Workshop Condiments: The Great Coke/Ketchup Controversy
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2022
- Fair warning -- When Tavis and I made this video, our tongues were stuck so firmly in our cheeks we could barely breathe. Please don't take this too seriously. The Great Coke/Ketchup Controversy is just a playful way of informing you that some condiments and soft drinks can be useful when restoring and maintaining tools. Seriously!
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Something about your channel brings a smile, eases a bit of stress over the simple things, and...well, just makes for a good day at the shop.
Well said. The fact that he didn't even declare a winner here really helps you remember that you don't have to sweat every minor detail.
Thanks folks. The winners, by the way, are are those of us who don't take ourselves too seriously. IMHO.
20 seconds in and I laugh out loud. All the other people in the Lowe’s bathroom are looking at my stall with concern
If only all of life’s important arguments could be taken so seriously.
Coke/Ketchup Controversy, "so naturally we're not speaking". Puts the perfect humorous magnifying light on our pettinesses.
Thank you for that well done video. I enjoyed it very much.
Most welcome.
Nick, you're not only an amazing woodworker and common sense, articulate teacher of your craft, you are a witty dude as well. I always enjoy your videos!
He’s great. He kinda rides that corny line, but is self-aware enough and very confident, so it makes it genuinely funny. I guarantee this guy and I could cut up for hours…see what I did there?
@@tonywolfemusic5920 Well you NAILED it, and I WOOD have to agree with you.
Watching this, especially the part with the magnifiers on your head falling down and you putting them back up constantly, reminds me of Jim Henson and the Fraggles and that sort of stuff from when I was little.
Very nostalgic.
My 4yr old loved the magnifying glass headset gag. Thanks for the laughs, entertainment, and information. Keep up the stellar work!
I know my audience -- 4-year-olds and border collies.
That magnifier bit was a crack-up. I laughed out loud
I stumbled on a few of your videos several days ago and kept wondering why you and your methods of teaching seemed so familiar. When I looked at your introductory videos and I see why. I've been reading your books for years. Thank you so much for all the help you have given me over the years.
Thanks for the kind words -- andit's good to hear from someone who stlll reads.
“So naturally, we!re not speaking.” Funny!
The shop is the only place I would use hunts ketchup
Agree. For me, it’s Heinz or nothing. Although , after living in Utah for 40 years, I’ve almost become OK with so-called “fry sauce.”
Enjoyable. Love the humor.
Thanks.
My dad's old can of Brasso (with rusty 000 wool for a pad) from before I was born is all I've ever known. I thought this was a joke until I Googled it. Thanks for the content!
Most welcome. I use Brasso too, when I'm out of ketchup. And if you mix the ketchup with a little rottenstone, you get the same shine as Brasso.
@@WorkshopCompanion And here I thought Nick was going to say that by mixing the ketchup with, say an aromatic variety of woodshavings would make for a tasty snack in between meals...
@@WorkshopCompanion - Nick, I ran out of ketchup, so I tried a little Brasso on my fish and chips. It gave it a very coppery taste😂😂😂
Oh man, your Videos make me Smile. Thank you
This is, by far, the best woodworking video I’ve watched in a long time!!!! Thank you so much for the info!!😂😂😂
Just brilliant !! Thank you ...
Neither. I use straight white vinegar for all my cleaning and de-rusting needs. It's cheaper than all other options and works better too imo.
Leftover ketchup from Mc Donalds counts as free xD
Fun, lite, yet educational. Thank you
I truly enjoy your content. I can’t wait for your next video!
I really like your videos, very educational and entertaining.
When I joined the Marines in 1967, I was introduced to the mysteries of "Brasso" and "blitz cloth" - and have been using them ever since.
thank you for making me smile. many topics should be treated with as much lightness
Agreed.
Lots of good humor in this!
Thanks Nick!
If I wasn't a woodworker I'd still enjoy your entertaining videos. Thank you for making them :o)
Most welcome.
That was fun. Thanks for keeping it short.
Loved it!!
Once again i am educated....entertained thanks it made my evening
Love the video as always.
Thanks.
Love it great video good laugh, love your channel it’s probably my favourite, informative and a laugh.
Many thanks for demonstrating that two foods that go well with French fries also go well with brass knobs. And an even more hearty thanks for demystifying how my mom's homemade copper cleaner worked 70 years ago. She wiped the bottom of her copper pans with a rag dampened with household vinegar while sprinkling on a little salt. The pans became as bright as a copper penny (when they were really copper). Mystery solved. Thanks so much for both the woodworking and the chemistry lesson.
Most welcome.
Awesome.
Bro just did more chemistry than every other woodworking youtuber combined. Great channel, love the content. Would love to see more builds like some of the stuff on your website. Also excited to see those resawn lumber get put to use, just built a dresser with client provided walnut. They chopped down a tree then had the Amish kiln dry it. Some of the best wood I've ever seen, and for sure yours will look amazing too!
Thanks for saying -- see you in a few months.
Nick really enjoyed the humor, not to mention the cleaning tip. Thanks
Most welcome.
I'll be laughing for at least 20 minutes. That was outstanding! 🙂
Thanks. Every now and then we just have to get goofy to avoid taking ourselves too seriously.
Lol, love it! Genuinely laughed!
Great I will try Ketchup (never used), thank you.
The knob in the ketchup looked the cleanest.
See my answer to Brad R.
They make sugar free ketchup if you want to go for the diet test. Great videos!
Hilarious - loved it!
When I was on a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, we used koolade, at 5 times the normal concentration, to clean copper drain funnels that became completely encrusted with thick green copper oxide. After being immersed for two hours, with no scrubbing, the copper was shiny and clean... and smelled like strawberries.
This makes perfect sense.
Yet again I was entertained and educated
Thanks for saying.
My first (and only) chuckle of the day. The comment on mustard was just too much. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom for us little people that can not spin a hammer yet. My wife told me to take it outside. ha ha 😉
Good work. Hunt's is for the workshop. Heinz is for the kitchen.
I don't use either ketchup or Coke. I go straight to the white vinegar. Works every time -- and its a lot neater. Not to mention that Brasso works like a charm and very quickly, too.
Thanks for the video.
Always good stuff!! Could you do a video of the books behind you?
The books behind me are mostly mine -- I've written over fifty of those things back when people still read to get information. Nowadays, Travis and I are mining those books for video ideas, so in a way I am doing a video on the books behind me almost every time I do a video. Thanks for bringing it up.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen for a long time. So entertaining. And I think that sawdust in Travis’ shop is simply not allowed to settle 🌞
Thanks.
Hi Nick, are there any other You Tubers that you would recommend. I hate it that I didn't find you earlier. You're one of the best teachers I've run into since Charles Neil (RIP).
Great video and a good explanation of 1st world problems.
I'd like to see how it compares to jusy putting it in salty vinaegar and then running it through an ultrasonic bath, which has been my go-to cleaning method for ages.
Thank you for your very entertaining video. From the health aspect you could try with buttermilk next time. I don´t know if your buttermilk is different from the Danish variant, but it works in Denmark.
The corn syrup (which contains glucose, an aldehyde) in both of these products also helps because of it's action as a reducing agent, preventing or even reversing oxidation. Note that actual cane sugar (almost all sucrose) does not work this way.
You present remarkable videos with great content. Would you post a list of the books you've written. I would like to check them out. Thank you
You can check them out at: workshopcompanion.selz.com/categories/books
I like to believe this man is a wizard of olde who set aside his cloak and staff many years ago to pursue woodworking and has simply modernized as the ages have passed, finally sharing his amassed library of knowledge from his centuries of experience.
I like to believe that this man is just trying to share what he used to teach after people stopped reading and all his books went out of print...;-)
It seems to me that the Pepsi was brighter. Regardless, thank you for your sense of humor and the chuckles this video gave me. 😁👏😆
Actually, it really was impossible to declare a winner. I had three adjustment knobs from three eras of Stanley manufacturing, and when I got the tarnish off I discovered I had three different brass alloys, all different colors and all machined slightly differently. If I had cleaned them all with the same chemical, they would have responded differently. I warned viewers at the beginning this experiment was "rigidly uncontrolled." I said it for a laugh, but it was the unvarnished truth.
@@WorkshopCompanion I know. I laughed pretty hard at the "rigidly uncontrolled" comment given my research background. It is cool that you noted there was a difference in the alloys across the differing years of manufacture, though that does make sense as I'm sure they just purchased whatever large volume of brass bar stock that was available from their supplier that year.
All that aside, thank you for your continued release of informative and entertaining videos. I have enjoyed bingeing them and have learned a lot.
@@Brad_R_LiveFit Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks Nick. I needed a good chuckle. You never tried these on french fries for a comparison. I'm disappointed.
😂 Thank you for the blend of educational and fun videos. I really enjoy them and will use a lot of your tips. Regarding this particular video, I can’t argue with the scientific end results. Still, since I am interested in Stanely plane dating, I think there is some room for method improvements. Cheers!
I understand. That's why I use the original Coke formula ONLY for anything earlier than a Type 12...;-)
Great funny video and educational, I agree with all the comments below as well
As a after thought. If you had a extra little drill press could you put a hardened pin it and sharpen all your scrapers on it, both curved and straight?
Lol loved the humor. However I have another suggestion on what condiment might accidentally clean the brass a little better that would be Taco Bell hot sauce. Placed a green gunny penny in that stuff in the late 80s after 2 hours it looked freshly minted. Haven't eaten the hot sauce since. 😂😂
The best brass polish is a polish that was never intended to be a condiment. Take some vinegar and add some table salt. Mix that with some flour to make a paste. Cover the brass part in this concoction. A ziplock bag or a cheap plastic container can be used too. Let it soak for a few hours. Rinse with water. Good results every time.
I'm pretty open minded, but I'm not polishing my knob with ketchup.
Coke will leave it sticky
No one would use Pepsi
Another age old debate, how do you clean and maintain your cast iron tools? Personally I used Krud Kutter for de-rusting (it's phosphoric acid), I use WD40 for cleaning cast iron, and I use Fluid Film for rust prevention.
Being a Heinz guy, I have always wondered what Hunt’s was good for. Now I know! 😉
Best test ever. LOL.
In the early 80s my high school shop teacher submerged a Volkswagen bug rear bumper in Coca Cola for a year. The acid in the Coke ate it down to the chrome finish. The chrome was nice and shiny and stayed in tact almost like aluminum foil.
I wonder how it tasted. Show we consider "Volkswagen" as a flavor additive along with vanilla, cherry, and the others available at our local convenience stores? ;-)
I know this was a spoof, but I’m in the process of restoring a plane and the brass needs some work.
Thanks for the info. I’m definitely going with R.C. Cola
Read what I wrote to Robert Russel about rottenstone. Works with colas too.
Fantastic video, Nick! Thanks a lot! 😃
I had never heard about any of this, but it's fascinating indeed! 😂
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Most welcome.
I stand by my earlier statement. The Albert Einstein of the carpentry world! I love watching your videos to fine tune the craft but they also make me smile & laugh a little!
Thanks for saying.
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Is there no brasso in America;) ty great stuff as always
Thanks.
I love It mostly the magnifying glasses falling 😃😃😃, one more thing I don’t like pepsi 😂😂😂great job greetings from Arizona
Which is cheaper?
The chemistry explanation is shockingly correct ... there's some more dovetails, but nothing that changes what's said ... I get better results with steel wool ...
We do our research. Even when we're just horsing around.
@@WorkshopCompanion - Oh, veterinary science too ??? .. how do we best fight climate change in the woodshop these days? ... [giggle] ...
Insofar as I am concerned, this question has received all the answer it needs.
Many thanks for the chemistry lesson, Nick. You have just put me off ketchup and Coke for life. All those chemicals!
These dad jokes hurt! Just in time for Father’s Day
Very funny but very entertaining I have always said you should never drink or eat any of them if they can do that to brass what are they doing to your stomach at least now I know I have a brass cleaner
Also, Brasso works well... ;)
How about just vinegar with salt?
Great content apart from rounding up pi
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Louisiana hot sauce is the best brass cleaner....
Let me explain.... 30 years ago I was a painter and we were repainting a high-end house with lots of brass door knobs, doorbell plates, mail slots, etc. We had on our crew a naturalized citizen from Mexico who would eat the traditional mexican sack lunch and always used hot sauce. Over the course of time, he showed us several times how the hot sauce would clean tarnish from a penny and make it look brand new within seconds. As I said earlier we were painting a house with lots of brass. My boss got the idea to go to the supermarket and buy many bottles of Louisiana hot sauce and pour them into a pail in which we soaked all the brass... Needless to say it worked like a charm.
True story.
Many, many ways to skin this cat. Thanks for sharing.
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One person’s tarnish is another’s patina. To me, polishing brass is like using steel wool on a cast iron skillet.
I used Coke to polish my brass when I was in the Army ( I have never drunk coke again from that day to this)
I used ketchup when I was in ROTC. Ever since I've preferred mustard.
Clearly need to investigate mustard as it doesn't require refrigeration after opening.
There is sugar free ketchup lol love your videos
Thanks Nick. A slightly pointless, but amusing video. Well done as always.
Diet ketchup... I'm sure that it does exist, but not sure why it should.
I remember when caffeine-free diet coke came into existence in the late 1980's. My friend Wayne proffered a bottle at a seven eleven (of course it was after midnight) and taken in by the shiny label, I looked at it, befuddled. He said "What's the point?" I replied "There's not much left, really..." and the sad artefact went back into the fridge. I'm not sure that it would clean brass either!
Diet ketchup (tomato sauce in England) is horrendous I picked up the wrong bottle a few weeks back. Check out HP (Houses of Parliament) goods they are great. Again, UK stuff!
Hope you make up with Travis.
Hahaha! That’s awesome! But I think the Pepsi soaked knob looks shinier. (Just for the record: I drink Coke.) the controversy continues! 😂
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So why not use some vinigar with salt instead of ketchup?
Raw potatoes with baking soda beat both and are more cost effective. I’d love to see you add that to your comparison.
Have used potatoes to remove rust, so it's no surprise that it will also remove tarnish. However, having done it once, will never do it again. The smell was gawd-awful.
Vinegar with a spoonful of baking soda.
Only one missing: "Elbow Grease" :) ...
😂😂 naturally
Since I’m “that” guy: what happens if you use both?