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Cooking Orbeez in a Microwave is Not Safe


in today’s video we’re testing out what
happens if we put Orbeez into a
[Applause]
Kalas strangely attached to her Orbeez
I think just because they’re colorful is
so shiny can you explain to us the
simplified version of what Orbeez are
they’re kind of a children’s toy they’re
also used for types of plants to keep
them watered very very simple they come
in tiny little packets in little bead
forms you put them in water and 4 hours
later you have a jar full of colorful
beads so just so you guys know as pretty
as these are you don’t want to eat them
no really that was my first thought was
to try to eat them I did try to eat them
they are full of copolymer of sodium
acrylic acid it’s not really good for
you the polymer that these are made of
absorbs water at a fairly astounding
rate and that’s what happens that’s what
changed them from the tiny little
plastic key looking beads to these much
larger almost gelatinous beads and I
thought microwaves do a very good job of
exciting the energy in water so since
these have absorbed so much water what
would happen if we put them in a
microwave so of course this experiment
of putting them in the microwave will
absolutely not hurt my Orbeez will it
they’re gonna die oh no I have to resort
them no we can start the idea is pretty
simple we’re gonna try putting a lot of
War bees a small not to four beast and
then just a few Orbeez into a microwave
and see what happens to them let’s take
this jar for a reason pop them in the
the back of the microwave is just a
single metal plate and we actually cut a
small hole into it and have attached a
cell phone back there using some duct
tape we’re hoping that this way we’re
going to be able to film the inside of
the microwave and really see what’s
happening this is like ten dollars total
and I am very important all right let’s
start with I’d say two minutes see how
that goes nothing yet
[Music]
well not much happened it looks like a
jar full of Orbeez are they warm to the
touch no jar is one yes
protip that’s not the way you should
test it something we didn’t get too much
of result with two minutes let’s try
longer a jar is considerably hotter now
that’s that’s impressive
oh wait this is weird there’s bubbles in
them now did we start boiling the water
with bubbles and then before we’re gonna
go ahead and try a smaller container the
big ones there’s so many that takes a
long time for Twp set has run for what
five minutes now I think about that how
long should I put these ones in five
minutes
like here things happen already what so
that the water is that actually them I
don’t know something sizzling oh one
pops smells like popcorn no one actually
did you see that you can see the pieces
one actually just burst whoa I don’t
know that was like a baby explosion of
orbs probably enough enough time that
was like one minute put in four five and
it hasn’t even been one okay don’t put
Orbeez in the microwave it’s been about
20 minutes of cleanup so now we’re gonna
try an even smaller amount see if we can
make that happen in an even shorter
amount of time he’s making plasma what
oh my gosh that was that I’m fired that
what that was yes that was insane they
just lit up the entire microwave oh the
ones on top were actually fried what I
grabbed my explode the same way as
before but when I tried they’re torn
open vtable
they’re hissing when I touch him but
they’re not that hot let’s try just
sitting on the tray without the ball all
right that should be weird let’s try
that
[Music]
that took no time they are already gone
wait nope it’s just like the arcing yeah
like they’re like all connecting there
goes another I know whoa okay that one
that one actually was at the wall chunk
that and now their smoke might be steam
is it what does that look like they look
relatively fine I think these are kind
of fused together that’s awesome but
look at all the little fissures or
anything now yeah alright I want to try
again but this time let’s separate all
of them so none are touching each others
because I think that’s what makes the
plasma happy okay it’s taking longer
than it did when we had them all clumped
together nothing yet
okay so nothing happened that time so
we’re gonna tip the microwave see if we
can get them to collide see what happens
so the plasma only happens when they’re
touching yeah but weirdly it didn’t
really happen watching the bowl they
exploding on the ball yeah I think that
was just too many one place I think it
just built up too much but one or two
touching you’re getting that little like
some kind yeah okay you can see the ones
that ran into each other they’re almost
glued together now I don’t see an
exploding here yeah here goes
[Music]
at this point we just want to watch
something else go boom popcorn sounds
popcorn sounds Oh things are possible of
popcorn just explodes but in color
nothing nothing nothing
[Laughter]
anything else you want to see us do with
Orbeez anything else you want to see us
film inside the microwave let us know
down in the comments we’ve got a couple
minutes we’re gonna take some time and
do some Q&A Jasmin Higgins asks are you
getting closer to getting a female
co-host yes
shillelagh
Wesch think that’s the name here
shillelagh Wesch asks why is it on some
of the videos you list where to get
certain items for a project but not all
the items like the magic faucet you
listed where to get everything except
the clear tubing that would be a fun
project to try but not if I can’t get
the parts we do try when it’s a project
building we’re trying to give sort of
instructions on how you can complete the
project we try to give instructions and
where to get everything the real answer
there is probably that sometimes I just
forget in the case of that plastic
tubing where did I get that I got that
at a specialty plastics store that
happened to be about two miles from
where I live that was after ordering
some clear plastic tubing on Amazon that
I got tubing on Amazon it ended up being
just a little bit too big then I went to
the plastic store and they said that
they could get it for me like the next
day I was like oh that’s even faster
than Amazon Prime and Amazon Prime had
the smaller tubing sorry Amazon had the
smaller tubing but it wasn’t available
with prime so it’s gonna be like five
days so I was like okay so I’ll just get
it from them and then it ended up taking
them like five days anyway but so the
real answer is that sometimes I forget
and that you should go to reddit.com
slash are slash the king of random and
make a post saying hey where did you get
this and I checked that pretty regularly
and I’m likely to see that question and
answer it for you
so yeah
it’s I forget and just search on the
internet because that’s that’s how I
find things I look online I look online
and I see that it’s available at a local
store off to the local store because
it’s faster if I look online and I don’t
see it anywhere local then I order it
from online user Paul son says how do
you upload daily with very hard projects
I think we’ve answered pretty similar to
this before we have a team so I don’t
have to come up with all the ideas
myself I have grants help with Pat and I
talked with grant about how best to
present the ideas I have a cameraman I
have a team vetters I have an animator
and so it’s that’s how we’re able to do
it is we have enough people that it
lightens the workload so no one person
is bogged down too heavily so it does
make us we’re able to put out five
videos a week we actually don’t usually
do everyday most the time we do five and
then sometimes we have like a little
bonus month where we’ll do a video every
day for that month and stuff like that
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