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Turning cotton balls into cotton candy

2021-09-03 Science & Technology
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For a couple years now, I've been wanting to turn cotton balls into edible (and literal) cotton candy. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, but I finally did it! This is kind of a follow-up to my previous project, where I turned toilet paper into drinkable alcohol (moonshine). In that one, I used an enzyme called cellulase, but that didn't seem to work here. So, instead, I used concentrated sulfuric acid. Pre-order the NileRed BZ Reaction Kit - https://inqfactory.com/nilered ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merch - https://nilered.tv/store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the community: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/nilered Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3BT6UHf NileRed Newsletter - https://nile.red/home#newsletter You can also find me here: Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/NileRed2 Instagram - https://m.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/NileRed2 Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): https://soundcloud.com/sorrysines/walker

Top Comments (10)

@milkiii_teaa 2021-09-04

i can’t wait for the sequel: turning literal rocks into rock candy

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@JoeyKlu 2021-09-03

I would have assumed the Canadian Customs department would be familiar with him by now.

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@IncredibleMD 2021-09-03

"And hopefully won't poison me." So, anyway, I added 75% pure sulfuric acid.

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@kartikeyarathore9704 2021-09-08

i can't wait for the sequel: turning limestone into lemonade

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@peekaloo12 2021-09-03

The fact that NileRed is more confident with sulfuric acid than he is with just a regular cotton candy maker is cracking me up

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@samueljele 2021-10-26

"Based on almost nothing, I've decided" is a phrase I'm going to use in my next lab report

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@justintr4888 2021-09-09

I love how every step is explained in the tone of someone trying to explain the long chain of events that led to the backyard shed burning down.

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@swiftfated 2021-09-16

My favorite thing about this channel is the rigorous and precise methods used such as "I let it run until I thought it looked good" and "completely at random, I chose to let it sit 5 hours."

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@jastintheceooffinanasapost6204 2024-12-08

The most impressive part of Nigel is that he somehow knows what is weird for normal people since once you know some degree of anything, at some point you stop having common sense like "Of course you can do it from this, it's that other thing" or "Oh but it's this very specific type of something so it makes total sense" So still remenber what is what is actually cool and weird is pretty powerful of a social exploit

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@Sukizuii 2025-02-27

When I was younger I always thought cotton balls were cotton candy’s children. This made 6 yr old me happy

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