in this video we find out what will
happen if you completely dehydrate soda
so they become a syrup can we get it to
being hard powder can we then mix it
back into some carbonated water and make
soda once again
previously we’ve done an experiment
where we boiled soda until all of the
water in it was gone and that was pretty
cool but it had one thing in it that I
didn’t really like and that’s that the
heat of the stove was so concentrated
that it began burning the non water
ingredients after all the water had
boiled off I wanted to see what would
happen if you just pulled the water out
but kept the temperature low enough that
it wasn’t going to burn anything else
sugar melts at approximately 320 degrees
Fahrenheit and a lot of chemical changes
start happening when that goes on so
instead of that we’re gonna be using the
dehydrator on five thousand pouring some
soda into some trays and seeing what we
get if we just dehydrate all of the
water out it might take a few days but
we’ll just keep it running the idea here
is really simple we’ll pour out the soda
into a couple of trays stick them in the
dehydrator until it doesn’t seem to be
doing anything anymore and then see what
it looks like to start off we’ve got two
of these cheap aluminum trays they don’t
quite fit into our dehydrator so we’re
gonna cut the walls down a little bit
short it does fit in terms of the other
dimensions it’s just that each tray is a
little too tall so let’s shorten those
please note if you do this with any nice
scissors it will probably ruin them
these came in a pack of five for five
dollars so I’m not too worried about it
there we go we’ve got our two trays I
think I’m going to put them in the
dehydrator and then just pull them out a
little bit before I pour the soda in so
I’m not like lifting a tray full of
splashing liquid everywhere let’s get
this set up if you’ve watched our other
videos you may remember the dehydrator
on five thousand this is a cardboard box
lined with foil we have a 250 watt heat
lamp and a small computer fan right here
once both of those are on at the same
time we get about 150 degrees Fahrenheit
and a lot of good circulation with the
holes in the top and the door closed all
the air flows in up and out the top does
a really good job of drying things out
and we need to dry these out a lot
please fit nicely in there start with
the cola
these are 20 ounces 591 milliliters
[Music]
it’s looking pretty full it’s not quite
even because our table isn’t quite level
that’s alright
fan is plugged in and it’s blowing and
of course if I turn on the light
I have adjustable control over the
brightness to some degree that also
controls the temperature as well don’t
think I’ll go for maximum heat a lot of
bubbling going on just a second we close
the door here carefully because we don’t
want to spill all over
[Music]
now of course we just need to let this
run and I’m not actually gonna leave it
out here I’m very carefully going to
move everything to an indoor location so
it’s not just exposed to the elements
but we’re just gonna let this run that’s
it it’s gonna dehydrate and that takes
time
we need to slowly evaporate all of the
water out we’ll try and check in at
about the 12 hour mark and after that
we’ll probably just see how long it
takes for it to completely dehydrate
update time we’ve actually let this run
a little bit more than 12 hours it’s run
for about 14 let’s check out what has
happened to our sodas in our dehydrator
Wow
so there is clearly a lot less mass here
that is definitely not 20 ounces
definitely not our 591 millilitres that
is you can see how thick that is it’s
running like a syrup super Cola is the
same I think that’s a little runny err
but it’s still definitely thicker than
soda not much running in just a little
bit of course I have to taste these
well it tastes like we’re in soda oh man
it doesn’t taste quite the way I think I
imagined it would obviously it’s very
sweet because there’s a lot of sugar
still in there without a lot of water
but the other flavors when they become
concentrated like this they don’t really
seem to scale the same way that the
sugar does it’s actually there’s a fair
amount of bitter flavoring to it this
brand of orange soda does actually have
caffeine in it and I know that caffeine
is a flavoring used in lots of types of
sodas and maybe that’s part of our
tasting it is sort of a bitter flavoring
the orange definitely comes through the
most but there are other flavors in
there it’s not terribly different from
orange cough syrup so let’s try the cola
definitely a thinner syrup I’m not sure
why oh man the diluted coke is really
really strong very Cola flavor very
strong sugar flavor and it also has some
of the bitter flavor what I think we
need to do now is take our syrup trays
put them back in the de hydrator and
just keep letting it run I’m really
hoping that this candy hydrate all the
way out to the point where we don’t even
have a liquid where it’s something
that’s dry and maybe crackly and maybe
even can be broken up into a powder but
that may or may not happen I haven’t
tried this before let’s find out we have
now left our soda dehydrating for a long
time
these trays were in the dehydrator for
about a week solid dehydrating that’s
quite a bit and it didn’t take very long
for most of the moisture to disappear
and I was just seeing if it would go
even farther I was trying to see if we
could get like a powder or something
crystallized and it doesn’t seem that
that happens there’s enough other
ingredients other than water that what
we end up with is this thick sticky
syrup this 20 ounce bottle was entirely
emptied into this tray and this is all
we have left almost everything is gone
so by far the largest part of this was
water the second ingredient in both of
these bottles of soda was high-fructose
corn syrup and I’m guessing that’s
what’s causing it to be a thick syrup
rather than just powder the high
fructose corn syrup clearly doesn’t
dehydrate all the way down to being dry
so now what we want to do is gather up
all of the syrup from one of these and
put it into a cup and see just how much
of it we have left
now this is thick enough that I might
have a hard time getting all of it off
the bottom of the pan but I’m gonna do
random fact the term soda is from the
word sodium which was a common mineral
in natural springs water the word popped
was first used in 1812 and referred to
the sound of a carbonated beverage
opening almost all of the syrup there’s
a little bit stuck in the pan that I
couldn’t get out and I would say we have
just under 1/4 cup but now the question
I think is whether or not we can put
this back into the soda bottle and add
water well we don’t necessarily need to
mix it up in the bottle but we do want
to see if we can reconstitute this in
desoto
I am gonna start just by filling this
bottle with about 20 ounces of water
I’ll try and leave out about that much
and then I’m gonna pour that into a
pitcher because it’s easier to stir in
and then we’re gonna scoop and scrape
all of this syrup into the water and see
if it will dissolve back in we’re
getting a change in the color of the
water so at least the color is
dissolving in definitely some mixed in
there’s a lot still on the bottom I’m
gonna switch over to something with a
longer handle and it’s rigid so I can
hopefully scrape more off of the bottom
as it sits inks to the bottom and then
it’s so sticky it sticks even while it’s
covered in water I think that has mostly
dissolved back into our carbonated water
so make sense at this point that we have
to do is test it out torch them off into
a cup and see if we’ve made something
drinkable definitely has lost much of
the carbonation but there’s still some
bubbles around in there now let’s see
how it tastes
hmm it has the general taste I think
there’s a little bit too much water and
probably that’s because we’ve lost some
in our pan we’ve lost some in our cup
we’ve lost some on our spatula so we
probably don’t have it as concentrated
as it should be I don’t know it it
almost seems like it’s missing more than
that and again also part of that is
because it’s not carbonated now real
quick let’s see if we can get the same
result or any sort of result using
orange one I’m gonna concentrate this
one even less I don’t know what is
different about them but we seem to have
less of the orange syrup than we did of
the coke syrup I don’t know if it just
has fewer ingredients or more evaporated
away or the base ingredients of flavor
for Cola are stronger and so you need
more corn syrup offset that it’s really
hard to tell I think that is mixed in as
well as it’s gonna mix in color doesn’t
look quite as vibrant in my opinion as
it did when it was new but we’ll see
maybe even though I only filled that
bottle half way it’s still somehow not
concentrated enough that would be
interesting maybe the color dye doesn’t
like to be dehydrated Cheers
[Music]
oh that actually maybe too concentrated
back that’s strong reconstituting
dehydrated soda does it work not really
I give that like a c-minus at very best
once you’ve made the syrup it doesn’t
really mix in very well it takes a lot
of time and effort to get it to mix and
the process D carbonates pretty much all
of the liquid so you end up with
something very flat and the flavor is
very similar but somehow a little bit
different than the original so while I’d
say it’s very interesting to see what
happens when you remove all of the water
from soda that thick gloopy severely
colored syrup is pretty interesting
stuff but I would not say that it’s a
practical application and I wouldn’t
suggest you try and make dehydrated soda
syrup that you can later mix back in I
do think it’s really cool to see what’s
in a bottle of soda other than water
guys that’s not all we’ve always got
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happen if you completely dehydrate soda
so they become a syrup can we get it to
being hard powder can we then mix it
back into some carbonated water and make
soda once again
previously we’ve done an experiment
where we boiled soda until all of the
water in it was gone and that was pretty
cool but it had one thing in it that I
didn’t really like and that’s that the
heat of the stove was so concentrated
that it began burning the non water
ingredients after all the water had
boiled off I wanted to see what would
happen if you just pulled the water out
but kept the temperature low enough that
it wasn’t going to burn anything else
sugar melts at approximately 320 degrees
Fahrenheit and a lot of chemical changes
start happening when that goes on so
instead of that we’re gonna be using the
dehydrator on five thousand pouring some
soda into some trays and seeing what we
get if we just dehydrate all of the
water out it might take a few days but
we’ll just keep it running the idea here
is really simple we’ll pour out the soda
into a couple of trays stick them in the
dehydrator until it doesn’t seem to be
doing anything anymore and then see what
it looks like to start off we’ve got two
of these cheap aluminum trays they don’t
quite fit into our dehydrator so we’re
gonna cut the walls down a little bit
short it does fit in terms of the other
dimensions it’s just that each tray is a
little too tall so let’s shorten those
please note if you do this with any nice
scissors it will probably ruin them
these came in a pack of five for five
dollars so I’m not too worried about it
there we go we’ve got our two trays I
think I’m going to put them in the
dehydrator and then just pull them out a
little bit before I pour the soda in so
I’m not like lifting a tray full of
splashing liquid everywhere let’s get
this set up if you’ve watched our other
videos you may remember the dehydrator
on five thousand this is a cardboard box
lined with foil we have a 250 watt heat
lamp and a small computer fan right here
once both of those are on at the same
time we get about 150 degrees Fahrenheit
and a lot of good circulation with the
holes in the top and the door closed all
the air flows in up and out the top does
a really good job of drying things out
and we need to dry these out a lot
please fit nicely in there start with
the cola
these are 20 ounces 591 milliliters
[Music]
it’s looking pretty full it’s not quite
even because our table isn’t quite level
that’s alright
fan is plugged in and it’s blowing and
of course if I turn on the light
I have adjustable control over the
brightness to some degree that also
controls the temperature as well don’t
think I’ll go for maximum heat a lot of
bubbling going on just a second we close
the door here carefully because we don’t
want to spill all over
[Music]
now of course we just need to let this
run and I’m not actually gonna leave it
out here I’m very carefully going to
move everything to an indoor location so
it’s not just exposed to the elements
but we’re just gonna let this run that’s
it it’s gonna dehydrate and that takes
time
we need to slowly evaporate all of the
water out we’ll try and check in at
about the 12 hour mark and after that
we’ll probably just see how long it
takes for it to completely dehydrate
update time we’ve actually let this run
a little bit more than 12 hours it’s run
for about 14 let’s check out what has
happened to our sodas in our dehydrator
Wow
so there is clearly a lot less mass here
that is definitely not 20 ounces
definitely not our 591 millilitres that
is you can see how thick that is it’s
running like a syrup super Cola is the
same I think that’s a little runny err
but it’s still definitely thicker than
soda not much running in just a little
bit of course I have to taste these
well it tastes like we’re in soda oh man
it doesn’t taste quite the way I think I
imagined it would obviously it’s very
sweet because there’s a lot of sugar
still in there without a lot of water
but the other flavors when they become
concentrated like this they don’t really
seem to scale the same way that the
sugar does it’s actually there’s a fair
amount of bitter flavoring to it this
brand of orange soda does actually have
caffeine in it and I know that caffeine
is a flavoring used in lots of types of
sodas and maybe that’s part of our
tasting it is sort of a bitter flavoring
the orange definitely comes through the
most but there are other flavors in
there it’s not terribly different from
orange cough syrup so let’s try the cola
definitely a thinner syrup I’m not sure
why oh man the diluted coke is really
really strong very Cola flavor very
strong sugar flavor and it also has some
of the bitter flavor what I think we
need to do now is take our syrup trays
put them back in the de hydrator and
just keep letting it run I’m really
hoping that this candy hydrate all the
way out to the point where we don’t even
have a liquid where it’s something
that’s dry and maybe crackly and maybe
even can be broken up into a powder but
that may or may not happen I haven’t
tried this before let’s find out we have
now left our soda dehydrating for a long
time
these trays were in the dehydrator for
about a week solid dehydrating that’s
quite a bit and it didn’t take very long
for most of the moisture to disappear
and I was just seeing if it would go
even farther I was trying to see if we
could get like a powder or something
crystallized and it doesn’t seem that
that happens there’s enough other
ingredients other than water that what
we end up with is this thick sticky
syrup this 20 ounce bottle was entirely
emptied into this tray and this is all
we have left almost everything is gone
so by far the largest part of this was
water the second ingredient in both of
these bottles of soda was high-fructose
corn syrup and I’m guessing that’s
what’s causing it to be a thick syrup
rather than just powder the high
fructose corn syrup clearly doesn’t
dehydrate all the way down to being dry
so now what we want to do is gather up
all of the syrup from one of these and
put it into a cup and see just how much
of it we have left
now this is thick enough that I might
have a hard time getting all of it off
the bottom of the pan but I’m gonna do
random fact the term soda is from the
word sodium which was a common mineral
in natural springs water the word popped
was first used in 1812 and referred to
the sound of a carbonated beverage
opening almost all of the syrup there’s
a little bit stuck in the pan that I
couldn’t get out and I would say we have
just under 1/4 cup but now the question
I think is whether or not we can put
this back into the soda bottle and add
water well we don’t necessarily need to
mix it up in the bottle but we do want
to see if we can reconstitute this in
desoto
I am gonna start just by filling this
bottle with about 20 ounces of water
I’ll try and leave out about that much
and then I’m gonna pour that into a
pitcher because it’s easier to stir in
and then we’re gonna scoop and scrape
all of this syrup into the water and see
if it will dissolve back in we’re
getting a change in the color of the
water so at least the color is
dissolving in definitely some mixed in
there’s a lot still on the bottom I’m
gonna switch over to something with a
longer handle and it’s rigid so I can
hopefully scrape more off of the bottom
as it sits inks to the bottom and then
it’s so sticky it sticks even while it’s
covered in water I think that has mostly
dissolved back into our carbonated water
so make sense at this point that we have
to do is test it out torch them off into
a cup and see if we’ve made something
drinkable definitely has lost much of
the carbonation but there’s still some
bubbles around in there now let’s see
how it tastes
hmm it has the general taste I think
there’s a little bit too much water and
probably that’s because we’ve lost some
in our pan we’ve lost some in our cup
we’ve lost some on our spatula so we
probably don’t have it as concentrated
as it should be I don’t know it it
almost seems like it’s missing more than
that and again also part of that is
because it’s not carbonated now real
quick let’s see if we can get the same
result or any sort of result using
orange one I’m gonna concentrate this
one even less I don’t know what is
different about them but we seem to have
less of the orange syrup than we did of
the coke syrup I don’t know if it just
has fewer ingredients or more evaporated
away or the base ingredients of flavor
for Cola are stronger and so you need
more corn syrup offset that it’s really
hard to tell I think that is mixed in as
well as it’s gonna mix in color doesn’t
look quite as vibrant in my opinion as
it did when it was new but we’ll see
maybe even though I only filled that
bottle half way it’s still somehow not
concentrated enough that would be
interesting maybe the color dye doesn’t
like to be dehydrated Cheers
[Music]
oh that actually maybe too concentrated
back that’s strong reconstituting
dehydrated soda does it work not really
I give that like a c-minus at very best
once you’ve made the syrup it doesn’t
really mix in very well it takes a lot
of time and effort to get it to mix and
the process D carbonates pretty much all
of the liquid so you end up with
something very flat and the flavor is
very similar but somehow a little bit
different than the original so while I’d
say it’s very interesting to see what
happens when you remove all of the water
from soda that thick gloopy severely
colored syrup is pretty interesting
stuff but I would not say that it’s a
practical application and I wouldn’t
suggest you try and make dehydrated soda
syrup that you can later mix back in I
do think it’s really cool to see what’s
in a bottle of soda other than water
guys that’s not all we’ve always got
more for you to see that box up at the
top will transport you directly to our
last video you should check that out the
other box will show you what YouTube
thinks you should be watching that and
if you hit this bomb you’ll be a
subscriber to the channel so you never
miss out on the fun don’t forget to ring
that Bell and we will see you in the next one talk to you then
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