How To Make Magic Mud – From a Potato!

this magical glowing mixture is very
strange because it handles like pizza
dough but the instant you stop moving it
liquefies and melts into a glowing goo
in this project you’ll see how to turn
your ordinary garden potatoes into this
fluorescent magical mud let’s get
started by grabbing a big bag of
potatoes and washing the outside so
they’re all nice and clean now we need
to chop these up into the smallest
pieces possible so for convenience I’m
using a food processor if you don’t have
one you can always chop your potatoes
with a knife and a cutting board when
you’ve got your potatoes reduced to tiny
bits slide them all into a large mixing
bowl and pour in enough hot water to
cover them completely we’ll need to stir
this around for a few minutes and you
may have noticed the water turning red
and that’s completely normal now let’s
grab a strainer and another large bowl
so we can separate the potato water from
the chunks and watch closely as
something incredible begins to happen
after about 10 minutes you can see a
strange white layer appears at the
bottom of the bowl now if we try pouring
everything out you can see this new
white layer amazingly stays in the
bottom the goop is a little bit dirty so
to clean it let’s mix in a bit of fresh
water and pour it into a tall thin
container like a glass or a jar when the
lid is on tight let’s just shake it all
up again then let it sit for another 10
minutes once again you can see it
separates into layers and this time
almost all the impurities are collected
in the middle now check this out if we
quickly dump out the water it takes most
of the impurities with it leaving us
with a very clean and magical substance
it kind of looks like milk but if you
try stirring it around you can see it
behaves very strangely
now this goo is left out for a day or
two you can see it’ll crumble into a
powder without much effort at all and
that’s exactly what we need to take this
to the next level and add the glow the
magic happens with a bottle of tonic
water because it contains quinine if you
turn on a blacklight you’ll notice the
water flores’s and the whole bottle
looks completely supernatural
now let’s go ahead and put a few
spoonfuls of our magical white powder in
a bowl then try mixing in small amounts
of tonic water to see what happens in
just a few seconds it becomes amazingly
difficult to stir because the magic goop
hardens every time we push on it with a
little patience everything should
combine and behave exactly the way it
did before the difference this time is
that now it’s fluorescent if we turn on
some black lights you can see the magic
mud takes on a mystical glow and it
looks and feels a lot like pizza dough
as long as we move it around constantly
if you pause for just a second though
the dough collapses into a glowing goo
and slimes down between your fingers but
maybe that’s okay as long as you’re in
the mood to make a mess
I tried pouring some out of a flask and
rather than dropping straight down you
can see it actually flowed out in a
rippled wave it’s mind-blowing to think
this stuff is inside our potatoes but if
you don’t feel like going to all the
trouble to get it out just use corn
starch instead it’ll work exactly the
same well now you know how to turn
ordinary potatoes into a glowing magical
mud that’s non-toxic easy to make and
even safe to eat by the way you can
still eat the potatoes as well
I tried loading mine into a waffle iron
and made some toasty golden hashbrowns
well that’s it for now if you liked this
project perhaps you’ll like some of my
others check them out at the king of
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