LabCoatz - 2024-12-30
🌏 Get an Exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/labcoatz It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee!✌ Of all the controversial food additives, diacetyl might just be the most delicious. It occurs naturally in butter and other foods, and is considered safe to eat...but when a lot of it is inhaled directly (through, say, a vape pen), it tends to cause irreversible lung damage, which has lead to a certain level of distrust and avoidance. So, to see just how bad it is, I made some...and tried using it to replicate movie theater popcorn butter! Want a sample of my fake butter? Just donate $15, and be sure to include your name and address: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/labcoatz New $15+ Patreon members will also be offered a sample: https://www.patreon.com/LabCoatz Keep in mind, these samples are less than 1mL and are not intended for human consumption. And be sure to check out @Amateur.Chemistry and his video on making diacetyl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMNgq37LfCI WARNING: do not consume homemade flavoring agents...or any other chemicals for that matter. I did it because I understood the risks associated with these chemicals, and only consumed a milligram or less in total (since the product was diluted to under 0.5% concentration in oil, and the two popcorn kernels I ate only had a few hundred milligrams of oil on them). Please: be wise, and don't do what I do! 0:00 Intro 0:28 Diacetyl: A delicious lie 1:25 Safety 3:36 Synthesis 6:45 Mistakes were made... 8:27 Final yield 8:54 Making fake butter (50,000 times stronger than normal) 10:29 Tasting 13:45 Better than expected! 14:07 GIVEAWAY! 14:46 Conclusion
But what about popcorn flavored butter?
this
Chem battle!
Corn flavored butter pop?
what if we butter in the pop of then do corn flavour 🤤🤤🤤
you won't do it
Yellow chemistry and tar, I’m surprised that explosions&fire didn’t make a cameo
The Chemist in Yellow
He's too busy making tar of his own.
He's too busy with cubic tar to bother with my 2-dimensional yellow chemistry
"All yellow chemistry is trash" 😅
Chemists tasting their creations is how scientific progress was made for hundreds of years. It's also one of the reasons why chemists usually didn't die of old age.
Yeah, I try to keep my exposures to a minimum...like maybe once or twice per year. At least that's less risky that "acceptable" activities like smoking every week!
@LabCoatz_Science Get an NMR from local university and you can validate purity and then dont have to worry
@LabCoatz_Science Nobody dies from smnoking every week. every day perhaps
@annother3350 what are you on lol yes they do die, and if not they aren't the rule, they are the exception
That and cancer
I appreciate you telling me not to try and replicate this at home since i barely have the skills to make a baking soda volcano
@Lexiconhuka wait, you can actually do that?!? I tried but I couldn't remember if it was baking soda or powder so I gave up 😭
Used to work at a cinema and the flavoring we added in popping was called "Flavacol" if you ever want to compare to the actual product
is that a powder right? What did you use for butter?
@jpjpjpjpjpjpjpjp It's a buttery flavored salt, used in place of either ingredient. A lot of times the liquid "butter" doesn't even have the artificial flavoring, it's often just the same orange oil the popcorn is popped in.
@yalborap yeah I've seen that crap go in and it really threw me off of the idea of eating movie theater popcorn. Well, until the next movie I went to...but it was still gross!
The more I learn about chemistry the more accurate Explosions&Fire's mantra of "Whenever a reaction mixture turns yellow, everything is ruined" seems.
Also I know nothing about chemistry, I just find the processes and arcane instruments neat to watch in action :D
i love videos like this because it commits the cardinal sin of eating in the lab. not only that, but you’re eating what you MAKE in the lab, which is even more insane
Chef here. I'm not sure about american cinema popcorn, but for us aussies, the best way to get cinema flavoured popcorn is...and i shit you not...just the regular no-name popping corn kernals, and bog standard salted margarine. A flat layer of corn with enough margarine (when melted) to cover about 1/2 to 3/4 of the kernal, and cook uncovered on a medium heat (it should bubble like a freshly poured carbonated drink). That will do 1 really decent, or 2 good servings (depending on hunger) if you use an 18 or 20cm pot. It only takes 3 minutes or so, so just increase the pot diameter if you need to do more serves than that, but keep in mind that A=pi x r^2.
That's because raw margarine has no flavor. It's industrially manufactured from neutrally-flavored vegetable oils. Then they add "artificial butter flavor", which is.....diacetyl.
Im from Aus and just throw the pop corn in a microwave press start 2mins and enjoy popcorn with no diacetyl. Tastes like buttery popcorn
@spinjector Hold the Diacetyl - I'm fine with butter
Workers in factories definitely seemed to get worse damage than the vapers, at least when you read the medical literature. Not sure why.
Probably because they got that good factory air, with some fun suspensions
Because diacetyl was included only in a few poorly made vaping juices in the past. (diacetyl is banned for vape juices)
And that was in small amounts. Cigarettes contain naturally a much higher amount of diacetyl than any of those juices did.
And popcorn factory workers were exposed to way higher amounts than even cigarettes.
This video honestly gives very little actual information on diacetyl.. It is for instance also found naturally in butter, coffee , beer etc. (not just added to margarine)
@0xszander0That's the explanation, thanks for answering the question accurately and fully.
He mentions it being found naturally in butter@0xszander0
How about investigating into what exactly 'natural flavors' are. Good luck.
"Popcorn maker's lungs" is the layman's term for people who got sick because of an occupational exposure to Diacetyl.
Popcorn lung
@theangledsaxon6765 vaping circa 2015
@brendanshanahan1757Most vape liquids do not actually contain Diacetyl, especially today. And especially not in the dosages that popcorn manufacturers were exposed to, which was many thousands of times higher, and constantly for years. Hence why it’s never actually been proven to exist in vapers. Vaping is bad for you for many other reasons though. The addictive nature being one of the biggest.
People were getting popcorn lung from the butter flavoring in some vapes
@neonnova9042 That was either when vapes were new and essentially unregulated or due to counterfeit/DIY vape juice. The same happened with Vitamin E.
Welcome to the homemade butter perfume club, amazing video!
As an aircraft mechanic who regularly works with MEK as a cleaning solvent, I think I’ll stick to butter from now on, thank you very much
My God that amount of yellow makes Australian shed man shiver
Lots of alchemy afoot
Alchemy, of course, being yellow chemistry
7:00 “dark… darker… yet darker” ahh solution 😭💀
I can believe it's not butter.
Big Butter does NOT approve
Ad ends at 3:36
Id rate that sponsor segment 1 out of 10 stars. It was right at the beginning, and the spongebob screaming clip instantly made it a lot worse
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. "But," she said, "the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But, a bit of better butter will make my batter better." So, she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter.
Bet.
... Then she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter.
So
T'was better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
this has mad NileRed energy
What did you say? Taste every bottle under my dishwasher? Understood🤝🗿
Who's gonna tell him about Flavacol?
I really appreciate your synthesis videos. I really loved doing it, but had to quit due to depression, but watching you synthesize things, helps me relax.
I used to woprk in a building with an abandoned movie cinema of 10+ years still smelled of butteredpopcorn.
Would be cool to see this added to beta carotene. I think actual popcorn oil is beta carotene, coconut oil, and flavacol
This reminds me of the Minecraft brewing stand! Very interesting
I miss buttered popcorn in the movie theatre. in Uruguay it's only salty or sweet 😢
i feel like the only person on the planet who doesn't really think movie theatre popcorn tastes any better than just regular home popped corn
It’s possible to make better popcorn at home but you’ve gotta make it fresh and use real butter. Real butter tastes way better to me idk. I’ve heard people say real butter makes butter soggy but I’ve never had an issue
Great video! now i deffinitly need to go buy popcorn thanks
AMAZING VIDEO MAN!!!!!! I legit never knew any of this , I have always wondered if there was an artificial "butter flavor" and yes that smell of entering the movies is unforgettable and nostalgic
2:04 😂😂😂😂 love that part from Jurassic Park!
Ah ah ah. What's the password?
Lolling at the very beginning. "Picture yourself going to the movies" B roll shows a stage theater which does not show movies
@LabCoatz your videos are amazing love the content I would like to see you demonstrate a birch reduction using lithium and sodium metal
In Canada we also use this stuff called Flavacol. It's marketed as "butter salt".
In the United States we too use flavacol
Ah, the Nilered content I've been craving 😌
Typically you add something else called Flavacol salt seasoning.
It's been my Amazon list for about a couple of months now. 😊
I bought one container of it 10 years ago and it's still like 90% of the way full and I eat a LOT of popcorn
Remarkable, Explosions&Fire theory on yellow chemistry is proven right time and time again.
I have a movie theater style popcorn maker and I've always put what's labeled coconut oil in it when making popcorn
For a next vidéo, you should be the first YouTuber to make trifluoronitrosomethane, a gas with a stunning blue color or trichloronitrosoethane a dark blue liquid !
6:55 Yellow chemistry claims yet another victim.
I buy that Theatre Butter Flavoring by the gallon. Also the special Theatre salt also is needs for proper Theatre Popcorn. Unfortunately only comes in industrial but last for a long time.
Nilegreen is an interesting channel after all !
Great Job! love the relatability and practicality in focus, just be careful with ingesting even small amounts of DCM, you want to make it past 60 years old right?
On the note of popcorn making, something that work astonishingly well is a microwave popcorn bowl. You can grab one from Amazon for like $11, and they're just a rubber-y bowl you put the popcorn kernels into, then microwave. It's quicker than an air popper, less messy, and does the best job at popping it I've ever seen. I got it from a friend as a gift, and it was one of the best gifts I've received. I like to run it for a couple minutes, empty out the popped popcorn, then put it back in the microwave and repeat. The amount of time varies depending on your microwave, but you can get a very large bowl, with zero unpoped kernels, in 6 - 8 minutes. It's got a lid that you put on it too, so there's absolutely zero mess to clean up - no popcorn flying all over the kitchen or filling the microwave. A truly fantastic purchase, and popcorn is actually not a bad snack health-wise as long as you don't go too crazy on the seasonings.
Well this is the first chemistry video that has made me hungry.
Ive figured out how to make the best "movie theater" style popcorn. You gotta use coconut oil for popping the corn and must be done on a stove. Also gotta use a popcorn salt its super fine and wont clump, trick is to add the salt into the oil right before adding the corn to pop. Then every single inch of popcorn is covered in salt. Then once popped i use real butter (salted) and add that to the allready pre salted corn. You have to use coconut oil and popcorn salt otherwise the taste wont be right. I hate the taste of fake butter so i have never used it even at the movies. Real butter is just so so superior
Ooooh ... Tom from Extractions&Fire/Ire is telling me this is gonna go badly as it's yellow!
😂😂😂
I see you've found diacetyl. I made it years ago, with a made up procedure and plastic tubing distillation thingy. I used isopropyl nitrite as the nitrosating reagent, made from HiMedia sodium nitrite.
Nile Red Jr. (and I mean that in the most complimentary way as possible). Keep it up and you'll do wonders!!
Nile, that you in disguise?
I'm only playing, but great video! Definitely earned my Sub.
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