It’s time for food and science to make an alliance. – Let’s talk about that. (light music) “Good Mythical Morning.” – Do you know that every time you eat something on this show, you’re eating science? You’re saying every time you’ve eaten anything? Tasty, nasty. – Yes. – Whatever it is. – Yes, yes, yes. – It science. – Yeah. – Well, we should have PhDs by now. – Well, that’s what I’m saying. But to really earn those degrees, we’re gonna try to figure out some food experiments of our own. It’s time for “Food Science Without Guidance” featuring The Beaker Boys. You know how this works. We’re gonna be giving some items needed to conduct some science experiments. This time specifically food science. – Mm-hm. – But no instructions, okay? We’re also gonna have some decoy items to throw us off a little bit. – We’re gonna start out with 22 points. And if we can’t put the pieces together correctly in the experiment, we can ask for lifelines, but they cost us points. If we still have points at the very end, we’re gonna win a cheer lasting for the square root of 69 seconds. – Okay. – But if not, we’re gonna be booed. – All right, I’m trying to do that math. – [Stevie] Okay, Beaker boys, you must use some combination of the items in front of you to achieve an amazing scientific result. And your lifelines are as follows. You can choose a message from Science Mike-Ayla about the scientific principle at play. This costs one point. I can tell you the decoy items. – One point. – Steve] This costs two points for each item. – Okay. – Oh. – [Stevie] I can tell you what result you’re trying to achieve. This costs three points. If you don’t make science happen before time is up, that’ll cost you five points. Let’s put 10 minutes on the clock and your time begins now. – So we have a bowl of, mm, chocolate, I believe, yep. – Is it poison chocolate? – Nope, it’s regular chocolate. – It’s regular chocolate. – It’s regular chocolate. – We have a- – It smells great. – Lollipop. – Oh, I could dip that in there. – We have some chopsticks. – Okay. – We have Maizena. Not a sponsor. Corn starch. – Yep, okay. – Corn starch. And of course, we have a bowl of dry ice. And to handle that you have to use a glove. – And the gloves, I’ve been told, are not part of it. They’re not part of it. It’s just if you handle the dry ice. So, they go along with the dry ice. – See look, I’m gonna handle this dry ice right now. – Oh, look at that. – With just this hand. But I’m not gonna use this hand because there’s no glove on it. – Yeah, right. Yeah. – This hand. Gloved hand yes. – I would like to see you use your regular hand. – Right. Tongue no. Okay. – So, obviously anything with dry ice or corn starch- – Is gonna be fun. – Is gonna be sciencey. We know that both of those cause things. And this is just like fun to? – Fun to eat. – Yeah. – I don’t think we need both of these. – Both. It’s like one or the other, right. – It’s like dry ice, like too many cooks in the kitchen when you add corn starch. – Well, what if we just throw some dry ice into the chocolate? I mean, why wouldn’t we do that? – But what happens if you put corn starch into the dry ice. – And mix it with the chopstick? – Put a dry ice in the chocolate just to see if the start of something happens. – Yeah, we can do whenever we want to. – And I’m gonna try to open this corn starch. – Here you go. Here you go. – Oh, good gosh. – [Rhett] Oh, oh, oh, oh. We’ve got bubbling chocolate. – Bubbling Okay, you see that? It’s like, that’s like a tar pit, Stevie. You ever been to the La Brea Tar Pits? – [Stevie] No. – It’s a museum. – Oh my goodness. – But, out front there’s little tar pits, literal, and they burble and they smell like asphalt. And there’s fake dinosaur standing in it. – Stevie, you haven’t been to the Tar Pits? – [Stevie] I know, listen, it sounds exhilirating. – Well, we need to do that. – [Stevie] Exhilarating. – That’s our next trip. We go to the Tar Pits. – [Stevie] Stop. – They’re digging up mammoth bones in the middle of Los Angeles. – Mammoths, saber-toothed tigers. – Uh. (people laughing) We need to hear from Science Mike-Ayla to know what we’re going for here. – Oh, do you see what’s happening? Look, if you take little pieces of that. – There’s ice shards. – Look what they’re doing on top. – They’re dancing on top. – They’re hydrophobic and they’re on top. Did you see that? – All right, Mikayla, I’m gonna spend a point on you telling me something. – Okay, well I just want you guys to know that I’m so gassed up about a potential protective layer here. One more time so gassed up – Gassed up. – about the potential, – Potential. – protective layer here. – Good gosh. – Potential protective layer. – [Rhett] Well, first of all, look at what the ice is doing. – Look at that. It’s totally- – The ice does not hold any of the chocolate. – It’s impervious to the chocolate. – There’s a protective layer. Look at that. – I think we figured it out. – I mean, look. – Gassed. – I mean you kind of did. (bell dinging) You did it in an interesting way, but you kinda did. – I’ll do it in another way. – Could I suggest, yeah, but it’s more satisfying if you- – To dip in a dipping pool. – Yep. – [Stevie] Let’s try that. I was gonna say to pour, but please. – Like, pour it over this. – Oh, oh, pour, pour, pour, pour, pour. – [Link] And it’s gonna make a gassy protectious layer. – Oh my gosh. You can’t get chocolate on a dry ice no matter how much you try. Look, let’s do more. You can try all you want. – Do more. – You will not be able to get- – Pour right here. Watch right here. And just so you know, see if I do that, see how it’s staying on that? There you have it guys. Food science. – You want some in your mouth? There’s a nice little stream of chocolate. I’d get in on that. – [Stevie] The chop sticks are for you to touch the dry ice. – See, now she’s just telling us. – Whoa, look at that. The chocolate kinda froze. – Thought you were pouring in my hair. And then here, let’s get this one. – Let’s get some of that chocolate and eat it. – Let’s get, let’s get this. Look at that. See, it just comes right out. That chocolate got frozen and it’s like crackle. – [Stevie] So, do you know why this is happening? – It’s got cornstarch all over it, eat it. – It’s because chocolate is afraid of dry ice. – [Stevie] Yes, dry ice is constantly going through the process of sublimation, AKA going directly from a solid to a gas. – To a gas. It goes straight to a gas. – Because dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide, as it sublimates it creates a gaseous CO2 vapor barrier around it preventing the melted chocolate from sticking to it. – Yeah, so you just nestle it in there and then nothing. Nothing on there. It’s clean as a whistle. – We’ve got a plate. – Okay. – We’ve got milk. – Alrighty. – We’ve got soap. – All right, dish soap. – We’ve got food coloring, food dye. Red, blue, yellow. We’ve got a Bubba Straw. – Okay. – We’ve got matches. – Yes. – And we have a cotton swab. – And look, all the matches are in here. And this has a drawer like functionality. – That is very impressive. – Which may come in handy. – Very impressive. – Yeah, so I’m gonna go ahead and take one of these out and just see if it’s real. – Did you fart? – You’ll never know. – Okay, I have to assume that this has something to do with this Bubba Straw and that dish soap because I feel like we could blow bubbles with that. – You think we’re blowing more bubbles? Last time we did this, we blew bubbles. You think they’re gonna give us blowing bubbles twice? – But blowing bubbles is one of the more fun things that you can do as an adult. – Because I feel like if we poured. – You have a little corn starch on your. – Rhett, we’re being timed. – Oh, you know what we should do? We should make it like- – It’s kind of my thing. Let’s make it like “Star Wars” up in here. – Right. And then- – Mix. No, no, “Star Wars,” blue milk. – Oh, so nervous. – I thought you’ve been to like Disneyland and stuff. – Should we cook it with a match? – Maybe. – We gotta homogenize it. What it’s called? Pasteurize it. – I was gonna say just take the straw and move it around. – Yeah, you can take- – Look what’s happening there? – You take the straw. Hold on, hold on, stop, stop, stop. And we’re just gonna- – [Rhett] Put the match out in the blue milk? – Yeah. (people laughing) Blue milk is not flammable. We know that now. – Now, take some soap and put it into our blue milk. – I mean, something is a decoy. It’s probably this, right? – Yeah, I already used a Q-tip on it. – I bet it’s the matches. – The matches and the Q-tip. – Should we ask if these are a decoy or- – We should get one of the decoys. We did so well in the first round. Can you tell us the decoy, Stevie, please? – That’s two points. – [Stevie] You do not need the matches. – Yep. – Yeah. We already knew that. – See, but we’ve already played with them so I’m not upset. – That’s right. – Play with matches before somebody tells you you don’t need them. That’s how I live my life. – You don’t need much soap. That’s good. – And that’s good ? And now blow on it. – No, now I’m making- – Suck and blow maybe. Don’t suck it all the way into your mouthpiece. Just blow. A little suck a little blow? Do we want Mikayla back out ’cause that’s only one point. – And it’s very helpful. It’s very helpful to know what we’re supposed to be doing. – Science Mike-Ayla. – What’s the principal at play here? – Help us out here. – I thought milk was your thing. It’s just- – No, well pouring. – Everywhere. – Pouring milk. – What? – Yeah. – Yeah. – I’m outta practice. I thought you were here to help me, not ridicule me. – I am here to help you. I am here to help you, I promise. Okay, okay, don’t be afraid – We’re not. – This hydrophobic reaction is here to help. – Hydrophobic reaction is here to help with fear. So, this is an anxiety-reducing, water-hating- – I don’t think it has anything to do with anxiety. – But why did she say don’t be afraid. It’s here to help. – Hydrophobic. – Hydrophobic. – Say it one more time. Don’t be afraid. – Don’t be afraid. This hydrophobic reaction is here to help. – So, you don’t cry over spilt milk because we’re able to get it up with this hydrophobic reaction. – So, if we spilled some milk. – Thank you, Mikayla. – You’re welcome. – This is right, this hydrophobic what? – [Mikayla] Reaction. – Should I just- – No, no, no. Use the plate. – Okay. – You’re just gonna pour milk in there again? – Well, yes. – I mean- – Spilt milk. But she didn’t say don’t cry. She said don’t be afraid. – Don’t be afraid. That was a play on hydrophobic. I don’t know. – This hydrophobic reaction. What was the next part? Do we need- – Hydrophobic. – Something from- – We need something ’cause we’re- – Do we need to remove something or do we need to ask Stevie the point of this? I think we know hydrophobic. It’s like- – Well, how much is the getting what we’re supposed to be doing? – Three points. – [Stevie] The result lifeline is three points. – We’ll take it. – Yeah, we need that. – [Stevie] This trifecta of ingredients will make a colorful reaction. – Well, we already put the soap. – [Both] We already put these three together. – But what’s the reaction? Hydrophobic? Does this- – It might be the order we put them in. – This is deep grease cutting power. So when you do this, it should send. – We need more soap. I think we start with soap. – No, yeah, well, we colored the milk. – We color the whole thing of milk. – If we put like, let’s just try it. You wanna start with soap? – And I think we color the whole thing of milk. – All right, so we have a lot of soap. – But, if we ruin this milk, they’re gonna have to give us a whole new thing of milk. – No, just pour the milk. Don’t be afraid, this hydrophobic reaction. So, you pour that right in the middle. Watch guys, get a close up of this. – But why do we need the straw? – Cameraman? Oh, oh, oh, it did some things. – It is creating a globule. Ooh, do we need to pour milk through the straw? – I think we need another hint. It’s just not quite coming together. – It’s like creating a cool art thing. Put another color. Why is it blue? Oh, I’m gonna make it match my shirt. – Oh, ’cause this is blue. (people laughing) I’m gonna put a little red on this just to see if there’s a a reaction. Oh, that made yellow. That was awesome. Look at this, it’s a little fire. – You said red while you’re holding yellow. – [Stevie] Less than two minutes left. – And then if you do that, I mean, yep, I’m being given it away. – Okay, we’re getting all new milk here. – They’re basically telling us that we suck. So, here we go. So, we’re pouring some milk. We feel like we start with that. And then- – Pour. There’s gotta be some color. Oh, you know what you could have a, you made a jellyfish. – Oh, oh. – You made a jellyfish. This could be a TikTok. This is very cool. – [ Stevie] You have about 30 seconds left. – You have done some really nice things. Well, look at that. I could be there too. I’m the guy who drops the color. – And now, all the time we need. – To just do- – To just do a little. – [Rhett] You just pour it on there and it just does some amazing, oh! – [Both] Oh! We did it. – Wow, just in time. – Yeah, here’s another one. – Just in time. – Here’s another one, Stevie. – [Both] Oh! – It looks looking patriotic in here. And then look, it’s the same thing that I could do with the straw. – And then you blow on it. – [Stevie] Well, okay, so you didn’t really need the straw. Let’s, but you did it. (bell dinging) Let’s just see what it would look like without the straw. (upbeat music) – What? Caitlin. – That was way cooler than what we did. – She just took this thing and she did this. – You did more than she, you’re doing more than she did. – And then ♪ Ba ba ba bam ♪ ♪ bam bam bam bam bam ♪ (group laughing) – Yeah, it’s not gonna react now ’cause it’s all soaked up. – Wow, wow, that was awesome though. – Hey, but we did it. We just didn’t do it as cooly. – [Stevie] You did it, yeah, I’m giving it to you. So, the way it works is milk contains water and fat molecules. – Yes, it does. – Dish soap has both a hydrophilic element that wants to interact with water and a hydrophobic part that wants to interact with fat. – It doesn’t know what it’s gonna do. – [Stevie] So, when you touch the soap to the milk, the soap separates the fat from the water in the milk, Aka what soap does to dirty dishes. – Yep. – [Stevie] And races around to join with the fat molecules. The food coloring is just showing us this reaction. – Food coloring is just showing this. – Isn’t science cool? We wanna give a shout out to the “Mythical Kitchen” crew. – Shout out. – Lately they’ve been challenging themselves by taking convenience store items and turning them into a gourmet tasting menu for a food critic. – Uh-huh. – They’ve done Skittles, pumpkin spice lattes, you name it. So go over there to “Mythical Kitchen,” to “Mythical Kitchen” channel for new videos every Tuesday and Thursday. – [Stevie] Okay, boys, for this last experiment, you have three decoys. – Oh my goodness. – [ Stevie] Same lifelines though. And the clock starts now. – Three decoys, could it be the gelatin? – It could be. – Help me out. – You need it. – Hold that up there. All right, we’ve got a balloon. We’ve got a pin. – Okay, a sharp needle. – I’m gonna put that there. And then we have a shirt and we have stains and one of these may be a decoy. Maybe we have to remove the stain. Well, that seems to simple. – It would be nice to know. – Right? – That, and then we have, what’s this? – That’s soda water. – That’s great. Is there minerals in it? Is it mineral water or soda water. – [Crew] Uh, min, soda, soda. – Soda water. – So, we already know that you can take soda water and clean a shirt with it. So, it feels like the shirt and the soda water. I think you should just enjoy this. – Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Treat yourself. – So, but without this? – I think it’s that thing where you take a balloon and you put a needle into it. – Blow it buddy. But do you wanna fill it up with gelatin first or cover it in gelatin? – No, ’cause we have three decoys. So, even if the, I’m just, you know what? I feel like- – But the gelatin is- – I got a lot of confidence right now because we’ve done so well and we have to like use all our lifelines in order to not lose, right? So, I feel like if you take this pin and you put it right here on this part of the balloon that where it comes together, right? – Yeah, we already know that. We’ve learned that, but that’s not right. That works. We learned that in a previous version of this. So, they’re not going back there. – And then, you need to get rid of- – Pull it out. – Your gelatin powder. – Right. Oh, if you wanna spread out gelatin you see that food science at work, Stevie? We are spreading our gelatin. – How’s that? – Oh. – That’s my air though, think about it. – Oh. (group laughing) – I mean like you just- – What was I doing? – I was like, why is he so into my air? Can we get a decoy take? Let’s get two decoys taken away. – [Stevie] You do not need the soda water. – Yes. – You do not need the stained shirt. (balloon deflating) – What? – The what? – [Stevie] The stained shirt. – We kinda knew that. – See, we knew all of this. – We knew all this. – All right, but the gelatin- – But, I haven’t done it yet, right? – Here’s the thing. Gelatin without water. How do you activate the gelatin? That’s when I’m- – Spit. – That’s an item. They didn’t give us that. – We have it. – Science Mike-Ayla – We have spit. – I’ve got lots of it. – It’s just like air is not an item, but we have that. – So, spit counts as just like wet air. – Okay, you ready? – Yeah. – You know what they say, opposite charges attract. – Oh, got it, got it. We don’t need this. – Opposite charges attract. – Tie that balloon up. Rub it on your sweater. You actually brought the right sweater today, Link. And what you’re gonna do- – I think this was your sweater, wasn’t it? – Yeah, and I got big. – You got big? – I got big. – It’s a little too big for me. – No, really the style’s changed. Okay. And then we’re gonna just take this gelatin, put it all right here. Okay, now you take that and pick it up, friend. Oh my goodness, look what you’re doing. Oh my goodness. Dude, you’re creating little icicles of gelatin. Look at that. – You hear that? I’m actually not too impressed. Rhett seems impressed enough with both of us. I don’t think this is it, dude. – I mean- – I guarantee you it’s it. – [Stevie] Yeah, it is it. Why’d you have to let, yeah. (bell dinging) The more charge that you can put on the balloon, – You weren’t impressed. – [Stevie] the bigger those get. – You weren’t impressed ’cause you didn’t see it when it happened. – Look, lemme show it lemme show it, let me show. – Well, I just did it. – I want you to see it. It’ll still be there. Watch. Look. – [Link] Yeah, but no one can see that. – Yeah, but you can see it. Did you see what happened? I bet you Caitlin got a really good shot of it. – [Stevie] Yeah, let’s take a look. (upbeat music) – Oh, it’s more hair. – It’s you use the hair and also you keep the thing in a pile. You know? – Keep the thing in a pile? – Keep it in a pile. – How do you get it in a pile? I can blow it. – Yeah, you blow it with that into a pile. (group laughing) That’s how we do it. So, we’re three for three. We’re really knocking it outta the park. – [Stevie] You did a great job today. But I need to tell you about the science behind this particular thing. – Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. – Need to, right? – [Stevie] Well, yes. The particles in gelatin are normally neutral, but when a charged balloon is brought close they become temporarily polar, meaning both positively and negatively charged. The negatively charged balloon repels the negatively charged gelatin particles and brings the positively charged ones closer to the surface. This creates a long chain of molecules held together by the attraction of opposite charges. (balloon popping) – Oh! (group laughing) You did that! – Got him (laughing). – Even after you were laughing, I thought I did it. – I heard everything you said, Stevie. I waited right until you finished and pop goes the weasel. – I didn’t understand what you said, but I also heard it. – Positive and negative. That’s the crazy thing. 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