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Cool Trick With Balloons and Coke


frozen on the outside liquid beverage on
the inside very very refreshing hey
what’s up guys welcome back I got a very
cool experiment for you today you might
remember a couple of weeks ago I was
hanging out in LA with my friend Logan
Paul and we tried taking flat dr. pepper
putting in a balloon and soaked it in
liquid nitrogen and the effect was
amazing we ended up creating something
was kind of like an icy coconut that had
a hard I see shell on the outside but
when you crack it open had a chilled
beverage on the inside so I thought for
this video today why don’t we recreate
that experiment but using actual coke
that way we end up with a coconut see
what I did there now one thing that
Logan and I noticed when we were doing
this experiment originally is that your
soda needs to be flat you need to get
all the carbonation out of it otherwise
it builds pressure and builds weird
little formations all over your balloon
so the first step in this experiment is
to take our soda and shake it up
quick update guys our soda is absolutely
flat I poured it into a large pot then I
use a mixing meter to mix it around to
all the bubbles are gone then I use the
funnel to pour it back into the bottle
and this is what we’ve got you can see
we shake it up now hardly any reaction
at all this is about as flat as our soda
can possibly get which is great because
now you transfer it to our blimp I think
for this experiment I’m going to use for
this process is going to be pretty
simple we’re just going to take the
balloon we’re going to just loop it over
the mouth of the bottle and we’re going
to carefully turn it upside down and
squeeze it until the balloon fills up to
about the size of a coconut then we’re
just going to disconnect the neck tie it
off and slowly dunk it into the nitrogen
so this is where we get to start
experimenting a little bit with how much
time it takes to get the best results
how much time would need to sit in the
liquid nitrogen to make the perfect
coconut you can put your answers in the
comments below so I got my stopwatch
ready our liquid nitrogen is ready to go
so I’m just going to hit start and make
you dumb
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Loulou so apparently too much nitrogen
in there I can’t dunk it down hauled
away and the balloon is like flapping
against the sides because it’s all
trying to base out I think the balloon
is actually freezing on the bottom and
plugging off the soft area look at that
it’s going crazy I think it’s happening
as the balloon is actually too wide it’s
like trapping the gas and so then the
gas is like coming out and the balloons
falling down it’s building up pressure
and coming out and falling down and
repeating it’s like the bottom of that’s
freezing but I can’t push it down far
enough to get the rest look at that if I
push it down the balloon just like
expands
that’s crazy okay so it’s been a little
bit over a minute I think only the
bottom of this is freezing the tops not
freezing at all because I think we made
the balloon too big so we have to do it
again but this time it can be wound a
little bit smaller
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so apparently you can actually squish
the liquid around and kind of like
reshape the balloon into the shape that
you want make it look a bit nicer so I
think I’m going to go with that shape
there a nice round bottom look at the
top that’s good enough of a coconut for
me let’s mix it up we have contact
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I’m just gonna let that go I don’t know
how I’m gonna get that out yet update
our nitrogen is bubbling away I’m going
to give this about 45 seconds and then
pull it out we’re coming up in 25
seconds now because we just want that
outer layer frozen we want the inside as
liquid as possible let’s see how thick
45 seconds gets it
all right there’s 45 seconds there now
the trick is to try and get this out
there we go oh you know what I can
already feel this isn’t quite as solid
as I want it to be like it’s kind of
chunky but it’s not quite frozen yet so
it’s going to need a little more time
let’s go in for another minute
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go ahead and push that out there we go
that’s looking a little more frozen by
the way this is very cold but if I
danced it around on my fingertips I can
actually hold on to it either freezing
now the balloon is actually frozen to
the coke right now so I got a pan of
warm water we’re just going to dip that
around rotate the balloon a little bit
and then we should be able to slip the
balloon and peel it right off yeah that
loosens the balloon up just enough it
should be able to cut it off not really
the best knife will be doing that way
there we go that’s what we got guys and
just get one more bath and we rinse in
warm water here and there is our coconut
yeah that’s kind of interesting isn’t it
so you can definitely see the entire
outside of this little ball has frozen
solid but just like a real coconut this
actually still has liquid inside so
we’re to chip away at the shell we could
stick in a straw and drink up the liquid
inside now guys I want to take just a
second and give credit where credit’s to
my friend Nighthawk and light is the one
who inspired this idea when he tried
using dry ice and alcohol to achieve a
very similar effect I love that we did
this with liquid nitrogen and I loved it
it comes out so clean and perfect the
liquids 100% drinkable the shell is 100%
edible and who wouldn’t want a liquid
nitrogen chilled soda this is really
cool all right so we’ve seen it about 45
seconds is not enough time two and a
half minutes seems to be about perfect
but we broke it up into three different
segments for this third experiment I’m
going to try two and a half minutes
solid with one fresh red balloon
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all right here we go for two and a half
minutes start we’re just going to throw
that right in and let it go crazy boom
there’s two and a half minutes let’s go
ahead and take that out Oh kind of
frozen to the bottom there
oh no look at this so the part that was
actually touching the thermos didn’t
really freeze you must have kept it
inflated everything else looks great
we’re gonna have to put that down and
freeze that a little bit there something
to consider it I didn’t realize I know
that might actually work on our favorite
though because we might not actually
have the real hole just remove the
balloon and stick in the straw look at
that and of course this doesn’t just
work on coke you can use it on other
sodas as well
well that accelerated quickly
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whoa
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all right there we have the guys there’s
two and a half minutes you can see even
with the rotating we did get a little
before Maday up here or it doesn’t seem
like it’s completely solidified but
that’s okay
go ahead and take the balloon off it’s
actually so cold that the layer of water
is freezing on the top edge ice I’m
going to pull the balloon and off all
the ice breaks off so check this out
guys we got our little ball of frozen
soda here and if you look straight on it
it actually does resemble a coconut
those little chunks broke off on the
bottom and give it the little coconut
eyes we flip it around it looks just
like the bottom of a coconut and that
was made from root beer so theoretically
if we crack the shell of this it’ll be
very similar to a coconut itself we can
stick a straw down inside and drink up
the chilled beverage let’s go ahead and
crack it open right here go ahead and
chip away at the top right here and see
we got clout that one does pretty deep
way to have that one in a little bit too
long might work better with the straw
and stick that down inside that’s good I
think I froze that one a little bit too
long it was like three minutes and you
can see the shell is quite a bit thicker
now to that it almost froze all the way
through it looks like a really delicate
balance here
so guys this one I just let run for a
minute and a half which is substantially
less time than we’ve done before but
this time I suspended it in the middle
of the nitrogen using a fork so that way
it didn’t touch the walls at all
you can see there’s still a small
deformity here but the rest of it feels
pretty solid let’s go ahead and open
this one up and see how that turned out
oh yeah that’s looking good beautiful
for that little deformity there that’s
kind of funny it snuck that right off
sweet so guys check it out this is the
best one we’ve got so far I made this
out of root beer and I think we figured
out the secret sauce here you put it in
the balloon and you suspend it into the
thermos in the center without letting it
touch the sides let it run for one
minute and 30 seconds and you end up
with something that looks like this the
thing I love about this idea is you’ve
got a nice chilled beverage it’s going
to stay very very cold but it’s not
going to dilute because it’s the actual
soda itself keeping it cold frozen on
the outside liquid beverage on the
inside very very refreshing and of
course if you prefer to have your soda
fizzing you can dump out the stuff
already in there and pour yourself a
fresh batch all right next up Penta all
right orange just came out this was 1
minute and 30 seconds exactly which
apparently for this one was a little bit
premature you can see most of the shell
was frozen but this little bit here on
the end was me not now this is still
pretty cool because we can actually
remove the top and it looks like a
cracked coconut and you can literally
drink out of it like a glass if you want
the thing to be absolutely frozen I
think we’re looking for somewhere
between a minute and a half to two
minutes the orange is nice and the shell
completely edible so there you have a
guys that’s how to use some liquid
nitrogen and some soda to make yourself
an icy cold coconut beverage which you
can fully enjoy because it’s technically
food grade and you can eat the shell as
well thanks so much for joining us for
this experiment we’ll be looking for you
the next one talk to you then let’s see
what we got well I just like literally
exploded in my face
look at this apparently there was still
some carbonation in there or something
we got some weird-looking little blemish
there so look it’s refillable as well
that’s fancy oh dang wow look at this
okay so this is unexpected
just look down inside our liquid
nitrogen container and look what has
four
it almost looks like the frost froze to
the static electricity coming off of it
that looks crazy hey guys I want to jump
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