today we are making glue made out of
food and putting it to the test to see
how well it holds up against
guys everyone knows about Elmer’s glue
super glue lots of regular glues that
you’re gonna find around the house but
did you know that you can actually make
these at home
that’s right glue has been around for a
lot longer than the Elmer’s glue company
and we wanted to take a look at some
recipes that we found that might have
worked for older types of glue and see
how they compare to what we’re using
from the store now I think it’s safe to
say that not all glue is created equally
you do not get the same results with
Elmer’s glue that you do with say super
glue but there are lots of variations of
recipes that you can make at home so we
want to try them out glue has been
around since approximately 70,000 BC
when cavemen would use glue made out of
tree sap as a protective coating for
cave paintings around the year 2000 BC
Egyptians started using a liquid glue as
an adhesive in their wooden artifacts in
1932 Elmer’s glue was introduced and
became a staple of the industry and
still is today here’s the basic idea
using common household ingredients most
of which are food we’re gonna make a
variety of different types of glues and
see how they hold up against their
commercial counterparts
so for our first glue we are gonna go
with the most basic of basic recipes
this is probably one that you used to
use in preschool or kindergarten it’s
just flour paste you need that and you
need water and that’s it
so for flour paste if you’ve never used
it this stuff is really good for simple
paper crafts or even if you’re putting
up posters outside and you don’t want to
use any sort of toxic glue this stuff is
wonderful for it making this clue is the
easiest it could possibly be you’re just
gonna mix water and flour together until
you have a lot of cake batter
consistency and then throw it on the
stove until it boils
now we’re gonna be making multiple types
of glue so just to keep them separate
and keep track of them we’re also gonna
add a little bit of food coloring to
each of them this one’s gonna be green
sort of green yellowish green maybe any
more food coloring oh definitely
sticking to itself made guacamole blue
it does look like guacamole well our
first glue recipe is cooling down off
the stove we’re gonna be starting in our
next one this recipe calls for water
cornstarch 2 tablespoons of corn syrup
and finally 1 teaspoon white vinegar
this glue recipe is supposed to end up
quite thick almost
the consistency of a glue stick in the
past we’ve done some stuff with glue
sticks where we took a lot of them and
we put them in a George Foreman girl and
was a lot of fun
those glue sticks were purple and I
think we’re just gonna carry on with
that theme we’ve got a green glue now
let’s do a purple glue now we put this
on the stove heat it up and mix it until
it almost looks exactly like what’s very
similar okay making that was fairly
interesting I spent maybe four or five
minutes stirring it it was on medium
heat most of the time I was stirring it
was really thin it was like the
consistency of milk although you know
purple because we added a purple food
coloring but there’s just thin thin thin
then all of a sudden I saw it starting
to sort of blob up on the end of the
spatula I was worried I’d done it wrong
but I just kept stirring and the whole
thing they can very quickly
alright so we’ve got our two types of
homemade glue here this one is just
regular craft paste so it doesn’t have
the strongest sticking power but we’re
still going to put it to the test
against Elmer’s glue the other one that
we’ve got here is technically glue stick
glue and we want to compare that to glue
sticks itself as well so what we’re
gonna do is we’re actually going to have
a weight test Nate has a scale and we’re
gonna hang stuff from the glue itself
and actually see just how much weight
okay now I think we need to let these
dry and while we’re letting these dry we
can try other types of glue so the glues
we’ve made so far are very water soluble
as are their commercial counterparts so
the glues we’re going to make now should
technically be waterproof we’re gonna
make one that’s a little bit simpler and
then one that should be strong enough to
mend broken glass but we’re gonna put
those to the test so this first one that
we’re going to do is going to be
glycerin water gelatin and vinegar so
you’re gonna start with six tablespoons
of cold water and then two packets of
unflavored gelatin now we’re gonna put
this on the stove and we’re gonna heat
it up until the gelatin has dissolved
completely alright so we’ve got the
gelatin all dissolved now we’re gonna
take it off the heat and we’re going to
add two tablespoons of white vinegar and
the teaspoon of glycerin and we’re also
adding just a bit of yellow food
coloring so we can keep all of these
separate you do want to use this glue
warm but we want to make sure that it’s
cooled just enough to touch and then
we’ll be able to use it so we’re gonna
make one more glue that’s supposedly
tougher than the rest now this is a
waterproof glue the other two that we
have are craft glue and paste but we’re
gonna try one that is specific for
holding glass together starting off
we’re taking three tablespoons of
fat-free milk and we’re gonna heat that
up on the stove you want this almost a
boiling but not quite
while nate is heating up the milk I’m
gonna mix two tablespoons of cold water
with two packets of gelatin again get
those as dissolved as we can before we
add the milk so perfect yeah we’re
starting to get a simmer so we can take
that off and we’re gonna mix that
directly into our gelatin mix so this
recipe is both waterproof and supposedly
strong enough to hold together glass but
it does have milk in it so it will spoil
if you don’t use it immediately one way
that you can actually kind of combat
that is you can add some peppermint
extract keeps it from spoiling so I
think that means we need some glass that
needs to be glued and right now we’ve
got glass that doesn’t need to be glued
we’re gonna break some stuff we’re not
exactly sure how high up we need to hold
these to drop them and have them break
in the concrete so we’re gonna start low
and work our way up so these are thicker
than your usual glasses and they’re made
of borosilicate glass which is gonna be
a little bit harder for us to break then
soda lime but we’re gonna try it okay
I’m gonna go up to about a foot okay
three two one
something broke this one’s broken Oh
mines in pieces alright we get about one
foot that one sounded like it exploded
in velocities will never be a glass
again all right which glue do we want to
use on which cup so let’s go from what
we think will be the strongest to the
weakest so I’m going to say superglue
for the worst let’s go ahead and take
our glue made specifically for a glass
to this piece and then our one that’s
almost intact we’ll go ahead and use our
all of our glue has had plenty of time
to set so now we need to see how well
it’s working out I think first we can
take a look at our glass glues compare
those see what we’ve got and we’ve
actually done multiple tests with the
glues for instance I also glued these
two pieces of glass to each other and
this piece of paper on here to act as
sort of a label that you’re putting on a
glass jar or something like that
there’s our breaking point right there
just removing the tape on that one it
too much for you this is the one that
the recipe said it was specifically for
glass right yeah that’s what’s so
confusing now this recipe you were
supposed to use at room temperature
which is why it’s so gelatinous to glue
glass to other pieces of glass a little
bit of pressure on the set is right off
you’ve got those two pieces all right
together the recipe I found actually
told you to keep it room temperature
that’s what all this is that’s what fell
apart I wasn’t having it so I super
needed it and this one that is staying
together yeah that’s actually holding
really well I’m gonna try and break it
off yeah all right so what was able to
come apart but so much more resistant
than like that has has almost no
resistance it just falls right off
speeding it up so when this is like nice
and hot I’m very liquid it actually does
an okay job of securing the glass
together so room temperatures this is
just two pieces of glass and glued to
each other let’s see how well that holds
really virtually none might be good if
you’re just trying to like keep a piece
of glass from sliding off another piece
of glass this one see how well that
comes to pieces it’s already so much
stronger than I was it does have the
advantage of being all together so it’s
just every side is being supported I can
try and break that right now see mine
just snapped apart this compartment area
okay so I was able to put a little bit
of pressure on that and it’s coming
apart but it’s still tacky too and went
on even tacking okay there we go once
you’ve got one piece on this flue was
meant to do glass to other pieces of
glass this type of glue was simply meant
to be waterproof so I’m curious about
our little paper yes we both had labels
attached with our glue let’s see how
well this is attached
so this is just a piece of paper it did
come off fairly easily but it also was
staying on if nothing was pulling that
off it was sticking pretty nicely now
this is fun
this is actually pulling off like how
I’ve seen a lot of cooking labels this
is actually how I’ve seen labels peel
off before and this is leaving somebody
else yeah out of these two glues
which one would you use I would
definitely go with the yellow one it
definitely seems more useful easier to
use by a little bit and a little bit
stronger my superglued cup is just a
huge mess still missing big old pieces
because it broke quite a bit
I couldn’t get everything back together
some bits are still missing I think Wow
okay that actually just broke the glass
again that didn’t come part at the glue
this is where it was glued and here is a
new break that I just put into it by
pulling it apart
superglue better or worse than our
homemade glues I have to say better
super who actually has ingredients that
we don’t just have lying around the
house usually can you order them yes is
it possible to think yes but for
convenience sake I would say reach for
the superglue
we’ve got non-glass type glue and we’ve
built some tests for that as well I
think it’s time to see how they hold up
I want to start with our homemade flour
paste and then I want to compare it to
Elmer’s glue Wow oh it didn’t break the
glue it broke the paperclip I’m just
gonna hang all of my weight from this
you ready Oh see that time it got two
four pounds I like our older Zoll better
we got over 20 and I kind of wonder if
just by pulling it twisted just a little
bit so I think it and it also hit the
ground so it could have you know cracked
a little bit that’s interesting for a
couple reasons when you’re pulling
straight apart when we were adding
weight or you were pulling straight down
it held a lot of weight and that
actually reminds me of something similar
this is a paper bag from the grocery
store these handles here they’re glued
on it’s just paper glued to paper and if
you pull straight up on them you can put
quite a bit of weight in these bags in
fact it even says on the bag pull
handles up not out so pulling straight
up on these bags you can get quite a bit
of weight going but as soon as you pull
sideways
they come off so easily but we got at
least 25 pounds pulling straight down
with our first glue let’s move on to our
so-called glue stick glue look what we
get – I didn’t see that time I didn’t
either hopefully mark caught it when we
did our video with tons of glue sticks
in the George Foreman grill I have never
been super satisfied with the
performance of a glue stick in gluing
things together however now we’re gonna
14 I think that was at 14 pounds both of
our homemade glues are almost doubly as
strong as the glue stick glue Elmer’s
glue now this is the one we both thought
was gonna be the best opponents yeah 40
50 oh we maxed out this scale we have a
solution to this holy cow I think I saw
that in about 55 oh it didn’t break the
glue made out of food at home it is
doable and we got some pretty awesome
results so with our glass blue and our
waterproof glue it’s gonna work pretty
well if you’ve got some like craps
you’re working with kids but I was very
impressed with our homemade flour paste
and stick glue guys that’s not all we’ve
always got more for you to see this box
up here at the top will take you to our
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food and putting it to the test to see
how well it holds up against
guys everyone knows about Elmer’s glue
super glue lots of regular glues that
you’re gonna find around the house but
did you know that you can actually make
these at home
that’s right glue has been around for a
lot longer than the Elmer’s glue company
and we wanted to take a look at some
recipes that we found that might have
worked for older types of glue and see
how they compare to what we’re using
from the store now I think it’s safe to
say that not all glue is created equally
you do not get the same results with
Elmer’s glue that you do with say super
glue but there are lots of variations of
recipes that you can make at home so we
want to try them out glue has been
around since approximately 70,000 BC
when cavemen would use glue made out of
tree sap as a protective coating for
cave paintings around the year 2000 BC
Egyptians started using a liquid glue as
an adhesive in their wooden artifacts in
1932 Elmer’s glue was introduced and
became a staple of the industry and
still is today here’s the basic idea
using common household ingredients most
of which are food we’re gonna make a
variety of different types of glues and
see how they hold up against their
commercial counterparts
so for our first glue we are gonna go
with the most basic of basic recipes
this is probably one that you used to
use in preschool or kindergarten it’s
just flour paste you need that and you
need water and that’s it
so for flour paste if you’ve never used
it this stuff is really good for simple
paper crafts or even if you’re putting
up posters outside and you don’t want to
use any sort of toxic glue this stuff is
wonderful for it making this clue is the
easiest it could possibly be you’re just
gonna mix water and flour together until
you have a lot of cake batter
consistency and then throw it on the
stove until it boils
now we’re gonna be making multiple types
of glue so just to keep them separate
and keep track of them we’re also gonna
add a little bit of food coloring to
each of them this one’s gonna be green
sort of green yellowish green maybe any
more food coloring oh definitely
sticking to itself made guacamole blue
it does look like guacamole well our
first glue recipe is cooling down off
the stove we’re gonna be starting in our
next one this recipe calls for water
cornstarch 2 tablespoons of corn syrup
and finally 1 teaspoon white vinegar
this glue recipe is supposed to end up
quite thick almost
the consistency of a glue stick in the
past we’ve done some stuff with glue
sticks where we took a lot of them and
we put them in a George Foreman girl and
was a lot of fun
those glue sticks were purple and I
think we’re just gonna carry on with
that theme we’ve got a green glue now
let’s do a purple glue now we put this
on the stove heat it up and mix it until
it almost looks exactly like what’s very
similar okay making that was fairly
interesting I spent maybe four or five
minutes stirring it it was on medium
heat most of the time I was stirring it
was really thin it was like the
consistency of milk although you know
purple because we added a purple food
coloring but there’s just thin thin thin
then all of a sudden I saw it starting
to sort of blob up on the end of the
spatula I was worried I’d done it wrong
but I just kept stirring and the whole
thing they can very quickly
alright so we’ve got our two types of
homemade glue here this one is just
regular craft paste so it doesn’t have
the strongest sticking power but we’re
still going to put it to the test
against Elmer’s glue the other one that
we’ve got here is technically glue stick
glue and we want to compare that to glue
sticks itself as well so what we’re
gonna do is we’re actually going to have
a weight test Nate has a scale and we’re
gonna hang stuff from the glue itself
and actually see just how much weight
okay now I think we need to let these
dry and while we’re letting these dry we
can try other types of glue so the glues
we’ve made so far are very water soluble
as are their commercial counterparts so
the glues we’re going to make now should
technically be waterproof we’re gonna
make one that’s a little bit simpler and
then one that should be strong enough to
mend broken glass but we’re gonna put
those to the test so this first one that
we’re going to do is going to be
glycerin water gelatin and vinegar so
you’re gonna start with six tablespoons
of cold water and then two packets of
unflavored gelatin now we’re gonna put
this on the stove and we’re gonna heat
it up until the gelatin has dissolved
completely alright so we’ve got the
gelatin all dissolved now we’re gonna
take it off the heat and we’re going to
add two tablespoons of white vinegar and
the teaspoon of glycerin and we’re also
adding just a bit of yellow food
coloring so we can keep all of these
separate you do want to use this glue
warm but we want to make sure that it’s
cooled just enough to touch and then
we’ll be able to use it so we’re gonna
make one more glue that’s supposedly
tougher than the rest now this is a
waterproof glue the other two that we
have are craft glue and paste but we’re
gonna try one that is specific for
holding glass together starting off
we’re taking three tablespoons of
fat-free milk and we’re gonna heat that
up on the stove you want this almost a
boiling but not quite
while nate is heating up the milk I’m
gonna mix two tablespoons of cold water
with two packets of gelatin again get
those as dissolved as we can before we
add the milk so perfect yeah we’re
starting to get a simmer so we can take
that off and we’re gonna mix that
directly into our gelatin mix so this
recipe is both waterproof and supposedly
strong enough to hold together glass but
it does have milk in it so it will spoil
if you don’t use it immediately one way
that you can actually kind of combat
that is you can add some peppermint
extract keeps it from spoiling so I
think that means we need some glass that
needs to be glued and right now we’ve
got glass that doesn’t need to be glued
we’re gonna break some stuff we’re not
exactly sure how high up we need to hold
these to drop them and have them break
in the concrete so we’re gonna start low
and work our way up so these are thicker
than your usual glasses and they’re made
of borosilicate glass which is gonna be
a little bit harder for us to break then
soda lime but we’re gonna try it okay
I’m gonna go up to about a foot okay
three two one
something broke this one’s broken Oh
mines in pieces alright we get about one
foot that one sounded like it exploded
in velocities will never be a glass
again all right which glue do we want to
use on which cup so let’s go from what
we think will be the strongest to the
weakest so I’m going to say superglue
for the worst let’s go ahead and take
our glue made specifically for a glass
to this piece and then our one that’s
almost intact we’ll go ahead and use our
all of our glue has had plenty of time
to set so now we need to see how well
it’s working out I think first we can
take a look at our glass glues compare
those see what we’ve got and we’ve
actually done multiple tests with the
glues for instance I also glued these
two pieces of glass to each other and
this piece of paper on here to act as
sort of a label that you’re putting on a
glass jar or something like that
there’s our breaking point right there
just removing the tape on that one it
too much for you this is the one that
the recipe said it was specifically for
glass right yeah that’s what’s so
confusing now this recipe you were
supposed to use at room temperature
which is why it’s so gelatinous to glue
glass to other pieces of glass a little
bit of pressure on the set is right off
you’ve got those two pieces all right
together the recipe I found actually
told you to keep it room temperature
that’s what all this is that’s what fell
apart I wasn’t having it so I super
needed it and this one that is staying
together yeah that’s actually holding
really well I’m gonna try and break it
off yeah all right so what was able to
come apart but so much more resistant
than like that has has almost no
resistance it just falls right off
speeding it up so when this is like nice
and hot I’m very liquid it actually does
an okay job of securing the glass
together so room temperatures this is
just two pieces of glass and glued to
each other let’s see how well that holds
really virtually none might be good if
you’re just trying to like keep a piece
of glass from sliding off another piece
of glass this one see how well that
comes to pieces it’s already so much
stronger than I was it does have the
advantage of being all together so it’s
just every side is being supported I can
try and break that right now see mine
just snapped apart this compartment area
okay so I was able to put a little bit
of pressure on that and it’s coming
apart but it’s still tacky too and went
on even tacking okay there we go once
you’ve got one piece on this flue was
meant to do glass to other pieces of
glass this type of glue was simply meant
to be waterproof so I’m curious about
our little paper yes we both had labels
attached with our glue let’s see how
well this is attached
so this is just a piece of paper it did
come off fairly easily but it also was
staying on if nothing was pulling that
off it was sticking pretty nicely now
this is fun
this is actually pulling off like how
I’ve seen a lot of cooking labels this
is actually how I’ve seen labels peel
off before and this is leaving somebody
else yeah out of these two glues
which one would you use I would
definitely go with the yellow one it
definitely seems more useful easier to
use by a little bit and a little bit
stronger my superglued cup is just a
huge mess still missing big old pieces
because it broke quite a bit
I couldn’t get everything back together
some bits are still missing I think Wow
okay that actually just broke the glass
again that didn’t come part at the glue
this is where it was glued and here is a
new break that I just put into it by
pulling it apart
superglue better or worse than our
homemade glues I have to say better
super who actually has ingredients that
we don’t just have lying around the
house usually can you order them yes is
it possible to think yes but for
convenience sake I would say reach for
the superglue
we’ve got non-glass type glue and we’ve
built some tests for that as well I
think it’s time to see how they hold up
I want to start with our homemade flour
paste and then I want to compare it to
Elmer’s glue Wow oh it didn’t break the
glue it broke the paperclip I’m just
gonna hang all of my weight from this
you ready Oh see that time it got two
four pounds I like our older Zoll better
we got over 20 and I kind of wonder if
just by pulling it twisted just a little
bit so I think it and it also hit the
ground so it could have you know cracked
a little bit that’s interesting for a
couple reasons when you’re pulling
straight apart when we were adding
weight or you were pulling straight down
it held a lot of weight and that
actually reminds me of something similar
this is a paper bag from the grocery
store these handles here they’re glued
on it’s just paper glued to paper and if
you pull straight up on them you can put
quite a bit of weight in these bags in
fact it even says on the bag pull
handles up not out so pulling straight
up on these bags you can get quite a bit
of weight going but as soon as you pull
sideways
they come off so easily but we got at
least 25 pounds pulling straight down
with our first glue let’s move on to our
so-called glue stick glue look what we
get – I didn’t see that time I didn’t
either hopefully mark caught it when we
did our video with tons of glue sticks
in the George Foreman grill I have never
been super satisfied with the
performance of a glue stick in gluing
things together however now we’re gonna
14 I think that was at 14 pounds both of
our homemade glues are almost doubly as
strong as the glue stick glue Elmer’s
glue now this is the one we both thought
was gonna be the best opponents yeah 40
50 oh we maxed out this scale we have a
solution to this holy cow I think I saw
that in about 55 oh it didn’t break the
glue made out of food at home it is
doable and we got some pretty awesome
results so with our glass blue and our
waterproof glue it’s gonna work pretty
well if you’ve got some like craps
you’re working with kids but I was very
impressed with our homemade flour paste
and stick glue guys that’s not all we’ve
always got more for you to see this box
up here at the top will take you to our
latest video that box at the bottom is
what YouTube thinks you should be
watching next hit this bomb in the
middle to subscribe to the club don’t
forget to ring that Bell so you never
miss out on the fun and you see in the next one talk to you then
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