
      @ShihammeDarc Год назад +10

      That's a really witty comment. Rare RUclips comment win.

    • @LouseGrouse
      @LouseGrouse Год назад +2

      A Nile linguistics channel would probably be all kinds of fucked up, he’s too powerful.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад +1

      We'd have to call this "de-cooked".

  • @crazilycrazy29
    @crazilycrazy29 Год назад +1377

    Nile makes being a mad scientist sound not that bad.

    • @AMan-xz7tx
      @AMan-xz7tx Год назад +37

      seems more like disgruntled chemist than mad scientist

    • @blakksheep736
      @blakksheep736 Год назад +46

      @@AMan-xz7tx "Disgruntled Scientist" sounds like a great character trope.
      A person tried being a mad scientist but soon found it exhausting and expensive, not to mention legally problematic, so they switched to more inane but still outstanding experiments.

    • @halomika4973
      @halomika4973 Год назад +22

      ​@@blakksheep736 thanks for giving me a new DnD character background to annoy my DM with :3

    • @yoyoyo8087
      @yoyoyo8087 Год назад +3

      He’s mad scientist. It’s so cool!

    • @megumin2137
      @megumin2137 Год назад +2

      ​@@blakksheep736 steins;gate be like

  • @TryksterJawbreaker
    @TryksterJawbreaker 9 месяцев назад +6

    NileRed: I turned plastic gloves into grape soda
    NileBlue: So it’s been five days, which is significantly longer than one day.

  • @Rolatii
    @Rolatii Год назад +226

    The moment I heard you say you were going to freeze dry things, I had flashbacks to the food sciences course I used to help out in. So many blocks of dried, room temperature ice-cream...
    Then I saw the kinds of food you were going to try to preserve, and at that point I was curious to see how bad the result would be.
    And *then* you busted out the liquid nitrogen.

  • @fosterandnava
    @fosterandnava Год назад +2023

    Reggie: *genuinely concerned* “Why is it bending like that?”
    Nile: *laughs*

  • @valentine87002
    @valentine87002 10 месяцев назад +558

    absolute favorite bit of this video is nile saying "hey guys, you guys want some... food?" with a distinct pause before saying 'food' (25:56 ish)

    • @agnoopinni
      @agnoopinni 8 месяцев назад +36

      And the evil chuckle afterwards

    • @ewpert.
      @ewpert. 7 месяцев назад +7

      I don't think I would eat his food

    • @Krakyy
      @Krakyy 3 месяца назад +7

      i like how his voice shakes a bit when he says "food" cause hes trying not to laugh but then laughs right afterwards

  • @Zhincore
    @Zhincore 2 месяца назад +2

    6:19 he just teleports after saying those words

  • @evelynlamoy8483
    @evelynlamoy8483 Год назад +370

    Take the weight of the food before and after freeze drying so you know the exact amount of moisture lost.
    This can help you hone in on a more exact amount to add back when thawing.

    • @HelloWorld568
      @HelloWorld568 Год назад +54

      ...and separate the dissimilar products

    • @JesusFriedChrist
      @JesusFriedChrist Год назад +8

      Yes, very important to take measurements.

    • @L4ftyOne
      @L4ftyOne Год назад +1

      go vegan

    • @theobsidianninja4957
      @theobsidianninja4957 Год назад +1

      and I dont think microwaving was the best way to re-heat it. The steamer *is* good at making something tender while also heating it up and they complain several times about it being too hard. I think the *best* way to do it (though still not good cuz of the different moisture levels other people have mentioned) is to add most of the water back with a spray bottle and then add the last bit back while re-heating it using the steamer

    • @whateverppl1229
      @whateverppl1229 Год назад +2

      @@theobsidianninja4957 yeah, the microwave requires the food to have water to heat it up, because all it does is add energy to water. I was thinking of some modified version of the steamer. maybe have where the food sits, 5-10 feet up so the steam cools a bit before it reaches the food. It would help a little bit with the food over cooking on the outside.

  • @surfingraichu7594
    @surfingraichu7594 Год назад +613

    This is the most “man refuses to learn how to cook” moment I’ve seen in at least 3 weeks😂

    • @AustralianMurderTurtle
      @AustralianMurderTurtle Год назад +33

      Man tries to use chemistry to keep left-overs.

    • @MrSonny6155
      @MrSonny6155 Год назад +11

      I would ask "why only three weeks?", but I've found that by internalising that question, I could find a person who fits the bill from within the last 12 hours.

    • @maxma1203
      @maxma1203 Год назад +9

      he can only cook meth since hes a chemistry scientist

  • @Spongman
    @Spongman Год назад +638

    you know... most houses nowadays come with their own special labs where you can perform chemistry experiments that you can eat!? they even come with their own kinds of lab aprons, gloves and glassware. you usually don't need protective eyeware, though. unless you're cutting onions.

    • @RicardoMontania
      @RicardoMontania Год назад

      What?

    • @edmondhung6097
      @edmondhung6097 Год назад +13

      Cooking is Chemistry. I mean both kind of cooking

    • @abitofabitofabit4404
      @abitofabitofabit4404 Год назад +3

      @@edmondhung6097 OK Gus Fring

    • @alienblade2005
      @alienblade2005 Год назад

      ​@@edmondhung6097 Cooling is art, baking is chemistry

    • @dont-worry-about-it-
      @dont-worry-about-it- Год назад +2

      Unfortunately, I've tried using chemistry goggles while cutting onions and it did not work :( my eyes were still burning

  • @piggynajfl6518
    @piggynajfl6518 11 дней назад +1

    3:10 honestly that might just be the smoothest transition ever

  • @gearon7626
    @gearon7626 9 месяцев назад +1029

    A chemist who can’t cook is the most cartoon character trait out there

    • @flamingdog9207
      @flamingdog9207 4 месяца назад +39

      It's like the trope of an anime character who is good at other things, but if allowed anywhere near a kitchen , they can only cook unholy abominations

    • @Bamlbo
      @Bamlbo 4 месяца назад +7

      It's like the main character from an anime being an idiot, it's so common it's the new normal.

    • @ThePenisMan
      @ThePenisMan 3 месяца назад

      @@Bamlbo why does this happen all the time on RUclips? There’s a mid comment that gets a few likes, and not anymore than two comments later, someone says the exact same thing but different and nobody ever says it again?

    • @tired2993
      @tired2993 2 месяца назад

      We all have sinned, which means we all have done something wrong in our lives. I’ve done it too. Whether that’s lying, stealing, gossiping, cheating, said the Lord’s name in vain or others- we’ve all done something wrong.
      The problem is with that, God judges us at the end of our lives and like how a just judge in court will say that a criminal who has done many things wrong is guilty and send them to jail- God will look at our wrong doings, and say we need to go somewhere. Our punishment/the “jail” in this situation would be going to hell. Hell is separation from God and it’s eternal punishment for our sin.
      I don’t want to go to hell! So here’s the amazing thing! GOD sends Jesus, Who never sinned and is 100% God and 100% Human to Earth, to DIE FOR US. What does this mean? Well, remember that criminal and judge situation? Yes the Criminal is sentenced to jail, however, Bail can be offered to take the criminal out of jail and he can be set free- LEGALLY. There was a payment to get the criminal out.
      For us, JESUS IS THE BAIL(and He could do this because HE DIDNT SIN, IS 100% GOD HIMSELF AND 100% HUMAN) that takes US, THE CRIMINAL, OUT OF JAIL (HELL) SO WE CAN BE FREE. Now, instead of being sent to hell once we die, we can be FREE and go to HEAVEN IF we BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED FOR US AND REPENT (turn away from sin!!)
      Jesus died for our sins so we could have eternal life.
      JESUS LOVES YOU, DIED FOR YOU, PLEASE TURN TO HIM! ❤️ TAKE CARE AND THANK YOU FOR READING.

    • @BrainletReviews
      @BrainletReviews 17 дней назад

      @@flamingdog9207 Raiden Shogun

  • @DragonSmashy
    @DragonSmashy Год назад +745

    Nigel can turn gloves into fruit juice but cuts pizza with a spoon. I am not believing that Nigel is a real human

    • @sashathedonut
      @sashathedonut Год назад +13

      *nigel

    • @DragonSmashy
      @DragonSmashy Год назад +5

      @@sashathedonut i cant believe that i misspelled his name

    • @strawberrial
      @strawberrial Год назад +16

      It's BECAUSE he does that, it makes him a real human

    • @KT-ki6gz
      @KT-ki6gz Год назад +11

      He’s Canadian 🤷‍♂️

    • @generallyunimportant
      @generallyunimportant Год назад +1

      i mean, if i was eating something that you usually eat with a spoon and i needed to cut it for some reason, i would probably not reach for a spork.

  • @michaeltrees5778
    @michaeltrees5778 Год назад +754

    I feel like I'm gonna need to talk to my therapist about how uncomfortable the words 'the chicken looks a bit glassy' make me feel

    • @neoone9820
      @neoone9820 Год назад +31

      I hope you're able to work through such tough time in your life. Stay strong!!

    • @blakem2902
      @blakem2902 Год назад +2

      I’ve had that happen. Didn’t want to eat it

    • @joshuapatterson2320
      @joshuapatterson2320 Год назад +6

      0:50 "that's very sad"

    • @milesedgeworth132
      @milesedgeworth132 Год назад +2

      That part? Not when he said "Look, the chickens sucking it up"?

    • @kleenexbox974
      @kleenexbox974 Год назад +2

      @@milesedgeworth132yeah that part was real goofy
      “It’s still so thirsty!”

  • @Pubbs_TheClown
    @Pubbs_TheClown 8 месяцев назад +4

    20:47 The sentence that plays right before the experiment mutates and starts eating humans in an analog horror video

  • @jameskelly1680
    @jameskelly1680 Год назад +585

    Now you understand why Natick Labs has been working on this stuff for like 50 years for MREs, and why they change so slowly. It's hard to get right.
    BTW, most liquid substances such as soup do well when you spread them into a thin layer in a tray. Pizza is going to be very difficult because of the different substances / layers involved.
    One of the best MRE components going back to the 1980s is basically canned fruit... peaches, pears, fruit cocktail, etc, which is spread into a thin layer in a tray and cut into rectangles 4x4 inches and half an inch thick (10cmx10cmx1cm for those of you who do not Murica). They come out tasting like Styrofoam and sugar, and can be eaten dry as a candy-like snack, or you can add water and get them back to their original form. Packed in a vacuum-sealed mylar bag, they are still good after 40 years.

    • @chitlitlah
      @chitlitlah Год назад +30

      They're one of the best and they taste like styrofoam and sugar. I think I'll stay off the MRE diet.

    • @bosspandalover3442
      @bosspandalover3442 Год назад +13

      @@chitlitlah you get used to it

    • @nunyabisnass1141
      @nunyabisnass1141 Год назад

      Dont forget chilli mac with jalepeno cheese spread. Ppl might suck yo d for some chili mac after they get one of the vegetarian meals.

    • @feelinghealingfrequences7179
      @feelinghealingfrequences7179 Год назад

      reminds of steve 1989 MRE youtube channel
      and others like this one with mre pizza
      ruclips.net/video/1wgqBMmSlDo/видео.html

    • @benjiunofficial
      @benjiunofficial Год назад +16

      @@chitlitlah Have you tried styrofoam? It's pretty good.

  • @coasters_bgw
    @coasters_bgw Год назад +1347

    This dude is the only channel with no background music, no over-editing, no stock footage, just footage, diagrams, and talking that I will watch. Not listen to in the background, not turn on a few minutes, just watch. I have ADHD and I'll focus on your videos. That's extraordinarily hard to do. Good job.

    • @yazlindsay
      @yazlindsay Год назад +58

      ADHD to and am the same will watch & love the whole video also.

    • @macdaddy1376
      @macdaddy1376 Год назад

      It's not hard to keep you adhd losers attending

    • @mallsoftvaporwave4362
      @mallsoftvaporwave4362 Год назад +42

      im autistic + have adhd and science is something im super interested in so its never been horrible for me to focus on a nilered vid, i get itlol

    • @gardenthefermentingsound6218
      @gardenthefermentingsound6218 Год назад +14

      Same! I can just focus somehow w Nile

    • @cranberryjuice960
      @cranberryjuice960 Год назад +9

      i would also point you to baumgarderner restoration. he does art restoration videos. these are the only 2 channels i come to youtube for anymore

  • @mrendothermic5169
    @mrendothermic5169 Год назад +648

    The part where the pizza got all gross and stuff reminded me about how military scientists struggled for years to try and make an MRE stable pizza, and all of them came out looking identical to what Nile had in the steamer lmao

    • @brianreddeman951
      @brianreddeman951 Год назад +73

      Yes! ...and the various teams who make food for the various space agencies around the world. Full time professionals who've run into a myriad of failures that they know what works and what won't.

    • @megadumpy7042
      @megadumpy7042 Год назад +179

      Pizza is just impossible to do stuff with. Jelly Belly for example tried to make pizza flavored jelly beans and the end result is what they currently sell as the vomit flavor

    • @inthefade
      @inthefade Год назад +38

      @@megadumpy7042 that is the best story

    • @megadumpy7042
      @megadumpy7042 Год назад +5

      @@inthefade ikr

    • @matthewellisor5835
      @matthewellisor5835 Год назад +12

      I "got to" try it once. I'd put it only slightly above the Vomelette.
      If the cases haven't been rat effed, I'll take the Jalapeno Pepper Jack Beef Patty, Beef Ravioli or, if I want the better snacks Cheese Tortellini.
      The Mexican rice is tolerable too and helps with the Meals Refusing to Exit issue.

  • @seemamaheshwari7426
    @seemamaheshwari7426 7 месяцев назад +2

    9:30 The most reassuring I think it's fine ever

  • @mrgalaxy396
    @mrgalaxy396 Год назад +457

    Nile's child like awkwardness and the absolute unintentional chaos going on makes this a certified hood classic. Laughed my ass off multiple times, great video. Hope you find another wrap to fill the hole in your heart some day.

    • @woopimagpie
      @woopimagpie Год назад +6

      This one might even be better than the chocolate episode.

  • @scoobydoobies
    @scoobydoobies Год назад +1599

    NileBlue leaving food reviews like "This is 100% edible"

  • @DanVogt
    @DanVogt 9 месяцев назад +178

    If you microwave food (especially ones prone to getting dry and chewy) use a small dish of warm water NEXT to the dish containing food in the microwave. The steam in the air helps a huge amount.
    Secret for cooking great and moist cakes, cookies and muffins/cupcakes in the oven; do the same thing putting the small hot water dish in a low level tray of the oven way below the food tray level, the steam makes a perfect and moist result (taught to me by a passionate, big name donut consultant).

    • @katyungodly
      @katyungodly 5 месяцев назад +8

      My trick for microwaving stuff is slightly dampening a paper towel and place it over/around whatever you're heating.

    • @2Buildor2Break
      @2Buildor2Break 10 дней назад

      I came looking forr this comment.
      If you put a wet papertowel over food, in the microwave, it isnlike magic.
      I feel confident he needs to revisit this video, trying this method.
      And maybe start with a simple slice of bread. Do the math on how much fluid it lost by weight, and go from there.

  • @Ostalgie658
    @Ostalgie658 2 месяца назад +1

    Reggy's Chinese food reminded me of a place i LOVED when i was in middle school, RIP Hin's garden. You had the best dumplings known to man

  • @Tacospaceman
    @Tacospaceman Год назад +88

    *USE A PRESSURE COOKER FOR A SMALL ANOUNT OF TIME!* i think if you used cold and vacuum to dehydrate the food then heat, humidity and pressure are the way to rehydrate the food.

  • @westie430
    @westie430 Год назад +319

    The stabbing open of the boba, the chaotic liquid nitrogen incident, the slicing of the pizza with a spoon...
    I'm thinking we need a survival video of Nigel trying to brave the outdoors. By himself. It would be hilarious. Sorry😂😂

    • @lordsqueak
      @lordsqueak Год назад +14

      Can name that channel NileGreen , because its outdoors, where the green stuff waves its branches to create storms.

    • @radmadlad6131
      @radmadlad6131 Год назад +1

      Already taken

    • @westie430
      @westie430 Год назад

      @@radmadlad6131 unfortunately

    • @windowsxpmemesandstufflol
      @windowsxpmemesandstufflol Год назад +1

      ​@@lordsqueak um

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад

      @@lordsqueak search up NileGreen. Please.

  • @SonoFelice-
    @SonoFelice- Год назад +271

    Honestly the wonton soup impressed me. It was this drab white powder with indistinguishable parts. Then you poured some boiling water on and the colors just appear, the onion (whatever green-type onion that is idk) just became green again and the wontons got a little bit of caramel color to it, it looked GOOD.

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- Год назад +20

      Its spring onion! Its more leek than onion, But same family, similar flavour, you get it.

    • @SonoFelice-
      @SonoFelice- Год назад +7

      @@PhantomGato-v- I love all the different onions, they all just look too similar, especially sliced like so!!

    • @inevitablelevity3137
      @inevitablelevity3137 Год назад +1

      It honestly reminds me of instant noodles in a cup

    • @Spo8
      @Spo8 Год назад +2

      The wonton soup is just like backpacking meals, really. I think what was missing is that you have to seal it back up and let it sit for about 10 minutes to really rehydrated stuff.

    • @GirishManjunathMusic
      @GirishManjunathMusic Год назад

      I loved reading this comment from a person who didn't know what green onions were thanks

  • @m0rtez713
    @m0rtez713 2 месяца назад +2

    Seeing food being boiled in liquid nitrogen is the kind of surreal experience I'm here for.

  • @KevinFeeley_KHF
    @KevinFeeley_KHF Год назад +451

    If you ever run this experiment again some suggestions. Take a mass reading before and after the freeze drying process and record the difference. That's how much water will be needed to fully re-hydrate.
    To re-hydrate try placing the food with the required water into a bag, pull a vacuum then sous vide to a reasonable food-safe temp. The textures won't do well under the dehydration/re-hydration cycle, but the flavors should remain intact and keeping the temperatures under control should help to prevent any more cooking reactions during the re-hydration process like you saw using the hot steam.

    • @kiritotheabridgedgod4178
      @kiritotheabridgedgod4178 Год назад +40

      Yeah, when I saw him take out the steamer, my first thought was "Just use a humidifier, same effect but without the risk of cooking it."

    • @stephaniesanderson9638
      @stephaniesanderson9638 10 месяцев назад +16

      Wrong channel, it’s nilered for common sense stuff 😂

    • @King_Flippy_Nips
      @King_Flippy_Nips 9 месяцев назад +2

      flash freezing will retain the moisture and it will not rupture as many cell walls which will make the food seem fresher when thawed.

    • @King_Flippy_Nips
      @King_Flippy_Nips 9 месяцев назад +1

      you cant properly rehydrate frozen food because the cell walls were ruptured in the freezing process and cannot retain the water anymore, you need to flash freeze food to prevent that and it still is not perfect, likely freezing the food while it is in a pressurized environment would help a bit but since water cannot be compressed only displaced no amount of pressure will contain it pressure would just help the cells walls from rupturing. I imagine thermal shock also damages the cell walls so flash freezing would help prevent that as well, if you dont know what thermal shock is, its what caused the dish and floor to crack in the video and its frankly quite scary that he did not see that coming and pre cool the dish and put an insulating layer under it. Dehydration works much better but it and rehydration are very slow since they rely on osmosis for the water to move into and out of the cells.

  • @InedibleMuffin
    @InedibleMuffin Год назад +1218

    I feel like when Nigel walks into the office with a plate of food for you to test without any context, you have reason to be concerned

    • @laerin7931
      @laerin7931 Год назад +91

      They were probably wondering what kind of household items he managed to convert into rice and chicken.

    • @dirtpounder
      @dirtpounder Год назад +30

      @@laerin7931 "He did _what_ in his cup?!"

    • @mzzj2
      @mzzj2 Год назад +46

      @@laerin7931 ”and what I have in here is latex gloves turned into chicken with rice made from balsa chips”

    • @brotschander
      @brotschander Год назад

      ​@@mzzj2 "here i turned a uranium-235 into a garlic ricebowl with terriyaki sauce beef and chicken"

  • @Dylan_Otto
    @Dylan_Otto Год назад +163

    I love the “I want objective opinions” followed by an immediate “I did not like those opinions” XD

    • @wernerhiemer406
      @wernerhiemer406 Год назад

      That is how rigged statistics/research starts.

  • @aenigmaticus_ca
    @aenigmaticus_ca 5 месяцев назад +1

    "Well now I'm afraid the pizza's gonna explode" - 8:47
    Never have I ever thought that line, and I make a whole lotta food. You're awesome, NileBlue!

  • @Neotenico
    @Neotenico Год назад +189

    I always wondered how freeze drying worked but never thought to read up on it for some reason. After this, I looked it up and found that there's a heavy amount of work done on "pretreating" food that is meant to be freeze-dried (such as for MRE's and meals for space travel). A lot of the time, it requires reformulation of the food to prevent alteration or degradation of the texture/flavor.

    • @violahero4life
      @violahero4life Год назад +18

      I never thought of the pretreating necessary to make foods able to be freeze dried. I had always assumed freeze-dried foods were simply chucked into a freeze dryer and bam. Thanks for the info!
      I still want a freeze dryer though haha.

    • @ScienceDiscoverer
      @ScienceDiscoverer Год назад

      @@violahero4life You can also just eat soylent and forget about all the troubles.

    • @VatticTV
      @VatticTV Год назад

      I also wondered for a long time. Made a lot of sense when I found out instant coffee is freeze dried coffee.

    • @fakename287
      @fakename287 Год назад

      @@ScienceDiscoverer nice meme

  • @michaelimbesi2314
    @michaelimbesi2314 Год назад +114

    The problem with the steamer is that as you’re steaming it, you’re also holding it at 100C, which is also cooking it. If you want to rehydrate something without cooking it, you need to steam it at a lower temperature where it won’t cook. Try for steaming it at around 50-60C (120-140F). This will require keeping it at a reduced pressure so that the water will boil at that temperature, but it should still give you the high-water-vapor environment needed to rehydrate the food.
    Edit: even lower temps might be better, in the 40-50C (~105-120F) range, to ensure that the food doesn’t cook at all during the process.

    • @Toshii242
      @Toshii242 Год назад +7

      What about a humidifier?

    • @plzletmebefrank
      @plzletmebefrank Год назад

      ​@@Toshii242yep.

    • @TheSandowS
      @TheSandowS Год назад

      I thought of introducing water to a vacuum chamber so that it would gradually boil and moisture level would rise slowly. IDK if it would help though

    • @Toshii242
      @Toshii242 Год назад

      @@TheSandowS I think part of the problem is boiling. When he used the steamer it got too hot and boiled the pizza but the humidifier wouldn't get hot enough to boil.

  • @MegaAwsome555
    @MegaAwsome555 Год назад +369

    He gives me so much anxiety in so many ways, but I can’t stop watching him

    • @Gersberms
      @Gersberms Год назад +6

      There was a discussion about whether Action Lab or Nile Red was more awkward on RUclips. NileRed is pure greatness in my opinion, it's a train wreck in all the right ways.

  • @h.e.x.
    @h.e.x. 6 месяцев назад +3

    18:29 Solid argument. Can't fight that one. "...Just go back😅"

  • @CanineDefenseTechnologies
    @CanineDefenseTechnologies Год назад +273

    I think you should weigh the pizza before freezing, then after they're out of the freeze dryer, weigh the pizza, and add the same amount of water that it lost through something like a spray bottle. Leave it to soak in a bag overnight at room temperature, then microwave in the morning to eat.

    • @scragar
      @scragar Год назад +20

      When you microwave pizza it gets dry, you'll want to add extra water just to account for that since whenever I microwave pizza I add a quarter cup of water just to prevent it drying out.

    • @emma70707
      @emma70707 Год назад +10

      This but heat in a pan to crisp the bottom. Possibly with a lid if you need to melt the cheese.

    • @GrayRaceCat
      @GrayRaceCat Год назад +5

      @@scragar You put the water in a separate container right, so the steam can moisten the pizza crust?

    • @pbofsb
      @pbofsb Год назад +1

      Yes, commenting here because I need answer to where this man puts his water

    • @flyinfingers303
      @flyinfingers303 Год назад

      @@pbofsb yeah I always just put a cup with some water in the microwave with pizza and it works

  • @Toxism
    @Toxism Год назад +263

    The fact that at the end of the video he told me it wasn't just tape over the NileRed shirt but actually a designed shirt itself. It blew my mind to pieces, I spent the entire video asking myself "how did he get tape to stick to a shirt like that for several days on end" I was not ready for the truth lmao

    • @Mqrius
      @Mqrius Год назад +4

      Best part of the video imo, definitely got me :D

    • @OclateGaming
      @OclateGaming Год назад +5

      same the entire video i thought it was just tape

    • @CaioPhox
      @CaioPhox Год назад +9

      It is just tape in the video, the design in the end is different. You can see the part peeling at 10:34

    • @Rei_geDo
      @Rei_geDo Год назад +2

      "There is no fridge"

    • @farhanaahmad408
      @farhanaahmad408 Год назад

      ​@@CaioPhox😂ok

  • @zoey4284
    @zoey4284 9 месяцев назад +3

    I love seeing the ferrofluid art in the office background!

  • @ZephanyZephZeph
    @ZephanyZephZeph Год назад +168

    Opening with a story that this is in reaction to fight loss, quite literally having the same thematic beats as a mad wizard seeking immortality is absolutely amazing.

  • @Yanjingzaizai
    @Yanjingzaizai Год назад +217

    Watching Nigel talk about his discontinued food journey is honestly heartbreaking 😢

    • @DarkThunderism
      @DarkThunderism Год назад +9

      I'm honestly shocked that Taco Bell just closed all their locations in Quebec.

    • @itsdragoninawagon
      @itsdragoninawagon Год назад +2

      it reminded me that Sonic Drive-In stopped selling pickle fries in my area and i got sad too LOL

  • @RamoArt
    @RamoArt Год назад +449

    This reminds me of when I got braces and I couldn't chew solid food, so my brother put pizza into a mixer. It was way too dry, so he poured in some water. By then it was cold, so he microwaved it.

  • @kindertomi355
    @kindertomi355 6 дней назад +1

    NileBlue is slowly becoming a cooking channel

  • @inthefade
    @inthefade Год назад +325

    Seeing someone who is so good with chemistry have so little cooking intuition is hilarious.

    • @merxellus1456
      @merxellus1456 Год назад +6

      On the contrary.. He'd be Prolly the best at Cookin Meth tho💀💀💀

  • @ekkekrosing8454
    @ekkekrosing8454 Год назад +855

    Nile: Has almost every chemistry tool he will ever need
    Also Nile: uses spoon to cut the pizza

    • @ABrit-bt6ce
      @ABrit-bt6ce Год назад

      Yeah, AVE would use a chainsaw.

    • @tyjuwr
      @tyjuwr Год назад +5

      y'know spoons?

    • @abgmurrell4074
      @abgmurrell4074 Год назад +6

      Copied comment

    • @edgyanole9705
      @edgyanole9705 Год назад +4

      @@abgmurrell4074 you realize that two different people can have the same idea

    • @dynhoyw
      @dynhoyw Год назад +3

      @@edgyanole9705 he the copyright police

  • @saldoom
    @saldoom Год назад +173

    Every time NileRed does some food related experiment, it always goes to shit because he always does some kind of shortcut to save time.
    Really it's a formula that creates solid entertainment and I hope he never strays away.

  • @Handskemager
    @Handskemager 3 месяца назад +4

    This seems like an overly expensive way to avoid dealing with how uncomfortable reality is.
    And I’m sooo here for it!

  • @SoulFanatic
    @SoulFanatic Год назад +1811

    Nothing got me like Nile watering chicken and saying "but it's so thirsty"

    • @moss.kurtis
      @moss.kurtis Год назад +43

      nobody in this world has said or written this sentence until you did
      congrats 🎉👏

    • @emptywindexbottle97
      @emptywindexbottle97 Год назад +42

      "The chicken is sucking it up" -nile red

    • @FosukeLordOfError
      @FosukeLordOfError 10 месяцев назад +4

      When your thirsty for chicken

    • @Circuit_Bored_24
      @Circuit_Bored_24 9 месяцев назад +4

      I am so glad it wasn't just me.

    • @calebbenedict5587
      @calebbenedict5587 9 месяцев назад +9

      Putting the sad, crumbled ruins of what at one point was a slice of pizza in a steamer: “it’s pizza time.”

  • @harshitsinghrao5280
    @harshitsinghrao5280 Год назад +91

    This feels like evil character origin story . The trauma of not being able to re-experience childhood memories

    • @GalLea-x1z
      @GalLea-x1z Год назад +3

      Bro is gonna take over the world just to recreate his childhood memories

    • @Siscon92
      @Siscon92 Год назад +2

      He could just move 20 KM to a place where Taco Bell is still open

  • @nemtudom5074
    @nemtudom5074 Год назад +170

    Your two main channels are basically the epitome of 'lady in the streets, freak in the sheets' and i love it

  • @overtonesnteatime198
    @overtonesnteatime198 9 месяцев назад +4

    my word this channel is prolific gold.

  • @Dario__
    @Dario__ Год назад +1212

    Imagine just dealing with discontinued food menus by just learning how to cook them

    • @10xscience
      @10xscience Год назад +71

      That will be easier than spending thousands of dollars on freeze drying. There is no fun cOoKiNg.

    • @ratinacage9306
      @ratinacage9306 Год назад +86

      But we go to restaurants to _avoid_ doing that.

    • @polski_dezerter
      @polski_dezerter Год назад +56

      But that's not as fun as reinvwnting instant soup

    • @The_Boctor
      @The_Boctor Год назад +35

      food archival vs. food decompilation

    • @emily36130
      @emily36130 Год назад +13

      Strategic McDonalds reserve >>> cooking

  • @Sauti_science
    @Sauti_science Год назад +173

    I am once again impressed by this man's ability to eat literally anything and go "yeah it's fine"